It’s tougher today in this business than I’ve ever seen in my 30 years in the trades. We’re still charging the same rates we did 10 years ago because of the unfair competition from illegal labor, although our costs have risen a great deal.
Still, we soldier on. I know that people like me still have a place in the business community. There are a lot of Americans who prefer an honest, old-school tradesman, who knows how to “do it right the first time.”
Americans can help other Americans get back to work by simply choosing us over our competition. I hope my post helps some folks to make that choice.
It’s terrible with what they do with the illegals i.e. undercutting the competition.
Even if the illegals had skills, they will do what their boss tells them anyway—good or bad they do what they’re told, but it’s mostly bad.
All I see anymore is Gov’t work, and it comes with extremely anal quality control to the point I don’t know how anyone could meet schedule. Everyone had to sell their souls to get the jobs, and then they lose big because of by-the-book-inspectors that hold the job up.
Pretty soon there will be an advertising phrase in the phone book - “We do not hire illegal aliens.”