Comments on: QotD: Hard Work http://nslog.com/2005/06/25/qotd_hard_work The Weblog of Erik J. Barzeski Wed, 23 May 2012 23:05:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Matt Henderson http://nslog.com/2005/06/25/qotd_hard_work#comment-15950 Matt Henderson Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:18:50 +0000 http://nslog.com/2005/06/25/qotd_hard_work/#comment-15950 My first non-grocery-store type job was as a co-op student during college working for the Georgia Power Company at one of its fossil fuel power generation plants in middle-of-nowhere south Georgia. Having absolutely nothing to do with anything I ever studied in school, one of my assigned tasks was to put on an asbestos body suit, climb to the top floor of the plant, and insert a long thermometer into the plant's giant boiler to check the core temperature. The other main task was finding, dismounting, cleaning and calibrating every greasy steam pressure guage in the plant. Yuck. I can't imagine it getting much worse than that. My first non-grocery-store type job was as a co-op student during college working for the Georgia Power Company at one of its fossil fuel power generation plants in middle-of-nowhere south Georgia. Having absolutely nothing to do with anything I ever studied in school, one of my assigned tasks was to put on an asbestos body suit, climb to the top floor of the plant, and insert a long thermometer into the plant's giant boiler to check the core temperature. The other main task was finding, dismounting, cleaning and calibrating every greasy steam pressure guage in the plant. Yuck. I can't imagine it getting much worse than that.

]]> By: David http://nslog.com/2005/06/25/qotd_hard_work#comment-15949 David Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:39:19 +0000 http://nslog.com/2005/06/25/qotd_hard_work/#comment-15949 It's hard for me to decide between what I did last summer (selling educational books door-to-door for 80+ hours per week in Alabama) and what I am doing this summer (loading between 1100 and 1500 packages into a feeder for UPS, but in just a 4.5 hour period.) The first job was more difficult emotionally, physically, ... OK, in just about every way except the fact that UPS manages to wear me out in just four hours whereas it would take a whole day to wear me out selling books door-to-door. It's hard for me to decide between what I did last summer (selling educational books door-to-door for 80+ hours per week in Alabama) and what I am doing this summer (loading between 1100 and 1500 packages into a feeder for UPS, but in just a 4.5 hour period.)

The first job was more difficult emotionally, physically, ... OK, in just about every way except the fact that UPS manages to wear me out in just four hours whereas it would take a whole day to wear me out selling books door-to-door.

]]> By: Derek http://nslog.com/2005/06/25/qotd_hard_work#comment-15948 Derek Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:08:40 +0000 http://nslog.com/2005/06/25/qotd_hard_work/#comment-15948 Trimming Christmas trees. You get up and out in the fields around 6 or 7. You get knives that are about 1 1/2 to 2 feet long (depending on your preference) and then swing them all day. In the early part of the summer you have to deal with ticks getting all over you. In the later part of the summer it's nice as the easy trees are finally ready, but it's much hotter in late July than in late May and June. Trimming Christmas trees. You get up and out in the fields around 6 or 7. You get knives that are about 1 1/2 to 2 feet long (depending on your preference) and then swing them all day. In the early part of the summer you have to deal with ticks getting all over you. In the later part of the summer it's nice as the easy trees are finally ready, but it's much hotter in late July than in late May and June.

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