EVERETT, Wash. -- The Boeing strike has entered its third day with no new talks scheduled.

Both sides say they're ready to negotiate, but nobody has publicly made the next move.

Monday was the first full business day for the strike since it began at 12:01 Saturday morning. Strikers have begun settling into a routine, one which Jeff Miles all too well.

Miles, a Boeing machinist, spent Monday on a different assembly line, making sandwiches for fellow strikers.

"Put tuna fish in the bag to make it easier to come out," he said as he squeezed tuna salad out of a plastic bag onto a prearranged row of sandwich bread.

Nineteen years ago KOMO News found Miles doing the same thing. But back then he was making a sandwich for himself, preparing to head out on his first strike. He had only been at Boeing for eight days.

"(I thought) I can maybe last a month, if I'm lucky," he said.

Miles saw some tough days back during that strike.

"Scrapping every penny, taking and eating hardly anything, one or two meals a day."

When he walked the line, he had no security, no money. He didn't get a chance to vote on the contract. But not this time. Now he's a strike veteran.

"Now I know. I've saved up for it," he said.

Now as Miles joins the line, he reflects on the changes time has brought. He says even though Boeing has been more profitable than in the past, the bonuses offered have been just trade-offs for a costlier health plan and union jobs are contracted out.

Machinists now just assemble the plane from parts built by other companies, some in other countries. Miles remembers the days when machinists built the aircrafts from scratch.

"I feel sorry for guys who are just starting out with the company," he said.

Miles is referring to guys like Kevin Hagen, who has been with Boeing for just three months.

"I'm bummed out. I got nothing," he said. "Eleven bucks an hour -- I don't make anything here. I'm hoping for the future. Five, ten years from now the company can take care of me."

Miles believes the strike is necessary to give the rookies like Hagen the same hopes that he had 19 years ago.

"I think we are going to be in for a long haul," he said.

Boeing says the shutdown of its assembly lines went smoothly. Many of its contractors continue to produce parts for future assembly, which may help the production delays that the 787 has experienced in the past.