On Mar 18, 7:09*pm, Matt Stawicki wrote:
On 18 Mar 2009 12:54:39 GMT, Curly Surmudgeon

wrote:
On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:30:22 -0800, Matt Stawicki wrote:

He gets $75/hr for machine tool service. That's not
a full time, 40 hr/week job. Some weeks are good, 5-6 service calls for
a 50 hr week. Other weeks suck. You wind up with one or two 1 hour jobs.

Then you get times when the economy is down, people find ways to fix
their equipment themselves, or try to get by without needed repairs, and
you find yourself with no service calls for two or three weeks.

Then he had the $$$ for health insurance and chose not to purchase.

What part of "Other weeks suck. You wind up with one or two 1 hour
jobs." didn't you understand? I didn't imply that the 1 or 2 hour
weeks happen only once in a while. Sometimes you can go for months
without a decent service call.

Matt

The way I hear it, a person in that position should have gotten a part
time job at Wal-Mart or Mc Donald’s to fill in the 40 hour week
instead of just laying around the house doing nothing.
The hours on those jobs are pretty flexible, and according to some,
they pay enough to not need any public assistance at all.

A person with a machine tool shop could even make parts on contract
just like the shops that he services does for a living.

Personally, I have construction tools and use them to do odd jobs when
the construction trade is slower then 40 hours a week.

Built a bath room for a flea market just lately.