Having a "day off" from work. Washing, ironing, sorting out finances, sorting out the car, gardening, shopping, food preparation, cooking, cleaning, stripping and remaking all the beds... My kids say "but you ONLY work part time. Nah, there's no such thing as a part time job when you're a mum, especially not if you're a single mum.

I guess as a healthcare worker during covid.

Putting insulation in new homes, it was a horrible job.

Worked at a dairy farm and a tractor supply. 4am-8am milking 9-3 tsc, then 4-8 milking.

In the prison I'd get frozen or do voluntary or, 16 hours.

A few months ago I was caretaking during the week and working retail on weekends.

I'm fkn tired.

passing kindergarten....phew that was close 🫣

Trying to keep the relationship going with my damn ex. You've got to know when you're flogging a dead horse and it's time to quit! 😑

Shaving your mom's back.

Cleaning a meat grinding freezer in below zero degrees, using toxic solvents that made you barf and stumble around, while the rest of our night cleaning crew laughed at me and watched with the store employees through a window, extremely entertained by how the chemicals made me stumble about like a drunk, for starvation wages, taking orders in Spanish, and left with ripped hazmat suits because that's so FUNNY over at the WINCO...
I lived.

I worked Saturdays the first 6 months of this year and it was brutal. But the pay was good.

White House, economist. Rewarding but challenges galore.

Remodeling a home.

Three jobs consecutively in a day, sometimes seven days a week.

My first job.... I used to spend 15-16 hours everyday after my working hours. Extending my shifts either working or learning new stuff or train myself for the next level. So I could be well prepared when the opportunity comes.

Helped a friend move is aunt the 2 other guys didnt show and the stairway was so narrow we had to remove an upstars window to get the mattress and box springs to the bedroom.

Pfft…
I’m an inorworker.

Every day is hard and as it grow older each day is harder than the last.

The tobacco fields

fighting with fire forest in 2019-2020

Working for a summer stacking bales.

Removing old dirty sand and replacing it with new white sand with a shovel and a pickup truck on an 18 hole golf course. 36 sand traps. Took all summer, 6am till 4pm, and it was hot.
Shovel the old sand out of the trap onto the truck, shovel it off the truck. Shovel the new sand onto the truck and shovel it into the traps. I ended up with 8pak abs.

When I used to do 12 hr overnight shifts

Working 26 hrs straight ,shutting down major highway for a traffic switch over the 800m long new bridge.


Newmarket Viaduct Replacement Project,
New Zealand

A place that labeled big feed and seed bags mostly, I'd always bring an extra shirt cuz the one I wore would be soaked with sweat by lunchtime

Dealing with a-hole headchefs at restaurants.

Probably shovelling about three tons of 350º asphalt into potholes on a 90º+ day.

Landscaping…dead tired tje end of the day.

Very hard.

Trying to please an unpleasable woman

Not certain. Either digging ditches in the desert in over 110°f. Or bagging 90 lbs bags of manure. You had to keep up with the machine.

Installing insulation at the CAT factory wasn't easy, yet was sort of challenging because it was three stories up on a scissor lift.

Same goes for grinding out cracks in a SYSCO warehouse at below zero temperatures. At least we got warmup breaks every half hour.

The three managers of the sections I worked. Rostered me on for a long weekend: 0700-1330 at the Aged Care home.
1330-2200 at the Hospital Ward.
2200-0700 at the Step Down Unit.
4 days in a row!
There was no other staff, and no beds in the hospital or Aged care home to put the Step Down Patients. The Managers said it was alright, I could sleep on the Step Down shift.
The second night 1 of the patients had let her husband in through a window. He had been taken away by the cops earlier that day for physically assaulting her another patient. Put that other patient in the ER. There was no handover about this. I didn't know he was in the building till they started fighting each other with knives. The duress alarm didn't work. I almost got stabbed. And I still had 2 more days (6 shifts) to go. Which I did.
I was sick for a week after that. And the pay packet showed I was hit with 60% tax.
I never worked the Step down Unit again. And whenever they begged me to work a double shift I told em to F off.