Worse than Pressure Washing

denverpilot said:
Is this pressure washer a jerk? ;)
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Hey, common. This has been a fun thread. People like to share their tough jobs and wear their hard work like a badge of honor. It's a game on one-ups-man ship.

Nobody really thinks I posted thinking washing my deck was the worst job ever do they? Of course not. Relax and have fun. That's my new motto.
 
Ahh yes, the steaming of manure... We have sat under an awning on Mackinac Island during a brief shower in August and Grant is right on... Now I am an old farm boy who shoveled the stuff into the manure spreader (mix of cow and pig) on a hot day - many times - so my olfactory bulbs are capable of tuning it out... The city folks around me however, were gagging and dumping their food into the bin and moving on... I simply sat there and revisited old memories of a younger day...

As far as the Captain - not really acquainted with manual labor, eh...
Well, keep working on it, it grows on you :)
 
Captain said:
Hey, common. This has been a fun thread. People like to share their tough jobs and wear their hard work like a badge of honor. It's a game on one-ups-man ship.

Nobody really thinks I posted thinking washing my deck was the worst job ever do they? Of course not. Relax and have fun. That's my new motto.
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I did. I often fail to see humor that is implied, though, and have to have it pointed out. That's not on you, though. I just thought, "he's a pilot, maybe he never had to work a nasty job, he may not know any different." It's weird. I see most sarcasm, I use a lot of sarcasm, but I miss a lot of implied humor. :confused:

Sorry I didn't see it.
 
hopmedic said:
I did. I often fail to see humor that is implied, though, and have to have it pointed out. That's not on you, though. I just thought, "he's a pilot, maybe he never had to work a nasty job, he may not know any different." It's weird. I see most sarcasm, I use a lot of sarcasm, but I miss a lot of implied humor. :confused:

Sorry I didn't see it.
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I think you get a pass.

Like you say, someone has to do it. Strong soul, you are.
 
SCCutler said:
I think you get a pass.

Like you say, someone has to do it. Strong soul, you are.
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Maybe, maybe not. I left after 10 years because it was wearing pretty heavy on me and I didn't want to end up being one of the burned out medics who didn't care, that I worked with early in my career.
 
My old Queen Anne/Seattle house was built in 1902 and had coal for heat. It had a giant convection furnace, which means there is no fan but the return air ducts were huge. They all collected in a huge circular chamber about 10 feet in diameter in the basement. The chamber was insulated from the ceiling of the basement with about 12 inches of sand.

I moved into the house in 1972 and the place smelled a little bad. Kind of like cat pi$$ and *****. But I cleaned it diligently with chlorine cleansers from top to bottom. I bought the house for a great price and did a lot of modernizing on the plumbing and electrical. But the smell lingered.

One cold fall morning I switched on the furnace, which had many decades before been converted to oil. Well, what happened next was complete catastrophe.

After all those decades of use the furnace sheet metal had rusted out and collapsed in on itself. The sand on the top of the collector came crashing down into the burner section. The bad part was that I just then discovered the source to the bad smell. It was that the cats that had been living in that house for the past 70 years were using the sand on top of the furnace to relieve themselves.

About 1,000 pounds of sand, dirt, coal dust, regular dust, cat pi$$ and ***** came crashing down and totally engulfed the basement. Then all that mess came pouring out of every heating duct in the house, so there was about a 1/16 inch layer of the most disgusting material known to man all over EVERYTHING in the house from top to bottom.

Pressure washing would have been like a birthday party compared to the next week of cleanup. Every single item I had had to be cleaned or thrown away. The basement was a pile of wrenched crapsand that had to be shoveled out. The entire house had to be re-painted and scrubbed and washed and hosed out. It would have been best just to torch it and bulldoze it away.
 
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Captain said:
Hey, common. This has been a fun thread. People like to share their tough jobs and wear their hard work like a badge of honor. It's a game on one-ups-man ship.

Nobody really thinks I posted thinking washing my deck was the worst job ever do they? Of course not. Relax and have fun. That's my new motto.
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I meant the machine, not you. ;)

I just watch Mike Rowe and appreciate not having to do most of those jobs. ;)

Summers on the pig farm were pretty messy in a number of ways.

A half a bucket full of pig testicles sitting in the hot sun on nut-cuttin' day always was an interesting sight.

A rubber band, a sharp knife... They never knew what hit 'em.

If we had newbies we'd toss a few in a clean container in a cooler and fry up Rocky Mountain Oysters for lunch over at the farm house.

Stories from First Responders and folks who've survived ground combat in war are always going to win the gross out awards, though.

Civil War battlefield hospitals didn't sound too nice either, but we're talking modern day...
 
denverpilot said:
I meant the machine, not you. ;)

I just watch Mike Rowe and appreciate not having to do most of those jobs. ;)

Summers on the pig farm were pretty messy in a number of ways.

A half a bucket full of pig testicles sitting in the hot sun on nut-cuttin' day always was an interesting sight.

A rubber band, a sharp knife... They never knew what hit 'em.

If we had newbies we'd toss a few in a clean container in a cooler and fry up Rocky Mountain Oysters for lunch over at the farm house.

Stories from First Responders and folks who've survived ground combat in war are always going to win the gross out awards, though.

Civil War battlefield hospitals didn't sound too nice either, but we're talking modern day...
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You beat me to it. I watch Dirty Jobs all the time. He has done a lot of horrible jobs, most horrible though was in the San Francisco sewers with rats and roaches climbing over him, in his clothes, etc. Plus he was in human waste.
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
You beat me to it. I watch Dirty Jobs all the time. He has done a lot of horrible jobs, most horrible though was in the San Francisco sewers with rats and roaches climbing over him, in his clothes, etc. Plus he was in human waste.
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His Congressional testimony was spot on, too. And he's a baritone opera singer. Dude is pretty sharp really.
 
denverpilot said:
His Congressional testimony was spot on, too. And he's a baritone opera singer. Dude is pretty sharp really.
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He has a PhD (I think) and does lectures etc. The whole show was based on a much deeper meaning / idea than what most people realize.
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
He has a PhD (I think) and does lectures etc. The whole show was based on a much deeper meaning / idea than what most people realize.
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No PhD.

He graduated with a degree in Communication Studies from his second college after starting at a Community college.

Wikipedia doesn't elaborate whether it's an Associates or Bachelor's degree.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe

He's hired to speak because he's a talented speaker, not for his education background.
 
He does have a very iconic voice,very American. He also represents the American Dream. He took something (in his case a willingness to do just about anything) and made a name for himself along with oodles of money.
 
Seanaldinho said:
He does have a very iconic voice,very American. He also represents the American Dream. He took something (in his case a willingness to do just about anything) and made a name for himself along with oodles of money.
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Ooodles of money? I thought they spent 200 - 300 days per year (away from their loved ones) in gross cheap hotels and shared rooms and really didn't have it that great.
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
Ooodles of money? I thought they spent 200 - 300 days per year (away from their loved ones) in gross cheap hotels and shared rooms and really didn't have it that great.
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What the company will reimburse for hotels and what your pay scale are, aren't related in the Unionized TV biz unless you got it in your contract.

Googled websites estimate Mike's net worth at between $12-$13 million.
 
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