What is the physically hardest job out there?

[Special K]

Originally posted by: 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.

I think you got that backwards, based on the rest of your post.

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: brandonbull
Maybe a roofer in Florida

 

[mrzed]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
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.

Yup, I may complain after sitting on my ass staring at two monitors 7 hours a day, and I'm certainly having to struggle not to get all soft, but it's still a far cry better than working my body for a living. Better upside potential too.

 

[SophalotJack]

Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Suicide bomber

/end thread

yeah, have to agree.

100% casualty rate and they get paid mininum wage.

I'll pass.

 

[daveymark]

Originally posted by: SophalotJack

Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Suicide bomber

/end thread

yeah, have to agree.

100% casualty rate and they get paid mininum wage.

I'll pass.

I'll see your minimum wage and raise you 72 virgins

 

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: mrzed
I planted trees in British Columbia for 9 years. Running around with 40-50 pounds of seedlings in terrain that most people wouldn't be able to walk on. Piecework, so if you want to make money, you go full-tilt all day.

I've worked other hard jobs too, but nothing else compared, because I was always able to rest a moment. Planting, I never did.

Yeah, I planted trees for weyerhauser in the high country when I was a lad.
not the easiest work...also logged in the high country on terrain that made billy goats sweat.
The workout was not climbing the hills every day, but running and diving for cover when a log,rock,rootwad or some such thing got knocked loose and came back down the hill.

I swear those rootwads had minds of thier own they would even run perdendicular to the downhill grade.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Jiz mopper at the interstate truck stop.

 

[AStar617]

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[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: edprush
I want to travel around and work at the physically hardest jobs possible. But I only want to do each job for about 3 months...because I'm a bonehead.

Astronaut for Nasa to fix/build the ISS. One wrong move, the world is watching, and your pay is cut since you most likely destroyed a 10 billion dollar piece of equipment. Also, one wrong move, and you could just die.

 

[dr150]

Originally posted by: lokiju
Pornstar

^^

Followed by Alaska fisherman.

 

[herm0016]

a rigger for a touring arena show. show every day or every other day, 15 to 20 hours a day, and you travel city to city inbetween! very physicly demanding, high stress because of traveling and working all the time.

 

[g8wayrebel]

Originally posted by: edprush
I want to travel around and work at the physically hardest jobs possible. But I only want to do each job for about 3 months...because I'm a bonehead.

No contest. Three months is perfect. Go to alaska and try to get on a Crab boat. That is without a doubt the hardest and most dangerous job in the world.

 

[91TTZ]

Originally posted by: Special K


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

Actually that's incorrect. A heightened testosterone level will add muscle mass and decrease fat at any activity level. Sure, you're not going to be able to compete in any tournaments if you just juice up and don't lift, but you will get pretty built from the high testosterone alone.

For example- go to a cattle farm. You have bulls and steer walking around. They have the same activity level, but the steers remain relatively thin because they cut their testicles off, which prevents them from making much testosterone. The bulls get absolutely huge from the high level of T.

As far as people go, I'm sure we've all known the guy who is always jacked yet never goes to the gym. And that's because he has a naturally high testosterone level, he's not even juicing.

The other poster was wrong in thinking that a pro bodybuilder can just juice up and win tournaments, but it's also incorrect to think that juicing up alone won't do anything for you.

 

[91TTZ]

The most physically demanding job:

Forced laborer at a concentration camp.

 

[Vampirrella]

Bankrobber: gotta dodge bullets from time to time

 

[Jmman]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Alaskan crab fisherman

Bingo. Not only one of the world's hardest jobs, it is also one of the most dangerous.....

 

[FallenHero]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Alaskan crab fisherman

My brother wants to do that because he says it will make him a man. I think he is insane, but whatever works, right?

 

[FallenHero]

Originally posted by: Anubis
after reading through this why the hell is Crab Fishing so hard?

is it any different then lobster fishing? set a trap come back and check it type thing? yes i know lobstering isnt easy i know qhite a few of them personally however i dont think even they woudl put it as that phusicially hardest job their is

did you ever see the show deadliest catch?

 

[EXman]

Have you seen all the miners die this year? like 15-20 just in one state in 8 months. Crab fishing would be a vacation.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

"illegal immigrant construction worker in Florida "

:laugh:

That's gotta be it. I remember from when I WAS illegal :evil:

 

[DeeKnow]

Originally posted by: chambersc

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

how is it hard physically?

oh they have to fly around all the time, go fetch the client's golf balls, and bend down to kiss ass all the time... i'd say it can't be too easy LOL

 

[DeeKnow]

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

fair enough, but please get your facts right. thats $2 a day

 

[DeeKnow]

Originally posted by: Thraxen
Man, WTF? I'm guessing the people claiming IB have never actually worked a true blue collar job in their life.

thats quite obvious... but then I-bankers specialize in this sort of 'I-have-no-
clue-what-I-am-talking-about-but-I-make-250k-a-year-so-you-better-listen-to-me' attitude

I spent 11 years working in oil and gas, if you are tempted to ask me where I get off talking like that...

 

[gsellis]

Topsmen/tree topper/high climber. Vert climbing with spikes up a swaying tree hauling a chainsaw. Safely cut the top out of the tree so it will not split when it falls. You have to climb, cut a tree hanging from a belt. You cut it so when the top falls, it misses you, then go down.

And any of the fishing jobs in the North/South Atlantic/Pacific are dangerous and hard. Crabbers get their due, but regular fisherman handle some of the same conditions with large nets that drag them over too. Scary job in horrible conditions.

 

[Beige]

i dont know much about hard working jobs that are bad for your body but working for ups carrying heavy boxes back and forth gave me pain =.=....