I got a job with a fencing company, worked in the yard running a gang saw dog earring cedar fence slats.
I asked the owner if I could be paid by the pallet instead of hourly ( piece work). We settled on a price per pallet and I went to work. I’d hop the fence in the morning before anyone got there and get started, worked through lunches and volunteered to close up the yard when I’d leave.
The owner called me in to pick up my first check under the new agreement, he told me I was going back to hourly because “ I can’t have you making more money than my foreman who has been with me for 20 years.”
I knew right then I had to be self employed at some point.
