Men & Work

A minister once told me the key to a good marriage is to never argue over money and whatever you do within the first year of marriage is what you will continue to do throughout your married life. I found this advice to be very true. My wife and I had been good friends for […]

The work men do, the jobs we work, the tools men create to do the jobs we work, the homes and skyscrapers, bridges and tunnels, sewers, dams, concert halls and moon missiles men build, the entire infrastructure that men construct, staggers me. A University of Delaware study detailed the twenty-five most lethal jobs in America.

I worked at Totem Manufacturing Company in New Jersey for a summer. Totem made metal containers, ranging from quart paint cans to ten-thousand-gallon water tanks. I worked almost every station as a floater, earning what was a generous sum in those days. My first job was to shave off weld beads (metal residue around the

Everything that is man made was made by men. But we usually don’t look at rising skyscrapers and marvel at the workers – electricians, boiler makers, door buckers, glaziers, ironworkers, lathers, rough carpenters, finishing carpenters, marble cutters, mail chute installers, plumbers, sprinkler installers, steamfitters, tin-knockers, tile workers, pipe fitters, bolters, heaters, catchers, buckers-up, and riveters