Story Pitch for Profile

I'm writing about Uncle Emmett.  He is just the best.  Not only that he is a product of industrial capitalism. He spent 30 years in the same factory working 15 hour days, 6 days a week.  And on his 7th day, he rested with me!  (ok I don't want to write him as God, though he basically is)  It's going to be more creative nonfiction than journalistic on the spectrum of creative to hard journalism but I know I have a complex story with Uncle Emmett.  It might be more subtle than a story with a character grappling with death or pain or something else, but it is heartbreaking and I want to write about him.

Story more explicitly:

Uncle Emmett has contrasting life and interests. (cognitive dissonance)
-Emmett works in the factory but studies the stars.
-People are growing but Emmett stays the same. (his brothers children)
-Emmett lives through other people saying yes to everything.
-Emmett is very busy but when he has time off he is truly resting.
Emmett retires the same year I graduate from HS and grows a garden.

I still have some figuring out to do. But I know there is a story.