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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think older workers need to consider moving to easier jobs and lower salaries. It’s not always a continuous upward path of improvement for a worker. Sometimes you’re not as good as you were twenty years ago.

Also your health costs rise sharply as you get older. A lot. [/quote]

Exactly this, and what I am preparing for. I am 47 and assuming at some point I will have to downshift. Holding on as long as I can, but at least debt free and on track to be mortgage-free (or able to be if I need to) within 5 years. Hopefully can hold out for 6-7 more years to get my kids all the way through college debt-free.
I actually love doing work like building, repairs, and carpentry. Maybe I’ll become a low-cost handyman. [/quote]

Why not high cost? If you can get the job done right you’ll be in demand and can charge a good price [/quote]

Maybe they do not want to rip people off on small jobs. I’ve been on the receiving end of absurd estimates for routine stuff and it’s horrible. [/quote]

One man's rip off is another man's living wage.

As a house owner, we all want some poor guy who loads up his tools in the trailer park and comes over in his 20 year old pickup to do high end work for $20/hr. His wife is a teacher's aid, so he doesn't have to cover health insurance. He's a simple man on partial disability. Had some bad luck. Grateful for the work.

In other words, exploited.

Stop trying to rip off blue collar people. I told the young man remodeling my bathroom that he needed to charge me more, that his estimate was too low, and we did a quick crash course in rule of thumb multipliers in project management. In the end, he charged me more and we were both happy.[/quote]

In NY I paid around 1/2 for home improvements vs. DMV and no one was being ripped off. Why?

In DC contractors drive $100,000 GMC Yukon Denalis, live in fancy houses, do advertising, have a whole paid support staff and even pay people to go door to door to do estimates and even maintain physical locations. My GC in DMV lives in a million dollar home with a pool and drives a 80K truck, My landscaper here lives in a 2 million home. They have full time employees they pay even if no work so have to mark up charges to cover that and unpaid time doing quotes and getting matrials etc.  [/quote]

Maybe some of those college educated laid off Feds should go into general contracting. Seems like New York has more supply than DC if GCs are more expensive. It’s always funny when people think mechanics, plumbers, general contractors, etc. are ripping them off but they can’t bother to do the work themselves. If there’s no market at their price point, they would need to decrease it.[/quote]

NY has a bigger cash economy and off the books labor market that does not exist here. Plus people here are stupider and just pay.  [/quote]

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