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People who do manual labor must be exhausted all the time

justamjustam Posts: 21,412
edited April 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
I spent the day scraping old wallpaper and glue off the wall and re-painting. I feel wiped out. :?

How do people do this kind of thing everyday?!
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  • Local CrewLocal Crew Posts: 745
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    Local Crew wrote:
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    Yeah, I guess, but I think 8 hours of it and I'd be a zombie. :shock:
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  • CreedDiseaseCreedDisease Posts: 241
    The ones I know drink lots of beer when they get off (sometimes before)
  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    I used to do roofing and siding and was pretty much used to it.....only time it sucked was when the lift broke and we had to manually carry bundles of shingles up to the roof. now i fix computers in a climate controlled office...sometime I miss working outdoors
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  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Mexicans and immigrants are used to it...our dark brownskin can take the heat unlike pasty white people!
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  • Back_PedalBack_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    You get into shape after a while. Just gets easier as time goes on.
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  • dave grolschdave grolsch Posts: 730
    I,m a bricklayer and sometimes i,m laying blocks that weigh 25 kgs and i need to get around x150 of them down a day to make a decent wage,take into account working at heights,loading up and carrying mortar and cills etc and you will get an idea how physical my the job can be :shock:
    Like someone else said you do get used to it,but i only drink beer*after* work ;)
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    LONGRD wrote:
    Mexicans and immigrants are used to it...our dark brownskin can take the heat unlike pasty white people!

    I'm half Mexican and I think this is just rude. :x
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    Back_Pedal wrote:
    You get into shape after a while. Just gets easier as time goes on.

    That's probably true.

    I guess what I should have started the thread with was-->

    I think people who do jobs like this ought to get more credit for how hard it is!!
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    dave grolsch wrote:
    I,m a bricklayer and sometimes i,m laying blocks that weigh 25 kgs and i need to get around x150 of them down a day to make a decent wage,take into account working at heights,loading up and carrying mortar and cills etc and you will get an idea how physical my the job can be :shock:
    Like someone else said you do get used to it,but i only drink beer*after* work ;)
    :shock:
    :)
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    It becomes second nature after awhile and manual labor workersw appear to be in better shape for it. Atleast that appears to be the case here in Palm Beach Florida.

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  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    g under p wrote:
    It becomes second nature after awhile and manual labor workersw appear to be in better shape for it. Atleast that appears to be the case here in Palm Beach Florida.

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  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    Back_Pedal wrote:
    You get into shape after a while. Just gets easier as time goes on.




    exactly.
    i think any *work*...manual or mental, or both....you grow accustomed. i know even when doing projects around the house or garden, first day doing so is always brutal, but if it's a big project working for a few days....even then, get accustomed and not nearly as tiring. really, it is a much better *tired* than working in an office or classroom, at least to me....b/c i think a physical exhaustion *feels* so much better than a mental exhaustion.....and far better for sleep! :)
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  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    My work is somewhat manual - I teach anywhere from 10-14 aerobic classes per week, and haul equipment, and work on learning routines, as well as running the business myself (painting, cleaning, hauling the garbage). I know on a day where I've taught 3 classes, I don't have much left when I go home and I just want to collapse and get online. Its hard to keep up with the paperwork sometimes, but the work is such that if I bring in too many others, I won't be profitable, so its a fine line to walk between how tired I get, and whether I get to pay myself.
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    JaneNY wrote:
    My work is somewhat manual - I teach anywhere from 10-14 aerobic classes per week, and haul equipment, and work on learning routines, as well as running the business myself (painting, cleaning, hauling the garbage). I know on a day where I've taught 3 classes, I don't have much left when I go home and I just want to collapse and get online. Its hard to keep up with the paperwork sometimes, but the work is such that if I bring in too many others, I won't be profitable, so its a fine line to walk between how tired I get, and whether I get to pay myself.

    Jane, I not surprised you're coming home exhausted sometimes! With all those classes, you must be very fit though. :)
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  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    justam wrote:
    LONGRD wrote:
    Mexicans and immigrants are used to it...our dark brownskin can take the heat unlike pasty white people!

    I'm half Mexican and I think this is just rude. :x
    Believe me, I know exactly how you feel, i deal with shit like that all the time.
    Some occasions even worst!
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  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    justam wrote:
    JaneNY wrote:
    My work is somewhat manual - I teach anywhere from 10-14 aerobic classes per week, and haul equipment, and work on learning routines, as well as running the business myself (painting, cleaning, hauling the garbage). I know on a day where I've taught 3 classes, I don't have much left when I go home and I just want to collapse and get online. Its hard to keep up with the paperwork sometimes, but the work is such that if I bring in too many others, I won't be profitable, so its a fine line to walk between how tired I get, and whether I get to pay myself.

    Jane, I not surprised you're coming home exhausted sometimes! With all those classes, you must be very fit though. :)

    Heh - for the most part yes. I thought of this thread today when one of my instructors flaked out, couldn't teach, so I got to teach 3 classes instead of the 2 that is normal for me. If I was a drinking person I'd be sitting comatose in front of the TV with a beer. Instead its a soy hot chocolate, but I'm still somewhat comatose. I need to go to bed and get up to do it again tomorrow.
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  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 40,628
    justam wrote:
    I spent the day scraping old wallpaper and glue off the wall and re-painting. I feel wiped out. :?

    How do people do this kind of thing everyday?!
    Depending on the wallpaper ,the paste used and if the drywall was properly sealed to begin with , yeah that blows. Used to do that for a living. Loved to hang it though. Nothing like taking four blank walls and when you're finished compleatly changing the vibe of a room.
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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Its called being in shape, something most Americans in the last hundred years have seemed to loose touch with. ;)
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    CHANGEinWAVES wrote:
    g under p wrote:
    It becomes second nature after awhile and manual labor workersw appear to be in better shape for it. Atleast that appears to be the case here in Palm Beach Florida.

    Peace
    Hey there!
    Haven't seen you for a bit... Or maybe I haven't been looking.
    You back in Florida now?

    Well I've been here since December and we don't leave for DC till May. I've been working crazy hours 6 days a weeek 12 hours a day. However, I get to see the and smell the Atlantic Ocean and the intercoastal everyday. Just down the road from the Bernie Madoff house which gets a ton of action from the US Marshals closing it down.

    Good to be back now for awhile as i now have the internet at the beach.

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  • patrickredeyespatrickredeyes Posts: 8,834
    justam wrote:
    I spent the day scraping old wallpaper and glue off the wall and re-painting. I feel wiped out. :?

    How do people do this kind of thing everyday?!

    Everytime I read your post I laugh a little.
  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    LONGRD wrote:
    Mexicans and immigrants are used to it...our dark brownskin can take the heat unlike pasty white people!
    hahahah, i'm going to use that one whenever my guatemalan bf complains about anything if he's outside...
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    patrickredeyes wrote:
    justam wrote:
    I spent the day scraping old wallpaper and glue off the wall and re-painting. I feel wiped out. :?

    How do people do this kind of thing everyday?!

    Everytime I read your post I laugh a little.
    :D
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  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,493
    I framed houses for about 10 years....first, in 40 below zero in Colorado (no shit) and then in 115 degrees in Vegas. 10 hour days were usually followed with drinking until bedtime.

    I occasionally "come out of retirement" and now it totally kicks my ass. Man, I was a stud back in the day! :mrgreen:
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  • sweet adelinesweet adeline Posts: 2,191
    i used to work for UPS in the shipping hub. basically loading a semi full of boxes all night. i was in the best shape of my life and i would be so worked after my shift, it effing sucked. i'd spend half my paycheck on alcohol just to help numb my pain at night. i never got used to it, so i applaud all those who do it for a living.

    now i sit behind a desk and play with other peoples money.
  • CommyCommy Posts: 4,984
    sweet adeline wrote:
    i used to work for UPS in the shipping hub. basically loading a semi full of boxes all night. i was in the best shape of my life and i would be so worked after my shift, it effing sucked. i'd spend half my paycheck on alcohol just to help numb my pain at night. i never got used to it, so i applaud all those who do it for a living.

    now i sit behind a desk and play with other peoples money.


    yeah i built a couple houses with your brothers. wasn't too bad, but got old real quick.

    the day i nailed my fingers together with nail gun was fun, but other than that it wasn't, at all.
  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    justam wrote:
    Back_Pedal wrote:
    You get into shape after a while. Just gets easier as time goes on.

    That's probably true.

    I guess what I should have started the thread with was-->

    I think people who do jobs like this ought to get more credit for how hard it is!!
    They really should... I worked in construction for years and many of them are destroyed by the time they're in their mid 30s though with plenty of health problems :( back problems are normal... but people with a trade generally can't get any kinda other work so they keep it up... some of them are practically killing themselves. It's horrible and very very sad.
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  • megatronmegatron Posts: 3,420
    yep..ya gotta be in shape..but i also smoked when i did manual labor...eh o well
    i worked 7-5 in a steel shed welding steel pipe. this was in florida and you cant use fans or it screws your weld.

    thanks..i now re-appreciate moving up to a desk job
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