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Down and Out in Seattle. - The Reserve at SeaTac

My latest job that I have been sent on is to work an Exxel job called the Reserve at SeaTac.  I already worked out here once before about a month ago.  I like working Exell jobs for the fact that safety actually seems to matter to them and that I am not going to be asked to do jobs above my pay grade and then still only get paid the minimum. No being asked to climb into an unprotected elevator shaft while concrete demolition is going on overhead dropping large chunks of concrete down the shaft.  I tell the foreman that I am thankful for this and he laughs with a mix of facial expressions partly because he knows that would be an insane thing to ask someone to do and partly because he realizes that I have been asked to do just that at a previous site.  A story for another post. Métro, bulot, dodo. - Tukwila Station. To get to the Reserve at SeaTac it takes an hour from TLC using public transportation.  Only one transfer, so it isn't too bad, plus because of its location I

Down and Out in Seattle. - TLC

After walking in on my, now ex, girlfriend with someone else I moved back to Seattle. It has been a little over a year since I got back and have been working odd jobs to make ends meet while everything that I seem to apply to I am either over or under qualified to for. This has resulted in me working a lot of day labor construction. My idea of working this job is that it might be able to help me understand the facets of how construction is done so as I apply to graduate school in the coming months for architecture that I will have a more tantalizing résumé and the future ability to work as an architect that has less builders frustrated. First day of construction: hauling cabinets in Redmond. The reality is that I do a lot of cleaning and hauling of miscellaneous on the job site, but I have been able to find discover more about the metropolitan area of Seattle as I get sent to work all over to work a site for maybe a few weeks or maybe just a day. The location of the company