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Originally Posted by KC Jones
hmmm....
I'd have to go with working in a grain elevator one summer while home from college. I believe it's now the Bartlett Grain, Co. and it's off or Armour Rd. just north of the river by 435. I could get decent pay there ~ $7.00/hour since they weren't union. A union shop required 3 months at minimum wage ~$4.00 before you got the union wage ~$12.00.
Anyway, since I was going to college the inbred toothless pieces of shit that worked there referred to me as "college puke" - at least when they thought I was out of ear shot. It was hard hot nasty dirty work. You'd get grain dust in your nostrils, hair, ears, - anything that was exposed. There was spilt rotten grain all over the place teaming with maggots and various insects in different stages of their lives. Some of the silos were old with flat bottoms so when they needed to be emptied you had to climb in and shovel the last of it (piled about 20' high) into the corner drop that fed the elevator. It could be 110 or more in there. Dust everywhere and your goggles would steam up and you could barely breath. Bugs would be crawling all over everything including you. The foremen was a tiny grumpy old drunk who would sometime pass out. A few times he forgot to turn on the lift and grain would pile up at the bottom of the elevator and we'd have to shovel it out. Harvest time would be July-August, so it was 12+ hour days, 7 day weeks in the hot humid KC summer. That's when they gave me probe duty which meant climbing up into the top of every truck that was in line and taking a sample. The metal of the trucks would be so hot from sitting in the sun all day I would occasionally get burned. The truckers were a pretty nice lot, but I'd say at least half were loaded on speed.
Some honorable mentions for me:
construction gopher
rehabbing fire damaged homes
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I shoveled grain in situation much like that. I remember one load of millet that had about a thousand ****ing wolf spiders along for the ride. I eventually caught the biggest one and put it in a plastic baggy. One of my inbred coworker's offered to eat it alive for 20 bucks. We took up a collection and he shoved it in his mouth alive and started chomping it up and then swallowed the damn thing.
After he was done he said it tasted like black licorice. Truly one of the most disgusting things I had seen up to that point in my young life.