At least Andy earned a beer for this....

So I'm sealing my driveway right now and I can't help but think that Andy Duframe (misspelled I know) gor a beer for similar work. If there ever was a job that made me wish to be well off financially, this may well be it. Blah!!

So to keep that from being a generic whine, what jobs would you farm out to the less fortunate if you could?

I was staining my driveway a few years ago. Had to do 3 coats to get the color justright. I had my 3500 Ram blocking the driveway so no jackholes would drive up there during the staining process.

After I applied the 3rd coat, I realize it's trash day, and so I move my truck so that the huge trash truck can make its way down the street unhindered. Come back two hours later to find two sets of tire tracks up and down my driveway. I was beyond pissed.

My driveway is dirt, so no sealing. I did move all 10 yards of new gravel with a shovel and a wheel barrow. Not exactly fun. I need at least five more soon. More shoveling. I think I know why they invented bulldozers.

KyAllroad wrote: So to keep that from being a generic whine, what jobs would you farm out to the less fortunate if you could?

Septic tank work

Painting. i hate...no, hate doesn't do it, i LOATHE painting. i would take a hammer to my balls then clamp them in a vice, rather than paint even the smallest thing. this applies to house painting with a brush. spraying i don't mind. i will prep, tape, drywall, mud, sand, everything, just dear GOD don't make me paint.

good news is, my wife loves to paint. so i prep, she paints. WIN!

-J0N

I once spent two days standing on a ladder and operating a jackhammer over my head for twelve bucks an hour. I think about that every time I want to complain about something at work. I'm a firefighter now.

Woody wrote: I once spent two days standing on a ladder and operating a jackhammer over my head for twelve bucks an hour. I think about that every time I want to complain about something at work. I'm a firefighter now.

We mustve worked for the same company at some point in time

Any job my wife starts and claims I'm not going to have to get involved with. Because it starts with "I was thinking...." and I say "dammit am I gonna get involved" and she says no.. but then 5 minutes later she says "Will you look at this" and before I know it I'm the one going to the hardware store to fix it.

Woody wrote: I once spent two days standing on a ladder and operating a jackhammer over my head for twelve bucks an hour. I think about that every time I want to complain about something at work. I'm a firefighter now.

I feel your pain. I spent my 18th birthday digging a ditch, in the rain, in sand, for 10 bucks an hour, only to have the boss decide he liked the way it looked "only a little bigger" so he had the bobcat operator come in and widen said ditch in 10 minutes or so obliterated all the work I had done.

I never work on my birthday now. Ever.

I did get to operate a rotary hammer from staging on that same job though....

Lets see...yard work. Mowing, trimming, flower beds, the whole damn thing. You can have that crap. The day I decide I've made it financially will be when I can pay someone a yearly contract to do that E36 M3 for me. I'm getting close...maybe next year...

Home repair. I don't mind it as much as the yard work by any stretch, there's just other things I'd rather be doing.

Along the same lines as ranty's suggestion, but sewage lines. Sewage lines are a bitch. That's why they are the landlord's problem and not mine.

Laundry. I hate doing laundry with a passion.

(And before you say it, the fiance does too)

Paint. Laundry (only the folding part). Any "maintenance": personal, yard, house, etc. I hate it.

Ya know, there isn't one job I really hate. I may not like them all, but I don't HATE any.

Roofing. I know how to do it, I have done it before. I won't do it again.

As long as I don't have to get on a ladder, I'm good with most jobs: painting, mowing, etc. I do not like heights. I think it's 'cause I'm short.

berkeleying paperwork.

I don't know why I work in an office because I really like any work thats outdoors. Now, I don't like breaking my back to do it (I have a sensitive back), but I sometimes wonder if I was my own boss if I could just hire some kids to dig holes and I'll do everything else.

N Sperlo wrote: Along the same lines as ranty's suggestion, but sewage lines. Sewage lines are a bitch. That's why they are the landlord's problem and not mine.

Ive hot tapped and Linestopped sewage lines and it sucks

I do love manual labor having worked in an office for a few years now. We were going to buy a shed, but I emphatically argued with the wife that even if it costs the same, I'd rather design and build it.

My office job is so non creative and uninteresting, and it is exhausting to pretend every day.

Laundry.

I don't mind mowing the lawn and weed wacking but I despise mulching and anything related in the flower beds. I'd rather kill all vegetation in them and put stones in and have a stone garden like you see in the southwest.

Teh E36 M3 wrote: I do love manual labor having worked in an office for a few years now. We were going to buy a shed, but I emphatically argued with the wife that even if it costs the same, I'd rather design and build it. My office job is so non creative and uninteresting, and it is exhausting to pretend every day.

One of the primary reasons that I did consider a career change to teaching was the fact that I am exhausted after 8 hours in the office sitting at a computer. If I'm going to be exhausted, I don't want it to be because I was sitting in a desk chair all day.

I find it amazing that I am more tired after 8 hours at the desk than I am after caddying 36 holes with two golf bags.

EastCoastMojo wrote: As long as I don't have to get on a ladder, I'm good with most jobs: painting, mowing, etc. I do not like heights. I think it's 'cause I'm short.

I was driving back from a motocross event and saw some guys on a lift getting onto a water tower. I got dizzy and pulled off the highway. Almost puked.