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the same experience for me most of the time. Sometimes I had three jobs
going at once. Think about it. At the most, I could only go to each of
the jobs twice each week. That involved working on Saturday of course.
This made a lot of framing foremen extremely upset. They had full time
crews on their jobs always working five days a week. If I missed one day
of work. I was behind for the rest of the job.
Now it rarely happened but if I did miss a day of work I had to make
it up some how. The only way to make it up was by working late or on
Sunday. Well most of the time I worked six days a week from 7:00 in the
mourning until 5:00 at night. So working late meant sunrise to sunset.
Oh did I mention that I did have a family. This wasn't easy for them
either.
One time I got so far behind on a job that I was putting stairs in
while they were roofing the houses. Talk about one unhappy foreman. I
think you get the idea about the pressure I was under to install these
stairs on time. My experience building stairs on track built homes
taught me to build homes extremely fast while being proficient.
I'm not interested in working like that anymore. My life is simple
now and I want to keep it that way. The next time you see a construction
worker working late on a Saturday show some compassion. Maybe by reading
this article you will understand some of the pressure he is under.
Building tract homes is hard on you mentally and physically.
Happy Home building.
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