Nowadays, client ask "I need your help on this job. Please give me a quote" and sent similar messages to few other contractor for price comparison. DIE LA. How can this trade survive? Contractor undercut prices just to get jobs. Clients squeezing cheapest quote due to reduce in maintenance budget.
A person I dislike once told me, there is no quality in cheap products. This is so true in this trade.
Well, it is over now. Gone were the days of people calling me every now and then.
2020 is a new challenge as I am switching trade. Yes, switching trade at age 34. Guess this is what people call it the mid life crisis.
A summary of jobs I have tried since I left my job to rediscover myself in 2017.
- Electrical apprentice
- Foodpanda delivery
- Uber driver
- Uber Eats
- Warehouse worker
- Condominium defects customer service officer
- Interior Designer
- Building maintenance contractor
Traits that I found out from these jobs
- Prefer working alone
- Result based
- like to brainstorm solutions to problems
- dislike doing things that is unnecessary/ time wasting even when instructed by manager
- prefer being a worker
- love free time
- love waking up late
- love sleeping late
These bring me to my next job of being a service technician.
