Whose the hardest worker you know?
Today, dad and I got up at daylight, went outside and set forms for a sidewalk step and stoop. We got that, poured it, then went inside. So, dad has this BRIGHT idea to paint his bedroom. We started painting, I was on the ladder doing trim, guess who wants me to go out side and help him finish up the concrete.. DAD.
We finished concrete, I washed off the tools, sprayed everything off, and he wants to cut some wood. OK. so we'll cut wood, just means i dont have to paint.
We split atleast 25 logs, stacked them, went inside for a drink... I cooked supper (home made pizza), sat down to eat, finished up, cleaned up, Wow. Guess what. WE HAVE TO PAINT AGAIN.
Well, Ive worked from sunlight to dark, now from the time i post this, till probably midnight. Guess whose room is tomorrow?
I now, need new khaki shorts.
When is he going to quit?
We finished concrete, I washed off the tools, sprayed everything off, and he wants to cut some wood. OK. so we'll cut wood, just means i dont have to paint.
We split atleast 25 logs, stacked them, went inside for a drink... I cooked supper (home made pizza), sat down to eat, finished up, cleaned up, Wow. Guess what. WE HAVE TO PAINT AGAIN.
Well, Ive worked from sunlight to dark, now from the time i post this, till probably midnight. Guess whose room is tomorrow?
I now, need new khaki shorts.
When is he going to quit?
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Who I know personally?
My dad or myself.
When we were doing the floors throughout the house this January, I worked from 8am to 3am, everyday for a week and a half.
Break around noon for lunch and around 6pm for dinner. Then Tori would run out around midnight for a couple burgers and bring them home.
If a farmer is not on your list, you'd better think again though. I don't personally know many farmers. Dlrjj is one and rarely has time to sit down, let alone relax. A true American Worker. I'm sure CowDoc would classify as the same.0 -
It's good for you, enjoy it while you can 'cause when arthritides sets in you would wish you could lay concrete and paint and chop wood, so, again, enjoy it while you can [:D] Don't forget to thank your father for this opportunity.
And it's "who is", "whose" is a possessive of who.0 -
My dad and my father-in-law. My father-in-law had a stroke when he was six month old! His mom worked his rams and legs until he could limp along. He worked the family farm until he was 22. He went to college and eventually got a PHd in chemistry. He works the farm in the summers and taught high school the rest of the year. He overcame this handicap. My dad worked 6-7 days a week at GM as a tool and die maker. As he got older he cut back to 5-6 days. He retired after 36 years. 0 -
A black guy I used to work with when I worked in a butcher shop. I can't remember his name, but he was a very nice fellow. He worked every single day of the year except Christmas and New Year's Day. The store was open every other day, and he worked every one. He worked a 12 hour day loading trucks and driving them, and the store put him on a second time card under another name after he hit the first forty hours. After he hit 80, they paid him under the table for the last four.
He had five children by four different women, but did his best to support them. I remember his teeth were falling apart because he didn't have insurance and couldn't afford to fix them.
I simply cannot imagine working 84 hours a week and dreaming about those two days a year you get off. He is probably still there today.0 -
quote: I simply cannot imagine working 84 hours a week and dreaming about those two days a year you get off. He is probably still there today.
Two days off each year? That is twice the amount of time off that I give to my employees! My father was the hardest working person that I have ever met. I asked him once why he never took a vacation. "I did not come to this country for sight seeing" was his answer.0 -
Two days off each year? That is twice the amount of time off that I give to my employees!
Mr. Burns, is that you?0 -
My wife, hands down. Gets up at 5:00 am to take care of quad daughter. Works a the factory 'til 3. Picks up grandkids at school. Fixes supper for me, grandkids, two daughters and son-in-law. Then washes clothes and takes care of daughter til 11 or 12. Plus, does for elderly parents and mother in law. Did all this last year while beating breast cancer. Only missed two days work. Has not spent a night away from home since daughter's accident in '02. Turned 50 this year. If any thing happens to her, we're all scr-wed. 0 -
There are things you just have to do yourself if you want them done right (you could pay a fortune to have them done....and have strangers in your home.) As far as working hard. I don't know many people who don't these days. Its getting so that if you want to have even a mild level of comfort you have to work like the word "vacation" is some code for the devil. 0 -
Me!!! But only 8 hrs a day...I really ball bust too. But when that buzzer goes I'm the sorriest SOB on the planet.... 0 -
This Polish dude I used to work at a meat cutting plant with. His name was Ski because nobody could pronounce his real name. He worked the line next to me for almost 3 years. I was doing tripes, livers and hearts; he was doing the veals and halves.
I'd get a cow carcass off the chute and slit it, remove the belly bag, slit it and grab the tripes, the liver and cut out the heart, and slide the whole mess to Ski.
He was into that cow so fast, sometimes I'd have nicks on my steel glove. I had to wear a rubber glove on the right, and a steel mesh one on the left; the rubber ones were good for about 20 minutes, then the stomach acids would eat through them and you'd have to change gloves.
He worked everybody's knives at home, and brought 'em back sharper than we'd ever seen 'em-they'd last a full 12-hour shift without a touchup!
He got a little speedy one day and managed to hack off two fingers; he didn't notice until almost 7:30 that night! Came in the next day with some stitches he put in himself, and did another 2 days' of work.
I left that job when I found out they were going to shut it down due to USDA inspection. Ski went to building houses, I went to guiding hunters in the Jemez.0 -
of my current co-workers... Carlos, The Cuban...
My Grandma was the hardest worker i ever knew.0 -
Me. But that's only because age and sickness finally slowed my dad down. I grew up understanding that he'd be able to whup my butt or run me into the ground two weeks after he was dead. Now that I'm old enough to know I could prove him wrong, I have no interest in doing it.
When times get tough, having been taught to work hard is something to be grateful for. My only gripe is that there aren't more hours in the day -- or that I can't make do with less rest.
Last but not least -- and dad taught me this, too -- working hard and being honest mean you bow to no one, stand aside for no one, and consider no one your "better". That sort of dignity is something no amount of money can buy and that no one has the power to take from you.0 -
when i was younger i worked every waking moment of everyday sometimes 1 full time and 2 part time jobs, then kids came along i quickly discovered wasting my life at a job is not worth my life nor theirs, now i work, and have a life 0 -
My boss at the golf course I worked at after I retired from the Post Office. He worked harder than any man on the crew. What makes this great is; he inherited a bunch of money and didn't have to work at all 0 -
My grandfather he is currently 80 and still farming. Not going strong, but he is trying. He was a dairy farmer, got up at 5:00 every morning for 40 years until we got rid of the cows in 2002. Parents and him also farm about 2500 acres of corn, soybeans, and wheat. I know for sure it must have been really long days when he would get up at 5:00 and work until after the sun set. 0 -
I work a full time demanding night job in a correction facility.(24 years service). Get home feed approximately 200 head of cattle, be their doctor, have 12 miles of fence to maintain, 3 miles of water line, 9 water tanks to look about, 150 arces of hay to bale-500+ 5x5 round bales, 404 acres to keep cleaned off, sprayed, bushed, etc, 3 rental houses to maintain, (four tractors, at least 20 pieces of machinery, my 6 vehicles, mothers 3 vehicles, daughters 2 vehicles, 3 riding mowers, 3 4-wheeler,etc all I maintain myself, years put out 4+ acres of tobacco with no mexican help either, 4 big barns and three smaller to maintain, buy and deliver all the supplies and at least 20 tons of fertilizer applied annually, mow my yard, mothers, daughters, and family grave yard weely-approximately 3 1/2 acres, 1/4 acre garden, baby sit with daughters 1 year old son, then it is time for my day to get started as the above usually is the easy part, its the unexpected that makes it hard like while feeding the cattle have to get a cow up and pull the calf or the bulls been fighting and tore the fence all to heck, or the water pump quit on a Sunday and 200 cattle looking at you for water, etc. The only help I have or use is my 72 year old mother and 15 year old son.
In 1998 I won the Green acre farm award from the county Farm extension office for the cleanest, neatest farm in the county. In 2002 I won the Clean Farm water award for the county from the Soil and water office for the water system I have in place. It is spring feed, pumped to a large concrete tank on top of a hill then gravity flows to all tanks.
At my correctional job three years that I have been there I have been awarded employee of the year mostly for me doing the work of accrediation manager and never scoring below a 98% from the state or federal inspectors.0 -
I worked 3 jobs for 3 and a half years with no time off from any of the jobs. And then filled in part time for guys while they were sick or out hunting. Had to quite, got to tired to keep up. LORD I was young and stupid back then. BUT it did help my disabilty pay in the end, so I guess it paid off. ( STUPID ) 0
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