The theater where I work underwent a transition to digital projectors a couple weeks back. Us college-aged hipster white kids were hauling trash out of the building, etc, while these latino dudes were tearing up the concrete to lay a new communications wire into the building.

The foreman was this late-30s or early-40s latino dude with one arm. A coworker and I were trying to toss this huge steel sound rack into the dumpster, and we were doing so awkwardly. Without saying a word, the foreman dude runs over and literally single-handedly shoved the whole thing into the dumpster that stood a foot or so higher than his head.

It was a humbling moment, to say the least. This is speculation, but to me, it was obvious that this guy hops into any situation where he knows he can get shit done, then does it, and hops right back to what he was doing. To me, this explains why he now holds a management job despite working in a field that most people would consider him physically incapable of working in. He's got wherewithal that only comes from a life of hard work, and many affluent Americans have never known that sort of life.