What jobs do you hate?

[Industrial Toys]

That last twenty years (Since 911) has been a virtual blurr!

If I had to buy a vehicle tomorrow, I would be hard pressed. There is nothing out there that impresses me at all. And much of it just disgusts me. I want one of those simple Toyota P/Us with the simple, old school Diesels, that apparently only the Taliban is allowed to own and drive.

 

[4570Man]

Oh, yeah. Hydraulic Repairs are a lot of fun too.

I’d rather suffer through a hydraulic repair as do without said machine. But repairs involving oil or antifreeze really suck.

 

[4570Man]

What's so bad about greasing equipment? It's not like we're wallowing in it, are we? Grease gun, proper extensions, some rags, a stick maybe to poke the dirt and grime out first. I'd do that all day long. Heck, I did do that all day long some days at my last job.

I haven’t developed such a hatred for it either. I haven’t had such an awful time changing the cartridges either. There’s a lot worse chores.

 

[Industrial Toys]

There was talk from someone about a European type grease gun. I have one, manual, but no cartridges to take a picture of. Basically a plastic calking cartidge. Nothing touches the end (like a calking gun). It must suck the greae out and the end cap follows. THAT would be SLICK, in an electric gun! Unscrew the old, screw in the new!

 

[Citydude]

Staining our fences. I loath it. I always find something more important to do like watch a you tube video on how to stain fences.....

 

[Oldoak]

................................................ The secret is work hard and live real cheap before kids and save like crazy. It pays off later!

It certainly does.

That's a secret you must be keeping mostly to yourself.

No big secret. I did the same. It's just a matter of setting priorities early in life. Though there should be balance. Don't spend like there's no tomorrow, but also don't save everything for tomorrow. Enjoy life along the way.

Jobs I hate? Well not really hate, just don't relish it: mowing lawn. Once I start in late April every year, I know I only have to mow it again, week after week, until Fall.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Flat concrete work
Hand digging
Crawling in attic and under floor spaces
Trying to get to things on my BX
Trying to figure out newfangled electronic devices
Age is now keeping me off ladders

Ron

 

[mapper]

Not real fond of crawling around under the house or anything that I have to get up from the too often(kind of stiff as I get older)
But if I had to name the one job in my working career that I really hated, it was doing annual performance reviews on the folks that I supervised. The evaluations were geared to assessing the employees promotional growth, our field was very small and upward movement was very limited, folks worked in the same job for years. My management didn't want evaluations to be fire walled, but to show constant improvement- eventually good employees became fire walled. Problem employees were even worse, that was just plain unpleasant.

 

[thepumpguysc]

Painting & weeding the garden..

 

[s219]

I have no problem dragging out a ladder and using it for new construction work, I think it's part of the challenge. But if I have to drag a ladder out for repairs, cleaning, painting, pest control, etc... on existing construction, it almost always means that job is going to be a total drag. You'll know when I hit the lottery when you see a boom lift in my garage with my name painted on the side.

The other thing I hate but laugh about is digging a ditch. No matter how successful I have been in life, or how old I get, or how much equipment I own, I still find myself down in a ditch with a shovel at least a few times a year.

 

[gojira]

Plumbing. I hate doing plumbing. I'm horrible at gardening but my wife is wonderful at it, so that works out. I mow the lawn, which she hates to do, so it all works out!

I'm pretty good with electrical (I'm bending some conduit right now for a new run in the garage) and carpentry. I'm getting better with the backhoe (I just got my Massey recently and am relearning old skills/building muscle memory). I still can repair vehicles pretty well, though all the electronic controls are a pain (and I have degrees in electrical engineering and computer science!)

 

[MossRoad]

I have no problem dragging out a ladder and using it for new construction work, I think it's part of the challenge. But if I have to drag a ladder out for repairs, cleaning, painting, pest control, etc... on existing construction, it almost always means that job is going to be a total drag. You'll know when I hit the lottery when you see a boom lift in my garage with my name painted on the side.

The other thing I hate but laugh about is digging a ditch. No matter how successful I have been in life, or how old I get, or how much equipment I own, I still find myself down in a ditch with a shovel at least a few times a year.

That reminds me it's the time of year when I need to dig out the septic tank covers and call "the guy" to pump the tanks and drywell. :laughing:

 

[gojira]

That reminds me it's the time of year when I need to dig out the septic tank covers and call "the guy" to pump the tanks and drywell. :laughing:

Thanks for reminding me - I have to do that too.

 

[California]

That reminds me it's the time of year when I need to dig out the septic tank covers and call "the guy" to pump the tanks and drywell. :laughing:

Bah. Me too.

This is year six, and six year intervals is what I wrote inside the door of a kitchen cupboard.

 

[mapper]

That reminds me it's the time of year when I need to dig out the septic tank covers and call "the guy" to pump the tanks and drywell. :laughing:

Solved that problem by building a cinder block wall around the perimeter of the tank and putting a deck on top of it for my wife to put potted plants on. Pumping time rolls around, I lift the deck off with the FEL, and its ready.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

That reminds me it's the time of year when I need to dig out the septic tank covers and call "the guy" to pump the tanks and drywell. :laughing:

I solved that by only doing it when needed. So far 22 yrs without needing it.

 

[MossRoad]

We have 2 very small tanks, vertical clay tiles with cement lids that fit inside the lips, maybe 2.5' across and 4-5' deep, then a 1200 gallon drywell (lid is at surface on that), out to a leach field from the drywell, as the drywell walls plugged many years ago. No way to extend the lids on those two septics the 3' up to the surface, and I wouldn't want an open air space above them as we get some very deep freezes here. -22 last winter. It would freeze them solid. We get them pumped every other year. I do it in odd years, as it's an odd task. Helps me remember.

 

[Fuddy1952]

Forty years here and never had ours pumped until last year. Then found out it really didn't need pumping, the problem was the septic pipe going down to tank "had done egged" as the drain guy said.
He saw I had a pump...he suggested I just pump it over into the woods. Trees will grow like crazy. (Not to worry... I'll never do it). At some point if it gives trouble I'll put in new PVC. This is rolled up tarpaper they used years ago.

 

[Diggin It]

I hate jobs that don't stay done and need to be repeated.

We have about 300 feet of 7 ft arborvitae hedge that needs to be trimmed once a year. It is exhausting, working mostly with your arms over your head.

Mine isn't quite that long, but it's Privet Hedge that grows faster, so I have to do it more often. Even with various tools and hedge trimmer extension poles, it's still rough work on old arms.

Well try working in it sometime! If you like the heat, I have a job for you running wires in an Attic in July. Hope you like fiberglass insulation (as well) with your heat!

Last time I did that, it was overnight. We started at about 11PM and worked a few hours. Only took a week or so, about six cables to each office.

 

[Diggin It]

How many times have I run wires, drilling the house full of holes, often many before I get it right, ripping off trim, and then getting it all back together perfectly, before the people come home.

Or cracking a ceiling. Worked alarms for a while in the 80s. Guy (not me) got hung up on something in the attic of a rather expensive house. While trying to get unhooked, he rolled or stepped off the rafter somehow and put a nice long crack in a drywall ceiling.

Or falling through a ceiling. Guy working phone systems (me) stepped wrong and fell backwards through a false ceiling onto the concrete floor 8 feet below. Got up, looked at the office people staring at me with their jaws open, brushed myself off and walked away. I have absolutely NO idea how I didn't get hurt. Not even a bruise or stiff muscle the next day.

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Ditches ... always stuff in the hole to clean out.

Septic ... I was going to do that this year, but other things like a leaky roof took the funds. Hopefully next year which will be year 21 since it was done last.