How many people here have ever had to work really hard for a living? I mean sweat, dirt, lifting, dangerous work, every damn day!

i did industrial sand blasting and spray painting for years


i hated it

thats some hard dirty work

Me.

You have no idea what you have agreed to.

20 years in the offshore oilfield working 24/7 on call.

Things I worked in this sense:
- Quarry. Manual labor, like with an actual pickaxe, huge hammers, cutting sandstone. 2 years
- Septic tank cleaning. That's right, I used to unclog and clean human feces. About 3 years
- Don't know if you would count, but also worked in the morgue, collecting tissue and fluid samples, cutting open corpses. About 2 years also.

For the last 19 years, I've been working as a programmer. But I know what hard work is. Trust me, most wouldn't stand that.

Been a desk jockey all my life.

The sweating, lifting, welding, electrical, ditch digging stuff I do at the ranch every damn day, but that is for fun.

15+ years offloading boats of fish in Boston 6-7 days & 82-115 hours per week, I sold my vacation time every year in order to live. Now, at age 50 my body is suffering from all of that slave labor.

Yup

Cable technician here..ok..cable guy.

Work in all weather...in crawl spaces under homes and buildings often. Sweat like hell in the summer. Freeze all winter. The bonus: dealing with
A hole customers like you!!

this is why we send our children to college so they can work with their minds rather than bodies, took 5 generations to do

emigration - ditchdigger - railroad - farmland - teachers

at this point because university costs/bank loans are not very feasible anymore, some have reverted back to stage three. blue collar skilled trades such as plumbing, air conditioning, solar panel installation. less debt load for young couples to handle

once property bubble bursts, home prices will settle to more reasonable portion of income and they can make a house payment with only one partner working while other raises the children.

everyone's expectations must drop a bit, more physical labor in the future, less women in the job market so more heads of household can continue working, more stay home motherhood.

so OP, try not to be bitter about your hands on experience, its going to be more common to everyone very soon.

And then 30 years later you will start feeling the effects of that.
Then it's not that fun anymore.
Been there done that.

I have for many years of my adult life to include almost 20 years in the military with most of that time out in the field. Most people who think they work hard have no idea what hard work is like.

My back is destroyed, I’m deaf in one ear and I am constantly exhausted plus I still have to exercise a lot to pass APFT. Gotta pay for peoples’ food stamps so they can load up on soy, Doritos and soda.

As a person who truly works hard every day, I find what you're saying absolutely true. It is true in so many ways that we never even think about either. Like how does the summer solstice have anything to do with planting or harvesting crops? It doesn't, but farmers don't tend to care about archeology and archeologists are not familiar with farming so it slides.

Yep.

Nothing like house construction, or running a weed eater for 16 hours a day, or digging water lines and septic tank holes with a shovel.

Blood, sweat, and tears. All at once to make a buck to afford dinner.

Me. Lobster fisherman.
I hurt at 50. But have too keep fighting.

In the traditional martial arts of Japan, that is called misogi or ritual purification through hard work and sweat.
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That builds character especially when imparted from age 11 through your mid twenties. It's an aspect of intense exercise that any athlete will do to clear the mind.

Don't begrudge that as every warrior and especially every professional soldier thrives on it to build backbone.

If you have worked hard your whole life like me, then read this carefully.

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I have done a lot of those kinds of jobs, since I was 16. Try being an electrician on a high rise, running conduit with the iron workers, tying steel?

That was last year. And no, they didn't speak English. I had to learn Spanish on the go. In Fort Lauderdale.

What about dock building? Ever try that? That was Windermere, Orlando. Last year, as well.

And of course, all of the menial niqqer jobs that have been a main stay of my career. But I don't mind hard work, that's why I have gained the pride that I have today. Most of the time I put the other lazy good for nothings to shame. But, I ask myself, what is/was the point of it all? I spent a lot of time and money on durgs. I'm only twenty five.

I won't say what I do, but I worked with a guy who was born in Lithuania in 1942, and his family was sent to Siberia because his dad had two houses and he wouldn't sell one of them. He said of our/my work "This stuff is not easy". Ashamed to be doing it for like 25 years. There is nastier work, but it's hot in the summer, cold in the winter, dirty, noisy, fairly physical somewhat dangerous work. The pay is pretty solid average. Everybody there is old, young people don't want to do it. Except for people from south of the border. They're all legal where I work.

Right now I'm between roofing jobs (work with one other person who took a side job due to perpetual rain). I also work with concrete (pouring monday even if its raining, its not a fussy pour), and I garden/do Permaculture.

Do that through your youth and you become like the thousand folded layers of a katana.

I did for over 26 years...now retired.

Along with a good work ethic comes a take no bullshit attitude...which lead most of us here

I clean commercial pools scrubbing body oil and dirt from tiles, occasionally netting shit out, carrying over 50 lbs back and forth to pool equipment, in the florida sun and humodity. I clean diatomaceous earth filters filled with dirt dead skin cells, fecal particles, and balance a wide arrange of water chemistry.


Shower BEFORE you get into a swimming pool. Thats what the showers are there for. They are not there to clean off the pool water.

Oh and i am a mellinial trump supporter.


Do i fit your criteria? Lol

Me. I am also a woman. Father was a drunk and 2 brothers took off and we never saw them again. Had to work 10 hr days at 1st with a desk job. Didn't even take time to date I was already so tired and just buried in responsibilities. Didn't have children. Now I drive for a living, sleep in a tent (bcause i refuse to pay so much for crap apt living). Still not married, still slaving away and do whatever work I can to survive. Life is tough.

And then when they couldn't take the pain at age 45 they took the cowards route out, suicide.

Japs, cray cray people.

Pretty pretentious of you, OP.

Farming, screen printing in over 105• buildings for 20 years, remodeling and construction, milking cows-yes, they sometimes urinate on you and crap as well, tree trimming, landscaping, firewood selling, construction, midwife to myriad of animals.

So....whatever. I'm sure some people here have never gotten really dirty and sweaty with regular work every single day. But lots of people on here know what work really consists of.

Yes. But some here are just lazy wackos.

I was working a real job at 12yrs old....hired by a plumber because I could fit into undersink cabinets to install faucets, supply line, and drains....then Army...welder, fabricator, mover, building demolition/salvage, fisherman and steeplejack....

I don't mind cuz the one office job I tried damn near killed me from boredom....

They poured Mondays and Thursdays where I worked. 6 Days, 10 hrs each. Payed $13 under the table, no taxes. But also, no over time. The days leading up to the Irma I would be hating life, because yes, you must work in the rain. Completely drenched, with Cubans who would show disrespect, making me irate. I had many a fantasy on that fateful deck.

Last Edited by FriedTehBrian on 04/06/2018 01:30 PM