My Name is Marty Figgs and I'm from Newark Delaware.

Member of Local Carpenters Union #626 in New Castle, Delaware since:

March 27, 1997

When I was in high school, during the 10th & 11th grades, I knew I didn't want to go to college, so I didn't spend my summers like normal teenagers, but instead, I went to work in New Jersey with my uncle. I'd travel to my uncle's house and stay up there all week long, come home on Friday night and then back to New Jersey Sunday evening.

I figured I'd go to work for my uncle, make some money and learn a trade at the same time. It was during this period of time I started to learn the trade of carpentry. Graduated from high school in 1978, I immediately moved to the beach in Ocean City, Maryland where I spent the entire Summer working as a dishwasher and cook in the evenings and spent most days on the beach. I had to play catch-up sometime, AH! the good ole days.

After the summer was over I moved back home for about 3 months, saved some money, got my own apartment, and went to work for Beatty Drywall. After spending two years there, I moved on to Spacecon Inc. where I spent the next 14 years. I left Spacecon in early 1992 to go to work for another uncle. I got tired of being told that I wasn't worth more than $14.00 an hour and started sub contracting siding and trim work from him. Unfortunately I became the victim of theft and had all my scaffolding equipment and ladders just disappear one night. At that point, I decided to go back to what I did best, metal studs and drywall. I went to work for a company called Best Drywall.

After four years with them, I met a man by the name of Joe Durham who is presently the business agent for Local Carpenters Union # 626 in New Castle, Delaware. Joe gave me the opportunity to join the local carpenters union on March 27, 1997. It's a day I'll never forget. I had lost my 1st wife 11 days before Christmas in "95", became a single dad raising my 5 year old daughter on my own and was struggling hard to make ends meet. Not making nearly enough money to meet all my financial obligations, I took Joe up on his offer and joined the local carpenters union. Anyway, the entire year of "97" was like a shot in the arm of adrenaline for me and I haven't looked back since. I've met and made many friends and have learned a whole lot more. The layoffs are sometimes tough to endure but I've managed to get by. Fortunately there hasn't been too many of them.

In September of that same year, I met my second wife Rhonda, an RN who at the time was working at Christiana Hospital. We actually met using one of those dating services when they were still in their infancy and it wasn't an online Internet site but through a service offered on a country radio station.  We shared emails back and forth for about 6 weeks then had our first date. After dating for several months, it's fair to say that we both wanted to take our relationship to the next level. She immediately excepted my daughter as her own, and me and all my baggage and bill collectors hot on my tail. To bring this little story to an end, after some safe passage over some bumpy roads and a 12 year engagement, we finally got married on September 17, 2009.

In 1994, I got my first computer. I paid nearly $2000.00 dollars for it back then on a credit card. Man was I crazy or what! Maybe, but I had to have one. Turns out, at the time, it was one of the best investments I ever made. My daughter was just starting school, I got her started on it at an early age, bought all kinds of learning software and I credit that, along with the obvious influence of Rhonda with her success in life today. She attended high school at Delcastle, graduated from her shop of Practical Nursing and is following in Rhonda's footsteps to become a nurse. She is now in her 3rd year of college and on her way to becoming a registered nurse herself by the time she turns 21. I couldn't be more proud of her, or more thankful to my wife for the women she is growing into. Anyway, the computer has expanded my boundaries as well. In 1994, I became connected to the Internet and America Online. I began learning and teaching myself the fine art of building web sites and web pages and here I am today.

In 2004 and in my spare time, while working out of a small bedroom office in my house, while continuing to use this technique to find work, I also begin developing it into the service I now offer you today, all from the computer you see right here in front of me. It is exactly how I've been soliciting work for myself for over ten years now. This technique has worked great for me and I hope after you take a look around and browse my site, it'll be a technique you'll want to take advantage of also. Thank you very much for taking the time to learn more about me and don't forget to spread the word about this site to all the union carpenters that you know.

I will also do personal and business, web sites and pages for union carps! If this is something you might be interested in, contact me for more information.

Thanks again Joe for the opportunity,

Regards,