July 24, 2011

I've started looking at employment websites for Dallas area jobs.
I found an apartment community maintenance supervisor position. The job itself wouldn't be hard for hubby. I know he could easily excel. That's just the kind of guy he is. All arond handyman kind of guy.
The downside to that job is that he would have to deal with people. Lots of people. People who are renting the apartments. Many of them are going to be problematic. They're going to be mad that something in their apartment is broke, they're going to be mad that they aren't going to be happy that it took him however long it did to get to them. He might see some disgusting apartments. He might smell some horrible apartments. He might be hit on. He might get attacked for declining the advances. He might see children in bad situations. He might see animals in bad situations. So I just don't know if it's the best job for him.
I found a couple of welding jobs, but they don't discuss income, and we've decided that, if we're going to do this, we're going to pay cash for a house so we don't have a house payment, so he can take a pay cut, but no less than $8 an hour. And most welding jobs don't pay more than $16 to start, despite the fact he's got 24 years experience as a welder.
There's been so many companies, in the past, that we've applied him to and they don't consider his 12 years in the Navy in his experience. How they can do that, I have no idea, but it is the case. I mean, I would think that if he could serve his country for 12 years working on ships keeping them maintained so that their nuclear reactors would be ready in the event we needed them in a war, that would be good enough to be considered for his pay rate to weld frames for stupid vehicles. But it doesn't count. It doesn't matter. And it's a horrible state of society.

BUT he has been out of the Navy for 13 years now, and has done mostly welding jobs during those years.
He does now have his Class A CDL with hazmat, tankers, doubles, and triples endorsements. He only has about 2 years of on the job experience with it, but he's kept up with his physicals and tests.
So, I'll just keep looking and applying and see what we come up with.