Well I'm feeling like the black sheep of the family. I am a surveyor with a large road and utilities contractor. I graduated from high school and wanted to be an auto mechanic,spent a year in college taking pre-apprenticeship training and got a job as an apprentice for $3.00 an hour (my hotrod Falcon burned up my wages commuting!).I left that job to go to Alberta to seek my fortune and got a temporary construction job. Since then I have honed my skills as a rigger on highrises,concrete finisher,carpenter,all round handy husband. I spent 8 years as an instructor with my local union developing and teaching construction skills courses.Travelling 6 months of the year turned me off that job. I certainly feel for you Larry and all the others who travel for a living,hotel living sucks.So now I get to home to my wife and 9 year old daughter every night . I still travel about 60 miles a day commuting but my old 300D just clatters along.
