Help Wanted @ IF - Wanna learn how to build frames?

[steve garro]

running a blast cabinet will put grit in orifices you didn't even know you had............i used to hand polish aluminum rafting gear all day with steel wool.........a filth level all unto its self........the bottom rung. but, it's like dishwasher - nobody will F with you because if they piss you off & you quit they have to do it. Steve.

[SpeedyChix]

Has to smell better than the chicken coop. If you can call a barn with 60k little ones in it a 'coop'. Used to flip flocks every seven weeks. Housing for 60,000 birds is a lot of linear feet of dropping boards and pits that need regular attention. No complaints. Happy to have grown up with all the open space and am also happy to not be working on that farm today. Helps one to be self-reliant and develops character.

[rickg]

We need to start a new thread. "Describe the worst job you ever had."

[Elefantino]

We need to start a new thread. "Describe the worst job you ever had."

Do current jobs count? :shot:

[rphetteplace]

For all the folks that say there is no way to get into the framebuilding biz nowadays - the door just opened very wide.

Time to fish or cut bait.

dave

wait??? confused??? I thought all you needed to get into the biz was a goatee and a flckr site????

[false_aesthetic]

I spent 4 Summers in college and 4 years after college working in a coke (not related to the Boonen type) plant. Based upon that experience, I learned to appreciate any other job that I have had since. Decent wages, good benefits, shitty conditions and ball-busting work....my boss used to say "Pick three, you can't have it all." Maybe we should start a sticky.

Photo of RW in the green suit on top of A-1 battery in West Aliquippa circa 1976. Other photos are of the top of the coke ovens and the door side of the coke oven battery.

I love the fact that at least one of those images was shot with a LF camera.

[SteveP]

I got all this bait. where do you want it?

roman,
have the kids sell the bait.
send me the money.

ill keep yr share aside for later.

[DarrenCT]

special note: if someone here gets the job, 25% of their paycheck goes to the darren and roman beer refund (as outlined in the vsalon rules) for 1 year.

[rwsaunders]

I love the fact that at least one of those images was shot with a LF camera.

The photo of the top of the oven battery was from my Dad's collection....conditions were never that clean as a series of shots were taken for the corporate boys. They removed some oven lids for the photo to get the flame effect. In real conditions, the machine in the background (called a Larry car) would be over the oven holes, depositing 17 tons of pulverized coal in each oven. When the coal was deposited, that's when the action started and the flames kicked up. My job was to stand under the Larry car and secure the oven lids when the coal had been fully charged. Thus the job title....lidman.

The photos of the "door side" of the ovens and of the "pusher side" were from a camera that I "forgot" to check at the security gate. One of my friends took the shot of the pusher side as we weren't allowed to take photos in the plant. I wanted some photos to remind myself in later years that I actually worked in a place like that.

Cycling content...I rode a Sears Free Spirit (about 12 miles round trip) to work as I didn't have a car in college. So did a lot of the other mill hunkies, but in their case, most had lost their licenses. All bothers in the cycling fraternity, though.

[SpeedyChix]

special note: if someone here gets the job, 25% of their paycheck goes to the darren and roman beer refund (as outlined in the vsalon rules) for 1 year.

They'll get the empties! :)

[niedz]

so, who got the job? :)

[false_aesthetic]

Please let it be me.

[dang]

Sorry, but now that I'm a titan of industry, I'm just not interested in a low-level manual labor position.

Not to brag, but I'm part of an investment society that just bought a little concern known as general motors. That's right, little people, GENERAL EFFIN" MOTORS.

Top that.

(and to the salonista over at Treasury . . . when I say "top that," I'm kidding. Just kidding.)

[Ahneida Ride Hide]

Sorry, but now that I'm a titan of industry, I'm just not interested in a low-level manual labor position.

Not to brag, but I'm part of an investment society that just bought a little concern known as general motors. That's right, little people, GENERAL EFFIN" MOTORS.

Top that.

(and to the salonista over at Treasury . . . when I say "top that," I'm kidding. Just kidding.)

OK I will. My wealth is stored in non redeemable notes (debt instruments) created outa nothing by a private central bank.

Worst job ... Cleaning toilets at 5:30 in the morning .... but paid 4K frns
over the summer and College tuition was only 2.5K frms.

[DarrenCT]

so which vsalonista was hired??

[WadePatton]

hire Wade Patton! Steve.

thanks, now where is that place? and i don't wear red sox.

[Bret]

timing is everything and right now mine sucks...hope whomever gets the gig, loves it.:thumbs_up:

[Vax]

Cycling content...I rode a Sears Free Spirit (about 12 miles round trip) to work as I didn't have a car in college. So did a lot of the other mill hunkies, but in their case, most had lost their licenses. All bothers in the cycling fraternity, though.

I commuted on a Sears Free Spirit in med school 4 years. I had a better bike but I refused to leave it locked ouside for 8-14 hours a day. I figured for about $140 that was cheaper than trashing my mountain bike or having it parted out in the racks. By the end of med school the bike was was so rusted out I had to put it in the trash.

[Jonathan]

I'm not sure why anyone would want to work in the biz from the ground up. Move to Portland and be a star.

[e-RICHIE]

hey - i'm moving to massachusetts, but a different massachusetts atmo.
a kinder, gentler massachusetts atmo.
massachusetts unplugged.
yo gary check this out atmo.
yeah.
massachusetts. the new white meat.