It’s good hard work and satisfying. When you are finished with a project, you can always look back at it. I worked on the Sky Way project of the new Bay Bridge for a while. When my daughter gets old enough to drive across it, she will be able to tell her friends, “Hey, my daddy helped build this thing.”

I set the footings and stripped the peer cables while I was 150 feet in the air, hooked on a lanyard. Was I sacred? Absolutely! It was scary, but fun. Fear is what you feel before you take that first step. After that it’s a great feeling.

In this job you build it with your hands. And when you’re done with the concrete, we take apart the forms so we get to see what we built. I’ve been working in this area since 2000. I worked on docks 57, 22, 32, and over on the bridge. When I got out here, there wasn’t much here. When you leave, it’s a whole new thing.