The Atlantic: What People Don't Understand About My Job: General Labor for a Dirt and Construction Company

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The Atlantic: What People Don't Understand About My Job: General Labor for a Dirt and Construction Company

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It’s 95 degrees and the humidity is 80%. People don’t understand that. People see a man with a shovel in his hand working on a job site and think he’s lazy because he’s just standing there. What they don’t see is the struggle going on inside your brain. The…

Who deep insight by a construction laborer.

Posted on August 2, 2011 via The Atlantic with 98 notes

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13. hobbitswizardskitties said: “So when you see a man on the side of the road…know that he may not be lazy, but just engaged in a struggle between a past that shaped us and a present that was made by us but not for us.” Extremely insightful writing!
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