BUILDER: Builders & Tradesmen Tell Their Stories
Mark Q. KersonFrom The Ground Up Publishing, December 2020

Paperback | 6 x 9 inches | 386 pages | English | ISBN: 978-0991327713 | $27.00

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
BUILDER is a gathering of insights and the telling of tales from residential builders. It offers guiding principles, lessons learned, and a glimpse into why we take up a trade, and why so many of us are passionate about what we do. Its purpose, apart from telling these wonderful stories, is to help you navigate the process of opening and growing a company, by listening in as builders explain what they wish they?d known, how they learned, and what they would have done differently.
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dDAB COMMENTARY:
Architecture is an infrequent subject of humor on The Simpsons. Most famously, one episode has Frank Gehry designing a concert hall for Springfield, a building Mr. Burns eventually buys and turns into a prison. Construction is the same. In another good episode, Ray Romano plays a roofer, Ray Magini, who befriends Homer at a bar and offers to help with his leaky roof. Ray starts on the roof but then fails to show on numerous occasions, leading the other Simpsons to think he is a figment of Homer's imagination. Near the end of the show, the family sees Ray is real. Marge asks him, "Why did you start fixing our roof and then just disappear"" He replies "That's easy, I'm a contractor!" Everybody laughs together ...