Bill Gallagher on working 10-11 hour days across the state as the youngest on the crew. Within weeks, older workers chose him as their partner because he showed up, did the work, and didn't complain. Reliability earns respect faster than anything else.
So, you know, there were long days. I would work 10, 11 hours and be driving across the entire state. But for me, for the most part, what I learned was, you know, if you do the job and you show up and you put the work in, everyone else wants to work with you. So the guys would actually get to pick who they wanted to work with them that day. And I didn't get to pick. Cause I was. I was the youngest there. So, like the older guys or the guys that had been there the longest, how my. My dad had it structured was they would get to pick who they wanted to work with. And within a couple weeks they were picking me. Which was funny because I was the youngest one there. You know, I wouldn't say I was the biggest guy or the strongest, but they were picking me to work with them just because I was going to show up, I was going to do the work, I wasn't going to complain about anything, and. And they just enjoyed working with me. So that was pretty cool to see that if you went there, you did your stuff. You know, other people are. They're going to respect it and they're going to respect you.
