There’s a website I found a couple months ago… contractortalk.com - it’s a forum for construction contractors to talk about … construction. Sort of a hang-out to trade ideas and also just BS. The following is taken from a posting I put there tonight, and thought it might be good to share for other “business people” in general.

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Ok, the housing market around here is… well… not good. At least not for those trying to sell. And even worse for those trying to build homes to sell. Which is what I have been doing for almost three years now.

But that seems about to change. Right now I am facing the very real possibility of a lay-off. It is a short-term issue, but this is a presidential election year. I am not going to hold my breath on things turning around all that quickly.

I started out in commercial construction a bit over seven years ago on a fluke. I was doing computer work for a start-up company, data-base building, web site work, etc. They like working with me and wanted to hire me full time, but said I would have to learn construction since there wasn’t enough computer related things to keep me busy full time. So I cut my teeth on a tenant build-outs are the MSP airport, a couple of small strip-centers, and a few other things here and there. And I liked it.

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