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post #1 of 14
3/26/04 at 1:16am
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I can earn more banging nails than working as a lab tech (like I'd fuckin' qualify for that). Seriously, I'm curious; I want to know the ratio of blockbuster employees to construction workers on this site.
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post #2 of 14
3/26/04 at 2:00am
Well, I doubt there are many blue collar workers on this site, but i'm one of them.

Back into roofing full-time. Right now i'm working an EPDM job over near Scanlon High School in the bronx. Work is hard, and not exactly the most mentally stimulating thing i've ever done, but it pays really well. Cash, too. Plus I get a workout and a suntan, free. So it's going well so far....gets a lot more fun in the summer in 100 degree weather, though.
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post #3 of 14
3/26/04 at 2:25am
I've been asphalt shingling and pouring cement since I was 14, but I'm slowly starting to work more white-collar jobs. The last time I worked construction was in September, but I quit because my boss was creeping me out. Generally I don't care what people do at home, but this guy liked to drink and kept telling me stories about beating his kids. Not cool. So I quit that, and right now I'm working 3 jobs part-time. I work nights at a homeless shelter, and part-time days between a record store and a gift shop.
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post #4 of 14
3/26/04 at 2:55am
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There's some rough fuckers in roofing; a lot like drywallers, only less white.
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post #5 of 14
3/26/04 at 9:47am

Re: Who Here Works Trades

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Originally posted by Adam Warren
I can earn more banging nails than working as a lab tech (like I'd fuckin' qualify for that). Seriously, I'm curious; I want to know the ratio of blockbuster employees to construction workers on this site.
Regardless the money, you can't meke me build another commercial storefront window. Never!

And since I can't reach up to the wing of an airplane I simply am physically limited in that regard, even though the work isn't particularly difficult or grueling.

Live hard and leave a scarred-up corpse.
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post #6 of 14
3/26/04 at 10:41am
I work a cozy office job now, but for one summer I was a grunt in a printing shop. That can be some tough shit.

Plus, I'm a friggin' pantywaist when it comes to hard labor.
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post #7 of 14
3/26/04 at 3:41pm
I work in an auto parts warehouse during the summer. That's relatively cock-n-balls.
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post #8 of 14
3/26/04 at 4:01pm
Sometimes I miss doing manual labor jobs. The simplicity of being able to shut off work once work is over. Now, I'm a programmer and sometimes I can't shutoff work, even if I'm at home. Movies, booze, and working out help.
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post #9 of 14
3/26/04 at 4:30pm
I must've dropped a bazillion miles of cable. Spent some time moving furniture too, but I'm just not cut out for that sort of thing over the long term. Being able to forget about work at 5:01 was nice, but so was staying clean and making $5000/month designing stuff.
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post #10 of 14
3/26/04 at 4:44pm
I started out working at Blockbuster and then moved into blue collar. Now I am ambiguous for a living.
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post #11 of 14
3/26/04 at 5:09pm
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Originally posted by Populationrob
Now I am ambiguous for a living.
Ambiguous like a politician, or ambiguous like your name is "Lance"?
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post #12 of 14
3/26/04 at 5:33pm
I wouldn't call it a "trade" but I used to work in an industrial laundry for a living. They supplied hotels and restaraunts with linen, towels etc, and then brought the dirty ones back to be washed, dried and sent back out again. The best days were the ones when you'd get put on the hospital shift. Mmmm. There were some real surprises rolled up in those sheets, let me tell you...
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post #13 of 14
3/27/04 at 1:42am
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Originally posted by Agent Helix
Ambiguous like a politician, or ambiguous like your name is "Lance"?
Ha ha.

Ambiguous as in I can't answer an "Are you an (A) or a (B)?" question with either (A) or (B).
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post #14 of 14
3/29/04 at 5:24pm
I cut grass and chop wood all day and prune suburban lawns. And mulch and water and fertalize and sometimes, when no one is looking, I beat my head upside trees.
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