A short time after, my mom was caring for a patient who was terminal and he asked her if there was anything he could do for her for her kindness. She said "no thanks what I do is my job and comes from the heart". He asked if she had any children and when she replied yes ‘I have a son, who is a painter’, he asked "would he like to be in the union?" She thanked him for his offer and then told me the story. Of course I said yes. From that point on, I was a union painter until my mom and dad relocated to Florida when they were just 45 and I decided to move here also. I have been staining driveways for over ‘33’years. in the villages  & have over 15,000 customers,,I Started on the mobil home park  side 35 years ago .....