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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 7:00 pm to TheIndulger
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:00 pm to TheIndulger
I did it for 2 summers in college. Great money but the job was 12-18 hour days every day. We did a lot of load and unload in a day moves so depending on how far away the place was, the day became twice as long. Plus it was hot as hell. Again, I made about $4-5k a summer which is a lot for a college kid but I worked hard for it.
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Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:00 pm to High C
I got my first job when I was 9. Worked at a sheet metal factory. In two weeks, I was running the floor.
Child labor laws are ruining this country.
Child labor laws are ruining this country.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:00 pm to mikrit54
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Cobalt 60,
No thank you
I used ir-192 mostly. Some se-75... I inspected Nucor when it was being built.Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:00 pm to High C
When I was 14 I was the labor for a guy building a sand bag bulkhead in Walden. I was pushing a wheelbarrow all day for $5 an hour
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:01 pm to High C
Back in the 70s, worked turnarounds in plants along the Mississippi River, would remove and replace and recondition industrial furnaces
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:02 pm to High C
Advanced rigger on an oil rig.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:03 pm to FLBooGoTigs1
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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.
Pretty much how it was when I worked for the Cats
Work all day, game would start at 7 and we spent the next 3 hours drinking and eating until the game was over. Then we'd clean up the field, repair home plate and the mounds and be back the next morning at 8:30 to do it all over again
Those 3 hours of drinking during games was some of the most fun I have had. One night we killed a snake with a hatchet
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:03 pm to PaperPaintball92
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Advanced rigger on an oil rig.
Non advanced riggers have a harder job?
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:04 pm to High C
Hauling hay. Square bales. $3 per DAY! At the time it didn't seem that hard.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:04 pm to High C
Worked in a tool warehouse loading trucks with boxes of assorted tools for delivery.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:05 pm to High C
Supervisor for the glory holes at the Flying J.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:10 pm to High C
I worked as a residential counselor in a group home facility for children aged 4-18. The houses on campus varied from PRTFs (locked psych units) to group homes where kids were mainstreamed in regular schools and such. Half of the week I worked in the intensive, locked units. In those units it wasn't uncommon to have to restrain kids multiple times a day because they were a harm to the others or themselves. It was physically taxing as well as emotional.
I put in my two weeks when one of the guys I worked on the high school unit with got his jaw broken by a kid who went from 0 to 60 in just a few seconds.
I put in my two weeks when one of the guys I worked on the high school unit with got his jaw broken by a kid who went from 0 to 60 in just a few seconds.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:11 pm to High C
Oil field drilling rental tools
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:13 pm to High C
Crawfishing. (Currently doing it but did it all my life. Thousand plus cages a day catching a thousand plus pounds of crawfish. Manhandling that many sacks gets you in shape.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:16 pm to High C
Scaffold builder at sasol or concrete former at LNG.
Both sucked arse. Good money for me. I was 19.
Both sucked arse. Good money for me. I was 19.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:18 pm to High C
Working in a nuts and bolts warehouse packing and moving crates.... In the summer... In new Orleans. Crew was fun as hell tho
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:19 pm to High C
My old man built us a new house when I was 13 or 14. Contracted the whole thing himself and cut corners by using my brother and I for all clean up work. He had us out there every weekend cleaning up, moving bricks, in the attic wiring telephone, speakers etc. Our payment was that we got to sleep inside once my folks moved in.
Probably saved him 10s of thousands of dollars. He's a smart guy.
Probably saved him 10s of thousands of dollars. He's a smart guy.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:21 pm to Topwater Trout
Had a job when I was 17 working in Palm Springs, CA. I delivered supplies to my uncle's business. I was transporting this 3000.00 sliding mirror door. Well when I was moving it I dropped the box I said Oh frick (exact words). I peaked into the box it was shattered. I went all Breaking Bad. I drove out to the middle of the desert, dug a hole, and buried it.
I returned to the warehouse and grabbed another mirror. I quit that job 2 weeks later. True story
I returned to the warehouse and grabbed another mirror. I quit that job 2 weeks later. True story
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:27 pm to High C
Building forms for bridge construction.
Posted on 4/6/17 at 7:28 pm to High C
I was a construction laborer for a summer.
I learned the blue collar life was definitely not for me.
I learned the blue collar life was definitely not for me.
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