Most physical demanding job?

Biggins

I was having a debate with a friend over what was the most physical (5 day a week, hour by hour) tiring job around today.
I suggested maybe a builders labourer or someone working on trawlers.
Can anyone else suggest others?

Neo#

Boxer:D

Carsinian Thau

Intern Doctor.

Schism

I was going to say those guys working on trawlers too except that's not a 5 day a week job.

Good one, hard to say isn't it.

m3llowship

The crowd on the deadliest catch show, they must have it worst.

4 hours sleep every day, and working in brutal freezing conditions.

But then again they can work for one month of the year and live well.

Cianos

Builders do physically demanding jobs? I thought the job just involved everyone standing around looking at a hole.

kwalshe

i work calibrating and servicing industrial weighing scales, there can be days when i can lift over 5 tonnes over the course of a working day

soundsham

depends who walks past

rickshaw driver in texas

Schism

Cianos wrote: »

Builders do physically demanding jobs? I thought the job just involved everyone standing around looking at a hole.

Builders labourers do work pretty damn hard, generally speaking. Gonna throw farming in there, I know lots of people won't agree but there is still a good few hard working farmers out there.

El Weirdo

[obligatory AH Mary Harney joke]

Mary Harney's arse wiper

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El Guapo!

Carrying Mary Harneys lunch-box?? :eek:

trad

Possibly a bicycle courier. 8 hours a day in the saddle.

Cianos

Schism wrote: »

Builders labourers do work pretty damn hard, generally speaking. Gonna throw farming in there, I know lots of people won't agree but there is still a good few hard working farmers out there.

ah I know, was only takin the piss. Just have driven by road workers a few times and see one guy down a hole with a pick-axe and 5 lads standing around the hole looking at him.

Stercus Accidit

Dean09 wrote: »

Carrying Mary Harneys lunch-box?? :eek:

You mean pushing the lunch-barrow?

Don't forget the other guy operating the shovel.

kwalshe

trad wrote: »

Possibly a bicycle courier. 8 hours a day in the saddle.

how do you get in to a saddle?

anonymous_joe

Wow, I like some fresh humour.

Presumably a builder or medical intern doing 20 hour shifts or whatever it is.

My name is URL

Bridge Crewmembers have it tough

Biggins

Coal man?

Sulmac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spaw8bCZMHc

Also, no one has said prostitute yet? Is AH maturing? :pac:

El Guapo!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060901-sewer-video.html

This one has to be up there as one of the worst jobs! :eek:

soundsham

bigamist

dan719

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I win. What do I get eh? Seriously though, it all depends on what type of gear a crew is using. Towing(dropping a net and dragging it along the seabed) is far less physically demanding then hauling pots or static gear (gillnets). On the big trawlers which shows such as Trawlermen focus most work is done mechanically and main work of deckhand is gutting fish. Potfishing involves much more physical work and as tragic circumstances during the week showed, possibly more dangerous.

mikemac

I'd put farming as tougher then construction work.
Working on a building site isn't a 7 day a week job and doesn't involve working in the middle of the night like lambing season.

Probably working a trawler is tougher, I don't know a whole lot about it. Respect for the guys on the Deadliest Catch though! :cool:

chopperbyrne

It's clearly being a taxi driver. Do you not know how hard they have it? :rolleyes:

Biggins

mikemac wrote: »

I'd put farming as tougher then construction work.
Working on a building site isn't a 7 day a week job and doesn't involve working in the middle of the night like lambing season...

Himmm, very true!

Ruu_Old

Ice Road Truckers. :eek:

fastrac

All the U.S shows like Deadliest Catch,Ax Men,Ice Road Truckers show how tough it is over there.Employers seem to have very little worries about safety.If a truck crashes in -40 on the ice road they seem to be more worried about the environment than the driver.Life is cheap out there.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Errrmmmm your all forgetting - MODERATOR'S - you ungrateful bastards :mad:

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nacho libre

the people in the amazon that work 16 hour days for the illegal loggers.

rainbowdrop

Barman in The Steering Wheel pub, Limerick.......:pac:

play4fun1

What about medical and military personal in some of the worlds hotspots ? Most of plantation workers in south America , mine workers araund the globe .

Biggins

Chelsea Abundant Romance wrote: »

Errrmmmm your all forgetting - MODERATOR'S - you ungrateful bastards :mad:

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...says he lying stretched out on a beach deckchair in Honalulu, laptop resting on his knees while sipping margaritas.

walshb

Farmers come to mind, long hours and laborious and tough work at times. Messy too I would imagine.

soundsham

fireman

SEPT 23 1989

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIjC7DjoVe8

Spear

There are path maintenance guys on Ben Nevis. Every day they hike half way up the mountain, then set about laying large stones as steps etc, then hike back down. All those farmers, fishermen etc may have gruelling jobs, but they don't wander 2000 foot up a Scottish mountain twice a day to do them.

Whosbetter?

Aerial Rigger.

I did this for years.
You need to be physically fit,have a head for heights,able to work in confined spaces(attics),& be willing to work outdoors in all weathers.

paddypender

slaves

ronnie3585

A Traveller.

All that traveling, must be tiring.

walshb

soundsham wrote: »

fireman

Yeah, playin' pool, drinking and Oh, saving kittens from trees can be so demanding.

No, seriously, to look at some of our Firemen, you would wonder how they even passed the medical

Neamhshuntasach

Unemployment. 24 hour work day, 7 days a week. Earn just 204.40 euro for all those hours and only get 10 days holidays a year. And you do all that no matter what the weather is like outside. Tough life.

soundsham

walshb wrote: »

Yeah, playin' pool, drinking and Oh, saving kittens from trees can be so demanding.

No, seriously, to look at some of our Firemen, you would wonder how they even passed the medical

well i hope the one's you know about don't get called out to any fire you have or car crash you may be involved in

DamoDLK

Agree with the fireman one..

There are truck drivers down here who drive the road trains from one side of Australia to the other, thats gotta be physically demanding on the body?

Adamisconfused

I did labouring one summer during college and it is by far the most tiring job I’ve ever had. It convinced me that I should work hard at college and never end up doing that for a living. Knackered by 9:30 a.m. every Monday and don’t recover until the weekend.
After that summer, I hated listening to students bitching about how difficult college is and how we deserve more money after graduating. Feck off.
College is a piece of piss and I was damn glad to have it.

longshanks

mary harneys tampon

the locust

I'd say special forces troopers take the cake...

for example - US Navy Seal David Goggins

2:30am - Wake up
3:00am - Morning run (15 - 20 miles)
7:00am - Bath
7:30am - Bike ride (25 miles)
8:30am - Navy Seal training
Lunch - Lunch hour Jog (60 minutes)
Afternoon - Navy Seal training
19:00pm - Bike ride (25 miles)
20:30pm - Lunch
22:00pm - Weight workout
23:30pm - Lights out

Every day. Respect.
(see YouTube - Navy SEAL Goggins Trains in Desert)

kelle

As an allied health professional, my job is physically demanding. I push around heavy equipment, lift heavy items, and lift and pull patients on mattresses. A lot of days I come home feeling like I've run a few laps and find it hard to start cooking dinners and help with homework. On the plus side though I can eat what I like and my weight stays down.

Poccington

the locust wrote: »

I'd say special forces troopers take the cake...

for example - US Navy Seal David Goggins

2:30am - Wake up
3:00am - Morning run (15 - 20 miles)
7:00am - Bath
7:30am - Bike ride (25 miles)
8:30am - Navy Seal training
Lunch - Lunch hour Jog (60 minutes)
Afternoon - Navy Seal training
19:00pm - Bike ride (25 miles)
20:30pm - Lunch
22:00pm - Weight workout
23:30pm - Lights out

Every day. Respect.
(see YouTube - Navy SEAL Goggins Trains in Desert)

"My life has no finish line"

Petty Officer 1st Class Goggins is an absolute beast. He may object to being called a Special Forces Trooper though

phlegms

Pimp.

BlondieCait

the locust wrote: »

I'd say special forces troopers take the cake...

for example - US Navy Seal David Goggins


Every day. Respect.
(see YouTube - Navy SEAL Goggins Trains in Desert)

This is a US Navy promotional video.

dunnomede?

Adamisconfused wrote: »

I did labouring one summer during college and it is by far the most tiring job I’ve ever had. It convinced me that I should work hard at college and never end up doing that for a living. Knackered by 9:30 a.m. every Monday and don’t recover until the weekend.
After that summer, I hated listening to students bitching about how difficult college is and how we deserve more money after graduating. Feck off.
College is a piece of piss and I was damn glad to have it.

Did the same myself last summer in america, very hard work but i loved it. I've worked in offices, shops etc and i have to say doing demolition work on building sites was by far the most enjoyable. I always felt tired at the end of the day but for whatever reason thats one of the things i liked about it.

As for most physically demanding job i dont really know, I think brickies labourers have it very hard lugging cinder blocks up flights of stairs all day long. But thats not to say theres not a harder physical job out there.