When I was a teenager, I had a summer job at a galvanizing plant. Sometimes birds would fly in one end and drop dead before exiting the other. At the end of the

When I was a teenager, I had a summer job at a galvanizing plant. Sometimes birds would fly in one end and drop dead before exiting the other. At the end of the day, clearing your sinuses would expel dark/black mucus. It was also very hot, from all the molten zinc. One time a cold lampost was lowered in, and some zinc flew out the non-lowered in end, hitting me in the stomach while I was completely outside, burned right through my shirt and left a scar for years. The worst was chain-link fence. You stood on a grate right over the zinc tanks with a file/hook and cutters. Anytime the fence got caught up, you tried to untangle it without stopping the line. The best time was loading the fence on trailers sitting outside in the fresh air, shooting shit, waiting for the next batch to load.