You were the guy inside the window, huh? Sheesh.
How about stocking sheetrock in houses. 4 ft X 12 ft lengths, two sheets at a time, unload by hand and take them into a house and set them down without breaking them. We were paid $2 a thousand square foot, which works out to every 21 sheets we made $2. Upstairs, downstairs in the snow and in the heat, I averaged 500 sheets delivered a day. Now THAT is work that only an illegal will do....except everyone working with me at the time, or in the drywall business was white. Of course that was 20 years ago, people just aren’t that motivated anymore......or is it just that they can live without working?
I had that job I was young and dumb then. I was too stupid to realize I was killing myself.
I only did it for a while then moved on to other jobs in the construction industry.
Glad I got smarter as I got older.
You were the guy inside the window, huh? Sheesh.
50 bucks a day is the same as 250 dollars a day today.
Pretty good wage, you won’t see that nowadays. Over an 8 hour day, you are making over 30 bucks an hour.
I’ve cleaned out 7 and 8,000 sg.ft. houses after sheet-rock had been installed. In 85-90 deg. heat, humidity about the same.
BTDT. Reading your tale brought the taste of drywall dust to my mouth.