How to put a newbie to work

It's a good thing that when building a house from scratch there are lots of walls that can be built right from the get go.  It's an excellent project to throw inexperienced people at along with some experienced folks and have the newbies feel like they are contributing right away. That's what happened with me. Early Thursday morning, our first day on the job site, I was given some brief instructions on placement of the 2s x4s on the marked sills by a friendly guy and then started banging away. About 70 bangs later I had my first nail in. By the fifth nail I had halved the number of hits required and it  just kept getting better throughout the morning. And then what a thrill it was to be part of the manpower to lift the exterior walls. That alone was worth the price of admission (a 13 1/2 hr drive , the last stretch through a ferocious windstorm and then torrential rains that left 11,000 people without power that night.)  Later on they had the home owner and daughter, who worked all day on site, have the honor of counting down the "1, 2, 3, lift" whenever another wall needed to be lifted and put in place. By the time we left that first day, most of the framing was done and the transformation from empty concrete pad to home was well under way.