“The hardest part of being a painter is preparation. It is 90 percent of the work. Painting is just ten percent. Sanding and caulking can take forever to get it right. I am just trying to pay the bills. I was an iron worker before this and worked overseas on oil rigs in Australia, Africa, Malaysia, Spain, China, and Japan. I am glad I did it, but I was never home. My brothers worked on oil rigs, too. My oldest brother was on the Deepwater Horizon when it blew. He died of cancer a few years later. He was 38 when he died.”
I’m known as The Ford Man. Working on cars keeps me going
“I was born in 1935 in Walker County, one of the poorest counties in Alabama. My dad was a coal miner. He also worked...
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