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Absolutely. If you have the equipment and know how to use it, you can definitely make good money with "cost-plus" contracts. Just make sure to plan your schedule for the year, or however many contracts you plan to take on, and factor all your expenses: food, fuel, oil, tires, lodging, insurance, etc. Also have a proper tax structure to make use of every credit and exemption you can claim.

But, yeah, if you have a solid truck that can handle that kind of thing and you really, really know what you're doing, it's probably the best alternative.

> You're driving a truck, you have some money saved up, you can't use it because you're always driving a truck. So the only way to spend it is to quit your job. Well if you quit you no longer have income. Are you able to magically turn that money into a better opportunity? Probably not.

That's part of what I'm talking about. It's not a "silver bullet" to your problems. It's a job like any other and one you'll have to quit eventually because your body will only let you do it for so long. Everybody that's done the job is glad to retire, even if they like to reminisce. Lots of young men have gone into the trades thinking about the money without thinking about the cost -- time, health, relationships, etc.

All I'm saying is that you gotta know what you're getting yourself into -- the good and bad!

When I served overseas, I barely spent any money at all. When I came home from a war, I had 20k sitting in the bank. I held onto that for another 4 years and used it as the down payment on my first home.


So working a shit job for a year can pay off.