My husband earned money for college by working during high school and during summers. This included paper routes, mowing lawns, odd jobs, working in a grocery store, and putting up cement stave silos. The silo work was very physically demanding: his first silo task was to lift 98 lb. cement blocks into a mechanism that hoisted the blocks up, up, up to the next row: sometimes 80 feet in the air. Block after block, all day. Continue reading “Motivation: I did my best”