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Message Subject What Is The Hardest Job You Have Ever Held?
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To the guy that said manual labor jobs aren't hard like corporate jobs - you obviously never worked real manual labor job. Construction (Commercial, any monkey can call themselves a home remodeler) takes brains to run, and is ball busting manual labor to perform. And it's not like working out.

You work out at the gym and do 3 sets of 10, before you take a water break, move on to the next muscle group, etc.

I'd like to see any one of you "genius" corporate men figure out how to form a spiral staircase. You couldn't do it. And when the truck shows up with the crete, there is no water break. You don't stop til it is done. That is, if your form doesn't blow out from the concrete pressure. Which your prints NEVER show you how to build, only the dimensions (which almost always are not all there or are wrong)of the final product.

I know lots of corporate job men that go to the gym multiple days a week. When they are 60 they are in good shape. I know LOTS of commercial carpenters, concrete finishes, floor coverers, etc. that are busted up by the time they are 50 unless they were running work as a Foreman or Superintendent.

You don't know the meaning of hard work. You have zero concept of it. And you envision manual labor as all being easy on the mind. You layout floors that are 200,000 sq. feet and get every single thing down to the T off of a set of prints (which are NEVER correct).

I worked as a consultant. I left it to go back to construction with the intent of starting my own business. I can honestly say when I have 3 projects going at once, it is 100 times harder than dealing with 5 clients in a day.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18260563


Meh...I was the guy who said manual labor jobs are not hard. I have worked a family farm. I have worked construction, hell, Ive even worked on an oil rig. I spent 7 years serving my country....and none of those things were nearly as hard as being an executive of a major corporation. Sorry, sweating isnt really working hard. Like I said, its a free workout. Hell, I run triathlons and train for them all year long. And working out like that doesnt even compare to the pressure of intense corporate work.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23829721


Beat me to it. Nothing like flying 18 hours to Asia to do a presentation for a potential multi-million dollar contract, getting food poisoning, flying home sick as a dog, resting one night, and flying straight back to Europe because a company is losing a half million dollars a DAY because of a problem with their plant. Oh, and YOU are the only one that can fix it. No pressure....I've laid block in 95 degree heat in Mexico as a volunteer missionary, and it's cake compared to my day job.
 
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