Post #204731 by T_lifehater on Wed, Dec 28, 2005 8:10 AM

Pet Quarantine is only a month now, I believe- and there is a quarantine facility on the Big Island (We used to have to do that in Halawa, Oahu). I agree with the sad situation of people living paycheck to paycheck, and I pretty much quit hiring mainland employees for the reason that you stated- they never stuck it out (Though I do have one older gentleman that has lived here and Alaska for 14 years, but he's a tough old guy!) I have had to adapt quite a bit to work here- not really a bad thing, just different. I hire all locally grown kids and train them. Despite what some may say the local kids I've hired and trained have turned out to be pretty diligent, attentive craftsmen and hard workers (when they're there!) We're pretty casual about showing up in the morning and knocking off in the afternoon- something that didn't happen on the mainland but amazingly enough once I accepted it as a fact of life I found that my life was better for it. And ten years later I'm still solvent.