I finished school and began a life on the road, traveling aimlessly around the country, working an endless series of construction, restaurant, retail, factory and day-labor jobs.
The Community section includes numerous fact sheets and other resources offering information on safer alternatives in areas such as auto maintenance and repair, construction, restaurant kitchen management, and household cleaning.
Prominent in the nontradable sector are government, health care, retailing, construction, restaurants and, for the most part, legal services.
Travelers may find that some resorts are under construction, restaurants or stores are closed and staffing may not be quite as robust as it is during the high season.
While there are no current statistics available, a 1993 study by the New York City Office of the Comptroller estimated that legal but unreported income from jobs in, for instance, construction, restaurants and child care, was $39 billion, or one-seventh the size of the city's official economy.
The worst offenders, studies have shown, are the construction and restaurant industries.
The investigators said they were looking into allegations of construction payoffs, restaurant extortion and violence.
With nearly 11percentt unemployment, immigrants take jobs most Czechs do not want, like cleaning, construction and restaurant work.
She said the state planned more sweeps that would look at not just the construction and restaurant industries, but also at car washes, janitorial firms and trucking companies.
But he and the local committee, NYC2012, say they believe the city could reap as much as $11 billion from things like new construction jobs, restaurant meals and sales taxes on Olympics souvenirs.
That is because the immigrant wave is split, with many educated workers in the region's technology and financial-services industries, and many unskilled laborers in the landscaping, construction and restaurant industries.
