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A typical day

On site by 6:30 or 7. Mix the first batch, load the hawk, and work a wall while the material is still open. Plaster and stucco set on their own schedule, not yours, so you move fast and you do not stop in the middle of a wall. Exterior stucco means scaffold and weather. Interior means dust, lights and a deadline set by the painters coming after you. Clean tools before the material hardens, or replace them.