Hardest Work?

[calais_304]

what's the hardest work ppl in JC land have had to do for a dollar?

mine are: spud picking, turf laying and concreting but spud picking takes the cake, i have huge respect for anyone that can do this full time for a week ut at gatton.

[Bax]

Hardest work that I've ever done.. Putting up tents as a contractor for the singaporian army. Thousands of tents, rock hard ground in the sun, early starts and long days.

That'd be about it though, apart from that I've got cushy jobs.

[minux]

Spending 3 months in East Timor as a frontline soldier. Followed closely by Jungle warfare training at Tully

[Tree cutter]

I did spud digging as well,and we had to load trucks with 50Kg bags of spuds which we had to carry on our own and stack up head high. I also did rock picking, timber stacking and tyre fitting mainly on trucks and heavy industrial equipment.

[crazyspoon05]

I did 2 days (getting to work at 5am in the morning) at a concreting place that made reinforced beams for buildings, etc

Never worked that hard physically again although working in a busy bar (MCG Hotel during footy season for example) can be pretty hard work as well but nothing compared to a lot of the physical lifting jobs out there

[-UNKNOWN-]

Unloading and loading shipping containers/pallet stacking. Mainly 8kg boxes and 25kg bags. 8kg might not sound that heavy but when you get half way through the container they feel about 16kg and towards the end your arms feel like dropin off. The 25kg bags were the worst though. Also you couldnt slow down coz the pay was per container and not an hourly rate hence not working there for long!

[Pretender]

Erecting farm fencing. Very heavy lifting involved (90+kg strainer posts), 12 hours a day, digging holes by hand, rock breaking etc
I worked out in one day I lifted and moved 4800kg of timber, that was on just an average day I took note.

Next was a stock feed mill. Heavy lifting again (40 - 60kg up ladders) not to the same degree but in a tin shed in summer it was unbearable. In winter the temp was around 30 degrees in the mill so I wouldn't want to guess what it was in summer.
10 minutes into work you were coated with grain dust so it felt like you had a full body suit on. They worked me very hard and when I left it was funny to discover that they had to employ three people to cover my workload.
My Supervisor told the boss to pay me more to make me stay but they didn't.
Saw the Boss about two years later and he pleaded with me to return on a higher pay. I didn't.

[J_D]

I started off in a wrecking yard. I tell you what im glad I got out of that job. I hated having to get something off a car in the hot sun on a 45 degree day for a customer thats waiting.

[Doubleshadow]

War games in Graffenwohr, Germany with an field artillary unit. Lugging 50 kg projectiles and sucking dust from all hours of the night and waking up to a greasy looking sargeant screaming in your face. And this was winter maneuvers, it was so cold, even your imaginary friends froze. You can see where it is on Google Earth.

[pandaman]

Unloading and loading shipping containers/pallet stacking. Mainly 8kg boxes and 25kg bags. 8kg might not sound that heavy but when you get half way through the container they feel about 16kg and towards the end your arms feel like dropin off. The 25kg bags were the worst though. Also you couldnt slow down coz the pay was per container and not an hourly rate hence not working there for long!

Hahaha, shipping containers suck. Nothing beats getting into work at 6AM to be faced with a 40ft hi-cube full of 4WD tyres. Except perhaps getting into work at 6AM and finding that the aforementioned container is in fact full of little bitch tyres. You can get over 1500 of the damned things in a 40 footer!

[GLD-086]

Plumbing.

I had to dig a trench, in 40 degree heat and do all kind of shitty helping work.

My first day I got up at about 5.30am and took the 45 minute drive to work and didn't get home, until 7 that night.

For my next job, I want to do something a little less physical.

[CHANDLC]

Jumbo line casting 12hrs shifts

[Patrio7]

retail over the counter support. physically, its nothing, mentally ZOMG!

[VNCalais98K]

Worst job i had was produce farm.
Worked in packing shed stacking pallets with boxes of carrots and potatoes.
The boxes of carrots were 20Kg and the sack of potatoes were about 16 or 20kg and you would stack them about 6 foot high on a pallet for 8 hours a day, doing about a box every 15 secs at the end of a sorting machine.
My lower back aches just thinking about it... i tell ya doing that for 40 years would do some serious damage.
I did a 64 hour week once... nearly died.
After that i decided cushy jobs were for me... Department store, bank and lastly insurance call centre.

[VT-565]

Cutting and humping(don't laugh) 100+kg bunches of bananas in the pouring rain.
Also, for sh*ts and giggles, try stickpicking for a week. You'll feel muscles you never knew existed.

[Outlaw Torn]

have to be my current job....beekeeping. Coming up to the worst part of the season, harvesting. Out around beehives in the middle of the day, wearing jeans, jumper, 2 pairs of overalls and Veil for 8 hrs a day.
Then mother nature decides to be a bitch and send forth the bees, ass first.

Saphron picking would be next.
IMHO, fencing is a favourite, i dont know why, i just like doing it.

[smokey_dj]

anyone doing any picking of any kind i will salute its ###d

i did cherry picking and berries at this one farm as a lead up till christmas NEVER AGAIN apart from the no escaping the sun (even with cream on getting burnt) and the down low one min on the tree then up high the next and the pay rate just no way will i do it again

we were also picking thorned raspberries i didnt even know they existed i kept getting in shit cause i moved to the non thorned :P

then there was leaflet drops ok not bad pay 1000 = $50 cash but only near christmas as well scorching days or freezing rain eeep

then some of the areas you do ahhhrrrggg no place for a 16 yr old (back then) my mate came with me and he got mugged for his shoes in st albans bahahaha


and the job that well and truely took the cake bakery and the nexzt 6 shops either side was at PATONS maccadamia (cant spell today) factory

first hour was easy sorting nuts then i get called over to "mix the toffee mm yumm your all thinking im sure but let me ask you this how long do you think a 6ft 3 75kgs caucasion male can mix.....

2000 ltrs of toofee

at 300+ degrees celcius

mixing in 5kgs of nuts every 30 seconds

expected to mix at about 200 then 5 mins at 400 then 200 again RPM

answer = NOT ###N LONG

i left within 20 mins of mixing thats a job for 3 maoris at once not a lil guy like me the guy who tought me was a massive islander and said why the ### did they put you in here for but my boss disagreed she thought anyone could do it and i was just sooking

[VNCalais98K]

Haha... always love the people up top who have never worked a day in their lives telling you how to do a shitkicker job... haha.

[smokey_dj]

hahaah i made her try then gave her more than an earfull walking out the door

good thing was there my supervisor (unknown to my boss) was a ghood mates mum from bowling

[Sabbath']

Would have to be for me cabling.

Running in CAT5 cabling through ceilings. Its a fun job i can tell you. The amount of dust up there is unbelieveable. Not to mention that during winter, you're already sweating from lugging the cable rolls up 5 flights of stairs then in the roof, heating vents are ripped so the lazy employee's have the room downstairs heated to 25, but in the ceiling its nudging close to 35 (checked with thermometer) Contorting around water pipes, ceiling hangers, exposed power cables for 8 hours...you sweat and the dust sticks to you and by the end of the day, when you've run in 100+ cables you've ended going up and down the ladder 3 times as many times to reposition it.


Next hardest just for the pure stress factor is running in Fibre Optics....cant bend the stuff. I remember one saturday was doing a 10 storey run, boss was pulling the cable from riser to riser. But it wasnt just 1 Fibre, it was
1 Fibre
1 100 Pair
2 Cat 5
2 Cat 6

And it does what it wants, and i didnt feel like having to explain why we'd have to start again


Oh...and tag telephone frames give you a nice electric shock when somebody rings a line and you happen to be brushing past it...or my favourite stupid thing i did...put a 50 pair cable end in my teeth to hold it, while i was tying other cables on..forgetting it was already hooked up, so i got 50 shocks on my tongue....like putting a battery on, but worse

[Tom04]

HELPING (not payed) my uncle fencing for 2 weeks with the temp ranging from 37c to 43 the summer just gone. had to dig all the holes about 75cm deep in solid ground. wouldnt believe how heavy the crow bar felt at the end of each day.

ah iv done olive picking about 2 years ago in about 36C with flys goin up my nose and down my throat all day and and crawling all over my legs.

[HoldenGirl89]

I worked with my dad whos an office cleaner i didnt get paid and i had to clean bins and toilets it was so horrible.
Now i work with my mum at an insurance company doing computer work...fun fun fun

[BANGERS88]

yeah did fruit picking for a bit which is an absolute biatch.Fencing is a shocker i dont rate that at all . I did a bit of tree surgery work too for a while and was going to do it for a career. Lots of hauling your-self up trees on a harness.
After all that im now at uni and the hardest thing there is the .