Jim Clark started preparing for a career in construction when he was still in high school. He spent summers working as a boilermaker's helper in a structural steel shop. When he attended college at University of California, Berkeley, he learned even more about building, not just in his civil engineering classes, but in his summer job as a logger. He spent three summers as a choker, setter, and tree bucker, learning what it takes to rig a tree to fall correctly. "It all taught me a lot about how to build things," says the semi-retired president of Clark Pacific and third-generation Californian.
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