My dream job was doing construction work. I remember when I was 15 years old, my brother helped get me a job with C. R. (Bob) Hubbard Floor Covering in Little Rock, Arkansas while I was out of school for the summer. I was helping my brother and his brother-in-law sand hardworrd floors. I began by learning to sweep the floors. I thought anyone can sweep. Boy was I wrong. Dust from that Drum sander went everywhere, and the floor had to be sweept three times to get it clean. I began by pulling the broom to me. That I quickly learned is not the correct way to sweep a floor. The correct way is to get behind the broom and push the dust in front of the broom.

Soon I began running the edger, which is a disc sander that sands around the edges of the room. I loved running that edger. When the summer was over, and I went back to school I dreamed of finishing school and going back to work running that edger. When I did finally graduate a few years later, I went back to work for Mr. Hubbard again. I ran the edger for a few weeks before getting transferred to another crew. Then I began helping lay floor tile--I loved that job too, but I missed running the edger.

After a couple of years, I moved on and went to work for a different company. It wasn't a floor company, but it was still doing construction work. I knew that construction work is what I wanted to do with my life.

I moved around a lot during my lifetime from one state to another and from one job to a different one.  With very few exceptions I always did construction work of one kind or another. I eventually had to go on disability. Still, my dream job was doing construction work, and that is what I did until 1990 when I went on disability. A few years later I started to college. That is when I learned to write. After learning to write my dream job would be writing stories and poems. I write on the internet at Xomba and other sites and hope to continue doing so for many years to come.