The Atlantic: What People Don't Understand About My Job: General Labor for a Dirt and Construction Company

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theworldkeepsgoinground writes:

It’s 95 degrees and the humidity is 80%. People don’t understand that. People see a man with a shovel in his hand working on a job site and think he’s lazy because he’s just standing there. What they don’t see is the struggle going on inside your brain. The part of you that has lived in the wild for millions of years is saying it’s too exhausting, it’s too hot, why don’t you go lay in the shade for a while. That part of your brain sees the shovel, sees the ditch, sees the pipe to be laid, and it doesn’t see how this is getting you food or sex. That other civilized part of you is saying, but not there is food and sex to be found in that ditch. You just need to hunch over that pipe for another 5 hours, and then for another three days, and then it’ll be this made up thing, Friday, and you’ll have this other made up thing, money. Then you can go out and eat and try to procure a mate.…

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  9. hobbitswizardskitties said: “So when you see a man on the side of the road…know that he may not be lazy, but just engaged in a struggle between a past that shaped us and a present that was made by us but not for us.” Extremely insightful writing!
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    This is amazing: From...It’s 95 degrees and the humidity is 80%. People don’t
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    Who deep insight by...construction laborer.
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    Enjoying this series. From...guilty comfort of my climate controlled home office.
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