On indeed there is an add looking for an inland Chief Engineer , pay says
$300 a day, that’s about as near to the
absolute bottom of the barrel as I have
seen, a shade tree mechanic could do
one job a day and be home and top that.
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Post the link please. I’d take the job if it was right down the road from my house & only 3 hours a day.
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Not entirely sure what a shade tree mechanic is but I like the sound of it.
I guess it’s like a tree surgeon for shade trees?
Napoleon was a big champion of shade trees, hence the boulevards.
300 scoobies a day; any extras on that?
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Can’t find the add & looked multiple times,
we call a shadetree mechanic one of them
guys you can usually identify with a chainfall
around a large tree limb with an engine
hanging off of it, usually a few beer cans
scattered around and may or may not be a good mechanic but will take the job anyway
lol.
I’m pretty sure he meant a backyard mechanic can make $300 in 3 hours a day not that the job posted was for 3 hours a day.
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I pay my shade tree mechanic $35 an hour in cash.
Garage rates these days are about $100 to $200 an hour
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If they pay the CHIEF that, what are they paying everyone else?
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Screw that job. I could understand if it was a dinner cruise or a excursion boat that left the dock 2-3 hrs a day, 3-4 days a week but a pushboat, 12 hrs a day working 28 & 14 is nuts. I’ll go back to stripping before I worked chief for 300 a day.
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It also mentions in the job description schedule that must be available on your
time off if called.
this job just can not be for licensed officers guys.
any rated eng. looking at this is doing so only for entertainment/curiosity.
shade tree mech/can mechanic/ etc.
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True. My first boat job at 18yrs old was on pushboats on the lower Mississippi. Since I could start an engine without burning up a starter, could read a dipstick & change oil, was mechanically inclined & had some tricks up my sleeve that I learned from a family of impoverished shade tree mechanics, I was quickly promoted to deckineer. It paid 10 bucks more & included everything the normal deckhands did but I was assigned to taking care of the engineroom 30mins at the start & ending of my watch instead of sanitary. This 300 dollar a day job is probably for a deckineer type position?
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I did the same, tought & hazardous work to say the least !
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A “shade tree mechanic” is a man who can do car repairs in the shade of a tree. They can nail a 2X4 between two trees and use a hoist to pull an engine. Many of them are excellent mechanics, but making $300 a day, I doubt it.
gawd, i bet there’s more than me here wishing we could start over, or rather, just be back when … to a degree.
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I know I didn’t have to pay no damn gym membership fee or worry about what I ate or drank for sure. That was the most physically demanding job I ever had while walking 1.5 feet from death, carrying a 50lb ratchet or 35’, 1" wire almost everywhere I went.
HHAHA, yea, dragging cable … fuk, nowadays I would’t even try to pick it up… hahahaha
Back in 1990-1992, while I was still on active duty in the USN, I worked part-time as a relief Captain on the “Spirit of XXX” in Norfolk, VA. They wanted you to look like Captain Stubing of the Love Boat, but they paid like Skipper of the S.S. Minnow.
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On the boxes & rakes I worked on dragging wasn’t an option because they would slide between the barges or grab a cleat & get hung up. If dragging outside they’d fall overboard & could drag you over. We had to hump them on our shoulders. Redflag barges had big open decks but usually had winches. If I was still an inland pushboat deckhand I’d take that deckineer job for 300 a day. Deckhanding sucked, too hard a job.
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It only requires a TWIC.