The Thing About Hard Labor
Business Lessons Learned and Life Experiences gained on Loud and Dirty Construction sites
The first physically difficult job I ever had was working as a laborer for a masonry restoration company for a few months when I was eighteen.
I wasn’t exactly an ideal candidate for the position at first glance, being I was fresh out of high school with no experience, stood maybe five feet and four inches tall and weighed a wholesome 115 pounds.
However my cousin worked there, as the company was co owned by his best friend’s Grandfather. They needed people for a huge corporate office parking garage job and as I said I had just graduated high school and needed a job.
My cousin vouched for me with his friend and I was off to work with them the next day. The pay for laborers was $10.00 an hour, taxed and on the books.
It was a pleasant jump up from the $6.50 an hour I was paid at my only previous job at the time, which was as a dishwasher for Moe’s Deli, Restaurant and Catering — but boy did I earn every bit of the $300 a week or so I brought home after a forty hour work week.
