Hard work

pickarooney

Ever done any?
A lot of people like to bang on about how they slave away, working their fingers to the bone to make ends meet/buy Ferraris and helicopters, but what exactly constitutes hard work?

I don't work hard. I sit down all day and do what I have to, at no risk to life or limb. The only times I've ever performed physically hard paid labour it was for sub-minimum wage and it was hardly worth doing. But even then, apart from being a little tired or having a few cuts and bruises I would never compare it to slavery or lead-mining.

How hard do youse work, really?

KTRIC

I worked Yore Ma pretty hard last night

Nah, really, don't work hard at all. My job is easy, money is good (not fantastic). I'd move jobs but I'm too lazy.

Shelflife

working hard does not mean alot of physical labour, it just means pushing yourself so that you do as much as you can every day.

ScumLord

Worst job I ever had was as a forecourt attendant in the N17 petrol station. You'd either have wankballs pulling up in their merc demanding I fill their car then go in and get them a pack of crisps and a bottle of water. Then you had the local illiterates asking me to read out their dirty text messages.

I do fup all now in my IT tower.

pickarooney

Shelflife wrote: »

working hard does not mean alot of physical labour, it just means pushing yourself so that you do as much as you can every day.

Yeah, it's just a concept I have a little trouble with. It's only scientifically psosible for me to do X amount of work in Y hours. If I'm honest, work is less tiring than being at home.

capedcrustacian

i don't work hard, but it's hard work?!!? my job is so easy that a monkey could do it with minimum training, however, i also pick up the slack for other's in the office, which ends up being hard work cos most of the time, i'm out of my depth with it, well, maybe it's not hard work, it's more stressful??!

with my job being so easy, i find myself bored (hence bein on here) and therefor, it's become hard work facing into an 8 and a half hour day when i know i'm only really working for 3 and a half hours of it

tallaght01

I always thought I worked hard, til my dad gets me to help him with his working class manual labour.

He's a sheet metal worker, so he can haul ****in buckets of cement or whatever all over the gaff without breaking a sweat.

It's doubly demoralising when you just keep hearing "hahahah, glad you never followed me and ur grandad into the family trade. Bring shame on us, you would".
So glad I don't do manual labour.

Degsy

I've done lots of "hard work".I've done labouring,decorating,building,washing pots in a hotel,emptying bags of spuds into chipping machines,hanging paper,mixing cement,lopping trees,frying twenty trays of fish at a time,roasting chickens by the hundred,cleaning industrial BBQs,cutting joints of meat, stocking shelves in supermarkets,knocking down walls,loading and unloading vans(all day) etc etc
.Going door to door trying to sell stuff was the worst though.

anniehoo

tallaght01 wrote: »

So glad I don't do manual labour.

+1
I worked on a dairy farm years ago (work experience type thing) and my god i was half killed at the end of the 6 weeks. Havent worked even a quarter as hard since then!

Turd Ferguson

Working harder accomplishes nothing.

I generally work smarter because its more efficient...my German teacher thought me that!

Delirium

Worked in a scrap yard for a couple of summers when I was younger.
Also, had to clean out sludge out of a water tank on the roof of a castle. Had to carry the sludge down 6 flights of stairs.

The only time my current line of work came close to that level of hard work, was when we had to install a system. Working till 4am, grab 3 hours sleep and back into work.

Wagon

koth wrote: »

Worked in a scrap yard for a couple of summers when I was younger.
Also, had to clean out sludge out of a water tank on the roof of a castle. Had to carry the sludge down 6 flights of stairs.

The only time my current line of work came close to that leve of hard work, was when we had to install a system. Working till 4am, grab 3 hours sleep and back into work.

Ouch, what do you do?

pickarooney

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Working harder accomplishes nothing.

I generally work smarter because its more efficient...my German teacher thought me that!

Now that's more like it, Herr President.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Since when does 'slaving away' have to mean physical work...?

Mena

Well, I spent two years active service in the military, I consider that hard work.

These days it's an office job, but the hours are long, up at 5am, in work at 7, back home at 7 or 8pm. I do get free trips to the middle east often though, so it's all good

Degsy

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Since when does 'slaving away' have to mean physical work...?

He said "hard work"..hard work meaning physical,not hunched over a computer all day.

Kiera

I worked in a nursing home for a few years when I was younger. Now that was hard work both physically and mentally.

FlutterinBantam

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Working harder accomplishes nothing.

I generally work smarter because its more efficient...my German teacher thought me that!

Pity he didn't teach you how to write properly.

pickarooney

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Since when does 'slaving away' have to mean physical work...?

There weren't many galleons setting sail for the Americas chock-full of account executives and solicitors.

Delirium

Wagon wrote: »

Ouch, what do you do?

Software developer. It was our biggest customer so a lot of the work had to be done between shifts which was 4am-7/8am.:(

Turd Ferguson

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Pity he didn't teach you how to write properly.

Er hat mich gelehrt, wie zu schreiben ordentlich aber es auf Deutsch war

pickarooney

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Er hat mich gelehrt, wie zu schreiben ordentlich aber es auf Deutsch war

F is for Fail, even in German.

Turd Ferguson

Es tut mir Leid

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

pickarooney wrote: »

There weren't many galleons setting sail for the Americas chock-full of account executives and solicitors.

Well, maybe not now that the economy's collapsing...

Davidius

Work is the enery transferred by a force.

So I would imagine 'Hard work' is just slang for a large amount of work.

Jay D

I never talk about work tbh, like get over it really I think, to those who banter on about it. It can be stressful, even horrible at times but that's life.

kelle

I work as an allied hospital professional and the work is physically exhausting, when I first started it in the late 80s/early 90s I would come home at 5 and fall asleep until 8 the following morning! Throughout the day, I push and carry heavy equipment, lift and pull across patients, push trolleys. If I feel under the weather, I find the work difficult to manage.
I enjoy the job though, and I find it easy to keep my weight down while loving my food!

Red Hand

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Es tut mir Leid

Die Raden muessen fuer den Sieg rollen! Kin hoch!:pac:

My job isn't that physical. I think the less physically demanding work you do, the more headwrecked you are. Like, ask me to to play a game of chess straight after my current job....blahhhhhhh, no.

But when I was doing more physically orientated jobs, sure I was more tired physically, but my brain was a bit sharper straight after work.

gollyitsolly

Yeah,Ive worked bloody hard a lot of times. The worst was potwallopping! Washup in a pub. 7 euro an hour. The worst was Mothers Day when I did 1200 covers. And I was a mother! Gotta free carvery dinner,yippee:mad:. I packed it in when they asked me to wash the greasy walls down once a week. Ive also cleaned the toilets after a lot of famous people .You might say I was an upper class scrubber. Oh yes,I could tell you a thing or two about Madonna...........................f**k that,give me easy money any day:D

Unpossible

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Pity he didn't teach you how to write properly.

Well he was a german teacher not an english teacher :pac:

edit: don't you mean spell properly?