Besides that, my father ran his own custom home-building business. At age 12 I was drafted into the business at a dollar an hour to do odd jobs and free up carpenters for more productive pursuits. I worked on sites when school was in recess (summers, holidays). By the time I graduated high school I had roofed, plumbed, sheetrocked, poured cement, strung electrical wiring, framed, and more. Everything but masonry.

I now have four degrees, including a JD. But I still believe that the greatest education ever given to Americans happened after WW2 when the US Army gave vocational training to a million men before they separated from the service. My father went to carpentry school in the Army and to his last day on the job he carried a little handbook he got in the Army that told him how to cut rafters.

The United States was not made great by the college educated advancing into wealth but by the working man building a comfortable life for his family.

I Pee in the shower every day because it it all goes to the same place and it does save water and money. My wife hates it and she is good friends with Laura D. Accounting $$$ (that’s a code name and hint) she has my ph number and I would love to meet for lunch and talk. We should start a peeing in the shower movement in the name of water conservation ! You have many good ideas. Keep up the good work.

Call me

Pete The Builder

PS You should start peeing in the shower, its yellow and is the primary color to make brown, and the color of water blue, makes it even a darker brown, but dont get any ideas about the brown in the shower, therefore peeing in the shower is much more brown then green, just don’t eat that yellow snow where huskys go ! Hope I got your attention in a dirty way, but clean and realistic way.

That being said, I would also like to point out that not everyone values the almighty dollar to the point of doing anything necessary to earn it. Some of us believe quality of life is not always tied to the quantity of dollars in your paycheck. There are some people, like myself, with those touted advanced degrees that instead, chose to go back to the country life, and work some dirty job that most would want to get away from. The jury is still out and debating what the cause of this sort of decision is based upon, (insanity seems to be a popular theory). But in my case at least, it is undeniable that even though the paycheck sucks, and the work is hard; I am living where I want to live, and far happier than I ever was sitting behind a microscope in a laboratory in some big city making that big paycheck. Yes, some of us insane people actually ENJOY those “bad jobs” and wouldn’t trade them for the world. Thank you Mike, for being an advocate for us dirty job loving folk, and an advocate for a common sense solution to a big problem in America!