re: Worse job you ever worked

Worked the hay field as a teenager. Between our farm and the neighbor, we would put up around 30K square bales / year. I worked the barn end of that operation and physically handled every bale inbound. Then, I would load up around 20K of that on the way out each year, about half of which I would also unload for customers. So, I was picking up/throwing an average over 1K bales / week, with most of that during the hottest part of the hottest days of summer. The crew would split $0.25/bale to pick up bales in the field and stack them in the barn. That worked out to basically $10/hr with a good crew. Start around noon and work until 8PM for $80 cash, then wake up and do it again.