Pat O'Brien

Small Business Owner by Day. Amateur Chef, aspiring furniture maker and Flash Forever. Proud of Where I Come From, Excited For Where I Am Going

[Pat O'Brien @Pobbie4]

@coachgamble25 Hit me up, can’t dm you. I live about 15 minutes from UT and will be at the game again today. Would love to catch up

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@anymanfitness At least give a brother an @ !

By far my favorite program in 25+ years of training.

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@smalls2672 Now c space G 56” 3,.hz ok n ex in a

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@JohnnyMazz6 @Mashbaseballs Still amazed at how you were able to pull it all together on that facility!

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@coachgamble25 Donut Day is every Saturday for us. It’s my favorite part of the week!

Have a good time in Nashville

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@BowTiedDaddy Props to you.

I couldn’t imagine that dudes 🤡 mindset. Scarier is the 600+ ppl who liked that post.

Being a father is the greatest & toughest thing I’ve come across in this life.

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@BowTiedDaddy Mad at myself for not thinking of this, great idea!

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@BowTiedHandyman I’ll miss the content!

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@BowTiedHandyman Congrats on going 1/1 on cold calls. Residential or commercial?

Welcome to the dark side of paperwork & safety meetings!

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@BowTiedHandyman If I was in that space I would avoid them as well.

I run into the 60 plus days to get paid enough with govt clients.

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@BowTiedHandyman Hopefully the developer can stay afloat. Years ago I watched multiple subs get crushed when a large developer declared bankruptcy. The downstream effects caused a ton of damage in the blue collar community.

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@adjref @SkippersDugout It was always a fun weekend when you two were part of the crew.

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@SkippersDugout One of my favorites to work with. We lost a good one.

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I was watching my walk-in counter sales guy work this am & I started wondering what it would be like to actually clock out & shut it off @ 430 or 5. I’ve never done it & think I would really struggle with that much free time… not sure if that’s a good or bad thing

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I usually just skip 🧵s all together but this one is incredible.

[your local self-inflicted housing crisis ouroboros @itsahousingtrap]

Outsiders don’t really understand just how weird the planning process is.

Imagine you’re a master carpenter. You’ve been building furniture and casework for many years. You have a style that you’ve developed, and a loyal customer base that loves your products…

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Update #2: dude that accepted a foreman position in early June to start on 7/11 texted me at 11pm on 7/10 saying he couldn’t accept the position.

Finding quality people is much harder than I expected. Its a demanding position but the comp is above industry ave

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Hiring learning experience this week… gave my #1 choice a week to respond & in that time 2,3 & 4 all accepted other offers.

The margin between 1,2 & 3 was minimal then a big drop off. Sensed 2 was the most eager & would’ve accepted on the spot.

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Update: ghosted by option 1.

Back to the drawing board.

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@CP_0010 More like projected onto the front of the house!

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For us letting a kiddo “have a moment” is exponentially better than forcing something on them.

We accomplished so much more giving her ~45 secs to protest than picking her up & making her take a family pic, specifically trust & autonomy.

Hat tip to the SIL for this classic

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Cancelled this weeks vacation due to flight issues, found a job to finish up and we crushed it.

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WFH is cool and all but working off the tailgate is my version of ideal