Get two minimum wage jobs. Would be like $16+ an hour. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and if it means the difference between food for the kids, and starving, McDonalds looks damned fine to me. Unemployment? Multiple minimum wage jobs? Whatever it takes to get the cash coming in, short of illegal activities. We used to haul scrap when it got tight. Ran many a 8500+lb load in dads '55 F-350 pick-up. Temp agancies? Been there done that too. Voc Rehab.....go back to school, they help with finances. Change oil at jiffy lube, aint good pay, but it's pay. I know that's difficult concidering the years of experience in the field, but hey, it's an income. It's the lawn cutting season, get your lawn mower out and do it the old fashioned way. $10 a lawn. Yeah, it takes away from the kids' summer jobs, but they don't have mortgages to pay. Ice cream trucks......aint great, but it's money, especially in the summer heat. Come on guys, you sound like you're giving up.....You all kept me from giving up when mom died, and father-in-law a year later.....aint no one in the Oregon chapter gonna be given up. Get out there on the interstate and change tires. Keep a set of jumper cables in the truck and help folks when you're running errands. There are ways, you just gotta look past the norm.

 

and not even those are hiring... my 22 year old son only gets 18 hrs a week and he works at mcdonalds here in sandy.
oregon has a waiting list thats a year out for voc. rehab or schools. atleast thats what the unemployment office told me . and picking up cans and bottles along the road is a big NO NO! i got fined for doing that! and picking up stray iron on the interstate is another NO NO! the sherriff says it takes a job away from ODOT! and its a 500$ fine!
its like stealing a sign..... go figure!!!!!!

 

In one of my crazyer moments I've wished I lived closer to PDX because of all the free stuff on Craigslist..............Seems to me some decent money could be made there!






I feel kinda bad that I'm out the door and headed for work.............................................. ...................

 

Thought about wildland firefighting? I started last year at $15.00 an hour everything added in, it's hard work but I like doing it. I worked starting on Jun 21 and worked all of July into August before I got home. Overtime after 40 hours was great, and they feed you well. You live in a tent most of the time but they have showers and laundry at the big fires. I finished out the season working on the Rattle fire down on the Umpqua. This is my second career part time job to make playing around money. It gets my bills paid off and allows us to go into Christmas with a little extra.

And as a last resort, the Army is taking people up into their 40's right now. Yeah I know why? Well they give you three hots and a cot, 30 days paid vacation, housing, clothing allowance, and free medical and dental. Yes it can be hazardous, but hey so is firefighting. If your young enough the other branches with take you into your thirties. All need mechanics, and advancement should be pretty fast for people that know what they're doing.

Just a thought.

Oh I had another Idea, Driver on a fire. They hire people to drive around in their own trucks and deliver people and equipment on the fires. They pay good, but the hitch is if something happens to your truck, it's your responsibility and you pay for the fuel and oil, etc. You can rent your truck to them while your sleeping and even make more money, but someone you don't know is driving your rig. I think you just have to sign up at the local forest offices to get on their list. I went to a class with a instructor that was a fire behaviour guy, when he retire he wanted something to do and started driving. He said he makes more driving his own truck, then when he has doing fire behavior. His job was pretty high up in the incident command structure.

 

I did fire fighting a few years back. Damned good pay. Very hard work, but it more than pays the bills, especially when you're depositing $1800+ a check every couple weeks.

 

Wildland firefighting?........For a guy pushing 50, sounds like a good way to start pushing daisies. I am not a young buck anymore! I used to get tired climbing stairs all shift lugging my tools!.............How much do armored car security guys make?

 

Actually, the armored car guards make a decent living. I think they normally start around $12-$15 an hour, depending on experience, and whether it's an armed position or not. My cop friend is a Luzon operator as well. Just think of all the money you can hide um I mean haul in that position....lol

 

Yeah, I was watching those guys today outside the Safeway........It cant be that hard. One guy never put down his coffee mug the whole time!.

 

I worked security once a while back. Decent pay, decent job. Wasn't armed security, just making rounds through the big laminate factory on the Willamette.

 

It's an Awesome day outside everyone, well at least here. Get out and enjoy the day, I'm sanding and rattle canning today, how about you?

 

Just did some yard work. Taking a break to have some lunch with the chitlens. Gonn see about going and picking up my '48 F-1 here in a bit, been needing todo it for the last year or so. Might get some work on the Big Job done too. Thinking about gowing out and plincking a few rounds out the AK-47 later, and maybe a magazine or two out of the pistol. Lots to do, and so much good weather to do it in.

 

i did that to for a while.

 

I just got back from giving a quote to a local farmer for needed work on his grain elivator. $27,890 and $20.000 of it is labor! He just said "when can you start"...............

 

Sounds like you need help to fill all that labor!

 

Wanna do some welding at about 120' in the air?