TYLER FOX CONCRETE LABORER


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Tyler Fox doesn’t try to combine his paddling time with a job that pays his bills. “I typically enjoy buckling down and


pounding out a month or so of solid con- crete work followed by a couple months of traveling and extensive paddling,” he says. When the work is hard and the weather is


unforgiving, Fox daydreams of paddling. “On really long, hard, shitty days at work, I like to think about getting paid in enjoyment. For example, instead of getting paid x amount of dollars that day, I like to think about how many days of traveling or paddling I can get out of the money that I make during that day.” Fox supplements his seasonal concrete


work with on-water jobs, including kayak in- structing, raft guiding and photography, and is currently in New Zealand training hard for the upcoming season of extreme racing. “I put concrete into places that need con-


crete in them,” explains Fox, of his less-than- thrilling work for Ontario-based company, Monkman Forming. “The crew of people I work with makes it much more enjoyable,” he says of the other kayakers among his concrete co-workers. “It’s just a quick month here and there to


boost the bank account, so that I can head off on another adventure.”


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