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carpenter jobs?
Forget it.
Forget it, Forget it, Forget it. In the D.R. people will say they are a carpenter, an electrician, a mason or plumber, just to obtain work, unless they are rich enough to hire one.
There are construction jobs, pay is not Boston union scale, ($20-$25/hr?), there is barely enough earnings ($6-$9/day, if paid) to cover for food and shelter.
I suggest you monitor the board more often, then when you feel familiar with it, use its search program (archives) to bring up more information on the Dominican job market, you will get an education. Regards, PJT
Forget it, Forget it, Forget it. In the D.R. people will say they are a carpenter, an electrician, a mason or plumber, just to obtain work, unless they are rich enough to hire one.
There are construction jobs, pay is not Boston union scale, ($20-$25/hr?), there is barely enough earnings ($6-$9/day, if paid) to cover for food and shelter.
I suggest you monitor the board more often, then when you feel familiar with it, use its search program (archives) to bring up more information on the Dominican job market, you will get an education. Regards, PJT
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How much do you expect to make?
Well my guess is that SOMEONE will tell you to check the archives since the labor is the cheapest thing in the DR... I hear you will not make too much since the people work for $100 a month there. CHeck the archives on DR1. Should have some similar questions. I do remember one from a licensed Electrician wanting to go live in the DR. Good Luck and maybe someone knows someone who needs you services on DR1..
Pam
Hey if you are looking for Island life and want good pay..Try Guam... I lived there and have a friend who's exhusband just went there for Carpenter work. Guam is a US territory and alot of growth going on so may have work. They Pay on US scale with US money.
Well my guess is that SOMEONE will tell you to check the archives since the labor is the cheapest thing in the DR... I hear you will not make too much since the people work for $100 a month there. CHeck the archives on DR1. Should have some similar questions. I do remember one from a licensed Electrician wanting to go live in the DR. Good Luck and maybe someone knows someone who needs you services on DR1..
Pam Hey if you are looking for Island life and want good pay..Try Guam... I lived there and have a friend who's exhusband just went there for Carpenter work. Guam is a US territory and alot of growth going on so may have work. They Pay on US scale with US money.
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"skilled 8$ a day" ???
It's not so easy, to buy land, hire labor or sell to baseball players. Do an archive search regarding skills, buying land, and baseball players.
Also, Dominicans fortunate enough to go to the States to learn "skills" gravitate to places like Boston, Chelsea, Revere, Lynn, Salem, Lawrence, and Lowell. Once there, they earn enough from their newfound skills to send cash back to support their extended families back home in the D.R. that have skilled 8$ a day workers.
Ever ask yourself why the Dominican workers in the U.S. do not return home, other than for a vacation or family function? Once you arrive to the answer, you will know why there is no market in the D.R. for union carpenters. Regards, PJT
It's not so easy, to buy land, hire labor or sell to baseball players. Do an archive search regarding skills, buying land, and baseball players.
Also, Dominicans fortunate enough to go to the States to learn "skills" gravitate to places like Boston, Chelsea, Revere, Lynn, Salem, Lawrence, and Lowell. Once there, they earn enough from their newfound skills to send cash back to support their extended families back home in the D.R. that have skilled 8$ a day workers.
Ever ask yourself why the Dominican workers in the U.S. do not return home, other than for a vacation or family function? Once you arrive to the answer, you will know why there is no market in the D.R. for union carpenters. Regards, PJT
You know, thinging on this
If you could make contact with the exclusive builders, either in La Romana, Punta Cana or Santo Domingo or Santiago, and perhaps in the growth areas of the North Coast, it just might be possible to get work. Stuff like decks, repairs, some structures.
A good carpinter, electrician or plumber is the hardest thing to find in this country. 99.9% are self taught and have no ideas of what a code is....
HB
If you could make contact with the exclusive builders, either in La Romana, Punta Cana or Santo Domingo or Santiago, and perhaps in the growth areas of the North Coast, it just might be possible to get work. Stuff like decks, repairs, some structures.
A good carpinter, electrician or plumber is the hardest thing to find in this country. 99.9% are self taught and have no ideas of what a code is....
HB
there is DEFINATELY a market for highly skilled foriegn wood workers, carpenters, electrician, plumbers etc here. you must make contact with a good builder as most of them are sick of the local incompetance. Forget the 25$/hour, but you will make more than the locals at 8$/day.
Correct me if I'm wrong
But it seems to me that.... no matter how skilled one may be in blue collar trade, be it painter, carpenter, electrician, shoe cobbler or whatever, s/he's not going to make much more than the oft-cited $8 a day. $10 a day as the fixit manager in one of the resorts maybe?
Best, P
But it seems to me that.... no matter how skilled one may be in blue collar trade
Best, P
Re: what?
You want to work for a few hundred a month max?
I just bought a 1700 sq. ft. 2 family. I will do it all including new windows, tile, paint, and furnish it for 25k including put in a new swimming pool. They use Hatians to dig the damn thing since it is cheaper than renting a backhoe for the day.
I will start the end of this month on the north coast if you are around and want to watch.
Yes, isn't that sweet? I had 1200+ sq. ft. of ceramic tile put down with ceramic tile base moulding, the base moulding of tile removed and a window taken out and 40 glass blocks put in, the window built up with cement to make full instead a half glass block for under 500 dollars US. They did a better job than I would have done in the states as far as leveling each tile but I had to explain how to line up the moulding tile to match the floor tiling and make them take down and put back up a few. This is a MUD job and not using glue btw. Tile and glass block and materials cost 5-6x the labor costs. Same 1200 plus painted under 75$US. Paint cost about 125$US. Want to knock a hole through the block to install A/C? How about 17$US for labor. Cant remember what else but not much wood carpentry done. Mostly cement and block work.d kimball said:
You want to work for a few hundred a month max?
I just bought a 1700 sq. ft. 2 family. I will do it all including new windows, tile, paint, and furnish it for 25k including put in a new swimming pool. They use Hatians to dig the damn thing since it is cheaper than renting a backhoe for the day.
I will start the end of this month on the north coast if you are around and want to watch.
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what!!????!!!
"I will start the end of this month on the north coast if you are around and want to watch."
what a dickhead thing to say. maybe you should be appreciative rather than smug.
"I will start the end of this month on the north coast if you are around and want to watch."
what a dickhead thing to say. maybe you should be appreciative rather than smug.
I am wondering who is the "dickhead"??
YOur first post and you call one of ours a "dickhead?" For an invitation to come watch some construction? Probably with a lot of beer and eats?
Or are you worrying about the young Haitian workers, toiling under the sun to dig a swimming pool? the are workers and not slaves. They will be getting ditchdiggers wages. Nobody will cheat them.
dude you are way off base....
HB
YOur first post and you call one of ours a "dickhead?" For an invitation to come watch some construction? Probably with a lot of beer and eats?
Or are you worrying about the young Haitian workers, toiling under the sun to dig a swimming pool? the are workers and not slaves. They will be getting ditchdiggers wages. Nobody will cheat them.
dude you are way off base....
HB
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Did you say dry wall specialist?
As one of our local jesters might say: "WTF would we need dry wall for?" It is hardly ever used here.
As at least two others have posted, good carpentry might find a living but it would take some contacts and time to develop....
HB
Did you say dry wall specialist?
As one of our local jesters might say: "WTF would we need dry wall for?" It is hardly ever used here.
As at least two others have posted, good carpentry might find a living but it would take some contacts and time to develop....
HB
so i'm a newbie, who cares
i've been watching for a while.
there's no problem with hiring cheap labor and having your place built for a lot less than in the US.
its the idea of being a spectator that makes me sick. i make practically nothing in the US and the nobody sits around drinking beers and watching me.
i've been watching for a while.
there's no problem with hiring cheap labor and having your place built for a lot less than in the US.
its the idea of being a spectator that makes me sick. i make practically nothing in the US and the nobody sits around drinking beers and watching me.