H A P P Y PASHA’S Day| 🧔🏻🧝♀️ to the world’s best dad (fight me!) I shall harken back to several years ago, when my business was still only on Etsy and had began to take off. Stressed and buried in new responsibility and trying to make more hours in the day appear or extra arms sprout, my dad gave me a talk that ever solidified his position as ultimate go-getter and definition of work ethic.
Both of my parents grew up in huge families, and from it became hard-working determined individuals. My dad as the youngest was already holding down multiple jobs at 17 years old, to the point where his responsibilities to support his family took him out of school. He started at the bottom running chump errands for a local construction outfit and worked his way up by always asking if he could do any more work, and when a list was provided he’d reply “I can do that, I can run that equipment.”- even if it was complete bullshit. Through hours of watching and running the gambit of every corner of the job site, he could eventually run any piece of machinery or uncannily quote any job to the number they threw at him. Much much more eventually, he’d go on to build his worth by owning and operating two of the most successful construction outfits in California.
He said “In this day and age, the technology we have at our fingertips is unreal, there’s so much potential. When I did mine, it was all long-hand- I’d sit in the front cab of my pickup truck, caked in dirt after hours running a machine and I’d do whatever I needed to do, whatever I could get done was done there. I knew every piece of iron on the job, every piece of equipment’s upkeep. I didn’t hire someone out, I did it myself there- with a pickup truck and that old car phone.” (Now, remember for aesthetics when he says car phone, it’s the 80-90s here, so we are talking a literal block curly-lined brick here)
Though I took an artistic path in life, my dad and I both love to build things. Whether it’s a 4-lane highway, 250 units of tiny sculptures in one day, a giant construction company, or a tiny eensy teensy art business, I’m so proud to call this man my dad. Love you pashy! #happyfathersday #dowork #behumble
