Posted by Phillipa on April 25, 2005, at 20:32:38
In reply to Re: Stuggling to stay in High-Stress Work Enviroment- » StaciW, posted by TamaraJ on April 25, 2005, at 20:12:14
I just had my husband read this Thread. He thought it might be useful to hear his story. He worked as a supervisor of the paint and graphics dept at Fountain Powerboats. When I met him he worked around 9 hours a day and an occasional half Saturday. As time went on the hours kept increasing as his Boss doesn't really understand what goes into a custom paint job on very expensive boats. At the same time my illness surfaced, and I needed him home more. I was literally terrified to be alone in the house after dark and again on Weekends. By now the job entailed working from 5am till sometimes 2am in the morning. No time off for this and back again by 6 or 7 in the am. He finally had to go to his boss and resign from being Supervisor and just be one of the painters. He took a considerable pay cut but now we could have weekends to travel to our condo for the weekends, and he was home by 5 when it became dark. He was extremely resenful of this for a long while. We ultimately moved to the beach and he tried to start his own customized painting. He did very well last summer as he has an incredible reputation. He even had 3 Fountain boats contracted out to him as they were swamped. Being at the beach it died during the winter. Now the calls are beginning to come in again from past clients so we are hopeful. But when he painted here I was free to come with him and he even taught me to "pull and tape" boats. He has painted boats for Ross Perot, President Bush, and many other famous people. I just hope it works out for us as right now we are living off savings. Fondly, Phillipa
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