Job on the Vineyard - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

lurch · 12-29-2006, 04:37 PM

I was browsing Comcast's web site and saw a job on the Vineyard as a cable guy. Can you imagine the fishing research you could do there being the cable guy. With the cable guy going into all of the homes you could have opportunities to fish meet some people and ask for access in some sweet and private locations....YIKES!!!

"Dont mind me Sir as I am tracking a cable TV problem"...."Do you need to track the problem with a fishing rod in your hand?" "Why yes I do!"

I knew there was a reason I should not have left the cable company. If I stayed april of 07 would have been my 18th year there.

Swimmer · 12-29-2006, 10:16 PM

Lurch the cable guy. It has a certain ring to it.

Slingah · 12-29-2006, 10:57 PM

" you rang? "

Mr. Sandman · 12-30-2006, 09:17 AM

Yeah, they are advertising for a bunch of cable techs. Recently Comcast took over from adelphia out here.

Cable out here is like no place else i've lived. In some places, cable wires are just running along in the woods, thru the bushes to the house. There is one on my street where the cable runs thru the bushes runs up a tree, takes a couple wraps around the branch and crosses over the road to another tree on the other side then back down among the bushes up to the guys house. It almost looks like some guy is stealing cable services but it is like that in many places. I can't tell you how many times I have seen this...cables running in the woods on the ground and thru bushes. At my house it is under ground but only about 3", you have to know where it is before you put a shovel in the ground.

Here is your shot for a real life style change. This is not a place to climb corporate latters but if you like to fish, the outdoors, a high degree of personal saftey, peace and quiet with good schools and low taxes in a small town feel... it ain't half bad.

JohnR · 12-30-2006, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman

Here is your shot for a real life style change. This is not a place to climb corporate latters but if you like to fish, the outdoors, a high degree of personal saftey, peace and quiet with good schools and low taxes in a small town feel... it ain't half bad.

Boy do I want to go ...

Not much of a Tech Sector over there - eh?

Swimmer · 12-30-2006, 09:58 AM

Code for underground cable/electricity/phone wires is 36" with yellow tape on top of the wires. There probably is quite a bit of cable signal pilfering going on. Who would tel or know? l

Swimmer · 12-30-2006, 10:09 AM

Comcast is not a bad company to work for. My buddies son just started with them. Sent him to school in the mid west part of Massachusetts for 6 or 7 weeks. Gave him his own truck. Main office is in the Taunton Industrial Park area. You can get a tremendous amount of OT at times. If your on the Vineyard you wouldn't even have a boss to watch over you. And maybe they would pay some towards housing?????????

lurch · 12-30-2006, 10:39 AM

I was over thee in Sept with a bunch of cable guys (some 25+ yrs of service) and we saw a cable guy fishing Philbin beach. We busted his ball$ for fishing while working but deep down inside we were very envious. We asked who he worked for and we all knew his manager. He was asking the guys I was with not to rat him out. The guys said that we would not rat him out if he gave us some locations to fish and as usual he said he did not know any good places to fish...LYING!

My wife is a teacher so she might be able to find a job on the island...plus with all of the OT from cable you might be able to make 70-80K /year. if it was only so easy to pull the trigger...keep dreamin' I guess.

MAC · 12-30-2006, 12:39 PM

70 to 80K /year........boy did I get into the wrong line of work

lurch · 12-30-2006, 01:15 PM

if a tech is making 25/hr with no OT that is 52K/year.

If my math is correct to get to 70K is only 9 hrs of OT /week and when I was working there 9hrs of OT was easy to do.

18000$ to get to 70K
divide by 37.50 OT rate
= 480 hours

480 hours /52 weeks = 9.2 hours of OT per week.

Raider Ronnie · 12-30-2006, 01:31 PM

[QUOTE=lurch;445872]I was over thee in Sept with a bunch of cable guys (some 25+ yrs of service) and we saw a cable guy fishing Philbin beach. We busted his ball$ for fishing while working but deep down inside we were very envious.

WOW, that has to be a RARE event,

a untility worker (Nstar, Verizon, any cable co, ect..... ) screwing around while on the job and getting paid to do it !!!

Squid kids Dad · 12-30-2006, 01:37 PM

Where can I sign up...

CAL · 12-30-2006, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by lurch

if a tech is making 25/hr with no OT that is 52K/year.

I didn't think cable guys got that kind of money.

I may have to look into a career change.

lurch · 12-30-2006, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by CAL

I didn't think cable guys got that kind of money.

I may have to look into a career change.

I was making 19$/hr in 99' and after I left they dramatically increased the pay scale....I believe the top pay is just below 60$/hour.

pmueller · 12-30-2006, 04:22 PM

boy do I wish I was younger

TheSpecialist · 12-30-2006, 06:16 PM

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My wife is a teacher so she might be able to find a job on the island...plus with all of the OT from cable you might be able to make 70-80K /year. if it was only so easy to pull the trigger...keep dreamin' I guess.

Lurch you will find very few of those guys making that kind of money. I worked for them from 89--95, and although they did give large increases after that most of the guys making 25$ started long before I worked there.

Verizon is hiring, if you want to make real money, excellent beni's it's the way to go..

lurch · 12-30-2006, 07:20 PM

You left too early! I was there until 99 and they did not drop the cash until after I left. If you have the experience they pay VERY well now.

Network engineering group for Verizon I can do but my days as a pole jockey are way behind me.

jmonte45 · 01-01-2007, 04:21 PM

I actually worked for Adelphia, and now work for Comcast. My office is located in Bourne, but I did work quite a bit on Martha's Vineyard last summer and the summer before helping out. I actually managed to sneak in a little fishing on break, don't remember meeting anybody though, and didn't do so hot fishing. (few schoolies) As far as the pay, I am a Line Tech, and it would take quite a bit of overtime to get me to 70K. And to answer to the comment about the wires being shallow, it is like that in every town, that's what you get when you contract out the work.