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re: What paying job have you held in your life on which you had to work hardest physically?
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:47 pm to High C
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:47 pm to High C
Two summers in high school, I worked for a brick mason company.
The first was mostly residential, so it wasnt that bad.
The second was spent building a local highschool. Basically toting cinder blocks/CMUs and wheelbarrows of mud all day long. I was definitely happy to for school to start back. On the bright side, it put the swollness into my arms and shoulders.
The first was mostly residential, so it wasnt that bad.
The second was spent building a local highschool. Basically toting cinder blocks/CMUs and wheelbarrows of mud all day long. I was definitely happy to for school to start back. On the bright side, it put the swollness into my arms and shoulders.
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Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:48 pm to DuckManiak
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Nucor?
I wish. Bayou Steel. We used radioactive sources in casting. Cobalt 60, I believe. The lead canisters were a heavy bitch.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:49 pm to High C
Worked at a produce stand one summer. Overall it wasn't bad, but when the water melon 18 wheeler showed up, it totally sucked. Throwing several hundred of those bitches down an assembly line would just wear my arse out. The 5:30 wake up calls all summer sucked too.
First few summers at a golf course weren't fun either as it involved a shite load of weedeating and digging up broken water lines in shite.
As much as I hated those jobs I would do those all day long over having to be some bull shite telemarketing clerk. That had to be the worst job ever
First few summers at a golf course weren't fun either as it involved a shite load of weedeating and digging up broken water lines in shite.
As much as I hated those jobs I would do those all day long over having to be some bull shite telemarketing clerk. That had to be the worst job ever
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:49 pm to Rebel
Thankfully I've never had to bale hay but I've had to store it in a lot of barns.
Unpaid, of course.
Unpaid, of course.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:49 pm to High C
I used to help my dad and uncles build houses. And, I worked in industrial chicken houses for my grandpa, from the time I could walk till I graduated high school.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:50 pm to Salmon
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I worked for a roofing crew when I was in HS one summer.
I was the bitch boy that hauled the pack of shingles up the ladders all day. A pack of shingles weighs about 50 lbs.
By the end of the summer I could do 2 at a time.
I worked as a roofer on summer in college. We worked on a few of the tile roofed buildings on the LSU campus. Those tiles are heavy too. It was tough work, particularly in the summer heat. Great times though.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:52 pm to Givens
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had to pick up square bales of hay in the field, which is absolutely miserable.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:53 pm to Aspercel
I found out recently about those bales of hay. Those are some heavy son's of bitch because they are so damn wide. Needless to say I won't be heading over to my gf's nieces barn again even if BBQ is invoved. 
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:53 pm to TheIndulger
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I worked for a moving company one summer. I remember one stretch of moving furniture 40 hours in 3 days. That can wear you out pretty good
I moved for three years in college.
One was primarily moving offices. When we had a big cubical job it would 7-7+ No lunch for a few weeks.
The worst part of that wasn't the toll physically but just how miserable it is to take down a cubicle and put it back togeather.
This post was edited on 4/6/17 at 6:55 pm
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:54 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
Yeah.
Us horse people are a hard working group
Us horse people are a hard working group
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:54 pm to notiger1997
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As much as I hated those jobs I would do those all day long over having to be some bull shite telemarketing clerk. That had to be the worst job ever
Agree
Manual labor can be fun in the right conditions
In summers when I was in college I worked on the grounds crew for the Fort Worth Cats. Had a blast despite being there all day long 6-7 days a week and doing manual labor shite like mowing, weed eating, weed spraying, wasp nest destroying, painting, power washing, cleaning trash cans, chopping down trees, branch trimming, mound building, raking, and watering the infield a dozen times a day. Worst was the day after 4th of July where I had to walk the entire field and pick up all the firework fragments. shite took like 5 hours in the 100+ degree heat.
What made it fun was I had an awesome boss and games were fun. We just sat behind centerfield and drank/ate until the game was over. One game we heckled a team so bad that one of their players melted. A JUCO tourney was played for a week and we got drunk and heckled all of the JUCO teams. Was hilarious.
Those summers were awesome. Team doesn't exist anymore
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:55 pm to High C
Summer after high school I turned giant deewater pipe for a pipe coating company. Worked 6am-6pm.
The coating had just been baked on so the pipes were hundreds of degrees and we'd have to spray paint a stenciled serial number on the INSIDE of the steaming hot pipe.
So we'd have to turn the pipe with these huge wrenches onto the loading rack (a hundred feet or so from the oven), stick our upper body into the incredibly hot pipe then spray paint the serial number on the inside of the pipe, then go back and do it all over again.
Did this for 12 hours a day with ex cons and Mexicans for the summer before my freshman year. Made $10 an hour. Made me realize the importance of a college education.
The coating had just been baked on so the pipes were hundreds of degrees and we'd have to spray paint a stenciled serial number on the INSIDE of the steaming hot pipe.
So we'd have to turn the pipe with these huge wrenches onto the loading rack (a hundred feet or so from the oven), stick our upper body into the incredibly hot pipe then spray paint the serial number on the inside of the pipe, then go back and do it all over again.
Did this for 12 hours a day with ex cons and Mexicans for the summer before my freshman year. Made $10 an hour. Made me realize the importance of a college education.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:57 pm to Aspercel
Yep I have a new respect for all the horse and barn peeps in here now. While I was helping to stack those bales of hay all I was thinking about was getting the fuq out of there. Lol
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:58 pm to High C
The worst 3 days of work is when I helped my Dad replace floor joist on an old house.
The house wasn't high enough off the ground for us to move around so I had to go first and dig trenches. Have y'all ever dug trenches under a house while on your belly? It isn't exactly fun.
My Dad paid me $1500 for those 3 days and I thought I was rich as frick
The house wasn't high enough off the ground for us to move around so I had to go first and dig trenches. Have y'all ever dug trenches under a house while on your belly? It isn't exactly fun.
My Dad paid me $1500 for those 3 days and I thought I was rich as frick
This post was edited on 4/6/17 at 6:59 pm
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:58 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
Most of us are not the rich hand of the horse to the groom type.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:59 pm to High C
Also baled hay in high school, probably second hardest to that was clearing fence lines with a sling blade, all day, every day until it was done. The "old man" would bring me lunch of a bologna sandwich and a soft drink to where ever I was at the time. On a good day he would hang around long enough for me to eat in the truck cab in the shade.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:59 pm to High C
My first job easily. I was a boiler boy for salvos seafood in belle chasse
Posted on 4/6/17 at 6:59 pm to High C
Second toughest summer would probably be the summer I went to work for this widow on a farm. Wheat fields as far as I could see. Both needing something from each other. Not knowing yet what that might be. But she came to me one evening. Warm cup of coffee and a smile. But that's neither here nor there
It was a tough job. And every time I pass a wheat field and watch it dancing with the wind, although I know it isn't real, I just can't help but feel her hungry arms again
It was a tough job. And every time I pass a wheat field and watch it dancing with the wind, although I know it isn't real, I just can't help but feel her hungry arms again
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:00 pm to High C
I've only ever had one job, so it's my current one.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:00 pm to goldennugget
Manual labor for me always involved finishing the day with alcohol. I helped a good friend run his lawn care business while I was in college. He payed me cash and always had a 12 pack at the end of the workday.
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