The first thing I want to clarify is that the 309A licence I hold is a construction licence. I did get it in construction.
There were many barriers. One of the most common barriers is there are no washroom facilities. For some reason, you can't have a job because there isn't a washroom. The reason is because we're actually building the entity--a house or whatever--so there is obviously nothing there. I was just the volunteer to go and get the coffee, and I would use the facilities then. It was a very simple solution. It was not that I shouldn't work in a particular area. It was just that you had to adapt a little.
I had young children. It was six weeks after I had my second daughter that I found myself on a construction site. Yes, construction is inevitably very long. You may be working, by contract, so many hours, 14-hour days, or whatever, because you base your hours on whatever the contract stipulates. I did change my work environment. My children stayed up later at night--they were infants, of course, so I flipped their schedule around--so when I came in the door, I still had quality time with them. They slept when the babysitter was there, not when I was there, so I paid to have a babysitter. I paid a lot of my money to babysitters.