What is the physically hardest job out there?

[rbV5]

after reading through this why the hell is Crab Fishing so hard?

Just watch the "Dealiest Catch" on the discovery channel sometime Some of those deck jobs are OMG.

 

[thegimp03]

Farming/Ranching, Residential construction.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Feldenak
Furnace crew in a steel mill meltshop.

This reminds me. Unlike the movie (Titanic) those stoker/laborers had to wear jackets of asbestos to avoid being cooked by the front of the boilers as they shoveled coal in. That's quite demanding.

 

[edprush]

Originally posted by: Rogodin2
Buck Hay for a corporate hay exporter 14hrs a day 7 days a week. Job entails throwing 150-200lb bales of Hay into a steaming hot container.

Rogo

Where can that work be found?

 

[SuperSix]

Originally posted by: brandonbull
Maybe a roofer in Florida

Try being a block-mason apprentice.. Hauling wheelbarrows of concrete, shoveling "mud" up on scaffold.. brutal work - especially in Florida

 

[Miramonti]

The only thing an IB ever risked by going to work was his employment. Its an insult to those who literally bust their @ss every day to suggest an IB job is more physically demanding than those who daily risk their physical health as well as livelihood, not to mention putting their lives on the line every day to make a living.

I guess that's the type of answer you'll get if you ask a bunch of soft white collar people what's the most physically demanding job. :roll:

 

[savvy]

Lawn mowers? ._.

 

[sdifox]

I worked at a rice wholesaler one day (had nothing to do and my bro asked me if I wanted to give it a try) and I couldn't move a muscle the next day. It was simple job, take a 20kg bag of rice, split it into 2 10kg plastic bag, seal and pack on 2 skid. Funny thing is, the 2 bags are different but it is exacly the same rice. In 11 hours we (my bro and I) processed 2 skids. He is the athletic one in the family, he went back to work the next day, I spent the next day laying around. Couldn't even laugh.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: veggz

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.

Did your lack of imagination contribute to your choice to become an IB?

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: amish

Originally posted by: jlbenedict

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: chambersc

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

how is it hard physically?

try working 100 hours a week.

Fvck that!!

heart attacks & ulcers induced by stress FTL

You don't need to work 100 hours a week to get a stomach ulcer, I know cause I got my first stomach ulcer when I was 16 and have had it ever since.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: mugs
Forrest firefighter.

Nice spelling of forest were you trying to imply something there kiddo?

 

[TraumaRN]

Most days when I come home from work. I feel like passing out and not waking up for hours on end.

I only work 12 hour shifts.

<-------- student nurse at inner city trauma hospital. Physically, mentally and emotionally demanding.

 

[PaidLess]

Medical Research Genine Pig ...

 

[mrzed]

Originally posted by: jjsole
I guess that's the type of answer you'll get if you ask a bunch of soft white collar people what's the most physically demanding job. :roll:

QFT. Clearly there are two main camps here: The "I'm tired after my stressful long week in my whiote-collar job therefore it is physically demanding" camp, and the "I watch TV, and can therefore confirm that Crab Fishing is the most demanding job" camp.

Both can be joined into the "I'm a computer nerd with no clue of real labour" camp.

Jobs I've worked:

- Treeplanting as mentioned - rated by the Worker's Compensation Board as the most demanding forestry job. I could easily outwork Coastal Fallers.
- Unloading shipping containers full of 40lb bags of rice (I did this after planting and was told to slow the hell down by the other workers)
- All types of Construction - Sanding ceilings is easily the worst/hardest job there
- 3 weeks of raking and loading wet leaves into trucks in the pouring rain
- Brush clearing with machetes in 100 degree (37 degree) heat - add wasps for extra fun!

Jobs I've not worked but know are hard from friends who have:

- Rig hand
- Greenchain at a saw mill

now I'm a desk jockey. But at least I know what hard work is. That's why I went back for a postgrad tech diploma, to avoid all that hard work.

 

[Playmaker]

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.

I know quite a few investment bankers, and "loves" is the last word I'd use to describe their feelings of the job. There's an old joke that most investment bankers would work as garbage men if they could get the same pay.

 

[Playmaker]

Originally posted by: 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.

You overstate the difficulty of investment banking. Most individuals with moderate intelligence could be taught how to function as an analyst or associate.

Working 100 hours a week is incredibly tiring, so I'll give you the physical part.

 

[rbV5]

Clearly there are two main camps here: The "I'm tired after my stressful long week in my whiote-collar job therefore it is physically demanding" camp, and the "I watch TV, and can therefore confirm that Crab Fishing is the most demanding job" camp..

and the third camp,

"I grew up on a farm, in logging country and hell yes I know what real work is.... as a matter of fact, I've done many of the jobs listed, and my answer is from my personal experience"

You aren't the only one here that has had to work for a living

 

[WENEEDLIGHT]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
go to southeast asia and make sneakers for $2/year

Agreed.

 

[topslop1]

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.

Well you'd workout probably a max of about 3 hours a day if even that. It's just hard on the body itself, not the actual working out. Nearly anyone can push themselves to the max they have the right mindset.

 

[Fardringle]

It may not be the toughest job ever, but certainly the hardest job I've done was working as a load/package sorter at UPS. It's basically aerobic heavy lifting non-stop for five hours straight. On slow days I would personally physically lift and move a around 20 tons of packages (a few boxes at a time, of course). The busiest days around the Christmas holiday we estimated close to 50 tons of packages moved per sorter in a five hour shift. UPS would not let sorters work longer than 5 hours a day (and most didn't work more than 4 hours a day) because the work is so exhausting that working a full day would lead to a lot of serious injuries.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Dunno if it's been mentioned but roofing houses in the summer sux bawls.

 

[UNCjigga]

Anything on a fishing boat should be tough.

 

[James3shin]

Marathon runner? Kidding aside, I'd have to say that working on a fishing boat is pretty damn crazy. If you fall off that boat, you're done for, and considered dead. The boat will not stop to pick you up, they may throw a donut, but that is a very iffy "may." Oh and how can anyone that has played both sides, i.e. blue collar and white collar fields say that an Investmant Banking position is the most demanding? I remember working, actually, I mostly watched my dad put up siding in the summer and that easily trumps my current position as a researcher in the nano-materials field. A real white-collar job is ALWAYS more physically demanding then a real blue-collar job. Try lifting and moving scaffolding all day, and see if you can move a limb in the evening...pfft investment bankers, "wahhhh, I stayed up too late with no sleep." Ever pulled an all-nigher and still gone to class? I wouldn't dare dream of trading my 3 simultaneously running experiments and research days for an hour of what my pops goes through.

 

[Winchester]

Unloading trailers at UPS and oil field work. I have heard that the UPS job is considered harder labor than oil field, especially during Christmas season, and that is coming from some pretty big guys.

If you want to get built/trimmed up or lose weight, work at UPS for a little while unloading trailers. I promise, you will get stacked.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: mrzed

Originally posted by: jjsole
I guess that's the type of answer you'll get if you ask a bunch of soft white collar people what's the most physically demanding job. :roll:

QFT. Clearly there are two main camps here: The "I'm tired after my stressful long week in my whiote-collar job therefore it is physically demanding" camp, and the "I watch TV, and can therefore confirm that Crab Fishing is the most demanding job" camp.

Well now, some of us fit into a 3rd category - those who relish their white-collar jobs, simply because they worked their asses off earlier in life at physically demanding jobs to put themselves through college.

If we're going to be cataloging and comparing blue-collar epeens - while I admit my list is definitely not at the top - I'm willing to bet that my years of cotton-hoeing, hay-bailing, sheet-rocking, footer-digging, roofing, bricklaying, ceiling-hanging, etc - all during the summer months in humid, Louisiana weather - can put me a few rungs above several of the "ZOMG! Investing banking is hard!" posers.