The Battle With Stuff

Construction professionals accumulate significant quantities of tools and materials over their careers, with generalist workers being particularly prone to this accumulation. The author explores the challenge of managing excess equipment and supplies that builds up over years of diverse project work.

How much ballast have you collected in your life in construction? I know I could equip a small hardware store with what I have accumulated. From talking to many colleagues and contributors I know I am not alone. In my case I spent much of my career as a generalist. One week I was installing…

This story was originally published by JLC Online.