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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nicewatch who wrote (1556017)	8/31/2025 5:15:55 AM
From: Heywood40	Respond to of 1571775

At that time the company I worked for had all military contracts. We did a broad range of new construction and renovations of older buildings. Huge contracts, often 100,000,000 plus. We worked six 10 hour days routinely. Later I worked for a company that did mostly commercial buildouts of retail spaces in shopping malls. I built many stores for companies you'd recognize the names of. That often involved night work, so as not to disrupt the other retailers and their customers. I worked days, but whenever something happened on the night shift that needed attention, I'd get the call. After that I worked for a company that did residential design/builds. At that place, the duration of each project was about a year, and each PM, on average, started a new house every month, so each PM typically had 12 projects going at any given time. Busy guys! The last job I had working for a company was with a Hotel chain, as owner's rep. There my job was just to make sure the contractors we hired were performing their work correctly. After all the pressure and long hours of the prior jobs, that job was a cruise! 40 hours a week, and people in the hospitality industry treat people much nicer than people in the construction industry do. It payed better, too. It didn't burn me out like the other jobs did. I stayed there much longer than any of the other construction jobs I had. My resume prior to construction includes Air Traffic Control for the FAA, a few years working on helicopters as a licensed Aircraft Mechanic, and many years of commercial fishing. Prior to all that, out of high school I did 2 years in the Army (missile maintenance and repair) then managed a rock band, and worked in two different bookstores. It's been fun thinking back on the work I've done over the years, and writing it down. Thanks for asking.