re: Harsin contract: 6 years, 31.5m (+ Assistants)

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Had a construction job in college making big dough at the time. We were working 6 12's so you got a boat load of time and a half. I was clearing $500-600 a week and I was too tired to spend anything! Showed back up to Auburn as a baller.

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Thats great. Its wild how much we have now and really how little we appreciate it.


When I graduated high school, I had applied to 3 colleges. UGA, Auburn and Georgia Tech. My plan was to go the engineering route since I liked tinkering with electronics so much. I got accepted to all three colleges but ended up going to Devry in Avondale Estates. A fast track to a BA and I was loving on my wife at the time whose parents were too poor to send her to college so I stayed at home and drove from Griffin to Decatur everyday.

I got a job working at Thurston Motor lines unloading trucks after school. I had been making 3.50 per hour in high school. I started there at $8 and hour and I worked there the entire time I went to Devry which was about 3 years full time. When I graduated, I was making $12 per hour working on the docks

Got my degree and applied for a engineering job at a local place near my home that I had really targeted the entire time I was going to school. I got hired there immediately and my salary was $20,800 per year.

So I had to quit a job unloading freight making $12 to start my engineering career to make $10 per hour. No lie. I had gotten married at that point and needed the full time job with benefits.

I ended up keeping the job at Thurston for 4 years after I started engineering and basically worked weekends and at night when I could because my wife started Pharmacy school just after we got married. On our dime $150K in school loans