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In reply to the discussion: Really hard jobs. Name one. [View all]Scuba
(53,475 posts)60. Interesting how different people define "hard"...
Physically demanding
Gross
Stressful
Emotionally demanding
etc.
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Hospital laundry--I did it as a temp during my early 1980s unemployment
Lydia Leftcoast
May 2012
#17
I think their work-related murder rates (Rangers as the victims) is much higher than the police.
MiddleFingerMom
May 2012
#22
In college, I got a summer job one year digging ditches for a little excavation company.
MiddleFingerMom
May 2012
#23
Grocery bagger, ditch digger, construction site lackey (brick/block carrier), landscape company ...
HuckleB
May 2012
#31
Set three 16X80s in a day and you'll go back to washing dishes in a heartbeat LOL
snooper2
May 2012
#101
Kindergarten teacher. School bus driver. School custodian. School cafeteria worker.
femmocrat
May 2012
#43
The guy at the animal shelter whose job it is to put down perfectly healthy animals
Rochester
May 2012
#50
Crawling on your stomach in human waste & mud to get to a broken sewer pipe and repair it.
Kaleva
May 2012
#57
I was an alcohol and drug counselor for adolescent street kids - runaways and throwaways.
cliffordu
May 2012
#67