Re: Last night was "surf and coop."

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:05:37 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

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How hard they work and what they have to put up with?  I realize they
have to hustle and have to deal with idiots but my sympathy my be a
little restrained when I think back to some of the jobs I had as a kind
that paid peanuts. I was a paper boy who had to deliver a heavy bag of
papers on a two mile route regardless of the weather. I was out on the
hottest days of summer and the coldest days of winter, in the heavy snow
and pouring rain. I made next to nothing doing it  and I also had to go
around and collect every week which  took 5 times longer than delivery,
and trying to squeeze that 60 cents a week out of adults.  Then the
summer I was 14 I worked for a house builder making basements for $1 and
hour, sweating my ass off in a huge hole in the ground and and pushing
around a bug  construction size wheelbarrow loaded with gravel or
cement. I picked strawberries in a field in the glaring sun for what
amounted to about 55 cents an hour.
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I had a much better summer job while I was at university. I worked in
the furnace room of an alloy smelting plant.  I rarely had to work more
than 15-20 minutes  every hour but when I did it was usually hotter than
an oven. I had to wear long johns and a heavy wool coat to protect me
from the heat. I got burned almost every day on the job and one day
someone was  killed in the job. Hell I was  replacing a guy who had been
injured on the job and was off for four months. I later worked for the
highways department in various positions. Four people I had worked with
were killed on the job.  And servers have to carry heavy trays and be
nice to people?

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Being nice to other people is difficult for some people. I had an easy
time with that. I could take difficult/hostile people and turn them into
loyal patients. I'm like a silver-tongued devil. I should be dsc1 - the
C would stand for "charming."