r/Construction

Hi all, I'm a healthy home cook (licensed) who just learned you can park a car full of food near a construction site and feed everyone. If I'm doing sandwiches, soups and baked potatoes, what kinds would you like to see? Also would breakfast be desirable? I could do breakfast burritos or quiche.

This is how much I’m getting paid. Is this a fair wage? Feels like I’m being underpaid. Not sure if this is considered standard for a laborer.

EDIT: I’m not part of any union. This is in NYC Manhattan in a commercial building on 5th Ave.

No felonies, US citizen. Normally I’d be hanging drywall for $200 a day or painting. But shits been rough and there hasn’t been much work. This is some random Refferal contractor who we’ve only been working for 3 weeks. He hasn’t paid us in 2 weeks. He’s also super bossy and picky and treats his employees like shit treats everyone like he’s the king and everyone is his servant. When he’s just some contractor.

i’m an estimator for a mid sized flooring contractor. i work on obviously pricing bids and ordering materials and setting up our guys with directions for layouts or new material/adhesive instructions.
we currently have a project out of state and sent 3 guys to complete about 6,000 sf of LVT and CPT. real simple job. i fucked up and ordered transitions for the flooring late and my shop drawings missed 2 doors for those transitions. our foreman out there lost his shit with me and cussed me out over the phone. whatever it was my fault so i air freighted the transitions which is arriving a day late. i get a call from the GC saying our foreman was not saying great things about our shop and me. that’s a problem. i can usually take the cussing and verbal abuse from the older generation jmen because that’s how they were taught and raised. but him embarrassing me and our shop to a GC we are trying to impress and keep on good terms with is a problem. my boss is already in the know of the entire situation and gave me the option to fire him after they come back. the whole thing started from my fault so i feel it’s not fair to fire him. he’s a great worker with a temper problem. other shops in the union warned us about his temper problem as well. what should i do?

What do yall on night shift do when you rain out? Everything is closed and everybody is asleep. How do you pass the time the rest of the night at home?

Based in Austin, running a small 15-yard and 30-yard dumpster side hustle. Been pulling leads manually from Google Maps and calling property managers, got hung up on 12 times yesterday before 10am.

Do those aggregated lead apps ever send fresh commercial requests, or just recycled data?

How do you filter out residential junk jobs if you only do construction waste?

Flat monthly fee vs per-lead, what’s less of a scam?

Anyone in the southeast have experience with some of the larger GCs and know what relative pay is for each position.

My son is graduating this summer from Auburn getting a BS in construction.

He is starting to interview with some of the larger GCs and I’m just curious to know a relative number for each position as he would progress.

Does anyone know a recent quote on square foot pricing of concrete in Mississippi? I’m trying to compile some figures for a pitch for an expansion of our college’s intramural program.

As someone with 5 years construction/electrical experience and 1 year being a lead foreman position I’m curious to know if anyone has landed a construction management position with no degree and just experience in something like assistant pm,project engineer,assistant super or construction coordinator ? Im thinking of going to get an AS in construction management but also thinking if I could get a good starting position with a GC with room to grow it may be in my better interest to just go start working with them and get more experience but on the management side,My end goal is to get my GC license which as of right now I have 3 years working under a GC/CBC,In FL you need 4 years total working under those licenses and 1 of those years being a super or Foreman position so I’m not very far off from being qualified for the test,Let me know your thoughts it would be much appreciated! Just an end thought (I’m currently having my resume made by a professional company that specializes in construction resumes so I’m hoping for them to make it sound and look very appealing)Thanks everyone!

I recently got a dui. I was stupid and very regretful for what I did. I wanted to know how badly this will affect my employment in the construction industry. I am a PE in the project management team with a couple years of experience.

Edit: Wow did not expect this turn out. I’m a project engineer for clarification. And no one got hurt just got pulled up at a gas station when I was eating food and sobering up.

I nearly bought a big name backpack. I'm holding off and looking for advice.

What brand tool backpacks 24" by 14" by ~8" are durable and unmarked that you use?

Title explains it all. What pants do you prefer to wear? I've been shopping around for new pants and can't seem to find any that I like. So far Wrangler cowboy cuts are my best bet (I really like heavy denim) that have enough room for thighs but the lack of extra pockets really annoys me.

Final year finance student looking to break into Quantity Surveying/corporate construction without a QS degree.

What would you realistically recommend I do over the next 12 months to position myself best for grad roles?

I’m studying Finance & Business Management, but I’ve realised I’m more interested in commercial construction/property side careers rather than pure finance.

I’m aware I’m at a disadvantage compared to straight QS students, so I’m trying to be strategic rather than delusional.

Curious what’s considered a living hourly wage in USA. Not sure how far a dollar goes there.
What rate do yall consider to be barely getting by, what rate is paid well, and what rate is able to buy a house and raise a family comfortably?