Easy Place To Work In The Offseason

[CLARKE]

I work at a car wash, ok i (Mang) the car wash, been doing this for 15 yrs. Works out pretty well, work at the wash but if it snows
you can't work at the car wash cause its snowing out, so i take care of a place for another guy doing sidewalk clean up, Got
4or 5 guys workin under me when it snows. It seems that the
more you/I stay working out side the less i get sick. Haven ben sick for three years now...Knock on wood:) When March come the car wash slow down and it's back to lawn care.

[Mowingman]

Sounds like a pretty good deal. Down here we only have 2 months off,usually just Jan. & Feb. I have a standing offer to work as a school bus driver during that time, but so far my summer earnings have carried me through the off season. I try to get some rest then, and catch up on "projects" around the house. That helps keep my wife happy.:)

[CLARKE]

yep got keep the wife happy , I know all about that..

[dhicks]

I work at Best Buy even during the growing season on Friday and Sunday from 5 AM / 6AM until the store opens at 10 AM. During the holidays, I may work 3-4 days per week. I can't sit at home and do nothing. The work is easy and we have lots of fun playing with the new toys and games and sometime we even work. J/K

[TurfKingLawn]

Next winter I think I'll get a normal teenage job and work at a grocery store to keep the cash coming in. Gotta have money!

Hank

[Kevin]

I gotta get out and get a job, I m getting bored waiting for the snow to go skiing I help out with Special Olympics..

[65hoss]

I came back in this full time. I save enough to make it thru the slow times. When I add my expenses up I allocate for the entire year into my expenses figure. That way its already there. I could sit at home until spring if I want. As I continue doing leaves this winter its just more towards the bottom line.

[MOW ED]

I sit around and make the grocery stores richer as I eat too much and have no outlet for the extra calories.

But my fingers stay skinny from typing on these sites. I have to figure out how to make money on the Internet.

[djb_61]

MOWED
Keep us posted on this make money on the internet thing.....
sounds interesting

[Turfclips]

supposedly their sites out their that allows u to make money being online, i havent been lucky to find them yet, but i wil stay on 24/7 when that is found,

Kevin

[LawnKeepers]

I've worked part-time(so they say) at a grocery store for the last two years. It's bull crap.

I consider myself a valued employee. Recibo muchos houras por que trabajo bueno. I like working there but not lately. I receive the same amount of pay as everyone else even the lazy morons there. So I've worked even harder to try and show my boss I'm worth more, but all he does is schedule me more hours. More economical for him, less for me.

Also I figured I could learn something business-wise from this industry. Only one manager will talk business with me, but minimal.

I can do stuff with numbers and computers my boss can only imagine, his loss. Mainly I'm tired of the companies attempt at encouraging us with marxist ideas...

By the way, a few years ago I signed on one of those paid to browse things. gotoworld.com You had to have so many hours before they sent you a check and they had many ads taking up my valuable 36k bandwith. The cool thing was that you got paid for your friends surfing too.

[TLS]

Lawnkeepers,

:Edited: Your acting like the Supermarket should pay you more because you cut grass in the summer??? I've been in the Supermarket business for 15 years and get all kinds of retired people that come back to work and never complain about the $6/hr starting wage. Its easy work. Airconditioned in the summer and heated in the winter. Not much thought. BUT you have to be a people person! In both careers!

I get full benefits, BC/BS, Vision, Dental, Legal, fitness, Rx, 401K, 4 weeks Vaca., 2 Personal Days, and a pretty nice pension plan. All this for 8hrs Saturday mornings and 8 hrs on Sundays throughout the Summer, and I'll soon be going back to 40+ hrs/week when my leaves are done. Not that bad of a deal. This paycheck pays the mortgage during the summer, and keeps me happily comfortable through the winter. When it snows, (cough, cough :o ) I'm sick, and I go plowing. Works well for me.

Dont knock it unless you try it. Its always tough working for less than we get mowing. BUT, remember, a regular jobs paycheck is pure profit! If you do a study of all the hours you work mowing, fixing, bills, etc, the pay isn't all that great!

edited bye Eric ELM

[LawnKeepers]

Edited

Just because I operate a succesful lawn care business, I don't think the place owes me. You have no idea the type of crap that goes on at this store. Disguised communist ideas like "your lucky to be chosen to be part of this fast-paced, growing company". What the hell the store is nearly 50 years old and had niche in customer service for old people... Also "at our store you have great oppertunity to take share in our prospourous company". Probably not.

I've told them I'm tired of the job, putting jars on shelves, bringing coffee to edje of the shelf. It's pure torture really. Sure it's easy, but my boss expects us to work our off. Unloading a pallet full groceries by yourself in less than 15 min is crazy. Then there's the guy down the aisle who mopes around and doesnt' know where this or that goes and has worked there almost as long as I. He gets payed 5 a hour like me.

I work about 25 hrs. week on average and get NO benefits. The work is drudgery, or have I said that yet?

I've told them a few times I'm tired and thinking of leaving and they give false promises and recite their socialist lines.

If I was a simple man, I'd get a simple job, but I'm rather quite complex.

Edited by Eric ELM

[awm]

lawnkeeper i think u may have a legit beef. ask for an interview w manager. put emphasis on the fact that u are really interested in pursueing groc career. hemay look at u differently .
hope so brother .later now

[Runner]

I worked last winter in the Loss Prevention division as a store detective for a MAJOR grocery retailer. It was kind of neat that we could make out our own schedules, so we worked wherever we wanted (could travel all over the state, receive driving time and mileage) and we worked whatever time we wanted on whatever days. Good pay, and great benefits. We WERE required to work two weekends a month, though. This really bit. I just do NOT like the retail industry. I don't think I'll ever go back, even though I was just called by Home Depot (they just built two more real close to me) for the same type of position.

[DanG]

Right now for the slow times I've picked up a job loading trucks at the wharehouse near me.
Go in at 4pm and get out at varying times sometimes 1am but most times it's earlier. 2-3 nights a week and no weekends.
They pay very well and I'm saving up to take the wife and kids to Fla. in the spring over school break.

Dan

[HOMER]

You could always go find a job liming ponds:rolleyes: . At least your outside, of course some of you guys might be liming ice ponds so that may not work.

Eric, the guy paid me $10.00 an hour the 2 days I helped him. May not be so bad after all. When things slow down I might be helping him a whole lot more. It was "pure profit" as one said. It was also a little difficult working under someone elses time frame. Funny feeling after working for myslef for the last 3+ years.