Anybody do a job or work specifically for exercise? (more than just for money)

rubadub

Does anybody do a job or part time work mainly for exercise? What sort of jobs could you suggest?

I knew a guy who lived near me who did weights. I heard he worked in Guinness unloading kegs into pubs off those trucks. He had no real qualifications so was just looking for any job really, but chose this to get some lifting in and get paid for it while at it. I would imagine some builder/labourers do this too.

I wouldnt mind getting a few quid at the weekends for a few hours of hard manual labour. In these days of energy awareness it is a bit of a shame to see "manual labour" simply being wasted in gyms.

You could be a cycling courier or I have heard they have walking couriers too now. It is probably easier to find a job for cardio than heavy lifting. But there are probably places crying out for people to do heavy labour where their casual staff would refuse to do it, or would only get half as much done in the same time. The likes of building suppliers or hardware stores where big stones or bags of cement must be lugged around. Better still would be being paid for the work you do, I have heard brickies get paid per brick, so similarly some places may pay you to move bricks per brick so you could stick as many as you want in a sack and lug them around, stronger you are the more money you make, good incentive.

jman0

Well, i did a stint at this steel place outside Galway city once, for the exercise and cause i was wanting a job.
They cut and bend steel for reinforced concrete.
It comes in all sizes, some as thick as my wrists.
Basically i was lifting heavy lengths of steel, placing them onto a table-top bending machine, then removing it from there and stacking it.
Loads of heavy lifting all day.
I didn't mind it except for the moody hoors working there their whole lives.

Anyway they take on people all the time, most people can't stick it.
So you could ring them and probably be working tomorrow.

Vegeta

when I was a teenager i worked in a marina cleaning the exterior of boats. I loved the job because it was such physical work. Lifting 30 litre buckets of water, scrubbing the surface of the deck, stretching and reaching awkward places to scrub them.

My hands used to cramp and lock over the handles of deck scrubs, you knew it was a hard day when that was happening. I also broke several brush handles because I was scrubbing so hard.

Pay was sh1te

Really wish I still had a job like that, I have serious back to work blues since going back to work yesterday

rubadub

jman0 wrote:

I didn't mind it except for the moody hoors working there their whole lives.

Yes in one job I knew how to work a particular machine that needed stuff loaded into it. I would do it if somebody was sick or on holidays. Other people used to work it too. They would all come up saying "dont work so hard" for fear of showing them up, or that the foreman would expect it of them, i.e. well he can do 600 a day, so you all should be able to do it too

I suppose you could put an cv/ad up on a job website, an employer would snap up somebody that said they specifically wanted to work very hard!

Marvinthefish

I've never really got a job just for the exercise(I'm a student-I can't be picky!) but I used to work in a wine shop where I was lifting cases of wine up and down to the cellar all day. Organising the cases of wine in the cellar was tough too because you had to lift them above head height a lot of the time. Was pretty ripped when I left but it all went away when I had to be back in college and sit on my ass all day in lectures!:)

Sangre

One summere used to work as a labourer. Every morning I would cycle 15 minutes to the DART to start, work 7.30-4 lifting and moving etc then cycle home. Then 3 times a week I cylced to the gym and back.

Don't know how I managed it tbh.

Supercell

Tbh I still miss working "grill" in McDonalds.

I did it before the clamshell days and a sear lay was to be God like and in the clamshell days.
Grill was hard..only the fittest were selected for the lunch hours there!!

Heck your hands got dripped on by boiling hot oils that burned bubbly blisters but hell you sweated and worked hard and had great craic at the same time.
Pity the wages where shiite, I'd go back there in a second if it paid my rent and car and and and!!

mloc

Worked as a furniture removal guy in NY out of the Bronx for a few weeks once... lifting beds, sofas and wardrobes up and down 6 flights of skinny stairs in 40 degree heat with no air con and nazi hungarian foremen...

The stairs were a killer. And the lack of breaks, and sometimes doing two jobs in a row with no lunch. The fact that I was probably one of a handful of legal workers. The fact that noone spoke english, only spanish or one of the eastern european languages.

The funniest part is when one of the other workers would ask where you were from, and when you said Ireland, they'd be confounded as to why you were working there.

Beelzebub

Used to work on my uncle's farm in the summers.
Lifing bales of hay - when they were wet they were very heavy.
carrying 5 gallon drums of water for long distances - great for the traps
Fencing digging, using sledgehammer etc...
Cleaning out cowsheds - great back/biceps work
Digging drains - with pick axe and spade/shovel.
Clearing fields of stones...best biceps training I have ever known - lifting them onto and off trailer.
If you want to get into shape for the summer that's the way to do it!

Jesus I was a sucker for punishment.