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tributing members of the masonry industry. Their faces and the experiences we share with them are what we remember, not the words or numbers that fill the articles, textbooks, worksheets, score sheets, and exams along the way.
It is somewhat fitting that the gallery of faces that define my own development begins with my father's. Moroni M. Mejia is a proud Mexican immigrant who once provided for his family by taking on as many jobs as necessary. He was a journeyman pressman by trade, but filled his nights and supplemented his income by doing anything from cleaning offices to assembling electronic motherboards. At his side, I learned the value of working hard that any job worth doing was worth doing impeccably, and that if you weren't trying to be the best, you were wasting your time.
Time was on my side the day I first laced up my work boots and stepped onto a jobsite; at 18 years old, I was eager to work and ready to prove myself. Rudy Martinez was the first bricklayer I met that day. With a somber look on his face he asked, "Are you here to replace that poor young hoddie that fell from the scaffold yesterday?"
I was new to the trade and bricklayer humor, so I had no idea what a "hoddie" was, but it took everything I had to focus on my work instead of falling as I scampered along the scaffold.