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Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK

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How to Be a Successful Wood Guy

"I just wanted to learn something else right really and just it seemed like a fucking high paying job yeah that i never made more than 20 bucks an hour," he says. "i was hanging off of scaffolding like 50 feet in the air and you know with you know impact drivers and all kinds of shit like that and heavy and then I started getting hurt because i'm not built for that physically" He recalls carrying hundreds of pounds of concrete up stairways, being electrocuted by tools or having his lights turned out on him at times. The former punk rocker now works as a restorer restoring old buildings around downtown Chicago.

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