Tim, If you work for DNSC they will give you a van, cable, tools, training & everything you need and you will be working 12 hours a day. When you are done with your route, You have to call around and pick up jobs from installers who did not finish the route yet.
starts here in the Charlotte NC are at the ungodly low rate of $11.75 per hr. That's for everyone w/o regard for experience.
The FSM position at DNSC is sh*t. Those guys get to work all those hours for free and have all the headaches. You get it from the GM and the QAS manager and you get to deal with the whiny assed installers. I had two friends who were FSM's .They quit after months of 70 hr weeks.
Do yourself a favor...Pick another career..Or better still..Look in the yellow pages for home theatre/strcutured wiring companies. Talk to them. They will train you. They will teach you what you need to know. You won't make big bucks at first. But you'll learn a growing trade. Then you'll have a good, marketable skill. Then you can make real money. It takes time though. Pay your dues and you will be rewarded.
As an I.C. you can chose not to work in Winter, but don't expect to be on top in priority to get work when you are wanting to work. Most retailers are loyal to a few installers that will do good work, and will take the bad with the good.
I personally only install in nice weather, but I own the retailer I work for, so that helps
I installed for a long time in a LOT of crap weather before I got where I am, so buck up and get some thermals
And $16.50 per hour gets you a one bedroom apartment in what, Calaveras County?...
