Jobs you couldn't do?

[valleys caveman]

Working down the pit. Any ex miners on here?
Working at height. I've worked off cherry pickers and that was pretty gnarly.

[MOZZER2]

Re: Jobs you couldn't do?

a carer

and yet we lose almost 60,000 of them this week

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Re: Jobs you couldn't do?

a carer

and yet we lose almost 60,000 of them this week

It's fecking hard work 💪

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

Re: Jobs you couldn't do?

Collecting Winston's bogeys overnight

[jon1959]

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It's fecking hard work ��

It is. I have been spending more time recently looking after my 90 year old mother who can barely walk, is usually incontinent, and has dementia. She lives with my brother - but I step in for days or weeks to give him and his partner a break - and the pressure is relentless.

The physical strain, routine of medication, and the lack of dignity (especially toilet and shower) is the easier part. The constant worry about a fall or her distress is worse - and makes sleep very difficult. I only duck in and out of the stress of caring, but I have no doubt they are the hidden heroes of our society.

[valleys caveman]

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It is. I have been spending more time recently looking after my 90 year old mother who can barely walk, is usually incontinent, and has dementia. She lives with my brother - but I step in for days or weeks to give him and his partner a break - and the pressure is relentless.

The physical strain, routine of medication, and the lack of dignity (especially toilet and shower) is the easier part. The constant worry about a fall or her distress is worse - and makes sleep very difficult. I only duck in and out of the stress of caring, but I have no doubt they are the hidden heroes of our society.

Fair play to you Jon. Big respect for you and everyone dealing with seeing their loved ones getting older.
My original post feels pretty shallow now.

[Canton Kev]

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French translator.
Can’t speak French.

[RichardM]

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French translator.
Can’t speak French.

Just use Google Translate and wing it

[Tuerto]

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It is. I have been spending more time recently looking after my 90 year old mother who can barely walk, is usually incontinent, and has dementia. She lives with my brother - but I step in for days or weeks to give him and his partner a break - and the pressure is relentless.

The physical strain, routine of medication, and the lack of dignity (especially toilet and shower) is the easier part. The constant worry about a fall or her distress is worse - and makes sleep very difficult. I only duck in and out of the stress of caring, but I have no doubt they are the hidden heroes of our society.

I've been there. You have my utmost respect.

[life on mars]

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Careing for loved ones as they age is both hard and very sad to see their decline , very tough gig emotionally and physically.

[Tuerto]

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Careing for loved ones as they age is both hard and very sad to see their decline , very tough gig emotionally and physically.

It can also be rewarding, intimate and funny at times as well

[Once U shop, U can't stop]

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I believe that caring for our parents as they come to the end of their life - often in a helpless state and unable to care for themselves - is a way of repaying them for how they cared for us as young children.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

Re: Jobs you couldn't do?

Tower crane operator.

For many years I was a gantry crane driver in a steelworks. Then I had the opportunity of going on a two week residential training course. This was back in 2005 and it cost me 2.5k.
It seemed a natural progression to take and hopefully, a gateway to a bigger salary.
However, I'd always been a bit uncomfortable with heights, but tried to convince myself it was something I could overcome.
They had 4 tower cranes at the training school, each of them about 45 metres high (babies in the construction world!).
They were a bit old and therefore they had straight ladders, not the safer zig-zag style you see on modern cranes.
No safety harness, you just had to grip the ladder rungs as tightly as possible.
I would be blowing out of my arse by the time I reached the operator's cabin through sheer nervous exhaustion!
I would also get a bit of motion sickness from the constant swaying of the tower.

I paid all of that money and never got a single day's work because my heart was no longer in it.

[nugent]

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I'm a very gifted technical brain of a carpenter.
I install science laboratories in schools and hospitals (the latter is making me reel the banknotes in thanks to covid)
"Just bang another zero on the end of the quote nuge" I love covid me.
Anyway, enough about me and the fact I've just paid extra to bypass the usual 2 year Rolex waiting list, back to the question...
What job couldn't I do?

Easy

****ing painter.
I look at them mongos on site and think, "you retards"
"What sort of bell whiff leaves school and thinks ""I want to be a painter""?

Just brushing walls all day with different colours.
What the fack .

Dense as ****

[Tuerto]

Re: Jobs you couldn't do?

I'm a very gifted technical brain of a carpenter.
I install science laboratories in schools and hospitals (the latter is making me reel the banknotes in thanks to covid)
"Just bang another zero on the end of the quote nuge" I love covid me.
Anyway, enough about me and the fact I've just paid extra to bypass the usual 2 year Rolex waiting list, back to the question...
What job couldn't I do?

Easy

****ing painter.
I look at them mongos on site and think, "you retards"
"What sort of bell whiff leaves school and thinks ""I want to be a painter""?

Just brushing walls all day with different colours.
What the fack .

Dense as ****

You're a wood fitter and the machines do the work for you. Flat Pack Nugent in every sense of the word. Piece of piss.