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hello rhizzone i hope you are all doing okay today. i have not been here for a long time so i don't know what the conditions are these days & dont want to bother lurking to find out. im here to shamelessly make thread about my life. i've been working at a bar in hell town in appalachia part of virginia. it is nice. good trees. nice air. pretty sky. horible mountain people Plus masked (sub)urbanites doing research in coffeeshops for university, which is the center of the town.

so i tell you, bartending at a bar in the morning is awful --never do it. because bars don't have breakfast mostly. but this was a special case because the coffee shop that it's owner & i used to operate at went under to pave way for some PaneraBread expansion in Beautiful Mall Area of town up on the hill to the side of the town somwhere. though im glad that's over with, this job is No Good either. let's just say that the reason bartenders keep their jobs is Tips. anyboddy who has done food service industry outside of the kitchen knows that Tips is what you work for, cause wage is like three dollars an hour; so that's like working five hours for enough money to go buy a large 1 topping pizza at a nearby joint and then tip them well out of your own considerable guilt for forcing them to make said pizza. then go home and ponder how rent is going to get paid.

but here i am faced with incredible opportunity to take my undocumented college experience in Architecture and childhod fantasy of working with Brick to go work at a construction site for a contracting firm as a laborer/stonemason apprentice. it's going to break me to hell for the first couple of motnhs and i hope my body can adjust. otherwise pay is good and i could use the fresh sunlight after working in a dimly lit rectangular area pacing back and forth with mugs of coffee and plates of bacon starting at six in the miorning.

so i am here to ask if anybody knows anythign about the construction industry and whether it's worth the hard labor. otherwise Discuss and thank u for your deep whizzdome
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i wish u luck in ur foolish quest to extract such advice from the unemployed miscreants and degenerates that frequent this forum
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manual labor is counter-revolutionary
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Alright serious answer. I don’t know the area so can’t comment on that, but I’ve done manual labor jobs (not quite as gruelling as constructions) and it’s infinitely better than the hell that is hospitality.
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manual labor outside is really great if you know in the back of your mind that you're not going to be doing it for very long.
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I was at the airport for a couple years and I got to see every single sunset year round, and in the winter I got to see a lot of sunrises too. that was worth at least $1.25 an hour, maybe up to $1.50 if it was really spectacular. So factor that in to your calculations OP.
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which airport? i've always vaguely wanted to work at one...they are such strange environments
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i love dealing with customers and people, and manual labor annoys me
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go for it if it excites you imo. im an engineer and would like to be out in the field more. you're going to want to do more intellectual work prolly. it's the way
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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

which airport? i've always vaguely wanted to work at one...they are such strange environments

salt lake. http://www.flickr.com/photos/54741784@N04/5069749972/in/photostream it is really strange, its cool sitting next to a gigantic plane as it comes in and walking around inside it and being able to communicate with people only via hand gestures because it's so loud.

in the winter it was great, you couldn't talk to anyone because it was still loud and you couldn't see anyone's face because everyone was bundled up, and everyone was in uniform so you couldn't tell who someone was by what they were wearing, so you had to go by height or gait. I'd like to go back and I'd still be doing it if it paid more.

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yes but thats not the reason. it was just different.
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nah i can understand that

i quite like driving but i hate dealing with random people like a cabbie so one job i've always been kinda interested in is one of those dudes who drives escorts to and from jobs.....i reckon that would be sweet, just smoking cigs listening to the radio, when they come back down if you're nice they'll probably confide in you and tell you cool stories and shit
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YUNG JIRO AKA SHOWA STUNNA AKA
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go for it op. sounds pretty good and your body will adjust
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Nippon
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Para Bolart, Mall Cop
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tardy on these heaters
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paypants sent
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tardy on these heaters
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gay pants scent: doodie
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tardy on these heaters
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tpaine posted:

tom i don't like this avatar. i think its time for change



ok clarence

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Nippon
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heres an idea: show up for a fuckan job interview.
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tardy on these heaters
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hows that
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Nippon
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please dont flaunt your avatar-changing privilege
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hahaha do you live in charlottesville now art

i just moved away from there last year

what coffeeshop are you working in
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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tpaine posted:

i like working at the airport because sometimes people are like, not people, but rather they're faceless robots that i don't have to communicate with directly.



in his defense, that exact vision of humanity is rigidly enforced by TSA regulations

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I cut up a tree with a chainsaw yesterday in degree weather. felt good man



on a more serious note, most manual labor sucks ass and you probably shouldn't romanticize it
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germanjoey posted:

hahaha do you live in charlottesville now art

i just moved away from there last year

what coffeeshop are you working in


blakkaburg

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ggw posted:

I cut up a tree with a chainsaw yesterday in degree weather. felt good man


I cut up a tree with a chainsaw yesterday in kelvin weather. felt very good man

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drivel of drunken hags
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ggw posted:

I cut up a tree with a chainsaw yesterday in degree weather. felt good man



on a more serious note, most manual labor sucks ass and you probably shouldn't romanticize it



Look at this post. This shlub doesnt see the Real in doing dangerous underpaid work for te life experience. Crypto liberal with a heavy dose of no appreciation for Aesthetics if I ever saw one. Going to rail some cocaine and Do a sex on a lady with my red wings on right now to bleach my ideology of this abject fail

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ggw posted:

on a more serious note, most manual labor sucks ass and you probably shouldn't romanticize it


p. much what my conclusions are leading to after all These & other great wisdoms THanks

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parabolart posted:

germanjoey posted:

hahaha do you live in charlottesville now art

i just moved away from there last year

what coffeeshop are you working in

blakkaburg



lame

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I live in blakkaburg lol
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Quit your job & post
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quit your job at the posting factory
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Youre going to have plenty of time for posting when youre living in a VAN down by the RIVER lol
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meet me in st louis
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I did carpentry during HS for my teacher who had his own contracting co and he paid me under the table. I personally enjoyed it as I enjoyed the trade but it was no more than simple work with little risk for a short period of time.

I heard from a friend who did construction that it was bad hours with bad coworkers.
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meet me in st louis
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talk to grover, i bet he'll need some upcoming work done on his place as the seasons pass.