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re: What paying job have you held in your life on which you had to work hardest physically?
Posted on 4/7/17 at 12:26 am to High C
Posted on 4/7/17 at 12:26 am to High C
UPS loading trucks 6 days a week around thanksgiving/christmas during overnight hours. People buy so much random heavy shite like tires as christmas gifts that all have to get carefully organized in the tiny arse truck on schedule. It was good money for a good company, but man that was exhausting. Slept great every afternoon
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Posted on 4/7/17 at 5:09 am to CuseTiger
Crew hand at Patterson Pipe Inspectors in Morgan City. Drifted pipe, cleaned thread protectors, and every other shite manual labor thing that needed to be done. Hot as hell, nasty work.
Posted on 4/7/17 at 5:40 am to High C
When I was 17, I worked on my friends older brothers concrete crew as a gopher who primarily used a shovel to dig out the edges of footings after the backhoe was used.
Also worked a summer at age 18 carrying 40 lb retaining walls blocks from the pallet over to the installation area. This wall was several hundred feet long and about 20 ft high in areas. About 4 weeks straight of 8-9 hour days just carrying blocks. Hell on the back and the hands. One day I had sweat river flowing into chafe canyon (aka butt raw) so bad I just quit and went home. My arse and crotch was on fire by noon and I wilted under the pain never to be seen on the job again.
Also worked a summer at age 18 carrying 40 lb retaining walls blocks from the pallet over to the installation area. This wall was several hundred feet long and about 20 ft high in areas. About 4 weeks straight of 8-9 hour days just carrying blocks. Hell on the back and the hands. One day I had sweat river flowing into chafe canyon (aka butt raw) so bad I just quit and went home. My arse and crotch was on fire by noon and I wilted under the pain never to be seen on the job again.
Posted on 4/7/17 at 5:46 am to High C
Loading hay
3400 bales, made $17.25 for the day
3400 bales, made $17.25 for the day
This post was edited on 4/7/17 at 7:17 am
Posted on 4/7/17 at 5:50 am to High C
Working as a grunt for a mason Hauling 8x8x16 blocks up a ladder with 2 in each hand
Posted on 4/7/17 at 5:52 am to Pepe Lepew
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Baling hay
Did you bail or load?
Posted on 4/7/17 at 6:55 am to High C
Loading and unloading fedex delivery trucks from 3am-8am in college. shite was awful
Posted on 4/7/17 at 6:55 am to High C
Worked at a nursery one spring. Every 18 wheeler full of plants has to be unloaded plant by plant. Five to ten gallons were my favorite.
Posted on 4/7/17 at 6:58 am to High C
Worked at Sunbelt/Tyco the summer after graduation/before college. 70 pound rolls of plastic had to be cut, boxed, and put on a pallet every 65 seconds for 12 hours. Hot arse plastic in a hot arse warehouse, in hot arse Louisiana. You didn't see any fat people in that place.
This post was edited on 4/7/17 at 6:59 am
Posted on 4/7/17 at 7:05 am to wal marks
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If you were a tech you should have had your helper carry the camera
I was a helper first, then became a tech and didn't carry shite. I haven't pushed a pill in a couple of years, now. APIs ftmfw
Posted on 4/7/17 at 7:12 am to High C
I worked for my father's construction company every summer from the time I was 8 until I was 18. He paid me under the table until I was about 14, but by far the worst was the summer when I was 15. I worked on one of his roofing crews and that meant very early morning, hauling rolls of roofing paper and bundles of shingles up ladders, laying everything down with roofing tacks and a hammer, all while I absolutely hate heights. Even though we'd knock off before the hottest point of the day, it was still hot as frick up there. The best was that, after a day of that shite, I got to make in time for afternoon summer workout for football.
I will frame, install siding, hang drywall, or paint all damn day long. Don't put me on another roof, though.
I will frame, install siding, hang drywall, or paint all damn day long. Don't put me on another roof, though.
Posted on 4/7/17 at 7:14 am to tigerinthebueche
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Did you bail or load?
That long ago it sucked no matter how it's spelled
Posted on 4/7/17 at 7:19 am to High C
welder in a ship yard.
Posted on 4/7/17 at 7:20 am to High C
Everyone saying working the hay farm is absolutely correct. Unfortunately, my grandpa was known as the hay man in Opelousas. We'd spend every summer there as kids, but not get paid CPS would be called now a days. I'd bale, stack, unload. Round bale days were a blessing.
CPS would be called now a days. I'd bale, stack, unload. Round bale days were a blessing.This post was edited on 4/7/17 at 7:47 am
Posted on 4/7/17 at 7:43 am to amherstdawg
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Bailing hay as a young teen in the blistering heat of S.C.,60-70 lb bails all day long 6 days a week through the summer.
This f**king shite! Except in south Louisiana. The worst part about the job is that you basically start in the heat of the day. The actual bailing can't start until late morning after the dew burns off the grass. So you load bales on trailers all day long and then you get to unload them into the barn that's been heating up to about 120 degrees (not exaggerating) when the sun starts going down.
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I never want to ever bail hay again.
I feel the exact same way!
Posted on 4/7/17 at 7:46 am to TigerGyp
You have me beat. Lots of shite jobs represented. They taught me plenty about real life work. Made me finish college as a result.
Posted on 4/7/17 at 7:49 am to Pepe Lepew
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Loading hay
3400 bales, made $17.25 for the day
I might have worked with you.
Posted on 4/7/17 at 7:50 am to Adam4848
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. It wasn't so much manual labor as it was to have a sweaty arse hole at 6am everyday
yep. built barges at bergeron ship yard in braithwaite. climb in a hole each morning during the summer when it was 100 degrees outside...maybe come out for lunch and back in the hole til quitting time. man, that job sucked. all for about $6 hr
This post was edited on 4/7/17 at 7:51 am
Posted on 4/7/17 at 7:52 am to High C
Construction.
Posted on 4/7/17 at 7:58 am to High C
Construction job in college. Boss was an idiot and made us work in an asbestos riddled building and didn't provide adequate ventilation. Was hot and couldn't breathe most of the time. We tried to take breaks when we needed them but he wanted us to keep going. Quit that day after working for a good amount of time. Later learned he was taking meth and his brother stole tools from other workers and the boss fled the city and took all of the money including the employee money.
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