... in particular families that all work at the same company at the same time. That was my family, and one other I'll get to in a minute. I grew up working for my dad, with my mom and sister doing the same tasks I did, running bull dozers, loading semi trucks with front end loaders, and climbing high up without PPE to maintain a topsoil screen plant. I started there when I was around 13 or 14. I was the smallest, so that meant I was climbing in between gears and conveyors to replace parts. I did not have any safety glasses or steel toe boots. Once I fell a conveyor, hurting both my knees, which still persist today. I couldn't imagine being my mom or sister, hating grubby work, and forced to work, to not be kicked out of the house. I hated it myself, and I still consider myself a lucky to not have lived 100 years ago being 8 years old working in a coal mine, I still can't get it out of my head.
On to this other family (the reason why I'm typing this) of whom I never met, they work for the same company I work for, and yes they too had the entire family working. One of which was a 19 year old daughter. Of the news I heard, so was doing her job properly when she slipped of the back of a pick up truck and fell on the back of her head on the concrete. She is expected to make it through the surgery, but not expected to live through Christmas. It was a freak accident, and it must be horrible loosing a child. and I write this because she was about the same age as me, and that is what took me. In high school, we lost 5 kids, I didn't know them, but it was harder, and felt personal knowing they were the same age as me.
This is a pure Rant, I have many arguments which would have prevented this accident, and many arguments which would have saved my knees, my moms back, and my sister's college and career which was ruined due to my dad's expectations. I know a few more families who lived their lives that way, and all of them hated each other, and regretted their lives. So what do you guys think, if you had a family, would you like everyone working close together? And If you did live in this fashion, what did you think of it?
(now for the families I know, everyone worked according to season and weather, it simply wasnt a 9-5 office job, and there certainly wasn't any "order" involved, it was all in the field working)
On to this other family (the reason why I'm typing this) of whom I never met, they work for the same company I work for, and yes they too had the entire family working. One of which was a 19 year old daughter. Of the news I heard, so was doing her job properly when she slipped of the back of a pick up truck and fell on the back of her head on the concrete. She is expected to make it through the surgery, but not expected to live through Christmas. It was a freak accident, and it must be horrible loosing a child. and I write this because she was about the same age as me, and that is what took me. In high school, we lost 5 kids, I didn't know them, but it was harder, and felt personal knowing they were the same age as me.
This is a pure Rant, I have many arguments which would have prevented this accident, and many arguments which would have saved my knees, my moms back, and my sister's college and career which was ruined due to my dad's expectations. I know a few more families who lived their lives that way, and all of them hated each other, and regretted their lives. So what do you guys think, if you had a family, would you like everyone working close together? And If you did live in this fashion, what did you think of it?
(now for the families I know, everyone worked according to season and weather, it simply wasnt a 9-5 office job, and there certainly wasn't any "order" involved, it was all in the field working)
