The Workermonkey

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

The more you know.... 

# posted by Supreme Monkey Overlord @ 8/08/2006 07:41:00 PM

It was an off hand comment by Brian today that got me thinking. I was complaining about work (as I usually do) and he said, "why don't you open your own heat exchange place?" I rattled off a few reasons about money and why people wouldn't lend a 25 year old kid with no collateral and two years experience, a few hundred thousand to start a business. I found myself with a little time to kill waiting for the inspector today and I kept wondering about it. What would it really take to start my own shop to do this stuff? I had an afternoon from hell today and yet all the while I kept thinking about it.
what would I need? I ran down a list of machines I would need to make things easier and how I'd run a shop if I could start from the ground up. I've learned a lot about how to do things and how businesses like this work. Since I've been doing basically everything at work, I now know how to do everything. I've got ideas of how I'd like to fix this place, but why the fuck should I spend them on this place? And if they are going to suck and ignore me, fuck em. I know a bunch of different places I can get all the materials and get a bunch of the work done for me. I can get baffles punched from one guy, plates burned from another, tubesheets drilled here, pipe cut to length, tube shipped in fucking mass quantities, gaskets cut to size...... hummmm....
I do know a few people I could hire too. I would think this is the hardest part, getting people you can trust. I don't know how to weld or how a lot of this machining crap works. I don't know all the tools needed to build these things, I'm constantly learning we don't have a certain tool or were missing a stupid kind of glue or something I need to run out and get it in an emergency.
but I'm learning. Maybe I can just use this place to make my mistakes and fuck a few people over before I try it myself. Let them suffer through my learning curve, its not my money. As much as I complain about work, I am learning, even if its only hard knocks. Ron puts it best when he says we're all ahead of the curve for our age and I think its proven right everytime I can tell someone twice my age what to do. Power if cool and I try to stay humble at work but its hard when a guy who's old enough to be your father fucks up and you have to be hard on them. I don't like it but that kind of how it is. I know johns drooling over me being a republican but that's not the case. I try to treat people with the same respect I receive, but if I don't receive any then don't expect it from me. My heart is black bitches. Time to go to harbor park and kick back some dollar drafts, just watch out for Matt Barone: Industrialist.

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