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Some helpful sheets:

Polar Grid Paper (.pdf)

Trigonometry Identities (.pdf)

A properly kept logbook is a legal document. It can help validate your case if problems arise on prevailing rate pay, worker’s compensation cases, unemployment, and many other concerns that can and do arise in the construction industry.

To keep a journal, you should use a bound book, written in ink and do not teary any pages out. Your journal should be written on your own time (i.e. lunch time, after work). List as much information and details as you can.

AT THE START OF EVERY NEW JOB YOU SHOULD RECORD:

• Contractors Name, Address and Phone Number
• General Contractors Name, Address and Phone Number
• Superintendent Name
• Foreman’s Name
• Steward’s Name
• Name of Job and Address (location)
• Owner of Project, Address and Phone Number
• Cost of Project

DAILY:

• Date
• Weather conditions, job site conditions
• Type of Work You Did
• Hours Worked (any overtime or double-time)
• Any Accidents or Injuries (in as much detail)
• Working With Any Unusual or New Material

Remember just five minutes after work everyday could save you from financial ruin.

It is also a good idea to keep a disposable camera in your lunchbox
or toolbox.

Source: Greater Pennsylvania Regional Council of Carpenters’ Website (http://www.greaterpacarpenters.org)

A great logbook for you as a Christian is the Our Daily Bread daily devotional booklet from RBC Ministries. It’s a great daily read to keep you in the Word of God and it’s FREE. Get signed up at https://www.rbc.org/devotionals/our-daily-bread/order-devotional.aspx.

Every morning when I get to work a little early I turn on the interior light in my car, open my ODB to fill out yesterday’s information, and read the passage for today. It’s also a good idea to keep a pocket Bible handy in your glove-box to read the references to scripture.

Cmon’ people. I can live with bad drivers now and then, but it really stinks to sit behind someone riding the same speed as the car beside them for miles on end. Either slow down and get behind them or speed up and let the line of 20 cars get past you.

Then there’s the person that sees you behind them in the fast lane with no one in sight in the right lane. I still can’t fathom what goes through a persons mind to say I’m not moving, just stay behind me or pass me on the right.

If I were a conspiracy theorist I would think that these people are just undercover officers pace setting traffic.

Maybe we just need to call attention to the signs. I wonder if we can get these signs to light up in a broadway style. Chaser lights around the border or something.

Perhaps I’ll buy a nice set of airhorns.

Most probably I’ll just sit in the line behind these people and think of other things to rant about.

The single greatest action that you can perform to look more valuable to your employer is to just show up every day. This shows the employer that you have a good work ethic and that they can depend on you.

How much more important is it for you to “show up every day” as a true Christian to God? This doesn’t mean that your 24 hour day consists of nothing but prayer, reading your Bible, eating, sleeping, and working. What it does mean is that outside of those things you live your Christianity. Whether you spend 5 minutes or 5 hours reading your Bible isn’t as important as taking what you’ve read and applying it to your life. In this way you are growing closer with Jesus Christ.

A being outside of time, space and matter created the universe. This being pierced His creation and lived among us. He lived a perfectly good life without breaking any of His Laws. He paid the debt that everyone owes by breaking His Law. We owe Him everything and deserve nothing.

We give our employers 8 for 8 (eight hours work for eight hours pay) so just remember that as a Christian accountable to our Lord we owe him 24 for 0. We do good works because he is working in us, not because we are trying to get anything.  His plan is absolutely awesome.