I spent last night pulling fiberglass insulation from under my house, and this afternoon bagging it; I’d have bagged it last night but I damn near passed out from heat and being out of breath. In all, I bagged 10x 40 gallon bags.
Tomorrow I go and clean up mold. And some time after Monday (when the plumber fixes my leaky water heater), I will add vapor barrier and new insulation. 😅
That shit is/was no joke. I had a head-to-toe tyvek suit, nitrile gloves, safety glasses, and an n95 mask. I’m in love with the tyvek suit for future dirty jobs, but in all it was super hot and difficult to breathe. I couldn’t have done the job without them though.
Anyway, my point is that for those of you who do this day in and day out, you all rock! I have always appreciated those who do the dirty jobs, but now I revere you too.
Thank you for all that you do!
Shout out to the white collar workers. I'll much rather crawl in the sub-floor in a tyvek suit than sit in a office all day staring at a screen and try to get along with my boss and co-workers knowing that I'll be doing that for the next 30+ years all day every day. Even the shittiest construction jobs rarely last longer than few days. I can deal with that.
Nothing compared to repetitive manual labor. You don't know what boredom is until you've worked on an assembly line.
Hard disagree.
I've been doing factory labor for six years and I love it. I don't have to talk to anyone and can zone out all day, it's great.
Chat she craves the unionized factories, we must give her her rightful desires.
I barely consider it manual labor sitting by an assembly line doing something that should be done by a robot in the first place. There's no two day alike in what I do.
IT guy here, if there is one thing I wish for, there are many days where I wish I was just a cleaner, to actually be able to complete a task that is visible for a change and not just stare me blind at a half functioning JIRA board, a broken active directory and list of 365 teams almost as long as the list of employees.
Not to mention having to deal with systems I have no idea about and should have zero access to but somehow have global admin and am incharge of access controls which are half documented, yet the system is the most important in the company.
We are working on improving it, it goes slowly...
If it paid the same, I think being a street view driver seems interesting/fun...
Do you think construction workers just do one job and then never work again??
No.
No, they're referring to how when a job finishes up, they typically move to a new job site. Change of scenery instead of the same four walls every day for years.