Thirty Seconds That Matter

A construction worker reflects on his early career experience in 1979, starting as a framing crew member on a condo project near Beaver Creek ski resort in Colorado. The narrative appears to focus on a formative thirty-second moment from his time living on the jobsite.

It was a crisp morning under a bright Colorado sky in late summer, 1979. I had recently graduated from high school and gotten a job on a framing crew building condos near the Beaver Creek ski resort. We were all living on the jobsite. I slept in a tool shed because I didn’t have a […] The…

This story was originally published by JLC Online.