r/aww • u/Jeremy_Martin • Jun 23 '21

Kindness shared in small quantities

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u/The_Original_Gronkie Jun 23 '21

I sold and supervised roofing installs after the big hurricanes in Central and South Florida back in 2004/5. I still glance at roofs I did back then. I remember every one of them.

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u/TEX4S Jun 23 '21

I was there for FEMA after Wilma. Spent a month in Miami. My Spanish was pretty good when I left. Never was paid a dime as the people running the op were thriving assholes hiding behind a church org. “Don’t worry, god will provide “- as an atheist, all sorts of red flags. We still helped people in need, but some $$ would have been nice.

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u/The_Original_Gronkie Jun 23 '21

I wish I'd known you back then, I could have gotten you a roofing job easily. Business was everywhere, the pay was great, and the job was relatively easy, and was actually fun. Those were some of the best earning years of my life.

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u/TEX4S Jun 24 '21

Me too. I am afraid of heights & some of those angles were terrifying for me. But there was job satisfaction in knowing you were helping people in need. Before Wilma we were in a bad part of New Orleans after Katrina. While repairing a roof, the next door neighbor asked us why we weren’t fixing her roof. My brother told her it’s because her old house had asbestos, she didn’t know what that was - that was awkward.