I alluded earlier that I’ve switched jobs recently. I am still working in the construction field, but I am working for a commercial construction company again instead of a company where my focus was on residential work.

I’m not quite ready to go in to a whole lot of details just yet, but one of the major reasons I was ready for a change after almost three years was that I got to the point where I did not respect the owner of the company. If it was some large corporation where I was a sort of anonymous cog in the system it may be tollerable. But our office had six people in it, so we all had close contact with each other.

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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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