re: Most physically demanding job you've had?

Ahh. Good place. Wish they didnt close since I am back in town

Summer job stacking 40 (~6800-7100 per shift)/50 (~5500-5700 per shift)/80 (~3500-3700 per shift) pound bags of various salt products 40 hours a week. Was brutal as the room temp was ~120* due to steam used to create the water softener pellets but ~$18 an hour 40 hours a week through the summer while in college was worth it.

Mechanic. You don't realize how much using your arms for little things work you to death.

Or... Lobbying firm.

The amount of wear and tear on my liver was extraordinary. I would sometimes wake up with a literal swollen liver.

High school summer job as a grunt worker for a crew that laid natural gas pipe in Alabama. Basically that meant I dug ditches with a shovel in 100 degree, humid weather. Started at sun up and didn't quit some days until sun down. Just brutal and backbreaking.

Although I had about a three week break when they were trenching under a highway where I got to be the traffic control flag guy. That was easy as shite and was hilarious getting cat calls from all the redneck women driving by. Many solicitations, a couple actually tempting. Was sad when the trench was done and it was back to the ditch for me.

Railroad Construction

Worked for a pipeline maintenance company in the summers during college. One summer I spent 3 months reclaiming a pipeline in Sorrento. The foreman would drop me off in the swamp in waist deep water with a chainsaw, oil, and gas and I'd cut down trees for about 10 hrs. The only time I could set the saw down is when I cut down a tree and set it on the stump. shite was brutal, but kinda fun. Biggest drawback was the alligators, snakes, and wasps.

Green lumber chain

Was a laborer on a maintenance crew for JE Merit inside Exxon

Was the heat of the summer in full PPE gear running a jackhammer and whackerpacker that weighed as much or more than I did.

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Hauling hay Specifically walking beside the trailer all day grabbing square bales and throwing them onto the trailer

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Stacking sucks. Id rather walk and throw than stack. Especially when loading into an enclosed ( stock) trailer

I was an ironworker for 14 years and although that's hot it had nothing on working as a route driver for a food service company. Imagin driving 3 hours to your first stop, uploading a 48' trailer packed from the front to the back and driving back home. That's a long day, sometimes 14-15 hours.

We deliver mostly to Popeyes, running 12-50lb sacks of flour on a handtruck into a store wasn't very easy, but I stayed in shape.