You worked for a buck an hour? Man, I gotta raise my rates. This 99 cents an hour is killing me.
Featured Pro: Dennis Alwon
I started doing electrical work at the age of 14 working summers, holidays and weekends with my dad in NYC where I made a whopping $1/hr. The education I got there was incredibly helpful to me in my future work. I learned every possible way to get a wire from one place to the other without destroying the walls. My father was a great teacher and showed me how to have a healthy respect for electricity in spite of the fact that he often tested with his fingers.
At 17 years old I left for college and got a BA in psychology from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. I worked as a psychotherapeutic technician, in a home for emotionally disturbed children, for a few years and then realized I really missed the physical labor that went along with electrical work.
I got a job in Woodstock, NY for an electrical contractor for a few years doing light commercial work mostly at the Kingston, NY IBM plant. In 1978 I moved to Chapel Hill, NC where I currently resides. I worked for a few years with a local electrical contractor till I got my license in 1980 when I started Alwon Electric. My company has an emphasis on custom residential work doing some homes over $5 million . I am also the current vice-president and past president of the local chapter of the NC Association of Electrical Contractors.
I have always enjoyed teaching and getting involved in activities that were not for pay. I worked on many habitat homes in the area, was president of the middle school PTA. I also was cub master and pack leader for a local cub scout organization which I helped organize from the start. I still volunteer my time and labor for local non profits such as the schools and other groups. I have led many field trips for the local chapter of the Audubon Society and went on overnight field trips when my children were in middle school.
Dennis Alwon
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Hey a Buck an hour was big bucks back then
:laughing:The first electrician I worked for in 1974 would touch live lugs with his fingers and shake his leg to make it look like he was really getting it good, then he would laugh and say try it out kid! I would say "maybe later my mother is calling":laughing:
Hey! Bald is beautiful .
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Yanno this is a great thing ET is doing here. I've been in threads 10 pages long with guys throwing ascii A bombs over the validity of green ground screws or wire nut brands.
But at the end of the day, we're really all cut from the same cloth , tradesmen, family providers , good hard workin' folk who've earned their keep
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~CS~
But at the end of the day, we're really all cut from the same cloth , tradesmen, family providers , good hard workin' folk who've earned their keep
:thumbup:
~CS~
black dogHey a Buck an hour was big bucks back then
The first electrician I worked for in 1974 would touch live lugs with his fingers and shake his leg to make it look like he was really getting it good, then he would laugh and say try it out kid! I would say "maybe later my mother is calling":laughing:
we must be long lost brothers I started working at the electric motor shop in 1974 about 2 weeks after I graduated high school my girlfriend then found me the job.
what about the bug juice you going to ever try itthe nursery man that I listen to on the radio swears by it close to be organicNever looked liked Jim but I did have hair
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