I finally counted all the bricks I've laid in my career

I was cleaning out my work truck last week and found a stack of old job logs. I sat down and added them all up, and it came to just over 1.2 million bricks. That number really got me thinking. I remember my first week on a site in Akron, my foreman had to show me how to properly butter a brick. Now I've laid enough to build a small town. It makes you think about all the walls and chimneys that are still standing out there. Has anyone else ever added up their total like that?

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the_tessa2mo ago

Honestly that "still standing out there" part really gets me. It's not just a number, it's a bunch of real places where people live and work. That's a legacy you can actually see.

kai_bennett2mo ago

Yeah exactly! It makes the whole thing feel way more real.

the_mary1mo ago

I used to think it was just a job, looking at numbers on paper. But reading this and thinking about every single one of those bricks being part of something real made me see it completely different now.