New Job!

[FireFighter]

Well the selling cars thing sucked my @$$, So, 2 weeks ago I went to work for trugreen chemlawn as a lime specialist. Now instead of selling cars I drive a Ford F350 truck around and apply lime to peoples lawns. I got my first check today and so far I love it. I am under 21 so I can't drive the big trucks but, thats good because none of the big trucks have AC! I have been traing with the rookie of the year from last year and I intend to be that this year. Base pay is $450 a week plus bonus's and a lot of other stuff. I love driving on my own allday and getting paid for it. Its hard work tho, lime has to go down at a rate of 25lbs per 1000sq ft. Around here the average lawn is probally about 25,000 sq ft so you can just imagine how often I have to refil my spreader but, atleast I am outside! What do you guys think and anyone else work for them?

[98goldbird]

Congrats man! I can't wait to complete my "education" before I can go into the field I love. That's cool that you have your goals high (getting rookie of the year). And who knows, when you get to the "Big Trucks," a few of us just MIGHT be able to help you out in installing an A/C [img]graemlins/naughty.gif[/img]

[Nicklz]

Ok, I'm going to show my ignorance here. What does lime do for grass??

[Everglades W68]

Originally posted by Nicklz:
Ok, I'm going to show my ignorance here. What does lime do for grass??

It adjusts the pH.

[95Batmobile]

Originally posted by Nicklz:
Ok, I'm going to show my ignorance here. What does lime do for grass??

It's so you can get the salt and cuervo and have a party.

[FireFighter]

Originally posted by Everglades W68:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Nicklz:
Ok, I'm going to show my ignorance here. What does lime do for grass??

It adjusts the pH. </font>[/QUOTE]Yeah, among other things but I left all of my papers in my truck at work. Its like a 2 page thing on stuff that it does but, mostly it just balances the pH level like everglades said.

[12secondv6]

Congrats!

[Alt space n]

So average lawn is like half an acre, add a house on top of that. That isn't a huge lawn but I live on half an acre and its a pita to cut so I believe liming it would be timely. Way to go with the job man. Do you get any benefits with them or just straight pay?

[FireFighter]

Yeah health insurance, 401k all of that. One acre would take me about 1 hour to do and would use a lot of lime 25lbs x 40,000sq ft= 1,000lbs of lime [img]graemlins/omg.gif[/img]

[ February 19, 2005, 10:32 PM: Message edited by: FireFighter ]

[andrew.brandon]

yeah I use to do yard work with my dad and we always had to put down a butt load of lime when we did it.

and no not 1 million pounds of lime lol 25 pounds for every 1000 square feet. thats 40 25 pound bags. 1000 pounds for a 40000 square foot yard

[FireFighter]

50lbs bags.

[andrew.brandon]

so that should be 20 50# bags.

[FireFighter]

Yes andy, I corrected my math [img]tongue.gif[/img]