Why are surgeons paid more than brick layers?

[JoePhilly]

195. Wow.

Way back when, I helped remove the back of a pick up truck and replace it with a flat bed deck, above which we built a removable frame that had a pulley system designed (initially) for lifting and positioning grave stones.

We used the same device for helping to build walls that included large stones and blocks as part of an even larger design.

My father passed some years back ... one of is specialties was 'finish work". He knew how to do all of the "heavy lifting"... I can't even count how much framing, and dry wall we did ... but what he really loved was the "finish work".

He loved to take a piece of wood and 'curve it'. Or, take a small space and turn it into a functional pantry.

We built decks, did roof repair (once on our own Philly row home, the rain was coming into the house), concrete steps, and so on ... we even rebuilt the porch on our row home ... most of it was brick work ... that was over 20 years ago ... and its still there.

He and I also build furniture. I'm sitting at a kitchen table that he and I built 30+ years ago ... and I also have a coffee table, and a chess table, and 2 end tables that we built.