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Living in a small beach town community has been quite an experience, and the surrounding community is made up of elderly folk, but there is also a group of young people around, and we adore this spot since it’s peaceful and has excellent amenities, plus, the houses are quite affordable to buy.

My partner and I came across this locale on one of our tours of the country. We knew this would be the locale to settle, so we set about finding jobs in the area and the right home to buy. Our neighbors are an attractive older couple who have become more like our grandparents. They had come over the day we moved in with lots of food. They said the food would last until we were settled, and we were so thankful for this fantastic gesture. The other day we were having complications with the air conditioner in the house, then for some reason, the equipment was blowing warm air into the home making the space sizzling and muggy. We spoke with our neighbors about finding an AC business to assist us. They showed us a website where we could book an appointment online, get the time, and a heating and A/C worker would show up to repair the faulty unit. This is exactly what we did and at 11 am the following day, we got a knock at our door; It was the heating and A/C worker there on time to repair the faulty air conditioner in our home. We were so impressed by the punctuality and the fact that she managed to get to our house based on the information we left on the website.

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It was the HVAC worker there on time to fix the faulty air conditioning in our home

Living in a small beach town community had been quite an experience. The surrounding community is made up of elderly folk, but there’s also a group of young people around. We like this spot since it’s peaceful and has excellent amenities. Plus, the houses are quite affordable to buy. My partner and I came across this place on one of our tours of the country. We knew this would be the place to settle, so we set about finding jobs in the area and the right house to buy. Our neighbors are a lovely older couple who have become more like our grandparents. They had come over the day we moved in with lots of food. They said the food would last until we were settled, and we were so thankful for this wonderful gesture. The other day we were having issues with the air conditioning in the house. For some reason, the unit was blowing warm air into the house making the space hot and muggy. We spoke with our neighbors about finding an AC company to assist us. They gave us a website where we could book an appointment online, get the time, and an HVAC worker would show up to fix the faulty unit. This is exactly what we did and at 11 am the following morning, we got a knock at our door. It was the HVAC worker there on time to fix the faulty air conditioning in our home. We were so impressed by the punctuality and the fact that he managed to get to our home based on the information we left on the website.

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My plan was simple – I would apply at a rival company, and then hopefully use that to pressure my boss into giving me a raise.

I love my job, but the pay is garbage.

I hoped that by threatening to leave the boss would make a counter offer to keep me here. My plan blew up in my face, and my boss patted me on the back and wished me well in my future endeavors. This is a bummer, because I don’t want to work for a major HVAC corporation. On the other hand, the offer they made me is pretty amazing, so I would be an idiot to pass it over. By working for a major HVAC company I will lose a lot of the freedom I get at my current job, not to mention they drug test so I will have to figure out how to pass that. It’s too late to go back, though, because if I stay at my old HVAC job my boss knows that he will never have to give me a raise ever. It’s hard to do your best work if you know that there will never be any money, so if I had it to do over again I would never have applied to the major HVAC corporation. If I can pass the drug test, I will start off with a base pay almost twice what I’m making now, so any concessions I have to make to the new HVAC company will probably be worth it. I will really miss my old job, though.

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Ever since I retired, I have been in charge of the neighborhood watch.

I don’t think anyone in the neighborhood even cares, but I do.

I spend a lot of time on my front porch anyway, and since I live alone I spend a lot more time looking out my front windows. I keep an eye on the street, seeing who comes and goes, and if anyone out of place shows up. I know most everyone thinks that I am an old busybody, and maybe I am, but I do see some interesting things. Two weeks ago I saw the HVAC repair truck parked out in front of the Harris house. Mike and Danielle Harris live just across the street from me, and seem like nice enough people. Two days later that same HVAC truck was back, and stayed for about an hour before the tech came out of the house and drove away. I thought that they were just having some major air conditioning issues, especially when the van showed up again two days later! I saw Mike walking the dog early one morning before work, so I called out to him and asked him about the air conditioning issues. Mike said the AC in his house was working great, so I asked about why the HVAC tech kept coming by during the day. As I suspected, Mike went home fuming mad, because we both knew there was no problem with his air conditioning. There was, however, a problem with his wife, one that the HVAC tech had been working on all week!

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My partner and I buy houses at auction, then we fix them up and “flip” them for a quick profit.

It’s hard work, but it pays well, and quite frankly it’s fun! Bob and I love what we do, even if the results aren’t always great. We turn a profit on nine out of ten house flips, but they can’t all be winners, and sometimes we take a bath on the costs. We buy houses and pieces of property at estate sales and police auctions – in this part of the country police seize all kinds of great stuff in drug raids, including houses. Although we handle most of the work ourselves, there is an HVAC contractor that we use for almost all of the jobs. When it comes to remodeling there are a lot of different things you have to do, but HVAC work is more complicated than I can handle. Even if I had an HVAC certification, I don’t know that I would be up to moving all that equipment, and getting into tight spaces. An HVAC tech has to be able to get into crawl spaces and wiggle up into the attack if need me. When it comes to cleaning air ducts, they have a lot of special tools that my partner and I don’t have. The main reason is that we have learned that people don’t want a house without good climate control. They will buy houses with all manner of defects and shortcomings, but they will not budge a single inch on sacrificing their air conditioning.

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I work at a place called Rancho Relaxo, it is a ranch resort where people pay money to live like cowboys for a few days.

The work is hard, the food is rustic, but the experience feels authentic, and people seem to love it.

I discovered the place as a tourist, and then two years later found my way back here to live, and to work, as part of the crew. I’m no cowboy, but I can cook, so they keep in the kitchen much of the time. More importantly, I am a certified HVAC tech, and those duties are what occupies much of my working day. When they first brought me on, I was supposed to just handle the HVAC work, but that wound up not being enough to keep me occupied. I spent my first few weeks tuning up and repairing every single air conditioner and heater on the ranch, but once I got things up to snuff, my duties relaxed. After that first blast of intense work, there was simply not enough HVAC work to keep me busy throughout the day, so they stuck me in the kitchen. Now when the HVAC work is done I report to Ruth in the kitchen, who keeps me busy peeling potatoes and dicing veggies. I have also been able to improve the ventilation in the kitchen by installing a new vent hood and an exhaust vent in the roof. It has lowered the temps in the kitchen by almost twenty degrees, and this room doesn’t even have an air conditioner.

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Max simply cannot match this offer… but do I want to go work for a major HVAC corporation? There is more to life than money, right? Working for Max feels like hanging out with a friend, and in between HVAC repair jobs we will hang out in the office and drink a couple of cold beers

Right now I am holding an offer letter in my hand. I only applied for this job to force my current boss into giving me a raise, but that didn’t work. Max told me to take the job, but the problem is I don’t want to take the job. I like Max and I like what I do, so I don’t want to leave. On the other hand, this company is offering me much more than I ever expected to make. I have four years experience, but they want to bring me on as a senior HVAC tech, with full benefits and an option for overtime pay. Max simply cannot match this offer… but do I want to go work for a major HVAC corporation? There is more to life than money, right? Working for Max feels like hanging out with a friend, and in between HVAC repair jobs we will hang out in the office and drink a couple of cold beers. Max told me that HVAC work could be a path to making big money, but that I couldn’t expect to get rich working for him. Max didn’t have the ambition to push his HVAC business to the next level, he was content to just pay his bills. The real question I am facing is how to approach my career in HVAC – do I be like Max, and play it cool, or do I join the big corporation and start making some real money? I am genuinely torn about which direction to take my career in HVAC, and would be open to some advice!

Torn about what to do with my HVAC career

When you buy a house, there are a series of checks and balances to make sure you get what you pay for.

There is a real estate agent, loan agents, insurance agents, and everyone has paperwork to ensure everything is perfect.

However, when you buy a house at an auction, all bet are off. You might get a piece of property for a few hundred bucks, and who knows what you might find there? But there are no checks and balances, and once you pay the money you own it no matter what the condition is. I knew it was a crapshoot when I bought the old house, but honestly aside from the lack of an HVAC system the place is in decent shape. The biggest issues with these old houses are the plumbing and the climate control systems. If the pipes are bad, then the place might be too much trouble to bother fixing up, but the same is not true of the climate control system. I have come to expect that the older places will either have no central HVAC system at all, or have one so old it has to be removed and replaced. Compared to the logistical nightmare of replacing all the pipes, replacing a central HVAC system is relatively easy. I don’t even bother looking at the central HVAC system before I buy a place, because I just assume that it isn’t any good. If a house is a good investment, then paying a few grand for a new climate control system is not a major expense.

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In previous decades, this place would have been called a “dude ranch.” You see, back in the day the cowboys and ranch hands that lived on farms referred to other folks as either “city slickers” or in some cases “dudes.” A dude was someone who didn’t know how to live on the land, but was trying.

• Well, the term dude ranch has been retired, and now this place is called a Resort Ranch.

People pay big money to stay here, and do traditional farm chores while eating traditional ranch food. I am a cook, and also the HVAC tech who maintains the cabins and rental cottages. I work two jobs here, because there wasn’t enough HVAC work to necessitate having a repair tech here full time. The way it works is that the HVAC repair work is the top priority, but when that is done, I am to spend the rest of my time in the kitchen. This dude ranch is not made of money, they need to be smart with their budget, and so doing double-duty like this was the only way I could stay employed here. I could go elsewhere and make more money for my HVAC skills, but I love this place! There is more to life than money, and living somewhere so calming and picturesque offsets the fact that I could make twice as much working for a legit HVAC contractor. Since money isn’t an issue at the moment, I will keep peeling potatoes and working on window mounted air conditioners, and enjoying my life as it is.

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I got an offer from a major corporation to join their workforce.

I had to admit, they put together a really attractive package.

I would get much better health and dental insurance than I currently have, plus a 401K, something I currently don’t have at all. There is a liberal amount of paid leave time, as well, besides the big jump in pay from what I am making now. They couldn’t be much more generous, quite frankly, but I’m still not sure I will take the offer. Right now I am one of three employees at a small, outlaw HVAC company, and even though the pay sucks, I really love my job. When I say “outlaw HVAC company” I mean that we are not one of the major companies. In this town there are a lot of big time corporate contracts, and various landlords and business owners signs exclusive deals with a particular HVAC company to handle all of their needs. We don’t have any contracts, we operate outside the lines, and pick up all the little HVAC jobs the big guys can’t or won’t do. If you need heating equipment for your cannabis crops over the winter, we are the guys to call. If your survivalist cult needs a geothermal heat pump for your underground bunker, we are the guys to call. If you need HVAC work but want to pay cash and not leave a paper trail, we are the guys to call! The HVAC corporation can keep their money, because I love being one of the outlaws.

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