I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
I don't think I've had a job since I worked for my father's construction company.
If you want someone to show up and execute your script for you, seriously, there are a lot of great people out there. Don't call me.
My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.
I'll always build houses.
There's a lot of drama that goes into just buying a house, let alone renovating a house.
I fell in love with real estate, renovations, and became a licensed contractor when I was 26.
Usually people just hire me.
A lot of people assumed for all those years that I was the official announcer for HBO because I had done almost all their fights. I worked on all of them independently.
I'm a man without a corporation.
I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
I grew up in a few houses because my dad was a builder, so we used to build and sell quite a lot.
I'm a private contractor now. I choose my clients, not the other way around.
Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.
I was hired as a penciler.
I'm a builder, first and foremost.
My photos would not be as high quality without my dad. He's a contractor, and together we converted an area in our basement into a makeup studio with a desk, a mirror lined with dimmable lights, and storage areas.
The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the appetite of the contractors, and therefore the just value is that which they be contented to give.
If you understand the independent worker, the self-employed professional, the freelancer, the e-lancer, the temp, you understand how work and business in the U.S. operate today.
