What is the physically hardest job out there?

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brandonbull

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Originally posted by: DeadByDawn
I don't know about the hardest but I know being a roofer isn't much fun.

moving big stacks of shingles around or throwing one of those hot tar mops around can't be fun.

 

phatj

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us dept of labor states that the lumberjack profession has the most work-related deaths/injuries each year
 

rbV5

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I was a shipyard hod carrier for a couple years while serving my Bricklayer apprenticeship working on large Ship Boilers. A shipyard hod carrier packs bricks and refractories up and down ship catwalks and stairs....old out - in sacks, new in - in boxes and hods full of firebrick. You also operate large air jack hammers to break the old refractories out of the Boilers being rebuilt.

Absolutely exhausting work.

I was a choker setter and also set blocks and tackle for a high-lead logging operation out of high school...very physically demanding, but pleasant by comparison to my hod-carrier days.
 

GasX

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Irish Catholic stay-at-home mother of 6

bonus points for mean drunk of a husband
 

everman

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Bering Sea fishermen, offshore rig roughneck. The fishermen work longer hours, more likely to get killed.
 

krunchykrome

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Originally posted by: edprush
Originally posted by: Syrch
How about a body builder? You are working every muscle to its max all the time...i'd figure that would rank up there.

But to bodybuild properly you don't do it 8 hours a day 5 days a week.

Actually , you clock in when you wake up and you clock out when you go to bed. It is a full day job, literally. Between working out, supplementation, and dieting and nutrition, it can easily take up most of your day.
 

Miramonti

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Unfortunately the most appropriate people to answer this question don't speak english.
 

Miramonti

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Originally posted by: JS80
investment banking is probably the hardest job, both physically and mentally.

Its easy to do something someone loves and has an opportunity to make an unlimited amount of money, which fits the description of most ib's. I would take that job in a heartbeat over picking strawberries for 10 or 12 hours a day, hands down.

 

edprush

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Originally posted by: rbV5
I was a shipyard hod carrier for a couple years while serving my Bricklayer apprenticeship working on large Ship Boilers. A shipyard hod carrier packs bricks and refractories up and down ship catwalks and stairs....old out - in sacks, new in - in boxes and hods full of firebrick. You also operate large air jack hammers to break the old refractories out of the Boilers being rebuilt.

Absolutely exhausting work.

I was a choker setter and also set blocks and tackle for a high-lead logging operation out of high school...very physically demanding, but pleasant by comparison to my hod-carrier days.

Where did you do the hod work? Do they still have that 'job'?
 

Special K

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Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Originally posted by: edprush
Originally posted by: Syrch
How about a body builder? You are working every muscle to its max all the time...i'd figure that would rank up there.

But to bodybuild properly you don't do it 8 hours a day 5 days a week.

Actually , you clock in when you wake up and you clock out when you go to bed. It is a full day job, literally. Between working out, supplementation, and dieting and nutrition, it can easily take up most of your day.

QFT, trying to fit in 6 healthy meals per day into an otherwise busy schedule can be quite challenging. I'm not suggesting bodybuilding is the hardest job out there or anything, but the workouts are the easy part, it's the diet that really requires some effort.

 

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Looking at those guys who spread the steaming asphalt with what looks like a rake on the road during paving makes me cringe, thats one job i'll never do.,