In the segment Who Built The Pyramids?, Mike, the main character is not very ecstatic about his current and past jobs. He believes that one can not take credit for something they did not put manual labor into. For example, he states "I don't really think I could be proud if a contractor built a home for me. I would be tempted to get in there and kick the carpenter in the ass (laughs), and take the saw away from him. 'Cause I would have to be part of it, you know." He is part of a system that the people who do actual manual labor are given no credit; "I'd like to make my imprint. My dodo bird. A mistake, mine. Let's say the whole building is nothing but red bricks. I'd like to have just the black one or the white one or the purple one."  Mike dwells on his job because it is a routine that has taken over his life and he has no power over it. His feelings and his daily routines outside of his job revolve around his job. All day he has been wanting to tell his "foreman to go fuck him self, but I can't." Instead he takes it out on some guy at the bar that has the same anger inside, because he cannot go home from a long day of work and take out his anger on his wife or his children because they have no fault in that. His whole life is a routine; "I don't even need the alarm clock to get up in the morning. I can go out drinking all night, fall asleep at four, and bam! I'm up at six-- no matter what I do." 

            When it comes to changing things at work, Mike would change the hours he puts into work and the way his present and past boss treat their workers. He would like to have a "twenty-hour work sheet" because that way he could get to know his wife and kids much better. He could take them to more events rather than having to choose only one. If he was paying people to work for him he would try and "pay them a decent wage" and he would also get more in touch with his worker. Get to know them as humans, instead of just viewing them as workers. 

          Mike states that he would like his son to be "an effete snob" which is very interesting because through out the segment he contradicts himself. There is a point in the segment in which he is telling the reader a story that had happen between him and a co-worker which happens to be young college student. The college student was surprised when he spotted Mike with a book in his back pocket. The young man was surprised that Mike actually read books instead of "sport pages" like the rest of his co-workers. Mike was offended because the young man had refer to the hard working man who pay for others to go to college as 'dummies.' Mike felt that the young man was an "effete snob," yet Mike wants his son to be an effete snob. Reason being that he wants his son to be nothing like him.