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Most physically demanding job you have had?

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  • Holiday rep. Worked 16 hours a day minimum. Half a day off a week. No breaks, lunch hour etc.....
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  • Lucy2016
    Lucy2016 Posts: 8 Forumite
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    I'm a civil servant working on Brexit!
  • bugslett
    bugslett Posts: 416 Forumite
    I used to load and unload containers. There were no ramps for the forklifts so things were dropped at the end and moved forward 20 or 40'. 15-16 hours were normal, longest I did was 24 hours.

    Could be 40 gallon drums, which aren't too bad, till you got to the second layer or squeezing something that weighed 60kgs into a corner at the top because it was the right fit and groupage containers are all about stuffing them to the max.

    Happy days though.
    Yes I'm bugslet, I lost my original log in details and old e-mail address.
  • Mistral001
    Mistral001 Posts: 5,445 Forumite
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    Lucy2016 wrote: »
    I'm a civil servant working on Brexit!


    Brexit has a funny effect with regard to reading the question doesn't it?
  • TELLIT01
    TELLIT01 Posts: 18,588 Forumite
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    Working in a garden centre and unloading bags of compost and peat by hand. Nothing delivered on pallets or unloaded with forklifts there. To be honest I didn't think of it as physically demanding at the time as I was young and fit. It would kill me now.
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