re: What paying job have you held in your life on which you had to work hardest physically?

I worked in the outside land and garden department at Lowes while i was in school. Schlepping 40-50 lb bags of rock, sand, and mulch in the hot arse sun all day long.

Replacing a part of an oil pipeline that burst into a creek summer of June 1994 somewhere around Baker. Working a pipleline crew in general summers during undergrad

Being the lowest on the totem poll while working construction during summer in Louisiana

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Hauled watermelons in Saline LA 2 summers, it was rough out in those field, picking up watermelons and throwing to a guy in a trailer where he stacked them. When we got out of the field we then had to stand in trailer and throw them up to a guy in an 18 wheeler trailer.

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I did the same one summer. Two of us were also assigned to camp out at the field with a .410 shotgun to guard the pile of melons we had waiting for pickup.

Some guys in a van turned off their headlights and crept in. They about shite when a couple of redneck 13 year olds with a shotgun popped a light and said, "Can I help you?"

We also had a bunch of outlaw night hunters in the area. Deer like those ripe melons. Game wardens stopped by a couple of times to ask if we heard any shots.