"And Meow used to be one of them Finishers. It was a decent honest job, that one could be proud of having done. Unlike conning folks for a living. Cats and wood worked out well, But Cats and NTEK scams did not. One made money, and one lost money."
That's one reason I hate scammers like DaPathologicalLyinFoleyFelonCareerGrifter and the goddampt pennyscams - they transfer munny from peeps who actually sweat and make real stuph to people - well scum - who live off boolsheeting, cheating, swindling, and bamboozling people who, well at least SOME of them as newbies, buy the CON and think they are investing in the creation of something, when in reality they are just being skinned by career CONmen like NTEK's DaPathologicalLyinFoleyFelonSwindlingPennygrifter and Toxic Ted Campbell the Bored Director and 'acting CFO' (emphasis on ACTING) who promised at the 2013 SHM that NTEK would be on NASDAQ by 2014.
Hay man, good on ya for finish (or Finnish) carpentry. My great grandfather came to the USA from Bohemia and his trade was a finish carpenter and fine cabinetmaker. He brought his own tools from the Old Country in wooden toolboxes and small chests with pullout drawers that sit on a workbench - all kinds of wood chisels and woodworking tools, some very fine - made in the 1800s in Bohemia and Bavaria. I still have all that stuff inherited from my dad. You cannot find toolchests as finely built from primo wood (a very hard wood which holds a smooth surface) as the ones he made in the late 1800s - the drawers are all wood but finished so smoothly they pull in and ~OUTT with very little friction - almost as if they were on roller bearings made of air - but they're just finely polished wood with no lubricant - made over 100 years ago and as good as the day he made them. That's art in my mind. I never met the guy, he (and his son my grandfather) were both dead before I was born, butt I have the heirlooms, including a wooden clock housing he made over 120 years ago which has the original clockworks inside. I've tried twice to have the clockworks repaired, but despite two expensive tries with two different restorers, it still loses around 9 to 11 minutes a day. I keep it just for the woodwork my greatgrandfather did on making the housing. Since I never met him, the tools, toolchests, toolboxes, and the clock are all i will ever have of him - so I'm keeping them and hopefully my son will want them when it's time for him to clean up my mess when I hit the pinebox.
I never had any skill at art - none at all. I've always been amazed by kids that can draw well - my son is like that - don't know where he gott it from, neither me or DaWife is artistic in drawing, sculpting, pottery, or painting (although I have painted houses - butt nott on canvas).
Butt for a guy will no art talent, the summers I spent doing masonry was as close as I'll ever gett to art. I did some bricklaying and blockwork - even a cobblestone driveway and lots of stone walks and one stone fireplace, butt I was mostly a mudd monkey. And I liked it. To me it was kinda like art.
When I have gone back to the area where I grew up, I sometimes have driven to old job sites to see how some of the stuph I worked on is holding up - in particular one long reinforced concrete retaining wall that is in front of a house on a steep hill. Man that was a beauty - virtually flawless. And when I looked at it 35+ years after we made it, it's still beautiful - only a small number of very minor surface cracks - and it's in a harsh climate too - hard winters and hot summers.
It's great to look at stuph you made (nott alone, it can be a team thing) decades ago and see how it has held up well. That's the non-monetary part of the trades that is fulfilling. You prolly know that a lott better than me, as I only worked masonry for three summers. I tried roofing once, as my uncle was a roofer, butt that is too freaking hot and too scary on 2+ storey and up buildings. Uncle eventually fell off a roofing yobb, shattered his elbow, and that was the end of his career in his late 30s - he took up bartending after that. I told him that roofing was too dangerous for me - and he's lucky that all he gott from that fall was a shattered arm and nott a pine box. I wasn't there when his fall happened, butt I suspect alcohol may have been involved.
Anyway, grifters like DaDaveyGrifterFoleyFelonPennyscammer are particularly distasteful - using scams like ROYAL FOLEY CAPITAL GROUP and FS GLOBAL CAPITAL (another FoleyFront toxic debt lending shell) - and the tens of millions of shares given to LISA FOLEY in the last year and a half for doing nothing.
I'd much rather look back on an old retaining wall than be a FoldoinkFelon and look back at an NP-1 MOJO that was pirated from MadCatz and passed off as the fruit of DaFoleyFelonLiar when all he did was take the pirated boards taken from the Chinese maker of the MadCatz board, ordered around 100 custom-milled aluminum heatsinks so he could overclock the crap ~OUTTa the boards, and a cheesy plastic enclosure and renamed it 'NP-1 Nuvulva'.
Oh what a stinking SCAM the NTEK and NTGL Felon's swindling rig jobs have been.
