Took a $28/hr gig in 60 feet of murky water over a $45/hr tank job, and I'd do it again
Last spring I had two offers on the table in the same week, one was a tank cleaning contract at a paper mill in Alabama paying $45 an hour, the other was a bridge inspection in Mobile Bay at $28 with a crew I'd worked with for years. I picked the bridge job because the mill wanted me on nights with a guy I didn't know, and I just had a bad feeling about the whole setup. Three weeks in, the mill crew had a close call with a suction line and the job got shut down, while we finished the bridge on time with zero issues. Has anyone else turned down better money because the crew or the vibe felt off, and did it ever come back to bite you?