[Hoot Gibson]

34/hr. You forget 1 1/2 time, and double time, per diem. It is very easy to make that. 6 days/2380wk(61k+ perdiem), 7 days/3060wk(79560). I didn't work all 7 days all the time. Very easy, and still home at 6:45 every evening. You get the gist.

Congratulations on your raise. Apparently, you were making $3/hour less a week ago.

^ I did mis count the months, though. March- September is 7 months, my bad.

I know what union construction workers make, and what non union construction workers make. That's all I need to know. I make about a third more than they do. I make 31 dollars an hour, they make about 20-22, for the same job, with a lot less retirement package. You can't give me advice on the differences in the two. For 23 years, I have made about a third more, so it isn't changing with the times. Has our economy been sick for 23 years?

I do have a good work ethic when I'm on the job, but I also like to have some time off. If I can afford it, what is it to you? Do you think everybody has to work 50 weeks a year, like you, to be productive citizens? You see, you are typical, you expect everybody to work until they die. That's the good thing about my trade, I pretty much get to pick how much I make a year, and during whatever months I choose. Feel free to work until they cart you off of the field, that's your business. Give us a figure on how much someone should make a year, to be productive citizens? You work your 40 hour weeks, I'll work my 6-7(10's, or sometimes 12's,75-90 straight time hours) days a week, and take off a couple of months. In other words, you mind your business, I'll mind mine.

I could not care less how big your paycheck is or how much money you have "invested." Nobody would know the first thing about your finances if you did not brag about your money so often. If you are going to toot your own horn, the least you could do is get your own facts straight. :biggrin: