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Hardest job in 19th and early 20th centuries America?
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:14 pm
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:14 pm
What is the one job you would not want?
A few come to mind such as Sewage or Slave Laborer, but I would not want to be a Coal Miner.
A few come to mind such as Sewage or Slave Laborer, but I would not want to be a Coal Miner.
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Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:16 pm to BuckI
Teacher and nurse
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:18 pm to BuckI
Street scooper
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:20 pm to BuckI
Coal miner
Edit…according to AI
Pure Finders: Workers collected dog feces from the streets of 18th- and 19th-century cities, dissolving it in water to create a foul-smelling mixture called "pure" that tanneries used to soften and purify leather.
Edit…according to AI
Pure Finders: Workers collected dog feces from the streets of 18th- and 19th-century cities, dissolving it in water to create a foul-smelling mixture called "pure" that tanneries used to soften and purify leather.
This post was edited on 8/31/26 at 5:24 pm
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:21 pm to BuckI
When I was a young buck I laid sod, did carpentry work, worked in a beef packing plant but the most physically demanding job I ever did was working on a railroad sled gang in the early 1980's in +100 degree weather. I saw several people with heat exhaustion and nausea, they were carried off by other rail workers to some shade and water. One time we had a dude go down with heat stroke and paramedics took him away in a cooling jacket trying to get his temperature down.
This post was edited on 8/31/26 at 5:22 pm
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:23 pm to BuckI
Being part of Headly Lamarr’s crew
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:24 pm to BuckI
People don’t talk enough about how hard life was working in textile mills.
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:26 pm to Bass Tiger
My dad and uncle were railroad engineers, and both said the gangs replacing track were some of the toughest.
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:26 pm to BuckI
I helped install duct work in an old house one summer. The entire thing was fat lightered. Hottest fricking place ive ever been
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:28 pm to weagle1999
quote:couldnt have been that tough
People don’t talk enough about how hard life was working in textile mills.
even a child could do it
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:29 pm to weagle1999
quote:
People don’t talk enough about how hard life was working in textile mills.
Prior to the 1990' before heavy automation, beef packing plants were pretty tough place to work. Lugging quarters of beef for 8 hours (weighing upwards of 300 lbs) was a mother fricker.
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:33 pm to BuckI
quote:
My dad and uncle were railroad engineers, and both said the gangs replacing track were some of the toughest.
Quite a few of the dudes I worked with in and around the KC area would head down to the oil fields in OK and TX when the railroad furloughed the gangs for the winter.......absolute gluttons for punishment and most would out party any young person today. Get off work between 5-7PM, get a shower, something to eat, hit the local roadhouse, strip bar, etc. until 1-2AM then get back up around 6:30 AM and be back on the tracks by 7:30 AM.
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:34 pm to BuckI
Trying to kill Teddy Roosevelt was the hardest job.
Posted on 8/31/26 at 5:34 pm to BuckI
Being from coal mining country, coal mining is my answer.
Black lung took my grandfather.
Black lung took my grandfather.
This post was edited on 8/31/26 at 5:36 pm
Posted on 8/31/26 at 6:17 pm to roadGator
quote:Took my grandfather and his brothers. Also took his father.
Being from coal mining country, coal mining is my answer.
Black lung took my grandfather.
Posted on 8/31/26 at 7:32 pm to Bass Tiger
quote:
working on a railroad sled gang in the early 1980's in +100 degree weather. I saw several people with heat exhaustion and nausea, they were carried off by other rail workers to some shade and water. One time we had a dude go down with heat stroke and paramedics took him away in a cooling jacket trying to get his temperature down.
Posted on 8/31/26 at 7:38 pm to Bass Tiger
quote:
beef packing plants were pretty tough place to work.
This is where Jurgus Rudkus starts out working in The Jungle. Lots of guys were missing fingers.
I think the worst job in that book was the fertilizer plant though. Between the smell & the heat it sounded like hell on earth
Posted on 8/31/26 at 7:40 pm to BuckI
Coal mine for sure
But I’m sure glad I didn’t have to load square bales more than a few days at a time in summer
But I’m sure glad I didn’t have to load square bales more than a few days at a time in summer
Posted on 8/31/26 at 7:42 pm to BuckI
Dog dewormer
Laxative tester
Horse inseminator
Laxative tester
Horse inseminator
Posted on 8/31/26 at 7:45 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
According to to Tik Toc it is stay at home mom... That is more hazardous and stressful than crab fishing and coal mining.
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