what is the most difficult job you had?

[adam warlock]

... heh... the only difficult job I had is giving a reluctant cat a tomato bath (he ran into a skunk)....

how about you?

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[Ramon de Ramon y Ramon]

During my stay in Barcelona I worked as a tourist guide for a short time: one time another guide - an Italian girl - didn't show up and so I was suddenly stuck with a group of Italians who refused to let me do the explanations in English. So, I suddenly was forced to do them in Spanish and 90% of them seemed only to understand one tenth of what I was saying - a rather unpleasant situation.

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So long !

R³ - proud to be the official spokesman for the most noble Lady Bilqis, Desert Rose of Ironworks

Btw, the cow is queuing in the slaughterhouse right now !

[Djinn Raffo]

This is the first summertime i have not
worked as a treeplanter in six years.

You got a shovel and some bags that go around your hips that you
fill with trees, maybe two hundred to four hundred depending on
how big they are. You get paid by the tree.
(Canadian money) The most I've ever planted was 4700 pine trees
in a day. At 9.5 cents a tree. This was just barely a four hundred dollar
day but not really...you minus about 25 dollars each day for camp costs (food etc.) And of course Canada's brutal taxes! My best day for money though was just last year...It was a fill plant ( a clear cut that has already been
planted but survival rate was not high so go in, walk through, and plant spacing your trees off the existing ones.) At 21 cents a tree I planted
2400. $500. It's not as glamourous as it sounds...Both of these days I
mentioned I had to bust my ass! No breaks...maybe an apple on the way
back to my piece after bagging up more trees. I broke my back and my mind.

This is a high paying job if you got the drive.
It also has a community feel to it...flying into a camp
in the middle of nowhere northern b.c. or alberta, absolutly
nowhere, with people from all over the spectrum and then
planting trees!

In the rain (all day, all week, outside in a clear cut in the rain!)
In the snow (all day, all week, outside in a clear cut in the snow!)
In the hail (all day, all week, outside in a clear cut in the hail!)
In the heat (all day, all week, outside in a clear cut in the heat!)

Lots of boozing, lots of smoke!
This job can be physically torturous. At least 10 hour days.
Always six days on, one day off.

I have seen people go insane. Even myself.
Just losing it...the walls come crashing in...and there
is no place to hide...cause you still got to work the next day,
with the same people who saw you freak out the day before.
Glad it's over...I don't want to have to treeplant again.



[This message has been edited by Djinn Raffo (edited 07-17-2001).]

[Gazza]

Labourer for a bricklayer. Try hauling about seven or eight thousand bricks a day for two weeks strait and see how sore your body is. But I must admit the money was great.

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Know thy enemy and know thyself and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles.

Being a single parent and renting a place to live in!
Man, had I known owning my own place was going to give me more money per month early on, I would not have waited until my son was in 5th grade!

On the physical labor side I'd have to say growing up lol...I had to take care of a four bedroom house (including waxing and polishing hard-wood floors) singlehandedly and it's yard as a pre-teen and a teenager while my siblings made it difficult by deliberately inhibiting my progress or going behind me and making messes that I would get punished for if I could not straighten them up in time. That lasted more years than I was prepared to handle.


Moni

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[Redblueflare]

The most difficult job I ever had to do was take down a tennis net. Everyone else was busy and decided to make me take it down. I wouldn't have been so difficult if someone hadn't tied the knots so tightly. So I ended cutting the net down with a pair of scissors. It only took two whole hours, but at least I finished. They were going to make me put another one up, but I refused for obvious reasons.

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Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I just don't have to listen.

[Lord of Alcohol]

I did the laboror for the bricklayers for a year, its easy as long as you stay ahead and the money is good but it is boring as hell which is why I went back to framing (another hell job if your not used to it). My worst job would have to be boot camp/San Diego Marine Corps. I was 20 days past my 17th birthday and had NO idea what I was in store for! But I made it through by the end it was easy. The first month or so though.....SUCKED LOL

[bilqis]

PARENTING



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Having abandoned my
search for truth, I am
now looking for a good
fantasy.

For R³ in thanks:
Sometimes I think I
understand everything,
then I regain consciousness.

[Moridin]

Worked one summer researching an anti-nausea drug at the Mayo Clinic. The basics of the job were to go into surgery and administer the drug (or rather watch as the nurse anetheisist administered the drug), then wait for the patient to reach the post-op ward. When the patient was in post-op we had to sit around and see if they puked (while taking vitals every 30 minutes). If the patient puked we had to record 1) the color 2) the intensity (1-10 scale) 3) the amount...it was a little disgusting, but the perks of working for doctors at the Mayo clinic far, far, far outweighed the sights and smells of puke

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Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig
I've got to admit it's getting better, it's getting better all the time

[Gargoyle]

Working for my dad, couldn't call in sick and he was constantly down my throat, but hey I can never say no to family !

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Time is only relevant if you have none !