Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]IMO, the worst job there is is what I did in a couple of summer breaks from University - working in a steam laundry - mostly bed-sheets and blankets from a geriatric hospital and, if we were lucky, from Butlin's Holiday Camps, unbelievable heat and humidity, and damp bedding is not light. Loading the steam washers with stinking bedding was not much fun either (blood, stale urine, puke and other such lovely appetising smells) - at least when we loaded the container for Butlin's there was a chance of playing stowaway and getting a weekend at the seaside, once you were in nobody asked whether you were entitled to meals or whatever, but getting in was like going through the gates of a prison camp. Stuck it out for 2 seasons and then got the holiday job of a lifetime - running the open air pool at Trentham Gardens in Staffordshire - pure bliss, I'd have done it for nothing, it was that good. Free food, free rock concerts(Rod Stewart, ELP, Yes, Stones etc. etc)., very pretty "views", and wages too.. Douglas David Rodgers wrote: >I got a job milking cows the summer after my HS graduation. It took away >any reservations I might have had about delaying college. It wasn't that >the work was so strenuous. It's that you couldn't get a full night's >sleep between shifts, which was roughly 4-10 am and 3-9 pm. I learned to >grabbed sleep when I could get it. Falling asleep at the drop of a hat >is an acquired skill that still comes in handy today. > >DaveR > >Nathan wrote: > > > >>>No kidding. In the summer of 1979, after graduating from high school >>> >>> >in >Denmark, I had a summer job at a brickyard to raise some money for my >gap year, which I was going to spend in the US (that is when I met the >girl who later became my wife and that is why I ended up moving there). >In any event, if I had any doubts about going to college, those 6 weeks >working in that kind of environment erased any lingering doubts.<< > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >