Everybody complains about the weather, but there’s not much we mortals can do to change it. Everybody complains about the current skilled labor shortage, too. We have plenty of work that is definitely increasing today’s bid prices. The bad news is our skilled labor shortage makes it very difficult to transform those good prices into bottom line profits. Unlike the weather, however, there is something positive we can do to change this.
We old-timers who were working after World War II and during those next two booming decades relied on “moonlighters” to get our jobs done on time. Fortunately that same solution that worked so well back in the “good old days” has become deja vu all over again.