John Ernst

• I got tired of being let down with low wages at my day job, I used the internet to learn mycology, used my last few paychecks to buy some lab equipment, and I've been producing shitake, oysters, lions mane, and I have enough going on to tread water, and it still pays more than roofing did, but I'm ready to put it down to learn something that pays more.

I learned by watching doctors on videos online how to produce a sterile work area, how to produce and work with agar petri dishes, and working with mycelium, cultivating and colonizing my mediums.

• Improved yard landscaping by addressing grass, trees, bushes and weeds.
• I worked for several companies that no longer exist, and I've serviced my own lawn customers in the past, too. Also doing mulching work.

• I tried to get away from to roofer with these guys, but I injured my hip off the job, and I ended up going back to work with Glen Burnie Roofers after I healed.
• my job with them was 100% hardwood flooring, they didn't do ceramics, or floating, but I know how to install floating floors, too, and pergo.

• Tear off, replace shingle roof, replace wood, working the break and bending and cutting metal for facias, around windows. Did a lot of labor bringing shingles up the ladder, I loved my job, but I left over money

• I'm not 100% clear on the time period or length of empoyment here, but he did bathroom and home renovations, and he was elderly. I would do his back work while he showed me how to do things like work his wet saw, and cut tiles for flooring, which he taught me, and before I was done I'd actually done my own ceramic tile job at a friend's mother's home around 2002, and it turned out perfectly

• Changed oil, transmission fluid and filters in vehicles.
• My responsibilities were a lot of times just me in the pit under 3 bays that stayed full of vehicles all day. I learned where all the grease fittings were on every7 model that came in at the time, learned transmission pan services, differential services, transfer case services. My experience in the lube shop was exclusively in the pit, but roof technician work could be easy for me with the internet