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    Default Who, on IA, actually works hard as hell...

    As in manual labor. Who all works outside and has to really get on the grind? I'm talking like construction workers(full-time, not just when you can), road workers, people that have to work in the weather..good or bad. I do. I deal with about 5,000 cases of beer per week. I work in the rain, the 100 degrees, the snow and ice, the 0 degrees, all of it. 5,000 cases of beer is a lot of stress on your body. Julio sees it daily, he knows what I do. The good thing is, though, is that I don't have a set time to get off work. I get off as soon as I'm done with my truck. I start at around 7am and each day I manage to get done and off around 12:30-1pm. Not too shabby.

    Who else works this hard? Just curious. Later, QD.
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    I worked in a warehouse job for years until I started my new office job a month ago, and ya know what, I DONT MISS A DAMN DAY OF IT
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    Quote Originally Posted by quickdodgeŽ
    As in manual labor. Who all works outside and has to really get on the grind? I'm talking like construction workers(full-time, not just when you can), road workers, people that have to work in the weather..good or bad. I do. I deal with about 5,000 cases of beer per week. I work in the rain, the 100 degrees, the snow and ice, the 0 degrees, all of it. 5,000 cases of beer is a lot of stress on your body. Julio sees it daily, he knows what I do. The good thing is, though, is that I don't have a set time to get off work. I get off as soon as I'm done with my truck. I start at around 7am and each day I manage to get done and off around 12:30-1pm. Not too shabby.

    Who else works this hard? Just curious. Later, QD.

    I dont think working hard necessarily means that it has to be with hard labor.,... i work my ass off every single day.... mine is more mental than physical

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    Yea, Thats hard work right there.... What I like about that job though is if you have a good, quick, smart partner in that job Is a great gig. Be done quick .. A few hours of work like that everyday is not bad though.

    I really feel it for the people who work outside with this weather for 12 to 14 hours a day.. fuck that shit.

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    well, i do landscaping for post apartments during the summer and winter breaks, so yea, no matter the weather i worked, if that counts

    winter kinda sucked too, i mean, u know its pretty cold when ur chin starts goin numb

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    i dont work outside but do labor i work in a warehouse building, sanding, travel to install them sometimes cabniets, desk, all the shit in kitchens and shit...its a lot of work and early as shit 6am to about 230 or so i have to be there at 6 tomm but only till 12 on sat so not to bad. its labor and hot as hell but not outside
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    i work my ass off with snotty mother fucking east cobb people who think you should stop what your doing and help them as soon as they get there. FUCK THEM!
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    I work in a warehouse AND sort mail and take it to different places in Rain,Sleet or Snow, heat, deer, snakes..

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    the other day i worked from 8 am to 4 am the next morning in the baking heat setting up concert equipment and i do that about 4 or 5 times a month and that is crazy hard work...we go through about 5 gallons of water a day between a 10 man crew....it's the hardest work i have ever been through...but every day of the work week all i do is ride around and load and unload tires so it's not too bad

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff
    the other day i worked from 8 am to 4 am the next morning in the baking heat setting up concert equipment and i do that about 4 or 5 times a month and that is crazy hard work...we go through about 5 gallons of water a day between a 10 man crew....it's the hardest work i have ever been through...but every day of the work week all i do is ride around and load and unload tires so it's not too bad

    thats it? only 5 gallons? Doesnt sound like alot.

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    lol well i am horrible with #'s...like i will tell you i live a mile from the bp and i am actually only 100 yards...i have a bad judge of time and disance....i guess each time we fill the big orange jug that's about what 6 gallons plus a ton of ice and we refill it twice a day....so maybe 12 gallons and that's 12 gallons in 9 or 10 hours....on a 21 hour day we prolly do 18 gallons or more.....plus gatorades and whatever they buy us to drink with out lunch....but yea i never realized how much goes into setting up a concert till this job...now when i see a concert i'm just like good lord that prolly took forever

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leisa
    I dont think working hard necessarily means that it has to be with hard labor.,... i work my ass off every single day.... mine is more mental than physical
    That's why I asked about manual, physical labor. I know a job is a job anywhere. But I've had office jobs(and love it) and compared to physically getting out, dealing with the weather, it is much easier to handle. Yea, I didn't mean to imply that no one works hard unless they're outside. Ya dig? Lolol. Later, QD.
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    ive worked on boilers which is too damn hot and strenuous, worked in a machine shop which was cool as fuck but i quit to become an electrician... which i currently am but now im going to school to become ase certified... and so that meens im not going to be an electrician anymore....

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    well i may not have that much of a hard job but i know my father does. He works in a place where in the winter that can;t have the heat on and during the summer their not allowed to have a/c due to the glue that they use on their products. i went in there once during the summer and it felt like it was 150 degrees in there, and lately he's been working 7 dayz a week.

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    I know what ya'll mean. The other day is was pouring rain here in Korea and i was outside, soaking wet, just working on a truck that was stuck in a ditch. But thats my job so its no big deal. I don't think i could handle an office job to well. I need to get out and do something.

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    i am a warehouse manager for an electronics company, and yes a actaullty do manaul labor

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    I get paid to QA projects and create/maintain video game servers all day.

    Which often breaks down to me just playing Battlefield 2 for 6 hours.
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    I teach karate...talk about punishment on your body.

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    I click shit on a computer and talk on the phone. And wear a tie. Except for tomorrow. Which is country club casual day.

    But I used to do air conditioning shit liking ripping out ducts and air handlers. My skinny ass on a ladder 15 feet in the air with a sawzall cutting down duct all wobbling and shit. God that job was scary.

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    ima porn star.. so you could say i work "hard" lol
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    Worked in a carpet warehouse for two years. Now for the last three years I have been setting up tents for outdoor events. Its hella hard. Some weeks, I may work 30 hours, but there have been several 80-90 hours weeks. Most are around 40-50 though.

    Our widest tent is 60'. Each section of tent is 60x30, so you have to lace together pieces of 60' wide tent to actually make a tent. So say if we do a 3 piece 60x90 (which is 5400sq ft. = bigger than probably 99% of the peoples houses on here) it will have 114 40" steel stakes. How do you think they get put in? Me and a sledge hammer. It's pure hell. So then once the tent is up, we then have to ususally lay a dance floor, put up a stage, tables, chairs, lighting, and any other equipment that is rented. Its tough but its fun. Get to do a lot of traveling. Anywhere around Georgia and been to the Carolinas several times. Get paid to travel and such so its no big deal, but that doesnt make the work any less hard.

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    I used to work at ups, it was some real hard work... After a year of makin no money and working hard as hell i finnaly ot out of that place..

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    i have a fulltime warehouse job at a cardealership with no a/c, im always on the run
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    i recently got a freaking slackass job. but for years i wrked on cars in hot a$$ shops. go out and get them in the rain or whatever and wrk fast bc ur on straight commission.
    ive wrkd on marta busses, tow truck, mail trucks (right hand drive baby). but b4 this job i wrkd full time at a fabricating shop welding and building all kinda stuff, which i still do at night. my wrk days are from 9 am til like 12am.

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    I dont work outside, but I work in a plant doing steam chest molding(making styrofoam cups). The plant has 50,000 tons of AC which most days holds the temp to about 10 degrees higher than whatever it is outside in the summer. Without the AC the plant would stay at about 110 on an 85 degree day. I troubleshoot and repair the equipment BTW

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    Excessive Manual Labor only brings health problems.

    Then again, inactive lifestyles do as well.

    I used to work at Wal-Mart in furniture and Houswares. Even helped out unloading trucks from time to time.

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    i wish i could wrk at home depot agian. i loved that job but it was only temporary til i officially got my license back. i used to wrk the parking lot. man i got extra swole there lifting concrete, landscaping bricks, shingles and sheet rock. damn i loved that job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BTEC
    i wish i could wrk at home depot agian. i loved that job but it was only temporary til i officially got my license back. i used to wrk the parking lot. man i got extra swole there lifting concrete, landscaping bricks, shingles and sheet rock. damn i loved that job.
    Yea at ups, i lost alot of weight, and got toned up.. that was the only good part about it.

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    i used to work in a sheet metal fabrication plant, i ran laser table press brake and did all manual drilling tapping and refinishing or defurring

    that was hell but i got hella swole
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    Right now I work Mon-Fri mornings for a marketing company for all the Kroger's in the southest. Sat-Sun I work for Home Depot, then after work mon-fri I go to school. Also I some how find time to work on a few cars here and there to make a few extra buck so....

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    a shop wihtout AC or Heat sucks in the winter and summer lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by vteckidd
    a shop wihtout AC or Heat sucks in the winter and summer lol.
    exactly

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    Well, my summer job (now unemployed) I was a teacher for infants and toddlers. They wore me the fuck out. I worked 8 hours a day 40 hours a week. Tell me that is not stressful

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    I've been working 7am till 7pm all week and I am for the next few weeks so I can fix my car and some other things....



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