Those coal mines go 24/7... as we type messages to one another

[Peacetrain]

Someone is 1 or 2 or 3 or more miles underground digging coal and breathing in dust so our computers can glow and we can elaborate, pontificate, and excoriate one another.

It really is something that makes you stop and think.

[Arctic Dave]

1. So do oilfields. 24/7, 365. No days off, no holidays.

I've worked int the oilfields for eighteen years and I have missed everything from births to funerals and everything in between.

[Peacetrain]

2. Isn't it sad, that it takes the death of so many for us to stop and appreciate

what our fellow citizens do in order for us to live the types of lives we live. Farmers too, one of the most dangerous jobs going is working on a farm.

[Arctic Dave]

3. Back in the old days farm boys would go to work in the oilfields because it

safer, fed you and paid well. That says something right there.

[Peacetrain]

5. Yes it does..

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. Refineries as well.

6 a.m. to 6 p.m. for three days, followed by two days off... then

6 p.m. to 6 a.m. for two days, followed by three days off...

Shift work is a muthah go get used to.

[SPedigrees]

6. so did the plywood mill where I worked for 10 yrs on the graveyard shift

Lots of industrial manufacturing jobs operate 24/7, but few are as dangerous as coal mines.