One winter, Ned Yost worked for a timber management company, navigating and cataloging 500 acres of terrain. In three others, he unloaded 18-wheeler trucks for $14 per hour. Good money.
And then there was the offseason he spent at a tile company. His title was “mechanics helper.” His duties, well, they sound kind of brutal.
“I’d have to freaking tote all that tile,” says Yost, the manager of the Royals. “We did a big mall. So I’d have to make the cement, clean the tools, bring in the tile, while this guy would lay it.”
Yost worked because he had to.