I loved living with my mom!! Hell we even worked together. It was awesome!

 

Yes I live with mom
Yes 250 a week would pay my bills but would stretch me so tite I could shit a diamond!
And i know a trade i've been in plumbing a year but nobody is hiring rite now once I lost my job I went to at least 15 plumbing services and nobodys hiring!!!!

 

My advice is to take job A for now and in your spare time look for something better like plumbing jobs.

Try Billy the Sunshine Plumbers, they are always hiring I think.

The obvious drawbacks to job B are:

1: You'll need your own vehicle, which will need maint. (brake jobs, oil changes, bigger issues) and they will not care how far they send you.

2: Gas money will come out of your pocket, not theirs.. and at $3.30 a gallon and rising for regular unleaded well you do the math.

3: The taxes thing Shiny Upside already mentioned. Being a sub-contractor means you are responsible for paying your own taxes, health care, dental plan all of that.

4: All of the above things cost money, so while it looks good on paper, after the expenses, you might be making less than the shampoo job.

I could go on but why? The shampoo job is offering 40 hours a week, that makes you a full-time employee and they are required by law to give you benefits. Plus, you won't be wearing out and ruining a personal vehicle that you own.

Good luck with whatever choice you make and realize that there aren't too many guys your age raking in huge paychecks...all of that comes in time and with knowledge.

 

Go union, dude! My dad, his brothers, and my brother are all members of Local 123, Plumbers and Pipefitters. It's fairly clean work - no going in houses and fixing toilets or draining septic tanks. It's nearly all pipefitting. Glue pipes together. My brother just took off out to Vegas for 3 months to make $34/hr plus $3/hr vacation pay. I can remember my dad having $800 cleared on his paychecks like 15 years ago. It's decent money. Sometimes long work weeks, and some lulls between jobs, but if you are responsible with your money, you'll be fine.

 

Chris, I've never heard of such a law.

 

One of the laws is overtime pay, anything over 40 hours.

Second is health care...partially paid by the employer and if a person is a full-time employee those can be deducted pre-tax. Of course a person has the right and ability to opt out of that altogether if they choose to do so.
I usually don't like to say everything that comes out of my mouth is a fact so I could be wrong, but every company that I have ever worked for offered these benefits to full-time employees. Part-timers did not get them.

Sub-contracting is not the way to go unless there is a vehicle allowance ($400.00 a month), Per-mile fuel reimbursement and BIG money jobs involved....

 

Well thats to much of a hassle to mess with on job b so I ain't takin it plus i didn't get job A so I'm back to square one! But yea I have a brand new Ranger with warranty so all that wouldn't be too bad i guess.

 

Sucks you didn't get the shampoo job... keep looking though. Don't give up, take any halfway decent paying job until something better comes along.

I've had company vehicles my whole working career, I've put more miles on them and turned good new vehicles into worthless piles of over-mileaged junk within three years (150,000 to 300,000 miles)

The companies paid for it, not me.

If nobody is looking for employees in the plumbing business, maybe look to start as a helper at another trade for 8 to 10 bucks an hour... I am well rounded and have three trades that I am well versed in just incase I need to ever move a different direction.

Keep looking and good luck, take comfort in the fact that you are not going to be homeless if you don't find a job tomorrow... better now than when you are 33 years old with mouths to feed.

 

Yea God knows my mama has dealt with me but I plan on starting school in tha fall to become an emt but tha class costs 1000 bucks so I'm gonna go get a job bustin tables at chili's or something that way maybe by the fall i will be a server.

 

Whatever it takes to get money coming in...