Job you wouldn't want this Labor Day Weekend

[Momz]

OK, some of us VRCCers are unemployed through no fault of our own, but there are just some jobs most of us wouldn't want.

See the example:

[JerryB]

If it pays the bills.I shoveled alot of that out of barns for .25 an hour 50+ years ago......JerryB.  

[sugerbear]

same except it $.75 hour out of trucks LOL for Witte bros truck line

[GreenLantern57]

1972, 40 year old barn had to be cleaned out as part of room and board. Arkadelphia Arkansas in summer.

[R J]

Summer job, $.75 an hour job. $.25 an hour job.

I did it for 12 years at $.00 an hour.

It was part of my growing up and my room,  clothes, shoes, food, and my arse being tore a new one when I screwed up.    This was all done with a rake and a shovel, water hose in later years to flush it into the holding tank.   Then it got splattered on the hay field, and etc.

Only way out of it for me was to join the Marines.   If it had of been my real dad, I might have retired off of that farm.    But since it was my step-dad, I didn't like his attatude.

[jrb]

Growing up on the farm, I shoveled a lot of chit, didn't get paid a dime, did it because my dad told me to. Wish he was alive to thank him, it made me a better man.

[Chili Pepper]

Boy!..is THAT a crappy job!  

I wonder if it smells like the 3 tons of horse pooh we shoveled out of an old barn?  I'll take horse pooh over cow or chicken pooh any day...   

[Jabba]

I am the whipper snapper of the group, and even I shoveled a lot of manure.  Horse, cow, dairy cow and a little hog.  Mostly horse and dairy cow though.

Bailed a lot of hay and straw too. It's part of who I am.  I started when I was 11.  I helped bail hay LAST summer.  There are not ANY kids around today willing to work at all.

Jabba

[alph]

worked for my parents when i was 16 to 19, three years of hell, worked 116 hours a week, got paid $35 for that week.  6 am to 10 pm, seven days a week, 364 days a year.  we only closed for christmass.  also one of the main reasons why i will not open up my own business.

[Varmintmist]

I know where you are coming from. I worked for my father every summer from the time I was 8. At 12 I was holding my own, on a black top crew, with the benefit of doing hay, shoveling poop, and cutting wood on my off time. If I did stupid at work, I got to hear about it all week. Folks think that being the bosses kid makes life easy, not by me it wasn't.

Went to Parris Island for a break. Had a Maj ask if I wanted to do boot again. I wondered how long he would last with a shovel and lute. My uncle, the airborne ranger, lasted a week.

I would do any and all of it again to stay out of a coal mine though. I have no desire to go underground in a coal mine. I am afraid of heights and learned to climb poles because I needed a job, but I think I could find something else if mining was all there was.

PS.
It really does suprise me that kids are afraid to throw bales. These days they can make a pretty good under the table buck in a weekend.

[Serk]

Went to Parris Island for a break.

Reminds me of this classic e-mail pass around funny:

Dear Ma & Pa:

Am well. Hope you are. Tell brother Walt & Brother Elmer the Marine Corps beats working for old man Minch by a mile.

Tell them to join up quick before maybe all of the places are filled. I was restless at first because you got to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m., but am getting so I like to sleep late. Tell Walt & Elmer all you do before breakfast is smooth your cot and shine some things. No hogs to slop, feed to pitch, mash to mix, wood to split, fire to lay. Practically nothing.

Men got to shave but it is not so bad, they git warm water. Breakfast is strong on trimmings like fruit juice, cereal, eggs, bacon, but kind of weak on chops, potatoes, ham, steak, fried eggplant, pie and other regular food. But tell Walt & Elmer you can always sit between two city boys that live on coffee. Their food plus yours holds you till noon, when you get fed again. It's no wonder these city boys can't walk much.

We go on "route" marches, which the Platoon Sergeant says are long walks to harden us. If he thinks so, it is not my place to tell him different. A "route march" is about as far as to our mailbox at home. Then the city guys gets sore feet and we all ride back in trucks.

The country is nice, but awful flat. The Sergeant is like a schoolteacher. He nags some. The Capt. is like the school board. Majors & Colonels just ride around & frown. They don't bother you none.

This next will kill Walt & Elmer with laughing. I keep getting medals for shooting. I don't know why. The bulls-eye is near as big as a chipmunk and don't move. And it ain't shooting at you, like the Higgett boys at home. All you got to do is lie there all comfortable and hit it. You don't even load your own cartridges. They come in boxes.

Then we have what they call hand-to-hand combat training. You get to wrestle with them city boys. I have to be real careful though - they break real easy. It ain't like fighting with that ole bull at home. I'm about the best they got in this except for that Tug Jordan from over in Silver Lake. I only beat him once. He joined up the same time as me, but I'm only 5'6" and 130 pounds, and he's 6'8" and weighs near 300 pounds dry.

Be sure to tell Walt & Elmer to hurry & join before other fellers get into this setup & come stampeding in.

Your loving daughter, Gail

P.S. Speaking of shooting, enclosed is $200 towards a new barn roof & Ma's new teeth. The city boys ain't very good at shootin' craps either...

[Varmintmist]

It wasnt quite that good, but I already knew how to puke from exaustion before I got there. 

[Paul-M]

I used to clean the barn at the farm my dad worked at when I was 7 years old back in 1978. I made 50 cents a day and was happy as heck. It was a much simpler time and I never realized how good I had it.

[czuch]

Married a gal with real horses.
 Found out she married a paycheck,cook, mucker, groomer, handyman, mechanic, kid raiser,
house keeper, caterer, general sucker...................
She really turned off the sweetness when I pointed out I needed a divorce if things didnt change.