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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

I'm a lazy bastard but I'd like to think were I being paid Union money (which they are $$$$) I'd be ok with that.

Vicious bunch we have here aye lol. I never said I though I was the smartest person of the bunch. I just said out of the majority. It's not a big company there's only about 15-20 employees. But just like someone had mentioned they may not be unintelligent but the company just seems to do so many things ass backwards.

I know a lot of DSF works in the office so I just wanted to see who does labor. I do like what I'm gaining from it, despite the pain in the ass and underpayment.

Well I'm a lifeguard, so I literally get paid to sit on my ass and look at girls in bikinis all day.

Lyons you complain everyone's being harsh but you've come across as an arrogant and occosionally stupid person before honestly on here.

Understatement of the century?

SCope13 wrote:Well I'm a lifeguard, so I literally get paid to sit on my ass and look at girls in bikinis all day.

I've always wondered: could you actually save someones life or is that just to cover their &sses legally?

ketamine wrote:

SCope13 wrote:Well I'm a lifeguard, so I literally get paid to sit on my ass and look at girls in bikinis all day.

I've always wondered: could you actually save someones life or is that just to cover their &sses legally?

Certainly they can guard it, at least.

I have worked as a labourer for a few weeks and liked the graft.Pay was shite because i was young.I now work as a maintenance engineer for a manufacturing company and many times have to work harder than anyone else in the factory and often work more than 12hrs.Many people on the production lines are not to bright and not going far in life but are some of the funniest people you will ever meet.
I love working hard,i learn new things every day and am heavily relied upon to put in 110% everyday i clock in.I'm on call alllllll the time and have to wipe peoples bums on the regular.I never went to college and pretty much fucked my school life up but i wouldn't swap what i have with you lyons any day of the week.I love my job and the wedge i get paid,i get filthy as fuck every day and very rarely get a break but it's a challenge and thats what gets me out of bed everyday.
I have a mate who is a very intelligent bloke,he done 4 years on an engineering course,he got a tool making job and fucking hated it so he went and done a 5 year sound engineering/music tech course which he absolutely walked through.Long story short he's working in a call centre earning less than half of what i earn and living with his mum at 30 so go figure.

Do some roofing with my cousin during the summer. I enjoy it. At the end of the day you can look at what you've done and say "I helped build that." Much prefer it to seeing a fully stocked aisle and tesco and thinking "I helped to alert the computer system that we were running low on minced beef."

Plus I get some fresh air, exercise and a tan, which is nice.

I can imagine if you were just shifting bags of rubble about all day though it would seem pretty menial though.

frank grimes jr. wrote:

ketamine wrote:

SCope13 wrote:Well I'm a lifeguard, so I literally get paid to sit on my ass and look at girls in bikinis all day.

I've always wondered: could you actually save someones life or is that just to cover their &sses legally?

Certainly they can guard it, at least.

Yeah, a situation just never arises where I would have to save a life. The closest thing came last year when another lifeguard fell off the high-dive and hit the concrete. Bad deal.

danrev wrote:Do some roofing with my cousin during the summer. I enjoy it. At the end of the day you can look at what you've done and say "I helped build that." Much prefer it to seeing a fully stocked aisle and tesco and thinking "I helped to alert the computer system that we were running low on minced beef."

Plus I get some fresh air, exercise and a tan, which is nice.

I can imagine if you were just shifting bags of rubble about all day though it would seem pretty menial though.

Yeah man roofing is tough.

I actually enjoy my landscaping job a bit more because it is nice once your done and the yards look awesome. I'm not a huge fan of lifting boxes all day but when I'm doing it I try to view it as a work out and use proper form and such. But when I go back to school I'm an assistant manager at the school convenience store and man is that kushy lol.

Also, you said yourself it's a summer job so why do you give a fuck?

Drug paranoia would be my guess.

A feeling of undervalue in the workplace?

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Electric_Head wrote:I work in a production facility as a Mechanical Engineer.
Luckily I am not on the production lines but during strike time I have had to work on the line for extended periods doing 12 hr shifts.
2 weeks of the same process over and over and over.
Manual labor is nothing when you're in a production facility.
Trust me, your brain literally stops working and muscle memory kicks in.
We've had people loosing fingers from this sort of brain dead activities.
Important to the larger picture but seriously mundane.

you pretty much described my job right there. put metal in machine, press button, take metal out of machine, measure, repeat for 8 hours. good money though.

however i'm studying mech eng so i'm hoping to end up in the same position as you are now

in most jobs all these things happen labor or office or retail

honestly i've enjoyed my laborer jobs more than my say retail/sales/office/or management
sometimes it's nice to just shut off your brain and not have to think so you don't have stress at work and can actually relax when you get off instead of needing to wind down

i lead a line of cooks for 50+ hours a week... its a lot of fun to create with your hands and work hard with a good team, but I can't wait until school is finished and I can work more with my mind and less with my muscles

danrev wrote:At the end of the day you can look at what you've done and say "I helped build that." Much prefer it to seeing a fully stocked aisle and tesco and thinking "I helped to alert the computer system that we were running low on minced beef."

I fucking LOL'd

fractal wrote:i lead a line of cooks for 50+ hours a week... its a lot of fun to create with your hands and work hard with a good team, but I can't wait until school is finished and I can work more with my mind and less with my muscles

I am going in the exact opposite direction.

Been doing Data analysis and Software testing the better part of 15yrs and now I am transitioning to kitchen work. I love the rush of the kitchen and that it is so focussed.

It frees up my thinking time so that I can apply it to things I really want to work on (music/art/writing/etc.) Working a mentally heavy job often left me fatigued when I tried to think about anything pleasurable in my free time. My free time became simply a pause in the never ending cycle of working to make other people wealthy.

The $$$ was/is good but the quality of life was shit to be honest. Work Life balance as the cliche goes.