Very Important Question... What's Your Favorite Part About Being A Roofer?

Twill, you didn't start your business, at least according to the top advisor so ya might wanna get rate cutting approval from those that did,lol:)

It pays decent.

The people!

For myself, i think there is a great deal of job satisfaction in roofing, but let's get down to brass tacksss here, it's got to be pay day. ;)

The satisfaction of seeing the job at completion . . . and years later. Just drove by a barn roof I installed around 1990. Every one of the T-Lok shingles still in place. Still seeing house and barn roofs we installed 30 years ago. Good quality materials installed with good workmanship . . . goes the distance.

Paper pushing in an office (as the owner, I do that also) doesn't begin to approach the sense of accomplishment achieved seeing a 14 pitch Tudor tear off, re-deck and install.

All of that, and the fresh baked coffee cake or cinnamon rolls at break time from appreciative customers . . .

Growing up. I grew up on A roof, I got my first real butt whuppin from A roofer. I learned integrity on the handle of A mop and kicking A roll of 90. Letting someone teach me how to set, lap and seal. How to cut metal and not get cut, how to set up and break down A kettle. Spudding it in the morning so it didn't look nasty going to the job, as it sat in someone's yard or shopping center. Ground and roof keeping was everyone's job. We were A unit, not A team! a unit. Like soldiers who knew our demise was at the hands of A weak link. People saying, hey call this guy. I took the things about life I'd learned from 9-21 into home building. I knew how big A roof was when I looked at it. I could measure in 10's and 3's. 10 foot sticks and 3 foot widths. Later in life I knew how to measure for sales because of this. I could draw A roof, count shingle tabs and 5 inch exposure to get field. Or tile, I would measure A field and hip tile exposure and then draw the roof. I can look at A roof and find the angle because I was taught to think walk. When you have walked them you think about the pivotal change points from 5-7, 7-9, and after that. I also know that the pitch doesn't as drastically change the rake as non roofing roof salesman think. I'm also very proud, when your selling, and they want you to run crews, you climb on the roof and the Mexicans laugh and make snide comments about A salesman not knowing dick about roofing, then my big dumb blonde ass speaks Spanish, and I go get my snips, bag, tape and hatchet, all of them mine, not the jefe's and I tell them I've ridden these tools longer than they've been alive. I'm A proud carpenter/roofer/pool builder/screen enclosure builder/ flat concrete finisher/airboat gator trappin redneck. I've taken punishment in this business. It's times like this that I don't feel so bad looking back. Oh yeah, I battled an addiction,yet never let it interfere with my work.