When the government announced that anyone who was unemployed was required to take a job that was selected for them Henry was quite worried. He had just been become unemployed himself after the start up he was working at as a developer went bankrupt.
When the letter confirming his new job came though he was slightly shocked to say the least. He had expected the government to take account of his qualifications and his work experience when placing him, but the letter told him her would become a builder. He had no idea if he could even do the job, he had never done any sort of manual work in his life. Unfortunately, it was the only hope I had at having any kind of money coming in as I was getting no responses from my other job applications.
Arriving at the building site where the letter said to go, the sight of all the large men working made him real as out of place as he expected. Awkwardly walking towards the cabin that said 'Site Office' he knocked on the door and waited. The door swung open revealing a rather large muscular and hairy man. He introduced himself as the sites foreman and invited Henry into the office.
"So, your our new labourer eh mate?" he said with a smile as he slid a glass of water over to Henry, which he gladly accepted. He always got nervous at job interviews, and the situation was making him even more nervous. He chugged the water down in one, causing the foreman to let out a small laugh.
"Must be thirst eh boy" he smiled, "must say, I think you'll fit in quite well". This caused Henry to raise his eyebrow.
"Really?" he asked scratching his face awkwardly, he could feel stubble under his fingers as he scratched, which was strange, he could never really grow much facial hair and the little he did have he shaved this morning. He frowned slightly at this but tried to ignore it.
"I've gotta say, based on your past experience, I wouldn't have placed you as a computer programmer, looks like you've been a labour since you finished school" he smiled, looking Henry up and down.
"Thanks" Henry muttered, although he didn't know what would make him think that, he had always been interested in computers, although now that he thought hard about it, he couldn't seem to remember much about computers/ He shifted awkwardly and loosened his tie slightly, it seemed as if it was getting tighter, he undid the top button at the same time giving a small sigh of relief as he did so.
"Well... lets get you intoduced to the other" the foreman said, throwing Henry a high-vis vest. "Might want to take your shift off aswell" he said with a wink, "gets a bit mess outside".
Henry looked at the high-vis vest in his hand and without much thought he unbuttoned his shift, letting he body breath, his shift was now much to small for him. He looked down at his body with slight confusion, was he always this big, he remembered being small and skinny. With a shrug he put the high-vis on and looked at his boss, something seemed off slightly. "Don't forget your hat boy" said the boss as he put the hat on Henrys head.
All memories of his previous life as a developer left his head, along with all his college education. In its place was knowledge of a building site, how to build walls, dig holes and lift heavy things. "Hope your ready to work" said his boss, "Lots of heavy lifting today".
Henry laughed and flexed his muscles, "No worries about that boss" he said with a grin.
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