What is the physically hardest job out there?

[MrWizzard]

F1 Race Car Driver. Im serious, very stressful and physically challenging.

 

[veggz]

Originally posted by: jjsole

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.

Hahahahahahaha, idealism is FTL.

I am currently in my first year of an investment banking stint at Goldman Sachs, and let me just say that's not exactly how it works. First of all, I have never met anyone below the rank of senior VP that even remotely enjoys investment banking, let alone love it. Second, the compensation is hardly unlimited. It's pretty good I suppose (I'm only a first year analyst), but the real money is in the hedge funds, PE, and venture capital if you can get in. Analysts and associates' compensations are affected minimally by the firm's performance, and only once you get into the higher echelons of the company do you actually start raking in the big bucks.

IBanking is undoubtedly the most demanding job, and most of it (at the analyst and associate levels) is comprised of mindless busywork. I can't imagine a more physically demanding job, as the first reply in this thread stated.

 

[daveshel]

Roofer or landscaper in Arizona. You can't get the Irish Catholic mom gig in a three-month basis and the forest forefighter may not be steady work.

 

[Metron]

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.

All they do is shoot up different types of steroids... how hard is that? "Real" body builders don't work out! Just ask them about their "stack"...

 

[2Xtreme21]

How about those people that clean the septic tanks in trailer parks?

 

[Superself]

Damn people...do our soldiers at war get any respect??!!

THAT is the hardest job...nothing compares!

 

[FlashG]

Originally posted by: Mucho
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.,

We use to call them "loot men" in my dad's asphalt business. I use to do this kind work during my summer vacation.

 

[Compton]

Originally posted by: veggz

Originally posted by: jjsole

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.

Hahahahahahaha, idealism is FTL.

I am currently in my first year of an investment banking stint at Goldman Sachs, and let me just say that's not exactly how it works. First of all, I have never met anyone below the rank of senior VP that even remotely enjoys investment banking, let alone love it. Second, the compensation is hardly unlimited. It's pretty good I suppose (I'm only a first year analyst), but the real money is in the hedge funds, PE, and venture capital if you can get in. Analysts and associates' compensations are affected minimally by the firm's performance, and only once you get into the higher echelons of the company do you actually start raking in the big bucks.

IBanking is undoubtedly the most demanding job, and most of it (at the analyst and associate levels) is comprised of mindless busywork. I can't imagine a more physically demanding job, as the first reply in this thread stated.

If you work in the air conditioning then you don't have a physically demanding job.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: Metron

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.

All they do is shoot up different types of steroids... how hard is that? "Real" body builders don't work out! Just ask them about their "stack"...

You obviously have no clue. Drugs won't do sh!t for you if your workout and diet are not down solid.

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: edprush

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'?

I did it at West Coast shipyards, primarily Swan Island, Portland, Oregon where my job was based, but also Long Beach Naval Ship yard, Longview Wa, Camas Wa, Tacoma Boat yard and the Seattle Shipyards.

My job is no longer available for the most part as overseas competition killed the Boiler repair business here on the West Coast, even the huge floating dry dock I did a lot of work on here in Portland is sold and gone years ago now.

Thank God too, I never saw any "older guys" doing my job back then and the working conditions (heavy physical part aside) were horrendous. Working in Boilers shortly after shut down, extremely dirty atmosphere from dust/asbestos/boiler residue, and working every day like a pack mule until the job was finished due to tight shipping schedules is no picnic. It sure makes me appreciate my present position Operating a large Munincipal Drinking water plant, thats for sure

 

[Gooberlx2]

My top ones would be:

Commercial Construction/Oil Rig Diver
Miner
Crab Fisherman

 

[theknight571]

I'm going to go with the Deep Sea Diver.

Those guys that are under compression for weeks/months at a time, repairing pipelines and such at the bottom of the ocean.

 

[Rubycon]

Doberman Pincher groomer.

:laugh:

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: theknight571
I'm going to go with the Deep Sea Diver.

Those guys that are under compression for weeks/months at a time, repairing pipelines and such at the bottom of the ocean.

Yep, Oil Rig/Construction Diver.

Especially back in the day when they wore the old Mark V suits. 30lbs each foot, 80lbs weight belt, and like 30lbs in the helmet.

 

[Special K]

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

You're right, active duty soldiers don't have anything on IB's.

Navy SEALS? Hah, most IB's could have that job without even trying.

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: veggz

Originally posted by: jjsole

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.

Hahahahahahaha, idealism is FTL.

I am currently in my first year of an investment banking stint at Goldman Sachs, and let me just say that's not exactly how it works. First of all, I have never met anyone below the rank of senior VP that even remotely enjoys investment banking, let alone love it. Second, the compensation is hardly unlimited. It's pretty good I suppose (I'm only a first year analyst), but the real money is in the hedge funds, PE, and venture capital if you can get in. Analysts and associates' compensations are affected minimally by the firm's performance, and only once you get into the higher echelons of the company do you actually start raking in the big bucks.

IBanking is undoubtedly the most demanding job, and most of it (at the analyst and associate levels) is comprised of mindless busywork. I can't imagine a more physically demanding job, as the first reply in this thread stated.

Its mentally demanding which may result in a physical toll if someone doesn't take care of themselves. Any job with lots of hours and stress fits that description.

Working lots of hours reading a computer screen and lifting 8.5"x11" sheets of paper doesn't even come close to other jobs that are physically demanding from start to finish.

 

[Maxspeed996]

Originally posted by: MX2times
Daycare facility worker

My wife runs her own daycare.....and demanding isn't the word for what this is....if it were me , I'd call it sheer torture.

 

[Blazin Trav]

Originally posted by: veggz

Originally posted by: jjsole

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.

Hahahahahahaha, idealism is FTL.

I am currently in my first year of an investment banking stint at Goldman Sachs, and let me just say that's not exactly how it works. First of all, I have never met anyone below the rank of senior VP that even remotely enjoys investment banking, let alone love it. Second, the compensation is hardly unlimited. It's pretty good I suppose (I'm only a first year analyst), but the real money is in the hedge funds, PE, and venture capital if you can get in. Analysts and associates' compensations are affected minimally by the firm's performance, and only once you get into the higher echelons of the company do you actually start raking in the big bucks.

IBanking is undoubtedly the most demanding job, and most of it (at the analyst and associate levels) is comprised of mindless busywork. I can't imagine a more physically demanding job, as the first reply in this thread stated.

So explain to me how IB, which is a mentally demanding job, is more phyiscally demanding then picking strawberries all day?

 

[Deleted member 4644]

I would have to go with pro boxer or another pro "fighter." You are basically paid to take bodily damage.

 

[Feldenak]

Furnace crew in a steel mill meltshop.

 

[squirrel dog]

Roofer comes to mind . Hanging sheet rock sucks also.

 

[pinion9]

Originally posted by: veggz
IBanking is undoubtedly the most demanding job, and most of it (at the analyst and associate levels) is comprised of mindless busywork. I can't imagine a more physically demanding job, as the first reply in this thread stated.

Umm, do you know the definition of either physical or demanding?

Mindless busywork != physically demanding.

 

[BatmanNate]

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
Roofer comes to mind . Hanging sheet rock sucks also.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: Blazin Trav

Originally posted by: veggz

Originally posted by: jjsole

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.

Hahahahahahaha, idealism is FTL.

I am currently in my first year of an investment banking stint at Goldman Sachs, and let me just say that's not exactly how it works. First of all, I have never met anyone below the rank of senior VP that even remotely enjoys investment banking, let alone love it. Second, the compensation is hardly unlimited. It's pretty good I suppose (I'm only a first year analyst), but the real money is in the hedge funds, PE, and venture capital if you can get in. Analysts and associates' compensations are affected minimally by the firm's performance, and only once you get into the higher echelons of the company do you actually start raking in the big bucks.

IBanking is undoubtedly the most demanding job, and most of it (at the analyst and associate levels) is comprised of mindless busywork. I can't imagine a more physically demanding job, as the first reply in this thread stated.

So explain to me how IB, which is a mentally demanding job, is more phyiscally demanding then picking strawberries all day?

strawberry pickers don't work 100 hours. picking strawberries is relatively easy - almost anyone can do it. not anyone can do investment banking, let alone do a mentally challenging thing for 100 hours a week.

 

[veggz]

Originally posted by: Blazin Trav

Originally posted by: veggz

Originally posted by: jjsole

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.

Hahahahahahaha, idealism is FTL.

I am currently in my first year of an investment banking stint at Goldman Sachs, and let me just say that's not exactly how it works. First of all, I have never met anyone below the rank of senior VP that even remotely enjoys investment banking, let alone love it. Second, the compensation is hardly unlimited. It's pretty good I suppose (I'm only a first year analyst), but the real money is in the hedge funds, PE, and venture capital if you can get in. Analysts and associates' compensations are affected minimally by the firm's performance, and only once you get into the higher echelons of the company do you actually start raking in the big bucks.

IBanking is undoubtedly the most demanding job, and most of it (at the analyst and associate levels) is comprised of mindless busywork. I can't imagine a more physically demanding job, as the first reply in this thread stated.

So explain to me how IB, which is a mentally demanding job, is more phyiscally demanding then picking strawberries all day?

I wouldn't exactly call my job mentally straining, most of the time it's like running your brain on low/medium for extended periods of time.

Perhaps IBanking isn't physically straining in the traditional sense of actual muscle fatigue (save for carpel tunnel) but that is not the only form of physical exertion. The OP asked for the most physically demanding job, and IB fits that description due to the heavy tolls the extremely long hours take on the body. It would not be abnormal to stay up working on a pitch book for 72 hours straight and then go directly to a client meeting and be expected to stay awake through its entirety. If you don't, you (quite literally) risk losing your job. Also, I can assure you that the physical risk of consistent sleep deprivation outweighs the risk of picking strawberries all day. The only reason people are willing to endure this torture is for the decent compensation.