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June 24th, 2008

The Family Legacy Of Residential Deck Staining And Facade Cleaning

My entire family has done some sort of blue collar job from plumbing to painting to Residential Deck Cleaning. Carpentry, being an electrician, or whatever else is what my family always did. They thought that when I eventually grew up that I’d work in a mill or something. I don’t know how to use tools or anything. I’m not handy. I would not trust myself to be given a screwdriver and especially not a power drill. That’s how fatalities happen. It all starts with that sort of carelessness. What I understand now that I didn’t when I was younger is that most of these trade positions are passed down through families. This occupation is somewhat like a monarchy, the son goes to work with the father and learns how to do the trade, after years and years of learning, when the father thinks it is time, the son steps up and takes the fathers position, and this is how it goes from generation to generation . So of course there was a lot of stress on me to go to work for my dad, my entire family and even my friends didn’t see how I could do anything but . No one ever really knew what to do with me back then. I guess it really isn’t their fault, they had bred so many tradesmen . They were just set in their ways and didn’t know how to handle someone as different as I turned out to be.

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