Strange Jobs

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.

Thus far, no one
has expressed any sentiment about doing a job well.....

Trust me, when you're working with high explosives, you ALWAYS want to
do the job well.
Frank Reid
(when something goes wrong in that job, its not counting fingers and
toes, more of counting limbs)

On Aug 23, 4:16*pm, "Bill Grey" wrote:
"Giles" wrote in message



Work ain't as bad as its reputation.

A long as the pay is good.

The correlation tends to be inverse.

g.

On Aug 23, 6:20*pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:
"Giles" wrote in message


.well, one could go on for days.

one generally does, in my experience.

If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *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.

Well, that's strange.

Thus far, no one
has expressed any sentiment about doing a job well.....

See above.

g.
and yes, if folks insist on being beaten severely and repeatedly about
the head and shoulders with a blunt instrument, that too is worth
doing well.....and for as long as even a shred of hope remains that it
will ultimately do some good.