who here is a laborer?

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:34 am

Eat Bass wrote:i feel i have gotten noticeably stronger as well as a bit more used to waking up early.

Strength is under-rated as are persistence & resilience. Waking up early leads to some great experiences. I'm betting your life will have been advantaged by your having laboured. Mind, it's a pity that you had such a boring labouring job. Now builders labourer, that's a job with its lessons. Lots of practical skills & capacities involved too. I remember electrocuting myself a few times before I worked out how to use an arc welder on reo. Always knew how to use barrows but formwork, scaffolding and concreting need a bit of know-how. That has served me well. Everbody, yes everybody, would benefit from earning a crust labouring at some stage.

But currently no, I'm not a labourer, so I shouldn't be spouting off until I am again.

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:37 am

nowaysj wrote:
Electric_Head wrote:Damn right.
Lots of unintelligent people in this thread imo.

Yes YOU!!!!

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:38 am

wub wrote:
Eat Bass wrote:im probably more intelligent than the majority of the employees there and in the offices
Anyone who thinks that never actually is.

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:38 am

wub · Post by **wub** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:41 am

nowaysj wrote:
wub wrote:
Eat Bass wrote:im probably more intelligent than the majority of the employees there and in the offices
Anyone who thinks that never actually is.

This picture proves nothing. Einstein worked as a patent clerk...does that mean he spent the days actively wandering around grumbling under his beard that he was better than all of this and he was working on big tings and someday they'd all see! etc etc, or did he just quietly get on and do his thing?

Being the smartest person in the room and thinking you're the smartest person in the room are different things entirely.

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:43 am

for sure

edit: but what's that gotta do with labouring
like shovelling sand all day or mixing mud
or cleaning up shit, loading bins & dumpsters
digging holes, breaking up a rock face
love the lack of thought involved

nowaysj · Post by **nowaysj** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:44 am

Pretty sure he was like these chumps couldn't reason their way out of a toilet paper roll. Einstein was a dick, yo.

phrex · Post by **phrex** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:27 am

Eat Bass wrote: yeah its so true. i was a bit pissed off being talked down upon when im probably more intelligent than the majority of the employees there and in the offices. but hey its not something i plan on sticking with so it wont get under my skin too bad.

you sound like the biggest smartass fucktard.

Kodachrome · Post by **Kodachrome** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:31 am

nandos doe innit m8?

Electric_Head · Post by **Electric_Head** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:34 am

They told me to turn the chicken 3 times I said fuck you baby and turned them 4 times.

phrex · Post by **phrex** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:47 am

hey lyons. aren't you the over-intelligent guy who almost got expelled for possession with intent to supply? in a very stupid way too...
unfortunatly i can't find the thread anymore.

But anyway. can we all just agree about the fact that lyons is an arrogant smartass with no or little brain capacity?

Shane Says · Post by **Shane Says** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:45 am

Eat Bass wrote:
Shane Says wrote:In construction, the new guy never gets taken seriously. Laborers get paid from the neck down until you make foremen.
yeah its so true. i was a bit pissed off being talked down upon when im probably more intelligent than the majority of the employees there and in the offices. but hey its not something i plan on sticking with so it wont get under my skin too bad.

I work in construction as an overpaid inspector, to put it simply but it's definitely a lot more than that. (Technically I'm a geotechnical engineer working in the field) So I get to deal with construction workers of all types. You may find their reasoning flawed in some ways but you never know what subject these guys are more knowledgeable than you. I've definitely have learned a lot of means and methods of building just about anything. I am amazed at some of the stuff they know how to do. And yes there are times that I am amazed at some of the stuff they don't know how to do. But a lot of them didn't finish high school. Doesn't mean that you are any smarter than them. They just may know more about something else than you do.

But then there are the functional drunks, addicts, and general dumbasses that seem to escape Darwin's theory. Yeah those guys work in construction too.

hasezwei · Post by **hasezwei** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:33 am

most people are intelligent, they've found their niche and have adapted to that.
it's the people who go on about how clever they are but cant get anything done that are the true idiots.

Terpit · Post by **Terpit** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:36 am

hasezwei wrote:most people are intelligent, they've found their niche and have adapted to that.
it's the people who go on about how clever they are but cant get anything done that are the true idiots.

Having said that, only inbred villagers get into construction anyway

BLAHBLAHJAH · Post by **BLAHBLAHJAH** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:15 pm

2 fucking p's worth
Barely worth a wnak

tl;dr

frank grimes jr. · Post by **frank grimes jr.** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:22 pm

I wouldn't hire lyons to eat a dick, nevermind unpack a truck.

DRTY · Post by **DRTY** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:29 pm

I'm a Plasterer's Labourer/Improver.

Labouring is a good job (so long as it's for a trade and not just a site donkey), sure you start on £40-£60 a day, but in under 2 years you could be earning £120-£150 a day if you're taking on your own jobs.

Today · Post by **Today** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:39 pm

its good for you. and its doing exactly what it should if it's teaching you to work hard in school in order to better your career opportunities
But everyone (who's able bodied) ought to do that kind of shit at least once in their life
You may think you're more clever or book smart than the rest of 'em but the rest of the guys have been unloading trucks or installing sinks or whatever for longer than you, and there's plenty to be said for that experience.
You can be smart as anyone but there's no accounting for experience and having made stupid mistakes, learning what not to do, how to lift without hurting yourself, and they learn endurance, character and perseverance

I don't do labour anymore but I've done framework, painting, and plastering as well as gardening/landscaping

and a short stint on a farm picking veggies with a bunch of Mexicans upstate before i moved back to the island

kidshuffle · Post by **kidshuffle** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:26 pm

frank grimes jr. wrote:I wouldn't hire lyons to eat a dick, nevermind unpack a truck.

Sheff · Post by **Sheff** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:45 pm

Shane Says wrote:In construction, the new guy never gets taken seriously. Laborers get paid from the neck down until you make foremen.

yep, its not unusual to go 12 hours without a break in construction either

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