Back in the 90s I once found myself in F seated next to a guy who looked just like a construction worker.

We started talking.

Turns out he really was a construction worker, or at least had been. He was also very smart and very interesting to talk with.

A few years earlier he worked on a large project in Houston. He figured that any company he had never heard of until then, but was building a complex that big, had to be going places. So he took the family nest egg and invested it, early on, in Dell Computer.

When we met, it had been a couple of years since he last worked a construction job - or any other kind. Paid F was his normal mode of travel.