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11-10-2009, 03:38 PM
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Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Chicago/Suburbs
Posts: 34
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Can't find work in Chicago...
Hi Guys,
I was wondering if anyone who is located in the Chicago area knows anyone hiring. I have been laid off due to lack of work and have not been able to find steady work in over a year.
My main focus is residential service work. I am an excellent troubleshooter. This housing crunch has forced many of my former employers to downsize dramatically and caused many others to do the same.
I have just been getting by with "side work" but I really want/need the stability of a full time job.
HELP!!!
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11-10-2009, 04:53 PM
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Local 150 Lake County,IL
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Illinois
Posts: 127
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gonna be tough man. I live near there and I know it is pretty dead. You should get your license and contract your own work
Best of luck though! 
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11-10-2009, 05:51 PM
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Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Chicago/Suburbs
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It's SUPER tough... I would contract my own but finding the work is the hardest part.
Advertising is too expensive, especially when your broke and word-of-mouth runs out after a while.
Data/Comm companies are hiring, but are telling me I am overqualified and basing it on my previous salary history. I leave it out whenever I can so it isn't an issue but it eventually gets brought up.
I guess it don't matter who's hiring...it only matters if they hire me!
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11-10-2009, 06:48 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Chicago
Posts: 602
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I'm in the same boat!!! Got laid off last week! 
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Its not just a job, it's a career!!!
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01-13-2010, 06:12 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Chicago
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I signed the books in Pittsburgh local 5...
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Its not just a job, it's a career!!!
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01-13-2010, 10:52 PM
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Mike Guile
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: West Indiana
Posts: 318
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Laid Off
I just got laid off a while ago myself. I'm doing residential on the sly now til I get called back
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01-13-2010, 10:57 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 2,144
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Guile
I just got laid off a while ago myself. I'm doing residential on the sly now til I get called back
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Interesting.......! Not to pick on you guys but us non union guys are all infidells untill the work drys up. Then were ok.........Hmmmm
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01-13-2010, 11:02 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Chicago area
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Naw, you're still infedells. You're just infedells that are still working.
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01-13-2010, 11:08 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 2,144
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ohmbre
Naw, you're still infedells. You're just infedells that are still working.
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LOL I kinda figured that........Good luck fellas. In the end were all brothers that need to take care of our families...
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01-13-2010, 11:13 PM
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Mike Guile
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: West Indiana
Posts: 318
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Resi
I never did get sucked up in the bad talk about resi. I knew some and they talked over my head alot. I just never realized it's a whole new world. I worked my buns off for 8 yrs now and realize I don't know squat!! I'm great at running conduit, pulling, installation of everything, basically all new stuff. Never had to trouble shoot, cut plaster, fish wires, be nice to people, be clean, give fixed prices (I still don't know what to charge), etc... It's almost like I'm brand new again
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01-13-2010, 11:15 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Chicago area
Posts: 185
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Right on. Good luck to us all. Hang in there brothers.
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01-14-2010, 03:39 PM
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child please.....
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Hack City, USA aka New Orleans
Posts: 2,977
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Guile
I never did get sucked up in the bad talk about resi. I knew some and they talked over my head alot. I just never realized it's a whole new world. I worked my buns off for 8 yrs now and realize I don't know squat!! I'm great at running conduit, pulling, installation of everything, basically all new stuff. Never had to trouble shoot, cut plaster, fish wires, be nice to people, be clean, give fixed prices (I still don't know what to charge), etc... It's almost like I'm brand new again
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 . Not as easy as it looks.
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