First the shooter in the Lefkow case in Chicago, now the guy who went nuts up in Brookfield (Milwaukee) WI... both identified as "unemployed electricians".

Can we expect jokes about "going postal" being changed to "going electrical"?

Stay safe (and sane) guys...

Awwww Geeeez,
And they ALREADY think I'm nutz ..... I know, it's COPPER FEVER, makes 'em nutz every time, NOW we've got an excuse.

I hear there's a DEVIL in them wires!

Well if its unemployed electricians, maybe they have some openings at the US Postal Service?

Having people alittle scared of ya might not be a bad thing. Especially when it comes to collection

I thought the "Devil went down to Georgia"?.
Wasn't that a Charlie Daniels song?.

I feel their pain...

I came an ace of mugging an old man last month just 'cause he was dumb enough to have several grand counted out to him at my bank.

I got as far as waiting in the parking lot to see which vehicle he climbed into...

Desperation will cause people to do things they'd never normally do. Put two best of friends on a deserted island with no food, and when you come back, there will be only one...

Don't believe me? Here's how to gain some perspective: Send me ALL of your money for the next, say 6 months, or whenever you have depleated all of your savings, etc. then, after you've had your power cut off for 9 months, then tell me how good you feel about yourself. Ya can't even afford the very wares you peddle? Awww poor sparky...

Not everyone was born with a copper spoon in their mouth...

/rant off

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For God Sakes Virgil,
Snap out of it!.
If there is anything I can do to help please e-mail me.
Even if it is just for a chat.
You have to get out of your current frame of mind.
C'mon,
Can we at least talk musician to musician?.

Virgil,
There is no reason for you to starve yourself in an area that won't support you.
You have the skills to move to any metro area in the US and live comfortably on a 40 hour week.

Rural areas are tougher but there are opportunities there too.

Good luck with whatever you decide to do.

GJ

Sorry, Mike...

My wife is saying the same thing... But it seems only a fool would be optimistic if they were in my shoes... Kinda the "So dumb you're happy if ya can't see the reality" scenario... I digress...

In short... I will never forget the generosity of my brothers and sisters here on this site that helped me in my time of need a few years ago, but alas, I've been so much worse off since then... an ever repeated viscious cycle.

Ironically, I have work, put in a full week last week, but I netted about -$140, all said and done, and I don't have it to lose in the first place.

My rant wasn't directed towards anyone here... (George, you should know this).

It's been a damned long winter...

GJ,
It's not so much the area, there are several successful EC's here... and growing.

My problem is capital...

I'm going to illustrate my problem in a thread in the business section and see if anyone can pinpoint the problem to anything besides "lack of working capital and lack of good business sense"...

I will use this week's invoices as examples.

Let's get to the bottom of this...

Virgil, I sometimes think its better to work for somebody else, I make a good living working for an electrical contractor, let somebody else deal with all the stress of trying to run a business.

Hi,
There was a serial killer in washingtons state or someplace that was an electrician. They profiled him as an electrician because he used TY WRAPS to tie up his victims.

I guess he was a theif too, apparently stealing from the job!

I have met some CRAZY electrician wanna be's but none of the perverts are REAL electricians...IT TAKES BRAINS TO BE A REAL ELECTRICIAN!

greg

There was a high profile murder case on Long Island a while back where the killer was an electrician, as well.
http://www.courttv.com/trials/pelosi/121304_verdict_ctv.html

Apparently, he killed one of his rich customers so he could marry his wife or something....

Trumpy,
I saw a PBS special about the wiring of Manhatten's underground...I think Edison was the foreman (LOL)...people didn't quite understand that something they couldn't see, feel, or smell could kill them. After a few "unexplained" (due to electrocution) deaths, people started saying "There's a devil in the wire!"...I think ol' Charlie Daniels wasn't even a thought back then

Here I was thinking the urge to get in a tower with a rifle was from that stint in the Marines.

What's to bet that those "crazy 'lectrishunz" were stripping the wires with their teeth?

And the guy on Long Island was Danny Pelosi. He was convicted of killing Ted Ammon, the lady's husband.

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