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Good day last Thursday changed my whole attitude about this trade
I was having a rough week with a bad glue job that took forever to scrape up. Then on Thursday I got a call to do a quick 200 square foot laminate job in a living room in Phoenix. The subfloor was perfectly level, the planks clicked together like butter, and I finished in 4 hours instead of the 6 I budgeted. The homeowner even handed me a cold Gatorade and said my cuts around the door frames looked cleaner than the last guy's. Has anyone else had a job that just felt too easy and made you nervous about what you might have missed?
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quinn3413d ago
Funny how the universe throws you a bone right when you're about to quit. That's the thing about this line of work, or really any trade I've noticed - the bad jobs always come in clusters, then a good one shows up just to remind you why you started. Makes you wonder if that's just how life works in general, not just flooring.
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ryan_hart383d ago
Wait, @quinn341, are you telling me you almost quit flooring? I had no idea you were that close to packing it in. That hits different because I've been there myself, not in flooring obviously but in my own work. You get three straight weeks of nightmare jobs where nothing goes right, the tools break, the customers complain, and you're thinking "why do I even bother." Then a simple, clean job comes along that pays well and reminds you why you got into it in the first place. It's like the universe knows exactly when to throw that bone.
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alex8203d ago
Three bad jobs in a row almost made me walk too. I started keeping a list of the good ones so I could look back when things went south.
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