Concrete Plans: An Unconventional Journey
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2018
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Liz Nichols had a checklist - she wanted to work outdoors, and make good money to support her family. After a few false starts, she found just the right fit as a concrete mason. Even though she was often the only woman on the job, she learned to navigate that new world with grace and will pass along to her son, the lessons that hard work and perseverance are rewarded.
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| 0:00.0 | This is my margin travel and you always know a finisher because we've got them in our back pockets sticking out and it's such a small tool |
| 0:06.7 | But you just use this all the time when you're pouring concrete ease to scrape your forms |
| 0:10.9 | Use it to get in little corners that maybe your other travels are too big for so you can always sell a finisher by the margin travel |
| 0:20.1 | When Liz Nichols was in her 20s |
| 0:22.6 | She knew that she wanted two things |
| 0:25.2 | Financial stability and to start a family |
| 0:28.2 | But she had no road map to help her achieve those goals |
| 0:31.6 | That is until the day she met a guide who would show her a new world of work |
| 0:37.7 | In this episode of Am the Job brought to you by Express Employment Professionals |
| 0:42.8 | We'll hear a story about shattering expectations in order to find meaningful work |
| 0:48.4 | If you want to find your next job or if you're a company hoping to grow your workforce |
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| 1:00.7 | Now producer Chris Siegel has the story of Liz Nichols |
| 1:06.0 | It's early in the morning. I'm in Northwest Portland in a neighborhood where new developments are springing up like dandelions |
| 1:12.7 | I park behind a beat up old truck a |
| 1:16.3 | 1988 Toyota that belongs to my friend Liz |
| 1:20.1 | Has work going so far this morning |
| 1:24.0 | While most of Portland is waking up Liz has been at work for a couple hours |
| 1:28.5 | She greets me in her loose dirty jeans and Union hoodie |
| 1:32.3 | Under her chin she has what's called a particulate respirator |
| 1:35.8 | It's like the construction workers version of a surgical mask |
| 1:39.8 | Liz is a journeyman cement mason and today she's working in a half finished building |
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