So my wife got me to sign up for NaBloPoMo, I guess that means that you get to hear from me every day for a month.
As it says in my profile I am currently unemployed and have been since the middle of September, while I've always hated working outside in the middle of the winter this is getting old and a little ridiculous. The job I worked on in September was just a 2 week job, before that I'd been out of work since the end of June so it's basically been about 7 months that I've been out of work. Like I said before the winters here aren't fun to work in. It's cold rainy snowy foggy, you name it, It's mostly miserable. However, I always wanted to be a carpenter, my father was, his father was and as I understand it my great grandfather was also. It seems to run in the blood.
For me there is just something that thrills me about putting in a hard days work and at the of the day to look at back what I did that day with my own 2 little hands , I guess you would call it a sense of accomplishment.
I remember being around ten when driving around town my dad would point out some building he had built and say"I built that." To me that was so cool! Now I can say the same things to my kids, although I don't get the feeling that they're nearly as impressed as I was. I have even had the opportunity to remodel or even replace some of the buildings my dad built. The old man says that's how you know that you're getting old, when they start tearing down the buildings you've built!
In 20 years of doing this, this is the longest time I've ever been off work. I miss it and I'm going crazy!!!