I did industrial and commercial rubber roofing for 6 months. Imagine being on top of a factory, hospital, mall, or anything big. When its cold and windy it howls on a roof and when its July in Tennessee on a roof its an inferno. Very labor intensive. Lots of stooping, lifting, solvents, glues, heated tar, heating torches. Being on a top of a factory that looks a mile long and making progress that looks insignificant bothered me. Tear offs were the worst when you have to move all the river gravel to pull the old rubber off. Most of the foreman and employess were asshole rednecks. I despised them. It paid the best out of any job I was qualified for at the time. Business got slow and I got laid off and found another job. I think I was able to stick it because all I had really done before then was dishwashing, carpentry and laboring for a brick mason. I hated brick and block too.