I’m sure there are many youngsters that just received a diploma this month with a concentration in construction management.  Now they are boggled in debt and left with no income on which to live.  So of course the simple solution to that is to get a job.  Well, unfortunately we are in perhaps the worst […]

I was at the jobsite of one of my projects about a week ago….ok, ok, I was at on the plumbers web site to have them come do a project about a week ago, and the plumber was roaming around installing some drinking fountains.  This guy had done work for the municipality in the […]

Looking for a job while you are working is hard.  Trust me, I’ve done it a lot.  Just finding the time to talk to someone on the phone is difficult let alone spending half a day going to an interview.  I was in the midst of a cross country job search a couple of years […]

I can safely say that bidding public RFPs is no easy task.  First, you need to provide rock bottom pricing to come in as the low bid against five to fifteen other bidders and then, you have to be “accepted” by the municipality to perform the work.  I recently found out that it is not […]

After spending fifteen excruciating minutes scouring the web in search of details on the recently passed Heathcare Bill, I’ve realized that it is very difficult to nail down exactly what the changes are and how they will affect the working World and specifically the construction industry.  From what I gather, the main objective was for […]

2008 was a very bad year for heavy haul  cranes in this country.  It was an especially bad year for the owner of New York Crane and Equipment Company Jimmy Lomma.  Lomma’s company was associated with the collapse of two cranes in 2oo8.  One crane collapsed into an apartment building on March 15, 20o8 […]

For some reason I was sent an article this week from the Winter/Spring 2005 issue of the Fairleigh Dickinson University magazine regarding generational differences in the workplace.  I suppose I was sent this because I’ve often made mention of the differences between older and younger folk at work.  Or perhaps someone was trying to […]

Have you ever heard of George Cloutier?  Me neither, until  I ran across an article on the New York Times website today where an interview was published with the author of, “Profits Aren’t Everything, They’re the Only Thing” and the founder of American Management Services.  After reading the article, I wanted to ask Mr. […]

This has been one heckuva (helluva) weather year on the east coast.  I’m sitting here while a three and half foot drift of snow is piled against my front door while snow continues to fall on a town where yearly records have already been shattered (I think I read that somewhere).  We’ve had a very […]