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Post by fkaJimmySee on Aug 1, 2020 15:28:44 GMT -5
In my experience, in every job, no matter what it pays, no matter how good or bad it is, sooner or later there comes the "Popeye moment" -- the "I've had all I can stands I can't stands no more" moment.
What happens then tells the story. That might pass. Or it might not. Happens to me. Happened this week. It passed. I'm still here.
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Post by HeavyDuty on Aug 1, 2020 15:45:54 GMT -5
Male prostitute was a hard job.
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Post by Leftee on Aug 1, 2020 15:59:59 GMT -5
I have those Popeye moments more and more. The balance hasn’t tipped, yet.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Aug 1, 2020 16:28:05 GMT -5
My Popeye moment was more of a Forrest Gump moment. "I'm kinda tired, I think I'll go home now". I was at the end of a 34 year run, peppered with spinoffs and buyouts. Came back from a FMLA half expecting to be RIF'd, unceremoniously turned in my resignation, went home and made huevos racheros. Aug 19 2013.
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twangmeister
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Age: 72 and fading fast.....
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Post by twangmeister on Aug 1, 2020 17:10:32 GMT -5
Enilisted soldier, especially in the Infantry, Armor or Engineers. Company commander's driver
Psych tech in an inpatient psychiatric facility
Prison medical officer.
Let's just say these were temporary positions in my military and civilian careers.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Aug 1, 2020 17:44:36 GMT -5
I would say that if I were a younger man you couldn't pay me any amount to be a cop in today's dynamic.
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Post by RonC Picker on Aug 2, 2020 9:46:38 GMT -5
While in HS a friend and I worked in his uncle’s auto shop. Our job was to wash transmission parts in kerosene, then rinse in more of same. One day of doing that with no gloves and all the lines in the skin on my hands were cracking open. Wore heavy gloves after that but quit after breathing the fumes for a couple of weeks.
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Post by saltyseadog on Aug 4, 2020 2:51:12 GMT -5
When I first came ashore after 25+yrs as a deep sea fisherman I started working for an American pipeline coatings company doing most of the north sea work. We were using coal-tar over two layers of fibreglass and one outer wrap for rust protection and heavycoat concrete to keep them on the seabed. That coal tar is some seriously bad stuff just to get the smoke on you, but every weekend the extraction unit had to be cleaned out of the green snowlike crystals which collected inside the Hirt burner. Even though we were covered up head to toe in those full coveralls like forensic people use with breather masks etc that stuff would still get on your skin somewhere. Feels like getting a sunburn then you would go out in the sun and it felt like a sunburn on top of a sunburn, just hellish stuff and likely the reason we shifted over to asphalt for the following contracts. Have to say other than that it was a great job and I ended up as plant super and worked all over the world the next ten years.
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swampyankee
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Fakin' it 'til I'm makin' it since 1956
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Post by swampyankee on Aug 4, 2020 11:54:54 GMT -5
One job I had in HS that I liked but looking back, would not do again -
Apprentice in a silversmith shop. I enjoyed working with metal and it became my life's work in one form or another. But one task involved photo-engraving by submerging the pieces in a tank of cyanide solution in sort of a reverse-plating process. To avoid being poisoned by the cyanide, we were told to wash up really well with bleach. Probably not OSHA-kosher these days. I walked out of work smelling like Mr. Clean.
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Post by reverendrob on Aug 4, 2020 12:15:53 GMT -5
The FDP.
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Post by rangercaster on Aug 4, 2020 20:17:25 GMT -5
Pumping out septic tanks seems a rather unpleasant occupation to me ...
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Post by Sharkie on Aug 4, 2020 20:26:45 GMT -5
As per one of the OP’s choices, it’s been an unusually warm summer here and I think the roofers earn every penny of their money. Tough gig.
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