What jobs do you hate?

[Industrial Toys]

That last twenty years (Since 911) has been a virtual blurr!

If I had to buy a vehicle tomorrow, I would be hard pressed. There is nothing out there that impresses me at all. And much of it just disgusts me. I want one of those simple Toyota P/Us with the simple, old school Diesels, that apparently only the Taliban is allowed to own and drive.

 

[4570Man]

Oh, yeah. Hydraulic Repairs are a lot of fun too.

I’d rather suffer through a hydraulic repair as do without said machine. But repairs involving oil or antifreeze really suck.

 

[4570Man]

What's so bad about greasing equipment? It's not like we're wallowing in it, are we? Grease gun, proper extensions, some rags, a stick maybe to poke the dirt and grime out first. I'd do that all day long. Heck, I did do that all day long some days at my last job.

I haven’t developed such a hatred for it either. I haven’t had such an awful time changing the cartridges either. There’s a lot worse chores.

 

[Industrial Toys]

There was talk from someone about a European type grease gun. I have one, manual, but no cartridges to take a picture of. Basically a plastic calking cartidge. Nothing touches the end (like a calking gun). It must suck the greae out and the end cap follows. THAT would be SLICK, in an electric gun! Unscrew the old, screw in the new!

 

[Citydude]

Staining our fences. I loath it. I always find something more important to do like watch a you tube video on how to stain fences.....

 

[Oldoak]

................................................ The secret is work hard and live real cheap before kids and save like crazy. It pays off later!

It certainly does.

That's a secret you must be keeping mostly to yourself.

No big secret. I did the same. It's just a matter of setting priorities early in life. Though there should be balance. Don't spend like there's no tomorrow, but also don't save everything for tomorrow. Enjoy life along the way.

Jobs I hate? Well not really hate, just don't relish it: mowing lawn. Once I start in late April every year, I know I only have to mow it again, week after week, until Fall.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Flat concrete work
Hand digging
Crawling in attic and under floor spaces
Trying to get to things on my BX
Trying to figure out newfangled electronic devices
Age is now keeping me off ladders

Ron

 

[mapper]

Not real fond of crawling around under the house or anything that I have to get up from the too often(kind of stiff as I get older)
But if I had to name the one job in my working career that I really hated, it was doing annual performance reviews on the folks that I supervised. The evaluations were geared to assessing the employees promotional growth, our field was very small and upward movement was very limited, folks worked in the same job for years. My management didn't want evaluations to be fire walled, but to show constant improvement- eventually good employees became fire walled. Problem employees were even worse, that was just plain unpleasant.

 

[thepumpguysc]

Painting & weeding the garden..

 

[s219]

I have no problem dragging out a ladder and using it for new construction work, I think it's part of the challenge. But if I have to drag a ladder out for repairs, cleaning, painting, pest control, etc... on existing construction, it almost always means that job is going to be a total drag. You'll know when I hit the lottery when you see a boom lift in my garage with my name painted on the side.

The other thing I hate but laugh about is digging a ditch. No matter how successful I have been in life, or how old I get, or how much equipment I own, I still find myself down in a ditch with a shovel at least a few times a year.