As I look out of my office window, I see bright blue sky with a few brilliant white whispy clouds dotted about.
It’s a beautiful crisp winter’s day… at the moment.
It wasn’t like that an hour ago.
If I look to my right out of my window I can see a heavy grey blanket showering parts of Yorkshire with cold sleet.
An hour ago we were in the middle of a miserable sleet shower, and looking at the skies to the left, I fear that it will be back again shortly.
It seems that the beautiful blue sky I am currently experiencing is nothing more than a break in the clouds. It’s going to be one of those days!
Not far from the office there are several men in hi-viz jackets running around laying concrete on a building site. It’s the same building site I told you about where I watched several men searching for scrap metal in the giant mound of excavated earth a month or two back.
I can’t imagine how cold their hands and toes are right now. I imagine that the biting cold wind and sleet is stinging their cheeks.
They cannot shelter from the weather. The job has to be done. Two concrete trucks are on site pouring wet concrete into foundations which need to be spread and tampered.
Rather them than me. That’s all I can say.
Now unless my whole world collapsed around me and I had no other option whatsoever… you’ll never find me on a building site… and there is a reason for that.
I’ve designed my life that way.
I choose not to work outside in the cold and rain doing hard manual graft.
And those guys on the building site do work hard. I’ve seen them lugging heavy blocks, bricks, shovels of sand into mixers and wheelbarrows full of ‘gobbo’ about the site. It is a hard job.
I know that a lot of people love working outside and that they love the camaraderie of working with other people. Many trades people work in teams and those teams become a sort of ‘band of brothers’, a group of people that they work with for years.
However, for me, no amount of ‘banter’ can compensate for working hard in extreme conditions. The ‘good craic’ that I hear a lot about is not appealing to me. I can have a chuckle with people in the warmth of an office. I like being dry and warm.
More importantly, I like being paid more for what I do per hour without risking getting wet, cold or injured
I like not having to worry or fear about injuring myself or tripping over stuff. The building industry is one of the worst for sustaining an injury.
Andi who works for us spent many years working as a carpenter and joiner.
During those years he has…
- Hit his hand several times with hammers.
- Shot a nail into his thumb with a nail gun.
- Dropped numerous items onto his hands and feet.
- Cut himself several times with saws, knives and glass.
- Had dirt land in his eye on more than one occasion. (One time required medical attention at A&E.)
- Fractured his ankle. (He needed crutches and time off work.)
- Had lumps of wood kick back while using heavy duty table saws.
- Had more large splinters than he cares to remember.
- Caught scabies from imported wood. (Yes, apparently so!)
- Breathed in more harmful dust and chemicals than he cares to think about.
- Stood on several nails sticking out of timber.
- Tripped and fallen over numerous times, sometimes while pushing wheelbarrows up a narrow scaffold board to fill skips.
- And more.
He has also worked with several men who have lost fingers and even eyes while using woodworking machinery. One guy has since died from asbestosis.
I’m surprised he is still alive!
No wonder he couldn’t wait to give it up to work from home as a writer, content creator and sales funnel specialist… it’s so much safer!
The only thing he has to fear now is being round-up and shot by the Grammar Nazis.
Working as a builder is not very appealing if you ask me.
The building industry can be well paid. Some of the trades can earn good money. Scaffolders and those chaps who install miles and miles of steel reinforcing for foundations and structures can earn quite a lot of money.
The wages can be attractive to many people. School leavers see how much they can earn doing these kinds of jobs, which is an astronomical amount for a young teen, and then without thinking, dive into a trade which is incredibly hard and extremely taxing on the mind and body.
The problem with these types of jobs is that if you want to earn more, you usually have to work more hours. And that means doing more solid graft, often in the cold and wet.
Before you know it, years have passed and your body is weathered and broken. The money you have earned is of little comfort because it has been used for living and to keep on living, you need to keep on working. Only this time, your body struggles to do the hard graft you once took in your stride.
However… there is another way.
In fact there are many different ways to earn a decent living which does not require you to lose so much of your precious time and risk damaging your health.
Unfortunately very few of these are taught in school.
Today it may be a little different, but they certainly weren’t discussed when I was at school.
We were basically taught how to get a job and become a reputable worker drone.
We were taught to turn up, spend our day working for a small-to-decent wage (basically earn TAX for the government) and then go home only to do it all again the following day.
It is scary how little people know about the many other ways there are to make money without having to sacrifice your health or your precious time.
It is even more scary how many people are actually wasting their lives and damaging their health for a wage just so that they can live.
On the subject of what we are taught and not taught…
There are a few copies of my book ‘Why Didn’t They Tell Me – 99 Shameless Success Secrets You Won’t Learn At Eton Harrow Or Even The Classiest Comprehensive’ still available.
As the title suggests, it reveals 99 success secrets which the general public are unaware of.
Why are most people unaware of these success secrets?
Because the focus for all governments is to have the majority of the public doing the same old thing… going to work day in day out generating TAX money.
It makes it easier for them to manage the population… but unfortunately it robs most people of the success they could have… and deserve.
It may be good for them… but it isn’t good for you or your family.
So I say, give yourself, your husband or wife, your children and your grandchildren an unfair advantage by arming yourselves with these secrets. To learn more go here:
www.streetwisenews.com/wdttm
Kind Regards
John Harrison
PS…
- They don’t teach any of this in schools…no matter how much you pay to go there…
- They don’t teach it in college or University either…
- In fact they don’t teach these secrets and shortcuts anywhere.
- But you’ll find them all in this book.
Here’s that link again: