I just returned from a few days in the hot Arizona desert where I met with lath, plaster and drywall
contractors from across America.
The meeting was well attended despite the so-called “down-turn” in the economy,
and everyone was cautiously optimistic for a change.
I just returned from a few days in the hot Arizona
desert where I met with lath, plaster and drywall contractors from across America. The
meeting was well attended despite the so-called “down-turn” in the economy, and
everyone was cautiously optimistic for a change. That’s not to suggest that
anyone was happy with the work picture at the moment, but no one was talking
about closing their doors or directing their children towards new career
choices like they had been last year.
I got the sense that everyone was looking towards the “near”
future with some level of optimism, that the worst was over and they were
beginning to get a handle on how this world might begin to shape up on the
other side of this modern day Depression.
Are you sharing in this optimism? Has the work picture begun
to change in your area? Have you changed your business model to better align
with the “new” economy that is shaping up?
Trowel Talk: The Calm Before The Recovery?
William Rogers is the executive director of the Plasterers and Cement Masons Job Corps Training Program, a national training opportunity for America's disadvantaged youth sponsored by AWCI, OPCMIA and the U.S. Department of Labor.
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