I often get the sense that I’m in the only one here doing manual labor but I’m sure there are others.

Identify yourselves.

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    My primary job is that of a software engineer, but I also run a small farm business. Out in the dirt, greasing equipment, repairing equipment, etc. all make me long for the Lava soap I remember as a kid.

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    I unload pallets of computer gear. That’s not the main part of my job, but it’s something that happens from time to time.

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    Window manufacturing Our 2-part industrial sealing silicone gets everywhere; hands, clothes, hair, whatever. Never comes out of clothes and you gotta scrub hard to get it off skin.

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    My boss just had me change two coworkers’ passwords so they wouldn’t be able to log back in.

    I keep washing and washing, but the blood won’t come off.

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    Shipwright welder. I crawl all throughout the bowels of Navy and civilian ships with my gear in tow. I build new areas, cut out old areas, and perform repairs on hulls and pipes.

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      I love welding. One of my favourite things to do in my previous job. I’m highly skilled at oxy-acetylene welding steel pipes in really tight and difficult places but my favourite one was TiG welding stainless steel with automatic and ventilated mask while listening to podcasts. Really meditative just being in your own bubble staring at the bright spot of molten metal.

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    Hands themselves stay clean, but through my gloves/gown, I’m regularly elbow-deep into blood, guts, and poop.

    Surgical technologist. It gets pretty nasty.

    Pay is kinda shit though, so I’m trying to switch over to nursing.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    5 hours ago

    Cleaning CD’s, tapes, cameras, computers, cartridges, all the stuff you’d expect from a typical Blockbuster store.

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    Soil scientist. I spent 10 years stomping through the bush and digging pits when I got there.

    Now I sit behind a desk.