hi career sighted I'm Jeff giesemann and
I'm a carpenter a carpenter is basically
somebody who works with wood I want to
refer myself sometimes as a wood doctor
I can do a house from the ground up it's
all boxes and then whatever you want to
do on the outside it's not set hours you
get hired but first by the hour but
mostly each phase gets contracted out
they call it a piece worker and
everything on a house is by the square
foot where your pay fluctuates by the
faster you work the more money you make
if you were to do framing if you just
want to do walls you could just frame
walls and then there's roofers that just
do it the framing of the roof each and
every day it's something different
houses just like cars that something
wears out somebody asks me to say
replace the door then I have to do the
trim you know because the trim surrounds
the door it's oh can you do this and
keep that in and I end up doing more
stuff for them and most of my work is
from referrals as a carpenter I can work
anywhere in the world there's always
work anybody can do it you have to be
able to use tools and there's dangerous
tools you just got to learn how to do it
the right way the most important thing
in construction is math there's formulas
in building a house you look at a house
with a roof system on it there's very
complicated there's hips and Gables and
valleys but it's all related to math
growing up I used to go to buildings
that were under construction and I would
pick up the nails or the piece of wood
bring them home and start hammering and
stuff and actually built like a little
fork my brother and I when we were
growing up when I was like 13 or 14
that's what got me interested in
instruction from when I was a kid and
doing the director sets and stuff like
that I go well you know what maybe if I
go to school and become a carpenter I
can go build my own house and then then
you could build it any way you want to
and that's what I did there was a city
college but they had a course where you
you actually hands-on build a house on
campus and you had your class for two
hours and then for two or three hours
you'd go out there and build up to the
house after the two-year program was
done the house would be completed
because each semester they would do a
certain phase of it might have been like
20 students all the students did all the
work
the best experience you can get is
on-the-job training while I was working
on jobs people would always come and say
do you have any work for us
you always have to enter something at
the bottom and at the bottom in
construction is being a labor so labor
you know you have to go get tools and
clean up the job and but you actually
what happens is you learn things as you
do those jobs depending on how good you
are as far as math and working with
tools you could Excel really fast it's
fun I mean you become friends with
everybody I grew up with the rector set
some models putting stuff together and
how is it just a big version of it so
it's great it's great I mean and you get
paid for it
thanks career sighted