/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>16863626
mortgages aren't really stressful unless you overextend yourself or something. what's stressful is dealing with contractors. where I live (probably everywhere) they are the greediest bunch of lying retards I've ever seen. these mother fuckers charge $200+ per hour for unskilled labor, and they lie through their fucking teeth about what they are even going to do.

boomers whine about electricians and plumbers ripping them off, but that market is regulated enough that you pretty much always know what you're getting. need someone to cut some trees or dig a french drain? prepare to have people look you in the eye and tell you that it's a $10k job.

fuck contractors.

>be me
>Dig holes 12 hours a day every day, on the road living out of hotel with crew, in Pacific Northwest so everything is expensive and there's a cold rain almost 24/7/365
>Get cuts and bruises and injuries and semi-electrocutions all the time
>Work so hard I hallucinate religious experiences weekly
>Make $10 an hour

>Quit
>New job is Chinese food delivery
>Get $5 tip almost every time
>Make 4-5 deliveries an hour
>Get $8/hr base pay
>Live in Midwest now where everything is cheap

>I drive a tiny car and ring doorbells for like $30 an hour when I used to nearly die every day for peanuts


I am literally pretty angry about this, my life will be much better now but still... Goddammit I had no idea how much money people that get tips make and I had no idea how easy their fucking jobs are