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<blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4136148" data-attributes="member: 5412"><p>Maybe not so. I spent my working career in electronic, electrical maintenance in manufacturing and coal fired power plants. The highest pay scale in blue collar jobs. </p><p>Also had a side hack as a contractor for smaller job shops that couldn't afford a full time maintenance person or couldn't' afford to pay the big commercial maintenance companies that charged first class airfare for their techs to travel at $100 per hour and $200 an hour while on the job. Took old relay-controlled machines and converted them into PLC controlled and so on. </p><p>I cut that in half or more, and had customers lined up so deep that I had to make a decision to go full time with this and hire techs or stay in the corporate world. Every weekend and some nights for local companies was spent for years working on their equipment. I could see a major future, but probably to my lack of big business knowledge and how to operate something like that, chose to fall back to taking all the overtime and callout's they would give to bank retirement money. Probably missed a great opportunity to start a business. Just didn't know how to go forward with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dennishoddy, post: 4136148, member: 5412"] Maybe not so. I spent my working career in electronic, electrical maintenance in manufacturing and coal fired power plants. The highest pay scale in blue collar jobs. Also had a side hack as a contractor for smaller job shops that couldn't afford a full time maintenance person or couldn't' afford to pay the big commercial maintenance companies that charged first class airfare for their techs to travel at $100 per hour and $200 an hour while on the job. Took old relay-controlled machines and converted them into PLC controlled and so on. I cut that in half or more, and had customers lined up so deep that I had to make a decision to go full time with this and hire techs or stay in the corporate world. Every weekend and some nights for local companies was spent for years working on their equipment. I could see a major future, but probably to my lack of big business knowledge and how to operate something like that, chose to fall back to taking all the overtime and callout's they would give to bank retirement money. Probably missed a great opportunity to start a business. Just didn't know how to go forward with it. [/QUOTE]
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