I often get the sense that I’m in the only one here doing manual labor but I’m sure there are others.
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Wash them??
Hurr durr!
Soil scientist. I spent 10 years stomping through the bush and digging pits when I got there.
Now I sit behind a desk.
That’s a good picture, great beard. And it’s exactly how I imagined someone in your profession.
Best I can grow is a Syndey Crosby playoff beard, but you’re not far off for most of my colleagues
There’s hope, at least for Halloween and if you have access to a 3D printer.
Behold! https://youtu.be/_MR7JzPXWNU
How can I reduce my poly count IRL to look more like a Dire Straights video like you do?
I’ll go first.
Self-employed general contractor / plumber
Do you happen to be in the Toronto area?? I’m looking for a plumber. Lol
Sorry, I’m across the Atlantic
Thank you for your service
o7
My boss just had me change two coworkers’ passwords so they wouldn’t be able to log back in.
I keep washing and washing, but the blood won’t come off.
Flooring and Flooring Accesories
Ah, the ol’ Hank Hill of flooring.
Tallship sailor/rigger
Farmer
Awesome. What do you farm?
Software engineer. Sometimes I spill coffee, sometimes it’s chocolate or chips crumbs.
It’s honest, hard work, but someone has to do it.
As a software dev, I have spilt coffee on myself a number of times. People just don’t understand what a hard working environment it is. 😞
I work in disability support so I may use various creams while massaging, I get messy while helping people with washing and toileting, and I feed people which can get messy. I also help people with their yards, cleaning their house, washing their pets, whatever they need.
I don’t have a dirty job anymore, but the dirtiest job I’ve had by far was industrial carpenter. I’d go to work with clean jeans and a clean white shirt, and every day I’d come home with jeans that were black from the knees up, and a shirt that was black from the chest down.
I had to wear white shirts because nothing else would come clean. Only white with a lot of bleach would give any appearance of being laundered after a day at work on that job.
I still have a T-shirt from that job, some-odd 20 years later, and it has Hilti C100 industrial epoxy stains all over it, just as hard as the day the shirt was stained. That’s my “shit’s about to get real” work around the house shirt.
what about industrial carpentry caused that?
Working up in the rafters for concrete tilt-up buildings that had already been in service for decades. There’s so much nasty-ass grime up there, and years worth of dust and crud.
crud being a technical term I assume
I believe the industry standard term is “fucking bullshit”. ie. “Now I’ve got this fucking bullshit all over me!”.
I used to be a programmer, but I got sick of the whole corporate scene. Now I build and maintain houses - and my hands are dirty a good amount of the time!
Damn that’s a crazy transition. How do you like it?
Well, it’s been about twenty years and I haven’t gone back to the cubicle farm!
Facility maintenance. We grease motors, change belts, tighten bolts. One of the fuel pumps on our generator has a leak, so that’s a fun bit of dirty hands.
My approach to maintenance also involves a lot of cleaning, because I believe clean equipment runs better over time. So cleaning off fan blades, insides of electrical cabinets, sumps, etc. We also fix sinks and toilets.
I load and run two large fiber lasers cutting sheets of metal up to 1 1/4 inch thick.
Same. Well, except for thickness. I’m only running a 4kw.
I work for an ISP in the southeast USA as a field technician and it’s dirty work sometimes. Fixing rodent damage to fiber connection boxes for businesses, placing temporary cables when underground lines get cut, working in dusty equipment closets, etc.
It’s not bad or hard work most days.
Diesel mechanic, the black never washes off!!
