This cartoon is wrong—everyone knows all construction workers go to Heaven!
Construction work is enjoyable and rewarding...most of the time. But some jobs can feel an awful lot like hell.
In my younger days, I worked for my dad's small construction company. One summer during high school, I spent several days in the blazing sun breaking up sidewalks with a sledge hammer, hauling the broken chunks of concrete in a wheelbarrow, loading them onto a pickup by hand—and then unloading them the same way. It was exhausting, dirty, and miserable work. Coincidentally, that's also when I started thinking seriously about a different career path.
As the old proverb goes, "Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life." Unless that job involves breaking up sidewalk in August.
