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Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Yeah right.

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• nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Manual labour requires a lot of skill and by 30+ you need to acquire it or you’ll destroy your body. There are jobs that require only a few hours of learning but they rarely are intensive, just extremely boring.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What are you calling manual labor? Methinks you paint with a very small brush.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Carry a metric tonne or so of wallboard up the stairs because the lift hasn’t been installed yet, empty all the wheelie bins on site, sweep the floor, all that stuff.

      Basically, the people that do all the work that’s beneath the dignity of a tradie.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There are definitely manual labour jobs that require little to no skill, a lot of site labourer work is like that. Carrying wallboard, emptying bins, just generally carrying shit around.

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    • nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t know where do you live, but around here there is no construction jobs that only require you only to carry shit around. Also you need to learn a lot to carry shit around correctly unless you have spare back.

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      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m Quebec they’re called “journaliers” and being assigned to the Mason as a “journalier” sucks big time.

        It’s the entry level position in construction for people who didn’t get a professional degree in a specific trade.

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Glad to be enlightened, clearly this doesn’t happen, since you haven’t experienced it.

        Big construction sites where I live definitely have such people, and it’s a horrible job.

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• papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Rude

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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  OP’s fat and/or has been sitting in a chair his whole life if he can’t hang at labor in his 30s. Fuck me, I’m 54, work my ass of at Lowe’s, after working IT for 20-years, can still hang. Barely.

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have seen people destroy their backs working as a soda merchandiser before their 40s. That can be a surprisingly brutal job with ridiculous demands.

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  god i wish lol

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