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Hardest/Easiest work you have done?

Discussion in 'TalkCeltic Pub' started by Saul Goodman, Mar 1, 2019.

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  1. Saul Goodman Gold Member Gold Member

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    Easiest for me was probably acting as an “Exam Reader” for a kid with learning difficulties who was doing their state exams. I did it a few times and it’s fairly handy money. Especially when you’re doing it with a kid that leaves their exams early as you get paid the same anyway.

    Hardest was actually correcting state exams. Had to do nearly 400 in a 3 week period, had very strict deadlines and had to make regular trips to the post office. It was tedious as * and the money wasn’t great for it.

    I’ve never done work that was actually physically demanding but would be interested to read what people have done that they found hard/not worth the money.
     
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  2. Marty McFly Whoa, this is heavy

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    Hardest was the summer before heading off to uni. I was 17 and worked in a pack house on a farm. Pallets of strawberries would arrive from the field, I dragged them into cold storage, fired boxes out to the production line to sort the punnets, did the labelling for the supermarkets as they flew off the conveyor belt, packed boxes, trays, loaded pallets, wrapped and stored again before helping load the lorry when it eventually arrived to take them away.

    Constant working and lots of 7am - 11pm shifts, if the weather was * for a day or two and the picks *, we’d have two days to make up for in orders. So we’d play football in the yard in the afternoon to then get sent home knowing the next day was gonna be a *! Never worked so hard in my life even now 19 years later.

    All for £3.50 per hour
     
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  3. Henke102

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    Worked at Hampden stadium when I was studying cleaning the stadium...* of a job, cleaning down individual seats in certain stands because using a power hose would cause the concourses below to * water from the ceiling. Cleaning up the stands after games (a * in the wet as paper etc would stick to the concrete). Mopping all the stairs etc. Had to wash all the windows in the executive boxes looking out onto the stadium once as well when the * window cleaners never turned up with a 45 minute time limit :56:
     
  4. Rendog

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    Stealing phones from a production line
     
  5. Montero Gold Member Gold Member

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    Easiest by far was when I first went to Fawley Refinery to work, for 3-4 weeks we were cabinned up because the job wasn't ready for welders. Getting paid stupid money to sit watching tv for a month pretty much.

    Worst was working at Drax power station, in with the boilers, could only wear overalls with * all underneath. Even then it was insanely hot, would honestly go in with someone and once we left would look like they had lost a fair few pounds. Never again.
     
  6. TESLA Gold Member Gold Member

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    Hardest work:

    Used to work in the Croke Park hotel with Hitler and Mussolini for bosses, if that wasnt bad enough match days were insane, be working a * portable bar + maintence + stock for 15 hours, I hoped I'd get knocked down on my way to Jones Road just so I wouldnt have to endure, actually ruined GAA for me for years, torture!

    Easiest Work:

    Got a painting contract for a building down the road in the summer, hard work but it was just me and one other bloke in the sun, so enjoyable work listening to music etc and pints after, felt more like a routine than a job and it paid well.

    If that was during winter, whole different story :giggle1:
     
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  7. trip2themoon Concomitant Allez-Vous?

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    Hardest: Working in removals. I'm a 10 stone weakling, no built for that *. After a 12 hour shift it took me nearly a week to recover.

    Easiest: Cleaning planes at Glasgow airport. Most of your day was spent waiting on planes coming in. In a 5 hour shift you'd do about 45 minutes of actual work.
     
  8. bhoy_wonder Gold Member Gold Member

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    Easiest: working in a bar, piece of * was never busy and only pulled pints and served spirits.

    Hardest: my current one......teaching. it really isn't as good as it's portrayed (holidays etc). Quite stressful to the point I'm considering a career change.
     
  9. Aidan O’Shea

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    Hardest work was sharing a bed with @Deebo when he tried to spoon me.

    Easiest work was denying it was me that spooned him.
     
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  10. Idioteque I’ll laugh until my head comes off

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    Hardest was when I worked a summer job for a landscaping company in Belfast. Used to have to lay the gravel paths though the national trust areas around spelga tower. Must have raked 100s of miles of gravel. Had to strim the banks of the path too. Hit many a wasp nest along the way. Wasn’t pleasant.

    Worst job was working in a window factory full of Huns. Was grim
     
  11. Idioteque I’ll laugh until my head comes off

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    Never had an easy job
     
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    My hardest job would be working for an international bank emigrating their old transnational system into a new system from the ground up - I was one of the architects. I remember one of the mistakes I made ended with people missing about just under a million quid in back payments. Had to work over the weekend some of the most stressful * I have ever been through, fix the problem on the backend then design a script to send out payments directly. Ugh.

    Second to that would some of the work I done with the the national medical associations in the UK. Basically anything I'm largely responsible for designing is stressful, supporting another programmer's mess isn't. I think my wife who is an ER doctor has it worse though, pure pressure and intense workloads. I could not do it.

    Easiest work would be a tutor/teacher. I did it as a sabbatical and it was just * easy to me. Lots of free time, dealing with bad students is easier than dealing with * customers. If it wasn't for the * money I would be teaching but that's why they're struggling to hire science teachers right now, STEM graduates have way too many options.

    Sometimes I wish I had taken up a trade like most of my family, sitting in front of a computer all day is not particularly enjoyable but there are tradeoffs with everything.
     
  13. ourdaywillcome! Gold Member Gold Member

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    Was out of work after coming back from travelling and done a bit of tree lopping, could be very physical depending on the job. Logging big logs up a steep driveway and * in high 30 degree temps is tough graft.

    Easiest job would of been working with the old man on building sites. Totally flexible hours, no real demand from him, rarely worked past 3 o'clock.

    Doing a one man job on a civils project at the moment which is demanding physically. 6 days a week and never less than 10 hours a day. Often, or too often, 12-13 hour days.
     
  14. Doogs. Lustig your the one, you still turn me on.

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    Hardest - I’ve finally bit the bullet and went back to the scaffolding, needless to say my body’s * again already. Horrible job but the moneys good at times.

    Easiest - I worked in a forklift spares place in East Kilbride when I was 17, making tea and answering the phone most of the day. Was told I’d have a stake in the business in a few years time if all went well but the * went bust about 6 month later :56: had visions of me driving about in a Rolls Royce like a gangster :56:
     
  15. Double Dutch

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    Hardest: Doing drainage on the motorway works a few years ago. Especially since I was the only * who never got a man on the ground with me at one point, only a machine to move stone and dig. Couple of times I done mammoth shifts I.e. 17 hours. Madness but glad I done it. Great experience.

    Easiest: No question - singing rebel songs In pubs and drinking free Guinness all day. St Patrick's day move your * :56:
     
  16. Bayern Bru Gold Member Gold Member

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    Hardest - night shift security in TitP camp sites. 12 hour shifts with rain lashing down full time, every single night was just constant eccied * trying to fight with me for no reason.

    Easiest - other end of the security spectrum, sitting in office blocks at night keeping an eye on the cctv
     
  17. TimFloyd Gold Member

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    Hardest: working as a drayman driver delivery drink/kegs to pubs in Edinburgh, carry tons worth of drink down into basements etc

    Also doing wide/abnormal loads into the centre of London was not physically hard but stressful.

    Easiest: probably my current job on fuel tankers, connect the hose push a couple of buttons job done.
     
  18. ourdaywillcome! Gold Member Gold Member

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    Not have a pilot/escort do get rid of the stress?
     
  19. TimFloyd Gold Member

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    Not always, depending on width and length you just need marker boards/beacons

    Even with escorts people are * retards and will try and get by you no matter what.
     
  20. Murph-E

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    The job I've had for nearly 2 years now is unbelievably easy. Sitting in a booth within the head office of a bookies, speaking into into a mic about offers and prices to get played into all the shops, and clicking a few button to change what audio stream/channel comes out of the the screens. * pay but I'd be ripping the * to ask more, I just sit on the internet all day and can completely do it all on autopilot without even thinking. Once I get past the holidays I have booked through to July, I'm changing job. Too easy, too boring, zero challenge. 2 years is long enough to not push myself whatsoever.
     
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