Joe Davino, 20, of West Chester’s Tree Top Builders has known he wanted to work in construction ever since he was a kid, and is fulfilling this ambition by building children their dream treehouse, writes Patricia Olsen for The New York Times.

Davino studied carpentry at a vocational-technical high school, where he scored his highest grades in the carpentry program. He got the confidence to apply to Tree Top Builders from being a salutatorian of his graduating class and coming third in a national carpentry competition.

A lot of the joy of his work comes from the fact that children get so excited about the structure that they cannot stay away, even with the construction still in-progress.

“By the time their treehouse is three-quarters done, they can’t stay away,” said Davino. “Sometimes, at around 5 on a Saturday, when we finally finish, put our tools away and sweep the floor of the treehouse, they climb up. A parent has to come out, and make them climb down for dinner because they won’t go in on their own.”

Read the entire interview in The New York Times here.