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Yesterday I worked a real job. Boy did that ever suck. Big time. It went down at a construction site in Newbury. And it sucked big time. Had to be up at 4am. Am means in the fookin morning! An hour or so befor bedtime! Fook! Had to meet buddy at 5am to catch a ride at 6ish. Got to the site and had to wear a glow in the dark thing, gay lookin glasses, and ugly as all fook boots that were kinda heavy as they are lined with stee had to wear gloves too. Did not finish till 5:30p motherfookin m! The dudes I was workin with do this shit EVERY DAY for there whole workin lives! I ahve seen the real world and it scares the fook outta me. Fook!
Even worse, you could have to put on a suit at 4am, sit at a desk for 12 hours, and have to abstain from swearing and drinking until at least 7pm. And people do that for their whole working lives!
No wonder they invented collatoralized debt obligations, they hated the world and wanted to fuck over everyone in it.
@SRR wrote:
Even worse, you could have to put on a suit at 4am, sit at a desk for 12 hours, and have to abstain from swearing and drinking until at least 7pm. And people do that for their whole working lives!
No wonder they invented collatoralized debt obligations, they hated the world and wanted to fuck over everyone in it.
Readin this post had the same effect as a billion nails scratchin a chalk board.
Well if it makes you feel any better I would be glad to try something like that, but there is not much construction going on around here. After sending my CV to more then 35 places I got a call from Home Depot and they could only offer me 4am-8am M-F. That is right boys and girls 20 hours a week at 9.10 an hour. I cannot wait to get the hell out of this town.
So your full day of honest labor.
Construction sites are full of characters who are hard by nature. Been there and done it lots of times. Had to drag the nasty lengths of 16mm steel across the site, had to spend weeks at a time tying it in freezing conditions and baking heat.
Had to stand up to my knees in concrete during pours at the middle of the night; had to spend three days in the middle of a blizzard during a big pour with people skipping off for two hour’s sleep at a time and an hour for food twice a day, concrete going all the time.
Had to….nevermind.
I made the transition from blue collar to white collar back in 92/93 and during that transition, I spent a summer as a labourer for a local builder. What I remember hating most about it was the digging of footings by shovel. I was slow and he hated me for it.
Still, it paid my way to East Africa, where I ended up in Rwanda late 93… and here we are now!
@khalampre wrote:
Well if it makes you feel any better I would be glad to try something like that, but there is not much construction going on around here. After sending my CV to more then 35 places I got a call from Home Depot and they could only offer me 4am-8am M-F. That is right boys and girls 20 hours a week at 9.10 an hour. I cannot wait to get the hell out of this town.
So your full day of honest labor.
$9.10 a fucking hour? Holy crap.
Rob,
Yep, that is 182 a week BEFORE taxes. All I can say is thank (insert your God here) that I saved some money. It is a pretty rough market here, which is odd because I figured a university town would be pretty bomb proof. WRONG!
I am thinking about packing up and going back to my hometown. At least there I know people!
@flipflop wrote:
I’m training to be an armed bank robber.
As John McVicar describes it:
“Bank robbing is the best job in the world, the only downside is that they put you in prison for it”
Daddy was a bankrobber, but he never hurt nobody. He just liked to live that way and he loved to steal your money.
apparently.
@khalampre wrote:
Rob,
Yep, that is 182 a week BEFORE taxes. All I can say is thank (insert your God here) that I saved some money. It is a pretty rough market here, which is odd because I figured a university town would be pretty bomb proof. WRONG!
I am thinking about packing up and going back to my hometown. At least there I know people!
Why don’t you do some content writing online? I mean, it doesn’t pay well, but you could easily do better than $182 a week and you wouldn’t even need to leave home at 3.30 AM.
Even though I am putting the finishing touches on a grad degree at the moment I am not very good at writing. I appreciate the written word, but I just do not have the attention span to go back and spell check and what not. That was one of the reasons I was pissed that the other board lost the edit post function. I effen type quickly, then I see mistakes that I want to correct later.
@coldharvest wrote:
Who pays you to write shit online?
Usually people who own commercially oriented websites. Selling anything from viagra to wine to running shoes. Websites like that need content that isn’t found elsewhere on the internet. Only pays 1 or 2 cents a word, but if you type fast you can bash out 500 words in about 15 minutes – doesn’t actually need to be good – only original. Not my cup of tea, but I reckon it would beat the snot out of working at McDonalds.
@Khalampre – what grad degree are you doing?
Rob,
I had intended to get a degree in soil science, but my wife not getting a visa made me switch to something that I could do off campus. I will have a degree in Ag/Education. Most of the class work is adult education stuff or program eval. The reason for this was that I could get into teaching or do the whole ag/extension agent thing.
I am more or less just bitching at the moment. There are a few things that are working in my favor at the moment, but I do not want to jinx myself. A week or two and everything could be better. That or I will have driven a fork lift for a week or two. Either way it beats being born in N. Korea.
Khal you might look into some sort of unique project with a higher tenured associate or two to explore perhaps persuing some sort of grant project or funding.
Since you have a connection with Georgia you might find some wierd Agricultural research ancient or contemporary methods, histories etc whether it’s viticulture or any number of things could be potential ideas for funding sources and or grants.
It isn’t always the easiest of things but commonly the more esoteric and original (and if it interests you too all the better!) the subject (research is to teach yourself and others) the more the options and possibilities.
I’m just brainstorming from a bit of my experience at a Uni. You have photo skills, language, travel, it seems like a possibility given some of what I know about you.
Just a thought.
Best,
Stiv
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