Hey everyone,
I recently got a job from the same company my father has worked at for 15 years. He is a carpenter foreman. It is a concrete forming company that builds high rise buildings.
I worked with my father for one summer, three years ago, but my experience then was very limited. I was only a teenager at the time, so everybody there treated me like a kid (because I was), plus they all knew my father, and they were all generally nice people, so they went very easy on me.
My experience was limited to carrying tools and equipment, carrying materials, piling up stripped material, cleaning, helping with scaffolding, putting up safety fences, oiling up forms, etc.
No real technical work, besides sometimes helping my father with walls. The advantage of this was that I didn't work on the job every day, because I would just help whoever needed an extra pair of hands at the time. This allowed me to not just learn one aspect of the process, but all the aspects, from the steelmen, the carpenters, the scaffolding, the layoutmen, the stripping, etc. So I have a decent understanding of the general basics, I have safety training, and I know what the environment is like.
The problem is, I have never done any real technical work, and I will be hired by the same company as a carpenter helper, at a different job site from my father (who would teach me most things). I've never used the skill saw, I've barely used my hammer, I've barely ever measured anything or used a chalk line, I've barely ever taken levels, etc. I don't know what to expect or how to prepare myself.
Any advice is welcome. Thanks!
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