I work, you jerk.

[Arkvoodle]

I want to work.

 

[bobknowsall]

I work in retail. Its very soulcrushing after a while and you have to take all sorts of s**t from people without ever rising to the bait. its a hard slog man.

Yeah, they seem to take "The customer is always right" to heart. It couldn't be further from the truth. The customer is a grumpy, indecisive ignoramus who will waste your time. But you still have to be nice to them.

 

[SHWiMM]

I'm an assassin, and I work relatively hard. Mental and physical exertion abound.
To headshot or not to headshot, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler to poison in one's sleep, or a bare bodkin to the gut to shuffle off one's mortal coil.
A honest day's work for me.

 

[zombiesinc]

I'm a cook (not to be confused with a chef - I more or less work an assembly line) and have been for nearly five years. It's a lot of physical work, and there are one too many people in the kitchen at all times.

It's a high-volume, high-stress, high-oh-my-fuck-are-you-stupid?! environment. Recently, I started upgrading some courses in preparation for university (finally mom, aren't you proud?) and have been working shorter and less shifts.

So, yes I work hard, but not as hard as I used to. I'm also the type of person who can't let things fall apart, so I find myself picking up other people's slack, doing extra work, extra fast, and just generally getting all the shit done other people aren't willing or capable of doing. It's a full-time babysitting job, part-time.

It's been at least four years since I graduated, so I'm a little more than sick of working full-time, making money, spending money and repeating. I'm so looking forward to not working and going to school for seven plus years.

EDIT: It doesn't help that I absolutely loathe my job, and the management there. School... soon... I'll make it... -_-'

 

[Keewa]

I'm a music student fulltime and learning all the ins and outs, whys and wherefores and cramming them into your head whilst playing gigs to make a bit of coin is mentally exhausting. It would probably be easier to chop wood all day.

 

[Branches]

I work the Graveyard shift as an alarm company dispatch. Work's easy, however dealing with most people isn't. What could be a simple thing at one moment turns into a "You people always calling me with your crap, how dare you impeded upon my intelligence, etc etc"

My job isn't hard, I'll say that much, but it's taught me to respect the cops, and even the alarm systems even more than any movie. I mean you see these guys open up a panel box and just walk right in, when we'dve already sent the cops by then.

It's also hard on my social life. I don't get out during the day because I sleep from 8am to about 3 in the afternoon. And the projects I'm given to work on cause tension among the dispatchers. It's a pretty good job at $12 an hour for 40 hours a week.

 

[Kie]

I'll admit I lack a job right now even though I'm seventeen but I at least have some experience with hard work. When I go up in summer to my grandparents they have me do physical work for their gardens and hire me out to friends in their village (They live in the country in Scotland, lovely wee place)which can feel really rewarding. It's always nice to have someone actually congradulate you on your work and offer you a cup of tea when you're done. Unlike some of the jobs I've seen my friends do, like one friend who has an exam in a week and is trying to revise yet because of his job they refuse to let him take time off for revision. I'm dragging on here but what others have said rings true with me, physical feels more rewarding and is a lot less stressful.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

I unload semi trailers by hand and load stoves and other heavy appliances into people's cars. Two weeks ago I was so stressed, both physically and mentally, that I burst a blood vessel on the side of my nose. Never ever praise physical labor. Try it every week for two years for minimum wage. And your college loans and insurance are so expensive that you barely see a dime. I got more money in my tax return than I made all year. I have to do Wii Fit every day to not be in agonizing pain. I don't have a girlfriend, but if I did, I wouldn't be able to do anything because I have so little money, I'm so weak, and I work on the weekends. There are no other jobs available for me either and I have a business degree. So tell me again all about how great that ONE time you went logging was.

 

[razer17]

"Hey, you working hard, or hardly working?""Errr. Hardly working"

I haven't actually had a proper job. But I am in uni, so I'm getting qualifications to get a proper job. Not that it will involve manual labour, but I suck at that. I'm playing to my strengths.

 

[Eekaida]

I've had a job in one form or another since I was 14, as well as attending full-time education. Regardles of how physical a job is, if you've worked hard, you're going to be tired at the end of the day.

 

[RufusMcLaser]

I grew up doing various forms of farm work, and it's a powerful motivator to put that shit behind you and get an education and a decent job. I've been at my current occupation for just over a decade now; it started out with technical work, now it's almost entirely desk-work and not once have I thought back to mucking out the calf pen in a whistful fashion.
I *do* find proper constructive work rewarding, but I wouldn't care to do it for a living.

 

[The Eggplant]

I spent a summer working for my uncle, a builder, and another interning at the Massachusetts State House...so I've experienced both sides. I prefer intellectual work, but I'm not afraid of physical labor.

 

[spartan231490]

im in college, so for the most part, no i dont work. that said, over the summers, i caddy, which is at least 5 hours a day of hard labor. I agree, everyone should have to do some menial labor job for a year or two.

 

[Jonatron]

Mmm. High School student here. Middle of the exam season. Looking back there have been several fortnight bursts of rushing to finish a certain folio, missing morning breaks, lunches, staying hours after school and taking work home. There was one point were I'd spent about fourteen hours a day for two days finishing my Higher Art folio and went in the next day and failed my Math prelim for it. Fun stuff.

Next year (sixth years do four subjects rather than five and are allowed more time for studying and extra curricular activities) I may do some Volunteer work, which I shall be trying during the summer holidays (All the stress of fifth year has made me realise that sleeping into twelve just wastes a day and makes your head screwy), since I don't need the money but the extra work experience would be handy.

 

[Tekkawarrior]

Would I rather prefer a physical job.

I've joked with my friends that my dream job would be a fisherman on the Deadliest Catch.

I'd have to agree, I currently work in an office as a programmer, for two years now, much emotional stress and depression. I've always wanted a job like logging, or fishing.

Why don't I do that? my parents wont be proud

 

[MrFluffy-X]

I work in Tesco hauling heavy cages all day

 

[Soxafloppin]

Im a lifeguard/Liesure Attending, Getting the job was much much harder than actually doing it. With Swimtests and interviews it was a real nightmare, It isnt a hard job at all i enjoy it because i work with people who have good humour.

 

[ace_of_something]

I personally only knew a small handful of people in high school who didn't work. In the midwest it is expected that teenagers get some sort of job. I have always had a steady job ever since I was 15. I notice lots of kids won't work at McDonalds or whatever because 'it's not what they want' or it's not good enough. But man, everyone has got to start somewhere.
My first job was cleaning the bathrooms of the steel mill my father worked at after school. It was fucking aweful. Following that I worked at a comic shop. None of this is of course counting that I spent most summers working on my grandfather's ranch until age 15. Getting a job was the excuse for not having to do that anymore.

 

[Acier]

you know what's funny? My dad grew up on a farm. Large family, small school, the whole shindig.

You now what he says whenever anyone asks him if he misses the "country life"? he instantly responds "No."

Physical labor just makes you sweat and need some advil, it's not inherently better