On 2010-08-23 19:20:52 -0400, "Tom Littleton" said:


"Giles" wrote in message
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And just so there's no misunderstanding, I've loaded a hopper with 700
lb. wheelbarrows (yes, 700 pounds) of scrap iron in a sand casting
iron and steel foundry, as well as being a molder in the same; I've
dug thousands of post holes with a clamshell digger; I've installed
(and removed) piers.....under water; climbed, limbed and felled trees;
layed brick, block and stone; prepared and served upwards of 200
pizzas in a night (for many nights on end); spent a couple of years in
steel fabricating (welding, shear, punch press, brake press, etc.);
built houses, garages, gazebos, pergolas, cupolas, saunas, etc.; dug
and moved many hundreds of yards of soil, sand, gravel, rock, roots,
etc., in preparation for pouring, floating and finishing concrete;
transported, poured floated and finished thousands of yards of
concrete, demolished houses, garages, barns, gazebos, pergolas,
cupolas, saunas, fences and various other structures; built
greenhouses; hauled and installed humdreds of railroad ties and other
landscape timbers; cut, transported and laid tens of thousands of
square feet of sod;.....

Hell, that was exhausting just to read......I think a nap is in order.

.well, one could go on for days.

one generally does, in my experience.


Tom
....who has essentially had a variation(or upward progression) of one type
of work for 28 years. Then again, it was what I went to Graduate School to
prepare to do, so seems to make sense to me. Thus far, no one
has expressed any sentiment about doing a job well.....

Hey! I'll have you know that Hector and I got a raise within 5 days of
picking that shade grown tobacco. We were making almost as much as the
Jamaicans. We were good.