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Old 08-14-13, 09:03 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp View Post
Maybe I'm different in this respect, but I never considered any job I've had to be "the worst". I always felt blessed to have a job and I've never had more than 2 weeks of unemployment between full-time jobs. My first job was at the age of 10 where I sorted the Sunday Papers for a couple of hours at a local Deli for the sum of $1.00.00. When I was 16, I worked part time (summer work) in a local lumber yard.
Right out of High School, I worked 6 days a week (full time) at a Church owned cemetary for about 2.5 years (guess how much the church pays?).

The most physically demanding job I had was when I worked for a Municipal Water utility company full time. There, I worked my way up the ladder from manually digging ditches and using a Jack-Hammer to being a senior plumber. I was then in charge of the workmen under me who did the digging I once did. During this full-time job with the municipal utility company, I also worked part-time both as a Tiler and Landscaper. I would work at the water company from 7:30 to 3:30pm, drive to my part-time landscaping job and continue working until about 9:30 to 10:00pm at night. On my days off (Sat. Sun., holidays, vacation days), I did my part-time work as an assistant to a Tiler from 8:00 to 4:00pm. One year, between full & part time work, I worked full time every day of the year w/o a single day off (except Xmas).
I always felt blessed/thankful to have a job when others didn't, no matter how hard my work was.
As a municipal water worker, I had been inside most of the homes/businesses in the three major cities of Paterson, Passaic and Clifton New Jersey. I got to see how some people lived, in homes where I could see sunlight through the cracks in their walls in the dead of winter, graffiti sprayed across kitchen walls and refrigerators, homes heated with a box-fan on the door of their kitchen oven, ottomans pushed together to form a bed. After seeing all that, I found it hard to complain about anything ever again.

Oh yeah, after all this, I also worked for over 25 years as a law enforcement officer. I saw enough during my tenure as a cop to realize, nobody should complain about their lives.
Amen, brother! Likewise here. The job in the store really wasn't what I would call a bad job. Only a few years experience on the fire dept did I realize how petty the constant rushing around in the store was. And I can say the same thing as your experience as a municipal water worker and law enforcement officer. Wern and I have seen so much bad, and stupid, that most people find it difficult to believe it. Some movies have tried to copy reality, but the reality is, the movie wouldn't be able to qualify for an "R" rating. They can't even get close for TV.
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