I live, eat, and sleep, business. There is no "off" switch and its kinda like having a one day old baby attached to me. I wake up and think about work, I work all day and into the evening and even when I quit physically working the mental aspect just keeps going and going.
Back when all my friends went and got jobs, took home a nice salary, bought houses and TV's, and had nice cars, I lived in a one bedroom apartment with a wife and two babies, I drove a broken down jalopy and worked endlessly. When my friends went out for dinner, to the theater I stayed and worked. I worked my week-ends and gave up holidays. When I finally saved enough money to buy a house for my family I chose to buy an edgebander instead. I have sacrificed a lot to get where I am now and notice that everyone is screaming about their jobs, their mortgage they couldnt afford and the TV they bought on a program "Dont pay until
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Having had employees where I had to match their contributions to their pensions (I dont get one) and pay twice what they pay into unemployement insurance (I dont get that either) and then pay for their workmens compansation contributions, then pay federal sales tax, provincial sales tax, income tax, property tax, business tax, corporate tax….............I'm taxed to death.
Now I hear that the feds are going to give tax breaks to those I paid taxes for. No tax break for me, for my business, just a break for those who took the week-ends off, bought boats and cottages and live in homes they couldnt afford in the first place. The same employees who left for a better job and the same employees who I piad their child support arrears are the same ones banging on my door for another shot at a job, when they walked away without so much as a thank you.
I'm pissed that the banks are being bailed out and the banks are (required by law) to pay fat compensation cheques to employees and executives. I'm pissed that governments and allthe government cronies get all the religous christian holidays but the working man doesnt yet they are the same ones who will net let the lords prayer be read aloud in a classroom. I'm pissed that they get indexed pensions and when the economy goes for a crap…...........they go on strike. This isnt a "new" relevation for me, I've been pissed for some time now, like decades.
I'm also pissed when I do a project for a contractor who says I'll pay you next week, then doesnt because he decided to pay a painter to paint his house or put in a new furnace or bought a giant plasma TV. Grrrrrr, and then to have to smile and say "no problem, pay when you get some money".
I watched the news last night and they did a segment on "how to find a job in tough times" which equated to the medical field, teaching, colleges and universities, and yes, the good old federal and provincial governments….............which BTW, are all payed for by the tax payer and if the taxpayer isnt working then how can they increase the size of already bloated bureuacracy.
I read about this recesion and often wonder….........when did end, cause I've had a frugal life all my life cause I never had money to waste. Was there a "BOOM" time because I must have missed it
If it makes anyone feel any better…..............Canadians are taxed to death. I think its almost 6 months of paying nothing but tax,before the first dollar you make, you can keep. .......and again, they want to give tax breaks to all the wrong groups. How about a governement grant for me instead of a study on how lesbian couples produce better children, perhaps I could take that grant money and teach a kid my trade instead of dumping thousands of dollars of my own hard earned money to train a kid who quits at the first misguided thought of a better job elsewhere that leads nowhere. How about a grant a tax break so that I can expand my shop ?
Sometimes I think that for Doctors and if they had a choice on who to perform surgery on, they should pick a politician because when you open them up, they have no guts, no balls, no spine, no brain and their head and a$$ are interchangable…..........................and when they dont get their own way, they decide to have another election?..............what a great idea????
I constantly remind myself that I have it pretty good. I dont fear for my life when I sleep, I have food in the fridge and a roof over my head, I dont live in the Gaza strip or a garbage dump in Guatamaula. I have friends whom I enjoy their company and family that I love and laugh with. I dont look at problems that will beat me down, I look at them as a challenge, some thing I can do, that I can conquer. I am not sad that I have to work on a Friday night, or a Sunday morning or Monday morning, quite the contrary and I have always been uncomfortable around people who do complain about having to work "overtime"............and wondered what the &%$# makes you so special?. I dont ever walk into a supplier and boost nor do I complain, I try and make them laugh, I try and help them solve their problems.
People talk about their retirement. My father has been happily retired for more then 20 years and I'm happy for him as I would have had nothing without him but I have always known that as for retirement….......mine will never come until I'm under the grass.
And to answer your question. I have work but most shops in this next of the woods are slowing down bigtime.