Side hustles during shut down

If you can go 4-7 a couple times, you can put on some clinics and sell books about your culture.

but coach I don't run a hurry up no huddle 200 plays a game face melter offense so thats out of the question for me. thanks for the suggestion though!

I did this to put help put myself through college.  Construction workers are a unique breed that are similar to a combination of the kids we coach and the parents of kids we teach.  Each day is a view into the absolute fringe of society.  If you ever had a long commute to coach and were in a convienence store before 0600, you probably waited behind some construction workers at the coffee pot station.

I've had to do/see the following during my summer stints swinging a hammer:
-bail a guy out of jail Monday morning on the way to a job site
-a guy in the truck pull out a half used joint out of his wallet and offer me a hit
-listened to a guy from the other side of the continent who was working to make money to get his truck fixed so he could get home, tell us during lunch about his dreams on acid
-take a guy home in the morning from the shop because he came into work so drunk from the night before he could barely walk
-loan a guy my extra hammer b/c he pawned his tool box to pay some bills
-new guy show up on the job site and then quit before we got done drinking our coffee b/c of what he was going to have to do
-guy not show up to work the next day b/c he got beat the hades up at a Tough Man contest
-foreman be so drunk that he wrecked the backhoe
-foreman be so drunk, one of us had to come off the roof to run the saw so the boards were cut correctly
-stop the truck at a guy's side lady's house so he could get some liquor
-work with multiple guys that had served hard time for crimes upwards of murder
-learn a ton to tricks to be able to biuild just about anyting
-find out why I was in college
-learn how to cool off a hot 6-pack of beer in less than 60 seconds
-learn how to walk a 2x4 from the top of a 3 story building
-know concrete works in a form
-how to heat a can of been-weenies on the job site

and countless stories of tales from afar.  Great job if you can hack it.  You'll never want for work if you'll show up every day, show up every day on time, and do an honest day's work.  When my wife beeches about a blue collar job worker not showing up or showing up on time, I just tell her, "There's a reason a good plumber makes $50 an hour".

It can be good pay for an honest day's work, but the 'team atmosphere' can be quite interesting.

Man now I wish I would’ve done construction instead of factory work my high school and college summers.

Also how do you cool a six pack in under 60 seconds?

I left a pure white collar industry to join a construction firm because of the workers.

There is an unabashed honesty to those guys....good and bad.

Plus, they stay grounded....priorities are straight: feed your family, do your job, etc.

No BS, falseness, PC, etc

I worked for the county highway department all through college. I'm sure we worked with similar people. Especially when we'd contract out paving work.

Kind of like on Office Space at the end when he's scooping up the rubble of Initech- This isn't so bad, huh?
Making bucks, getting exercise, working outside.

Only thing I disliked about was the union laziness of it. Spending 2 hours to get out of 15mins of work annoyed me.

take a cooler full of ice (just ice, not ice water), stick a beer can into the ice and spin it as fast as you can. It will cool enough to drink in about 20 seconds

2 hands = 2 beers, 3 x 20 = 60 seconds