HEY - so... is it your first time here??

[meinmaryland]

Hi Mary, welcome to mrW!
Check out the "Job Site" section. Job opportunities are posted there.
Good luck,
Pia

[DarinR]

Heya
I'm a pipefitter and plumber in Las Vegas. Saw Mike Rowe on Capitol Hill and came by, saw the forum and signed up. I started out a college guy on an academic scholarship but eventually came to find myself spending more time in Home Depot and Lowes than I was spending in Barnes and Noble or Borders. A major change for me, a monster reader in the neighborhood of 200 books a year at the peak. So I joined what is essentially the family trade. My grandfather on my mom's side was a welder in the Plumbers and Pipefitters here, and a bunch of my cousins and a friends are still. I love the work; the immediacy and presence of work physically there. That office stuff of moving paper from one side of your desk to the other didn't ever seem like work. Didn't seem very satisfying either.

I posted an album of some pictures I've taken at work in the last couple of years. http://www.mikeroweworks.com/forums/...hp?albumid=333

If one of the mod could let me in the trade related forum sections, that'd be cool. Thanks.

Darin

[dirtysal]

Welcome Mary and Darin!!!

A Welder(or welder's wife) and a pipefitter/plumber!!! How exciting!! Looking forward to your input here on the mrW!

Sal

[silverjim]

hey to all on here
I found this site thru another site and decided to join as im a maint mech of 20+ yrs.I have always enjoyed watching Mike on his show and really enjoyed his video to the commerce dept letting all of the nation know that tradesmen/women are a so called dying breed of people .As we retire in the future who is going to take up this jobs? yall ever wonder that? anyway this is a great site and i will support all trades

[ModShari]

Big thanks for posting SilverJim. Your thoughts certainly do mirror many here for sure.

Welcome to all our new members and we hope you stick around!
Shari

[sillyme]

That office stuff of moving paper from one side of your desk to the other didn't ever seem like work. Didn't seem very satisfying either.

I posted an album of some pictures I've taken at work in the last couple of years. http://www.mikeroweworks.com/forums/...hp?albumid=333

Darin

I hear ya!

Looking forward to seeing your pictures.

Nice to meet you, Darin, Mary, Gerry, and SilverJim.

Francesca

[dirtysal]

Welcome SilverJim!!!!

Sal

[silverjim]

hey to all on here
I found this site thru another site and decided to join as im a maint mech of 20+ yrs.I have always enjoyed watching Mike on his show and really enjoyed his video to the commerce dept letting all of the nation know that tradesmen/women are a so called dying breed of people .As we retire in the future who is going to take up these jobs? yall ever wonder that? anyway this is a great site and i will support all trades

sorry for the typo's my coffee hadn't kicked in when i wrote that

[meinmaryland]

Darin, great pictures!

Hi Silverjim! Typos? Please, no one cares about that.

Welcome aboard to you both.

Pia

[sillyme]

Cool pictures, Darin.

I had trouble opening the link earlier, but it worked now.

Francesca