Skip to main content

First job: Nails under a hot tin roof

CBA CEO Richard Hunt As a high-school senior in southwestern Louisiana, Richard Hunt figured he was going to college. He just didn't figure how strongly he'd feel about it until he found himself working under a hot tin roof for $3.80 an hour to help pay for it. "The first job I remember that really taught me the value of life was when I was building roof trusses under a tin roof in the middle of the Louisiana summer," said Hunt, now CEO of the $12 million-revenue Consumer Bankers Association. Lumber for the 20-foot-long frames had to be measured, cut at an angle with a hand saw and nailed and stapled together, all under a structure housing about 100 other workers with no… Read More