Carpentry basic overview

So you think you want to be a Carpenter it’s a lot harder than you think you are you U get into it thinking you know how it’s going to be a good job It will be easy it’s construction simple you know I don’t think it is it’s the hardest job in the world especially if you get into concrete concrete Will kill you it’s just brutal everything is big in the burk brackets pilosio panels all the stuff you com across is all heavy I found when I was forming on the commercial site that most people can’t cut it they lasted about three hours most of them and then they go home or some of them make it a day it’s a hard trade you really got a put your head down and just power through the first couple weeks otherwise you’re not gonna make it when I first started I was 18 my boss was an old German guy best guy I could’ve learned from if I could give any advice when you’re learning to do carpentry you want to have a beautiful teacher you can’t have some idiot that doesn’t know what he’s doing at all who slap shit together and doesn’t give a shit about quality square plum that kind of thing all things that are very important your foundation must be perfect or damn close to otherwise it follows you all the way to the roof so your walls are outYour whole house becomes out of square so yeah back to the concrete I am I think I was probably about 30 when I started the commercial concrete I was foreman on that site it took me about a month to move into foreman position I was quite lucky but I was given five guys and told to do all the tabla for the floors so we did a six floor condo it was nothing big it was a good size downtown Vancouver do you know when you’re given all these guys shit and you’re giving them instructions tell him what to do trying to work with the dynamics of all the different personalities different characters you’re really going to have your your head in the game because you need to know the dynamics of all these people so you know one guy might be a whiner one guy might be a family guy one guy doesn’t swear one guys churchgoing one guys a fucking asshole I mean it’s so all walks of life come in and youBe able to discern from what each person is going to need every day so you know but he’s whining he’s in a bad mood is getting nothing done you know I go up I say hey listen buddy take 5 or 10 minutes to go stand off to the side and just gather yourself and then come back to work when you’re ready and that works so good where is another guy you got to tell him to get the hell going And then you got guys with family problems and friggin car problems and it never ends relatives die people are sick guys don’t feel good in them kids are sick there’s so many different excuses why people don’t come to work I’ve heard them all I think I know grandma died three times this year anyway so working with all walks of life is a tough go and you have to know how to manipulate each person and not manipulate but just control them like puppets so they’ll do what you want when you want and listen to what you have to say and the respect you as a foreman for me I always worked as hard as they did or harder I think setting a good example is probably one of the best ways to motivate your crew if you were hard most people will follow suit That job I had as foreman I really enjoyed unfortunately there was a falling out with the owner that I won’t get into right now maybe another timeSo when you find that carpenter that you want to learn from make sure it’s the right guy that’s the biggest piece of advice because you will turn out just like your boss he teaches you to do things shitty you’ll be shitty thank you for reading Any questions or anything you might have just let me know