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They stood to make nothing from the day, i was there to capture helmet footage and rode along with Tedder. They let me cut a few solo moto's and i called it a day.
This is a low pressure gig, i've seen it first hand.
The tough part is finding someone with 2 years of experience. At least the type of experience the Tedders are looking for.
You looked good out at Pala yesterday!
Pit Row
It all started with Team Gus. Before I left my job I was buying them fuel, hundreds of dollars in food, and hotel rooms at the races I could attend. This was the 2014 season. At St. Louis 2014 I bought 13 hotel rooms for privateers.
Fast forward to December 2014 I sold everything and bought a one way ticket to Sacramento to meet up with Gus full time. Driving the rig, wrenching, the whole deal.
Anaheim 1 I worked for Bryce Klippel.
Thanks for the pic Guy bro! And for all of the memories.
From there on out I was with Deven Raper making night shows in the 450 class. Oh, and I was making $100/weekend.
Deven and I made two main events in 2015. Best feeing I have ever had other than my son being born.
One of the guys I was traveling with (pictured on the back of the bike) and I got picked up by the K1 Speed BWR team making $200 a weekend for the summer. Still driving the rig and wrenching. He is now working for the Rocky Mountain team.
One of the guys who was with Tedders making $550 a week in 2015 got picked up by RCH. The other mechanic got picked up by the Albertsons. The practice mechanic is now with TLD as a race mechanic.
My son was conceived at Red Bud 2015. Bad ass, I know. I found out at Unadilla and finished up the season and came home.
I spent a week at the Stewart compound before Daytona, a week at Trey's before Indiana, and traveled the country with some of the baddest dudes on dirt bikes. From that year I have more memories and stories than I could ever tell and the pictures and friendships to prove it.
You never know the story of the guy making $500/week. Go talk to some of those low paid mechanics. It will amaze you what they go through.
The Tedders organization is great.
My story is similar, but not in wrenching, just a different aspect.
I've paid my dues and now have a great job in the industry after "going for it"
The negative replies in this thread are from older employed guys making 60k+ a year.
This is a great job for a guy to get in and will be filled very fast if not filled already.
I saw where someone-else stated that there were certain requirements that had to be fulfilled due to Tedder's other companies/operations? That appears to be wrong: The Team is a stand alone operation.
Some of you are looking at this like a individual with little experience should go directly to management level pay. It just doesn't work that way. The fact you cannot "live" off $550 per week is irrelevant. Minimum wage and/or entry level positions are not designed to pay mortgages/car payments/vacations etc. The guy or gal who ends up in this position will likely have several roommates in a small apartment, drive a very cheap car if they have one at all, and grow to love ramen noodles. I also believe they will love every minute as they begin their professional journey in the industry.
It is highly doubtful that the position would qualify as an independent contractor though. This is what the IRS has to say about independent contractors:
"You are not an independent contractor if you perform services that can be controlled by an employer (what will be done and how it will be done). This applies even if you are given freedom of action. What matters is that the employer has the legal right to control the details of how the services are performed.
If an employer-employee relationship exists (regardless of what the relationship is called), you are not an independent contractor and your earnings are generally not subject to Self-Employment Tax."
Now if Tedder has over 50 full time employees in his other businesses where those employees have health care he would have to give any full time employee health care regardless of what company they fall under as it is covered by common ownership even if it is a minority ownership position, but common ownership does not affect the minimum salary law.
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