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Turning a profit with wire ties and rebar
For the last few years I have turned the internet into my side business. I find things online for cheap, I buy them, and then I turn around and resell them in a different markup for a huge profit. It’s all about knowing what people want, and figuring out how to find it before they […]
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Making sales and turning rebar into cash
I am an IT specialist, with a focus on social media and digital marketing. Recently I landed a job with a construction company which is unlike anything else I’ve ever done. The guys who run this company are very nice, but very old men who are stuck in a previous era. Neither of the brothers […]
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Learning to work with rebar took some time
By the time Earl was ready to train me to take over his shop, he was too old to do it the right way. Earl was never good with knowing how long things took, and for some reason he thought that my training could wait until a few weeks before his 70th birthday. At this […]
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Something dangerous buried in the yard
I was playing Red Light Green Light in my backyard the other night, and one of my kids tripped over something buried in the dirt. It was a little piece of iron bar jutting an inch through the soil. I guess all the heavy rains we have gotten recently leached away some of the topsoil, […]