What's the worst job you ever had?

[blaise]

Originally Posted by frazod

Well, there was no back-breaking labor involved, I guess that's the only positive compared with some of the other jobs mentioned. That bucking hay bales shit sounds far worse, especially considering midwest summer heat and humidity. But at least you're probably working for/with good people.

I've thrown plenty of hay (we had about 40 horses on the property) and yours sounds worse. And our barn loft was long, wide, and low, so to stack the hay you had to bend over almost the whole time. Only when you got to stack right in the center could you stand all the way up.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by blaise

I've thrown plenty of hay (we had about 40 horses on the property) and yours sounds worse. And our barn loft was long, wide, and low, so to stack the hay you had to bend over almost the whole time. Only when you got to stack right in the center could you stand all the way up.

I just never had a really physically demanding job like that. While I spent my younger years on my grandparents' farm, by the time I would have been old enough for chores of a physically-demanding nature my grandpa had retired and sold off most of the property except for the few acres around the house, so I missed all the crap you grew up with. The toughest job I had as a kid was mowing yards, which obviously isn't that bad.

[blaise]

Originally Posted by frazod

I just never had a really physically demanding job like that. While I spent my younger years on my grandparents' farm, by the time I would have been old enough for chores of a physically-demanding nature my grandpa had retired and sold off most of the property except for the few acres around the house, so I missed all the crap you grew up with. The toughest job I had as a kid was mowing yards, which obviously isn't that bad.

To be honest, as a teenager, I considered throwing hay to be kind of cool. What was worse was taking my ass down to the barn before school in the winter and going around and feeding all the horses.

And maybe the worst of all was clearing out the stalls that went both inside and out. There would literally be feet of straw, hay, mud, and manure that had been packed down by horse feet for years. Every so often, we'd clear it all out and lay fresh gravel at the bottom.
You would chip at it with a shovel and put it in a wheelbarrow. You'd want to fill the wheelbarrow as much as you could because you wanted to make fewer trips to the pile out back, but if you filled the wheelbarrow too full and hit a board or something, or went down an incline too fast, the wheelbarrow would tip over and spill everything out.