Local Sacramento Owner of TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® Moving Company Discusses his First Job

In an ongoing effort of support and demand for more about his life and career, co-owner of the Award Winning Sacramento Movers, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK®, Mark Snyir, will begin an ongoing account of times in his life that all attribute to his success.

Sacramento, California. In an ongoing effort of support and demand for more about his life and career, co-owner of the Award Winning Sacramento Movers, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK®, Mark Snyir, will begin an ongoing account of times in his life that all attribute to his success.


In his first installment, Mark Snyir, will discuss the very first job he had as a teenager, as a Duckpin Setter, in Port Vue, Pennsylvania.

People always ask me where I got my strong work ethic and fine sense of humor from. For me, it stems back to my days working at a Bar when I was 15 years old. In those days, you needed a workers' permit to be able to work at that age, and my guidance counselor reluctantly agreed to let me work in a bar. Of course this wasn't an ordinary bar, in fact, throughout my days, I haven't seen a bar like it, and if you know me, I've been to my fair share.

In the basement was where I worked, for 5 hours a night, 4 nights week, with 3 of my friends, setting up duckpins.

Duckpin Bowling is a variation of bowling. The ball is about the size of a softball and it weighs about 4 pounds, and looks like an oversized skee-ball. The pins are smaller, about 2/3 the regular size. There is nothing electronic about this game. This is where I come in.


So, the patrons of the bar, would stagger downstairs and bet on these games (4 lanes) and throw these balls as hard as they could at the pins. Meanwhile, we would sit behind the pins, on a platform that was 3 feet higher than the pins and cover our faces with our arms from the ball and pins from hitting us.
We would clear the knocked down pins off the lane, roll the ball back down to them on a steel roller and wait for them to finish the frame. Once the frame was finished, we would set up all the pins all over again for the next bowler, while hearing ridicules from the rest of the bowlers.


The real fun of the night came at the final frame, the 10th frame. The bowler would scream, "10th frame", so we would know, that they might have an extra frame if they got a strike or spare. Trust me, if you screwed this part up, you heard about it. And to top it off, this frame was where the US Steel Workers would take all their frustration out on the world and throw this tiny wooden ball as hard as they could down this lane. Most of the time, the ball wouldn't land on the lane until it was about to hit the pins, which meant "bruises" for us, the duckpin setters.

I remember one time, my friend being hit so hard by a pin, from another lane, in the side of the head that they had to take him to the hospital. He needed stitches and the bar patrons, well, they were only too proud of themselves for being strong enough to throw that little ball hard enough.

Back in those days, pay was different, our 5 hours of work generated us $20.00 + tips (usually about $5 to $10 each), and a free meal at the bar when the night was over.
Why'd I do it, you may be wondering if it was so bad? Well, I don't like to quit at things, and, no matter what job that I had from there on out, it was never as bad as that one. Plus it always makes a great story to tell people who complain about their job or their pay. Take it from me, try duckpin setting.

TWO MEN AND A TRUCK®/ Sacramento has won their Home Office's Safety Award and finished in the top five in the Awards in Excellence the last 2 years and running.

Mark Snyir is the Vice President of the Sacramento Chapter of the CMSA (California Moving and Storage Association) and on the CMSA and AMSA (American Moving and Storage Association) Government Affairs Committee.

To find out more about the Award winning Sacramento Movers, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK®, VISIT THEM AT WWW.SACRAMENTOMOVINGSERVICE.COM

To find out more about Mark Snyir, visit him at www.thebigsnack.com

And read his blogs at http://blogs.thebigsnack.com/

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