Thursday, March 8, 2012

Starting As a Gopher, Then Becoming a Mover

By Laura Hawn


My first job out of high school was to become a gopher for a construction company. My main task is to retrieve tools for the construction workers. I might also spend a considerable time going to the store and picking up things that were needed on the job site.

I enjoyed the job because I had plenty of independent movement and I was also ready to learn plenty about the construction industry. Ultimately I started to become bored with the job and I began looking for other possibilities. I had some friends who were movers NYC and they began to talk to me about how fun their job was.

I knew that joining the NYC movers would be a difficult job but the pay would be far better than what I was currently experiencing. The construction industry was always really busy but nothing like what's expected in the moving business. Every day was continuous movement and extremely heavy lifting.

I guess that if I was not simply a gopher I'd have worked harder in the construction but there is no Denying that movers earn their money. You have to virtually consistently be lifting something and you cannot move slowly. It takes fast rapid movements twenty four seven to get things done and still be well placed to turn a profit. I love the job for now nonetheless it will struggle to sustain me forever when I begin to age.

Some of the guys that I work with are in their forties and fifties and each one of them have plenty of physical problems as their bodies have been beaten down over time. I do not want to work and moving for that long. I'm hoping to get out before my body takes a toll.




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