My summer job.. is cooler than yours hahaha

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This isn't the construction industry, this is the new homes industry.

so i guess yo don't "construct" new homes then? or do they come ready made?

Still though, even those uneducated workers work a ton harder than most people in America do... and they make about 1/100th the salary.

as gerald pointed out, you definition of "hard" is based solely on physical exertion and is therefore hard.

nowhere did i say a high school dropout is automatically stupid, it was a generalization of high school dropouts as a whole.

Correct, we don't actually "construct" the homes, the people we hire do. In fact, the framing of the house actually comes from our plant pre-manufactured; they just have to be attached together. This job isn't about manual labor if you're doing it right, although yeah, you have to carry stuff around sometimes if it needs to be done. You should never have to do anything that you pay someone else to do though....

Mostly it's about planning, attention to detail, and the ability to solve complex problems. The knowledge base you need to have about the product you build and the building process in general is huge. Right now I'm supervising 13 townhouses in different phases of construction. If you had any idea of how many things can go wrong when building a house, you'd understand how incredibly hard this is heh. AND I still suck at it, and probably will for a while. Usually it takes about 3 years to get good at this job. Although the walkthroughs I've had on the 3 houses that have almost settled have been very good, with the customers finding very minor issues before settlement 8)

I'm not trying to say that a computer geek's job is not difficult, almost any job is hard / stressful in some way. What I'm saying is that if you took a picture of a computer person doing actual work at 3 random times of the day and took a picture of me at 3 different times, it's pretty much guaranteed that you couldn't tell the 3 pics of the geek apart and it's pretty much guaranteed that I would be in 3 different places doing 400 different things.