South Florida Trend, Solid Success

SOUTH FLORIDA – Here’s a job interview tip you haven’t seen: Wear three shirts, big boots and loose pants. At age 15, Luis Garcia needed to look older and stronger to land a $4.50-an-hour job pumping concrete. Not long after he arrived in Miami from Nicaragua without his parents, Garcia needed money, and concrete beat bagging groceries by $1.15 an hour. Five years later, in 1984, with a $5,000 pump and a pickup truck, Garcia went into business for himself.