 Poster: A snowHead
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I have just been listening to Derek and Clive (some of you out there will know what I am talking about. If not just google D and C) which has inspired me to ask all you instructors / coaches out there...
What's the worst job you ever had?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Egg collecting in a poultry unit.
Temp's in the 90s (or more), In the dark, Air thick with dust, feed and feathers, pecked by chickens as you go past.
Needless to say I've never really eaten Chicken since.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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elbrus, I once made tomato ketcup to earn some money to go skiing. Since then I have avoided ketchup from a well known fast food chain that sells burgers! It amazing what you will do just to get to ski!
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Picking lobsters out of Jane Maynsfields ...............
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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LARGEZOOKEEPER, I take it you dropped through the cavity where her gall bladder once was. 
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stripping out burnt out buildings....12 hour days wearing full protective kit +respirator with only a chain saw and a crow bar to take out floor joists 3 levels up [without scafolding or any other safety equipment]
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worst job I ever heard of was a couple of guys who used to clean up after police forensics or SOCO had finished with a crimescene....my worst job was selling them the cleaning products to do it
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I was a non stop dancer once.
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, this bloke came up to me....and he said you ....! I said you wot. He said you ...!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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elbrus, He said i'm a non stop dancer, i said...., why aren't you dancing, he said i'm unemployed, the ....
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, is this anyway to run a ...... ball room?
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elbrus, We used to love it back in the day a certain Ski Boot fitter, is called Colin,
" 'ello, Colin, ain't seen you for a while, how's the family..........yeah, oh yeah, ....."
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You know it makes sense.
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SMALLZOOKEEPER, its classic stuff. Still has me in fits. I got "get the horn" DVD as a gift recently. Its great. You can also down load of D and C stuff now. Its time to get it out there again.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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elbrus, I got 'Ad Nausium' live in the studio, watching them trying to follow a script, pi$$ed with a rubber doll is classi
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Poster: A snowHead
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Milk round - get up really early, get shouted at by almost everyone and bl**dy hard work. Much harder than horses.. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| david@mediacopy wrote: |
Egg collecting in a poultry unit.
Temp's in the 90s (or more), In the dark, Air thick with dust, feed and feathers, pecked by chickens as you go past.
Needless to say I've never really eaten Chicken since. |
I used to love doing that. it was feeding the sheep afterwards that I wasn't so keen on, once they see you with a bag of food you're a marked man.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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OK, I'm not an instructor, but I'll chip in. The first work I ever did to earn some extra cash (in the days when a kid could get away with doing stuff they probably shouldn't have been doing) was seasonal turkey plucking including catching and killing, dirty, filthy work and horrid if they had lice, but by crikey did I earn some cash doing it - I could do six an hour and earned enough to go to the States for a month when I was eighteen.
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Hoeing cabbages!!! 
Did it to help out someone's dad.... then we understood why he could not get anyone to do the damn job....
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Mercerising cotton 
Five hours into the night you notice that your hands are becoming soapy and the skin is starting to dissolve...
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"and a little bit of paper came under the f****** door" "are you Andy?
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I went to sea....on a bogey!
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andyjc, bogeys are not sea worthey, and who would listen, ******* nobody!
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This one!
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I once spent 4 days sorting out a sack of screws in a dusty Brisbane shed.
I have worked as a poultry farmer and I'd rather shovel chicken $h!te any day of the week than sitting in a metal shed in tropical heat having my mind numbed making smaller piles of screws from a larger pile. The closest I'll ever get to Sisyphus.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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The_Hirsty, funnily enough, I have shovelled chickenshit in Queensland.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I feel your pain
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Stacking shelves in Tesco is the worst thing i've ever done-hard life i know-would never consider doing it again. Mind numbingly dull.
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You know it makes sense.
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On a pneumatic drill.
Drilling holes in concrete. No goggles. No ear defenders.
Working with a Polish gang, surpringly - but they were older Poles from the wartime generation. Sikh carpenters were interesting. Indian tools were different to the ones we have in the West
Still it was Summertime. So it could have been worse.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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My first Saturday job was in T.J.Hughes department store. this was in the late 70s when the IRA were particulalry active. I worked in the white goods section and at the end of the day we had to check all the appliances for explosive devices. This invovled opening fridge/washing machine doors and looking inside. Not as bad as my mate though who worked in menswear and had to pat pockets.
Second Saturday job was in the restaurant at British Home Stores - washing dishes was particularly chunder inducing
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Poster: A snowHead
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Worst= Importing/exporting IT consumables. (office jobs suck)
Best= 8 years of white water rafting.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Cleaning toilets after an Air India delayed flight
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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washed dishes for 6 years for very little pay - who said slavery was dead!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Worst Job = Filing burrs off castings for two months as an apprentice (this may not mean that much to folks who have no experience of manufacturing, but it wasn't much fun).
Best Job = Working as a gym instructor for a year. Pay not great but a real sense of achievement after every class.
Current Job = IT Manager for a medium-sized, UK based company.
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sounds like sheer luxury...
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bin man for 4 days! I really respect bin men now after doing it myself.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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My Current job,
i hate it, sat in front of a computer everyday ;-(
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Worst job - sorting Christmas mail on the night shift
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FAQ
, my job was similar but worse. I had to hand pluck the dead chickens in the large barns, the ones that just died (there are many in the large sheds).
