I spoke with him a little about this and he explained that h

I spoke with him a little about this and he explained that he was raking it in for now, but when the project was finished, he would be getting $0/month until he found another job. So he said he lived in a ‘feast or famine’ mode.

Part of the company’s rationale for giving this kind of work to us was to reinforce the idea of college. ‘See, here’s the kind of work you get without a degree.’

The second summer in this job we were sent up one of the tall towers in the plant to scrape the rust off the platforms in preparation for painting. Someone brought a pack of Red Man chewing tobacco. The guys on the upper platforms made it a game to hit guys below with tobacco spit. It was mighty disgusting and led to a competition to be on an upper platform.