Boyce Muse is known as the King of Concrete. His company, Muse Concrete Contractors, is the largest concrete contractor in northern California. Boyce owns two homes, boats, Porsches, BMWs and even his own plane. Traveling the world with his family—from Alaska to Australia and then on to the South of France and finally South America—Boyce is a man who appears to play as hard as he works.
Yet to see where Boyce came from makes his achievements all the more incredible.
Living hand to mouth
Growing up in Redding, California, Boyce was the eldest of five siblings in a family that struggled every day just to get by. Living on welfare, his family, Boyce said, survived mainly because as kids, they just didn't know anything else. "We didn't know how bad off we were ... You just know that you're hungry a lot."
After his mother was killed when he was just 8 years old, Boyce and his siblings were separated and sent to live with various relatives. "I lived with 10 different families all over the country and went to 15 different schools. It was hard to make friends, it was very lonely not knowing how long before I would be uprooted and sent somewhere else. I was another mouth to feed in a family that was already struggling."
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When Boyce was 11, his father remarried and reunited the family, introducing them to five new siblings—but it certainly didn't reflect the idyllic Brady Bunch image. There were now 10 children living in a two-bedroom house. "I did not ever get to be a kid; there was always a lot of responsibility, and you had to be very self-reliant," Boyce said.
Lauren Flick
Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/15/the-concrete-determination-that-created-a-20m-empire.html
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