[TheRealThing]

Try 17. I graduated high school in 1983.

2nd bold: You must have been working non-union then, it wasn't healed in the pipefitting industry. I'm pretty sure the carpenters were in the same boat. I can tell you exactly when the economy started picking up for construction workers in EKY, 1988. That was when Toyota was starting to go full blast, because of the efforts of Martha Layne Collins. On your end TRT, the Ashland Oil construction started picking up big time in 1990, I remember because I was there.

Never worked non-union a day in my life. Like I've said before, and I was there too, construction tanks a little later than most other forms of commerce and starts back up a little later than other economic indictors. I don't just work in the industrial market. Half or more of my career I worked the commercial side of union construction. Hospitals, schools, Corps of Engineers, Office buildings etc. and I loved it.