Bill That brought back some BAD MEMORIES for me. After I got out of school, a family friend offered me a job with Big Boy Steel Erectors. The starting pay was about 7-8 times what I was making at the body shop. I think that it was around 20.00 dollars an hour or so to start! Remember this is in 1965- nobody that kind of money!!!! My being a dumb 18 year old kid, took the job without thinking why they paid that kind of money. The first several weeks were great, I was only up about 3-4 stories installing the steel subfloors, no problem. Then my foremen told me that they were short several men uptop and I would have to "lend a hand". When the crane elevator stopped we were 17 or so stories up and they wanted me to carry 50 pound boxes of rivits across an 12 inch steel beam about a hundred or so feet to where they were heating the rivits before they were installed. on my return of the second trip, the lightbulb went off in my head and I realized where I was at. I sat down and stratled that beam and slid on my butt untill I got to the end and solid footing. I realized how much I enjoyed doing body work and working for 2.75 an hour. I then informed the foremen that he was nuts, everyone up there was nuts and "Iquit" End of story and my chance for the big bucks! It takes a special person to do that type of work and I take my hat off to them. Since then I do my best to keep my feet planted firmly on the ground! Mike
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