ShamrockPride
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Blacksmith. Just so I could learn to make swords and s***.
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What Manual Labor/Trade Job Would You Enjoy? (1 Viewer)
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Texas Football
Footballguy
I would love to be the guy that mows the grass on all the highways. Basically sit on a John Deer or whatever with my straw hat and mow grass all day. Catching rays and just mowing away.
Every once in awhile you may run over a kid posing for the BS Bluebonnet pictures. Whatever... State pension fund after years of sitting and mowing.
Similar awesome job would be the guy that rolls/mows greens on a golf course. You have to be up at 4AM which is the bummer part. That has to be a job with a pension, too.
I'm pretty good at mowing, too.
Every once in awhile you may run over a kid posing for the BS Bluebonnet pictures. Whatever... State pension fund after years of sitting and mowing.
Similar awesome job would be the guy that rolls/mows greens on a golf course. You have to be up at 4AM which is the bummer part. That has to be a job with a pension, too.
I'm pretty good at mowing, too.
Texas Football
Footballguy
Roadie seems like it would be cool, too.
As long as you were with a band you dig.
As long as you were with a band you dig.
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
The only work I've ever truly enjoyed has been far removed from a desk. I'm retired but flipping houses s l o w l y with some other guys, ex bil and nephews. I love the work. Ex bil is also retired and we went hard all day. I was outside in miserable heat running power tools in a state of bliss. I love the smell of sawdust in the morning. No desk humper with a silk noose and coat of wool could possibly have enjoyed the burrito and beer as much as I did as the day ran down. Just no way.
I've laid tile and painted professionally, many many years ago, for a very short time. Those are two jobs I won't do now. I have a painter who can spray a 2000 sq ft house while I'm making coffee. He stained 400 feet of 6 foot fence today in less than fifteen minutes. He's Edward Scissorhands with an airless. I'll float resurfacer and stain a floor, and I'll lay down an epoxy floor, I might even paint and poly a floor, but the days of me getting on my hands and knees a couple hundred times, mixing and troweling and setting are over. Younger folks can do that if they want. There's not enough vicodin in the world.
To answer the question. Lifeguard at Kapalua.
I've laid tile and painted professionally, many many years ago, for a very short time. Those are two jobs I won't do now. I have a painter who can spray a 2000 sq ft house while I'm making coffee. He stained 400 feet of 6 foot fence today in less than fifteen minutes. He's Edward Scissorhands with an airless. I'll float resurfacer and stain a floor, and I'll lay down an epoxy floor, I might even paint and poly a floor, but the days of me getting on my hands and knees a couple hundred times, mixing and troweling and setting are over. Younger folks can do that if they want. There's not enough vicodin in the world.
To answer the question. Lifeguard at Kapalua.
rockaction
Footballguy
I'll pull some wool and lay some carpet if that's what it takes to make it in this world.
Frostillicus
Footballguy
Pretty much all of them. I kind of wish I did that sort of thing.
Captain Quinoa
Footballguy
Do you charge strictly by the minute, or is there a flat fee for the first 2 minutes?
Quez
Footballguy
Borden
Footballguy
I'm a Steamfitter-Pipefitter (skilled trade) and I can honestly say that unless you are extremely skilled you are likely doing either very repetitive jobs or heavy work. All day, every day. All trade jobs would be boring and/or hard on the body unless you only specialize in custom work. Which likely means you're beyond exceptional.
My dad flips houses and does home renos. Doing renos/work on your own place is fun by doing them for other people sucks. Most owners also aren't that enjoyable.
All that said, custom carpentry and ironwork or custom/performance mechanic would be at the top of my list.
My dad flips houses and does home renos. Doing renos/work on your own place is fun by doing them for other people sucks. Most owners also aren't that enjoyable.
All that said, custom carpentry and ironwork or custom/performance mechanic would be at the top of my list.
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Flying V
Footballguy
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
Agree with all this. Being a pro at any one aspect of home renovations would become boring and suck almost instantly. Doing it for others is a headache even if you do the whole job.
Houston turmOiler
Footballguy
This. I was in IT and recently went back to driving flatbed 18 wheelers for a lumber distributor...local and regional runs, home every night and weekends off. You can have IT, I'm not going back. I just love to roll out every morning...
Fennis
Footballguy
Bruce Dickinson
Footballguy
One of my best friends from grade school does that for a living. Started out as a roadie for heavy metal bands and worked his way up. Was a week from hitting the road for a Michael Jackson tour when Jackson died. He's scaled back on travel and doing more studio recording but still does festivals like Coachella and Bonnaroo.
His work stories are a lot more interesting than my work stories. A lot more.
Mr. Ected
Footballguy
I would think that being the guy who greets golfers at the country club and checks tee times and gets guys their carts would be a nice easy job with guys in a happy mood (who is sad/mad at the beginning of a round?!?).
slackjawedyokel
Footballguy
Land surveyor, map maker.
Wooderson
Fight The Power
Papa Georgio
Footballguy
Home restoration or renovation. Also landscaping.
I have no skills or talents in any of these areas but I think I would enjoy it.
I have no skills or talents in any of these areas but I think I would enjoy it.
bushdocda
Footballguy
Changing my answer to tree cutter guy.
Wingnut
Footballguy
I could never work in a cubicle in an office type situation and punch a clock every day. I do commercial pest control and love it. I drive around central Florida 16 nights a month - no traffic, no annoying coworkers, and I see my boss 8-9 times a year. The only job Id rather do would be a Fishing guide/captain.
Mister CIA
Footballguy
Along these lines, I used to flag for my uncle who crop-dusted cotton fields in West Texas. Just sit on a 4-wheeler on a caliche road, and every time he passed I move forward 21 rotations of the tire, sit and collect rays; rinse repeat. Loved it, but I'm not so sure the paraquat mist was all that good for me.
Also used to work for a tractor dealer. Sometimes when the truck driver was unavailable I would have to pick-up/deliver tractors and drive them sometimes as far as 100 miles down Highway 87 or some lonesome stretch of West Texas farm-to-market road, with KUFO cranked up to 11.
Al O'Pecia
Footballguy
Bikini waxer
cstu
Footballguy
cstu
Footballguy
I guess it is but walking around spraying things isn't really my definition of manual labor.
cstu
Footballguy
Al O'Pecia
Footballguy
Mister CIA
Footballguy
NREC34
Footballguy
Oh yeah, I agree but does that job really count as manual labor? I would also say caddy at Augusta but I'm not sure that would count either.
East Coast Bias
Footballguy
I think I'd prefer any trade over my current desk job. Wish someone had told me you don't have to go to college when I was younger.
Wooderson
Fight The Power
Yep. My advise to my kids will be go to school for 2 years and get skills for a trade job. Or go to graduate school and get a professional job. So either 2 years or 8+ years. Anything in the middle is a big risk IMO
Officer Pete Malloy
Footballguy
Pool guy (different from pool boy).
msommer
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
Otis
Footballguy
Good one, but that's not really manual labor or trade I don't think. They get dirty but it's different.
Still if that qualifies, I'm in. Treasure hunting, thrill of the chase, travel to exotic locations? Sure.
comfortably numb
Footballguy
I think this is one of those jobs that sounds exciting but in reality is boring 99.9% of the days.
msommer
Footballguy
Quez
Footballguy
I work with archaeologists, and it's not as cool as it sounds. Driving hours to remote locations to dig shovel test holes is the majority of what they do. If it's a Phase 2 or 3 there is cooler stuff involved. They also have to write reports that take longer than the field visit.
US sucks for archaeologists anyways. Latin America & the other hemisphere is where it's at.
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