I think they were one in the same.
Sand man for a Fiberglass repair crew.
Everyday i would don a Paint suit made of Tyvex put on my rubber gloves and tape them to the suit.
Then I would strap on my Army issue gas mask with the chemical hood and make huge dust clouds of fiberglass in the marina and get boats ready to be repaired while in the New Jersey summer heat and humidity I would make large sweat puddles as well.
But i was paid by Dude time. (Dude was another guy that worked for Charlie and Charlie would figure it would take Dude X amount of time to do the job) I would whip out a 2 day dude project before noon and get paid for two days.
A lot of weeks i would go home with $1,000 in cash after taxes.
And Wed we would break early for the day to meet at the bosses house on the beach for night beach volley ball and BBQ.
Lots of friends would show up. Great time.
One other job that sucked was as a buss boy at Red Lobster.
I quit after week. All week i was bringing in the special tray. You know all the seafood on Ice on display. Well there was a cooked lobster in the bunch.
I had been there for a week and do not know how long that lobster was out on display but I would take him down in peices. The manager came to me and told me we were out of lobster and to go get the lobster off the display. i folded up the parts onto a plate and handed him the crustation.
I was about 16 or 17 at the time. The manager yelled at me for having the lobster in parts. I was confussed untill he said how can we serve it in parts like this? I asked How can you serve it when it has benn out at least a week I have been here? Told him if he served it I would tell the customer. He said I was fired if I told. So not sure telling him was actually quitting or being fired.
