We have an entire generation of young men who have no idea what construction work is.
That was good money back in the day. GCs couldn’t wait for school to get out in the summers because we’d be lined up, tools in hand, ready to swing hammers and handle dirt. The only job I would turn down every time, is bucking hay. I couldn’t stand it. Roofing, construction, chopping and splitting wood, mowing lawns... all day. Buck hay... nope. Not for one darned second if I could help it. Just had to sometimes because my dad loaned my ass out to some farmer for a couple of days because the ol’ boy took care of my dad’s stock for him during elk season. Dude would run my butt ragged for those couple of days too and I wouldn’t get paid for any of it. Maybe a lunch, but that was about it. Ain’t that a b!tch?
“We have an entire generation of young men who have no idea what construction work is.”
Well, we need to clear the way for them to have the opportunities to go learn it. It isn’t difficult.