a dead-end construction job
I'm sure many are. I'm just as sure that my working for a construction company sent me all over the world, and the people who worked there made very good money. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge I interviewed a bunch of guys (and they were all guys) about working on that thing and to a man, every man-jack one of them told me it was the greatest thing they ever did in their life, and each and every time over those 50 years they looked up at that bridge they had a feeling of great satisfaction.
Myself, most of what I do is construction by a different name. We take an empty stage - a black box - and build within it a show, and put that show on, and when its done we take it all back to that empty stage, that black box. And a thousand, or two thousand, or like Outside Lands, 10 thousand people have a good time, are entertained, perhaps even enlightened a bit.
As for a dead end, perhaps moving bricks from point A to point B might be that, but anyone with real construction skills can make very, very good money.
And, its honest work. And, at the end of the day you've done more than push a pile of papers from one side of the desk to the other. I look at some of the shows I've helped put on and know exactly how those guys who built that bridge felt.
