re: Most physically demanding job you've had?

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Landscaping. Laying sod, digging irrigation trenches, and french drains.

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Besides military, that's one of mine.

The other is when I worked in the warehouse of a company that developed formulas for new beverages one summer. Moving, sorting, and organizing sticky, sugary, and nasty 55 gallon barrels of concentrate for 10 - 12 hours a day in an unconditioned warehouse sucked something fierce. The only way my buddy/co-worker could deal with it was by smoking weed before work and during lunch pretty much every single day.

loading the dusty azzed semi trailer with freight @ DHL, from the floor to the ceiling.

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Built swimming pools for one summer in high school. Not only did I realize that I didn't want to be in that kind of work for the rest of my life, I realized the huge mark up on pools, will never own one. Most kits with material ran us around $0K, cheapest pool we did was $45k and it only took 4 days to build. Wish I would have taken pictures of the custom one we did, took 2 weeks, 3 retaining walls, lazy river, swim up bar, lights, etc... $160k. It was beautiful, but couldn't imagine spending that kind of money on a pool.

I lived in Lake Tahoe and shoveled snow all winter and was a mover in the summer where all the houses are built on the mountain and have 5 floors.

Was in great shape though.

First job out of college I was one of 5 guys that was tasked with building a frac sand plant from the ground up.Only time the company brought extra people in was on things that took a lot of welding and the electrical work. Other than that we had our hands on everything from the concrete forms and rebar to lacing up the belts on the conveyors and firing the plant up. Learned a ton of stuff in that year, running dozers, track-hoes, cranes. Learned how to weld, learned a lot about electrical systems. Actually miss that job. Least favorite part of it all was definitely tying rebar in 100+ degree heat.

I worked at a chalkboard company back when classrooms had chalkboards instead of dry-erase boards, loading them up on the back of trucks. I don't remember how much they weighed but they had to be 300 pounds, one person on each end.

Installing fire-rock (thick arse, heavy arse sheetrock) in elevator shafts. That job fing sucked arse.

Laborer for brick layers

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Shrimp Boat Capt

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You're supposed to be high on meth when you trawl for shrimp. It makes it way better