From 14 on, I worked tons of minimum wage and odd jobs after school, every summer and spring break. Fast food, painting housing, construction, whatever. I remem

From 14 on, I worked tons of minimum wage and odd jobs after school, every summer and spring break. Fast food, painting housing, construction, whatever. I remember painting housing, standing on aluminum ladders in the sun in July the NC heat as being particularly punishing work. That's just how things were. I used to dream about how awesome it would be to have an office job, get paid a nice salary to work on problems inside w/ AC. It's still not easy work and sometimes I might complain, but compared to the shit I used to do when I was a kid, it's a vacation.