in all kinds of weather; bet summer is especially fun, since not everyone is reasonably clean about their recycling and garbage/cans. Talk to the man who repairs garbage trucks - even ones that have been emptied and hosed out, still they leak smelly fluids; and what about the trucks that quit while loaded? There's a reason why soup cans and other food containers need atleast rinsed out before being tossed in the blue tub. Then there's the man who comes over in the truck to pump out the tank.
There's the man who comes over to replace nasty pipes. That's hard work, in oftentimes tight airless spaces - same with electrical repairs. There's a reason why the labor runs about $100 an hour - after about thirty years in the trade, a man faces things like knee surgery; and yeah, knees can be fixed, but they're never the same.
Roofing is yet another tough job - 105 degrees up there, and the men have to move it - without sacrificing quality - because that storm wasn't supposed to happen until around 3:30-ish; it's 2:45, and those clouds are getting black. So yeah, guess that's one reason why the back roof ran some 4k two years ago. (It was in bad shape, maybe two rainstorms from a leak.)
Wanna talk undervalued jobs? Our stupid politicians left our men to rot in Hanoi. Our craven leaders, evidently, did not have the stones to demand our soldiers' release (on pain of sending the bombs to blow that certain pee-pot of a nation off the map).
Don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but while the men sweat in grime as they repair our roads, or fixing the power line and clearing downed trees (while the wind refuses to go away) and traffic gets tied up - can't help but to notice, it's usually a MAN who will let you in to that turning lane.
Jus' sayin' :)
One of the most undervalued jobs, with a high rate of injury, and zero respect, as well as very low pay, is personal care worker. The low status women, usually of color, who we dump on expecting them to change senior diapers for a living all the while often being hit, scratched or slapped by the people they look after. At least the male jobs pay better.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous, sadly, in this fallen world, women end up in crappy jobs - because their husbands or, if not married, their fathers and brothers, won't trouble themselves to provide. From what Scripture says, it wasn't the Lord's plan for women to slave for nasty strangers. And as for those full-diaper load, foul-tempered seniors, have to wonder if their (pathetic) rage is but a manifestation of something ugly, that's been inside for decades, but no longer hides.
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