• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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    9 hours ago

    So, you’re a manual labourer with no qualifications or skills, and you’re starting to feel the effects of that?

    Most people are qualified and starting to earn decent money by their thirties.

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      8 hours ago

      Manual labour requires a lot of skill and by 30+ you need to acquire it or you’ll destroy your body. There are jobs that require only a few hours of learning but they rarely are intensive, just extremely boring.

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        7 hours ago

        There are definitely manual labour jobs that require little to no skill, a lot of site labourer work is like that. Carrying wallboard, emptying bins, just generally carrying shit around.

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          7 hours ago

          Don’t know where do you live, but around here there is no construction jobs that only require you only to carry shit around. Also you need to learn a lot to carry shit around correctly unless you have spare back.

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            5 hours ago

            In Quebec they’re called “journaliers” and being assigned to the Mason as a “journalier” sucks big time.

            It’s the entry level position in construction for people who didn’t get a professional degree in a specific trade.

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            6 hours ago

            Glad to be enlightened, clearly this doesn’t happen, since you haven’t experienced it.

            Big construction sites where I live definitely have such people, and it’s a horrible job.