Working Class People

Kadizzle has always lived in two worlds.  Kadizzle has worked with coal miners, carpenters, welders, machinist, electricians, pipe fitters, and just about every trade. Kadizzle respects working people. In our new neighborhood houses are being built. The men who build them show up everyday at sunrise. They start work and work hard all day. The guys doing the cement work and laying the cinder blocks are breaking in two teenagers to the life. It is fun to see the boss teach them the trade. Today Kadizzle is going to cook them all hamburgers for lunch. 

Kadizzle has also lived in that world were people never did an honest days work. Kadizzle and Shanika had a debate about what work is. When you work you get dirty. When you work you hear cussing, and a lot of terms that show up no where else. Every trade has it's little sayings. If you go home and you are not tired, you didn't work. It has been a long time but Kadizzle has worked putting up hay, shoveling coal, clearing brush, digging ditches, drilling blast holes, pumping water, and most of the jobs involved a little sweat. 

Kadizzle thinks he can still work. With Winky we built some stone walls. The wall out front has stones weighing over 200lbs and it is six feet tall in places. There was some work involved. 

When you meet someone who has never worked it is soon evident. Kadizzle had to take the tires off of the bicycles of two grown men and replace the tires after they were repaired. Those guys were never around work.  Another guy called Kadizzle because he thought the dipstick fell into the engine of his Jeep. The poor guy did not know where the dipstick was. He was looking at the cap where you put the oil in. That guy never worked. Ask someone to level something and you will very quickly find out if they ever worked. Ask them what a stringline is or a screed.  If they don't know they never worked. 

Watch how people move things. Do they understand the basics of levers? You soon know where the person came from. Rich kids don't work unless they had damn good parents who made sure they had the experience. The strangest thing is people who get on a machine to exercise when they could get behind a machine like a lawn mower. 

Now Kadizzle does not like to lie to much. If he did he would be Trump, but the truth is work is something often to be avoided. Avoiding work takes thinking. That is another benefit of working you learn the skills to avoid it. There are logical ways to make less work. Watching the two teenagers Kadizzle has observed that after a day or two they don't show up. They need a break and a rest, they get sick. Work can cause sickness. Jaun and Danny show up everyday. They must have immunized against work sickness. 

Work is noble. You can look at something you built and always take pride. A lot of so called work involves no pride. Kadizzle can look back 50 years and see things he helped build. 

The most important thing is to learn to work with your brain. Your hands, your back and your knees will give out long before your brain does.