Your hardest job

Cleaning the insides of a aluminium works during summer break when in uni. Roller pits knee deep in gunk, machines covered in a years worked of god knows what and a roof to scrub attached with only a dodgy harness for safety.
 
12 hour night shift 7 days a week testing power packs for IBM Think Pads. Pull out the bag, plug it into a machine, flick a switch, green light, stick a tested label on it and put it back on the bag. Now repeat for 12 hours. I was also locked in a room with no windows while doing this and had supervised toilet breaks as SIMs were stored in the room and they were worth a lot at the time.

The only upside was that it was a summer job while studenting and the money afforded me a full year of hard partying. However, nearly everyone I worked with was doing it as a full-time job. I wasn't very popular since I continually went on about how crap it was.
 
Coal face mechanic for 16 years, one coal seam was 36" thick and by the time the roof supports we're in it was 24" high. 200 yards long and inclined at 1 in 2 slope , 35deg C pitch black, dirty, dusty and crawling through slurry, trying not to get killed by 400kw machinery and roof collapses, and you lot think you could possibly have had a hard job, big whoosh. You bunch of fairies. :poke:
 
Parenthood - physically and mentally. No training, all vocational on-the-job, no manual, mistakes can have effects that last forever, it seems the job spec changes radically every year, and no thanks for a most of the effort until your offspring have their own and realise that you were, on balance, not bad at it. That said, the rewards are immeasurable :D
 
1postseller said:
Coal face mechanic for 16 years, one coal seam was 36" thick and by the time the roof supports we're in it was 24" high. 200 yards long and inclined at 1 in 2 slope , 35deg C pitch black, dirty, dusty and crawling through slurry, trying not to get killed by 400kw machinery and roof collapses, and you lot think you could possibly have had a hard job, big whoosh. You bunch of fairies. :poke:
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Great second post - thanks for that :thumbsup:
 
Tube bashing as we used to call it, sitting in a locomotive smoke box knocking out rusty boiler tubes with a lump hammer and drift, not quite as bad as working in a 3ft seam down a coal mine but not far off and the weird thing is i volunteered to do it.
 
Might sound mad or not that difficult...

But shooting a wedding from 7 in the morning until 3-4 in the morning. When you have one eye closed all day and heavy gear in a high stress environment for an extended period of time its pretty exhausting. Takes about a day for your eye to recover! lol
 
Hardest job is the same as best job from the other thread. Wedding dress selling and dealing with bridezillas. Tom will understand my pain.
 
Potato picking at one of my parents friends farm when I was about 15. I did 12 hours and it was back-breaking work. Reminded me to concentrate on academic qualifications so I didn't need to rely on manual labour for a living.
 
Heat Treating Factory ..
Stuffing plates into blast furnaces and tempering ovens.
Furnace set at 1650 degrees F
Tempering oven between 700 and 1240 degrees F
Typical size was 8 X 24 feet
Minimum weight was a ton.
Typical weight several tons
Hooking those up to cranes you had to be on your toes every moment.
Walking on hot steel ..You spit first
If your spit beads up and zings off the plate ..That would melt your Kodiac Boots and you would fall down on the plate
If your spit just sizzles ....Then it was safe to walk on
Good money but it was dangerous for sure.
 
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