When I was young I never knew hard work was considered a virtue. It was just a way to survive.I have put roofs up in August. I ain't Mexican, but I am part Spanish, but I am 100% American. Americans do the work that is required.
No work is above or below anyone. Hell I worked for the railroad.
My first job was when I was 15. I was big for my age and talked myself onto a non-union work crew building a small apartment complex in my town. Side note: Maybe 7-8 years later George Clooney would live in the apartments we built while attending Northern Kentucky U. for a year or two.
My first minute of my first day on the job, an older guy gruffly ordered me to jump into a bell hole about chest deep. There was a tile pipe about 16 inches in diameter sticking over the hole with a plug in it. The guy handed me a shovel and told me to knock out the plug. Several gallons of foul smelling water gushed out and drenched me. The pipe was the sewer line coming into the development. Big laugh for all. I had to work the day like that, the water eventually mingling with my sweat.
That was my introduction to the working life. I’ve worked most days not in school for the next 51-plus years. Most have been better, a few worse, than my first day. I guess it’s good to start at a level where eventually you can see progress from your labor.
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