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I think it's probably the hardest job I ever had.
I used to wash those plastic boxes/trays that loose veg comes in at supermarkets. 15000 of them a day, starting at 6:30am using a dual conveyor belt machine where at 6:30am the water was scalding hot and by 3:30pm it was freezing cold. All week and a half day on Saturday. People were nice but the work was awful... but better than "grading" tomatoes, peppers or cucumbers; easier jobs but soul-destroying and mind-emptying.
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but better than "grading" tomatoes, peppers or cucumbers; easier jobs but soul-destroying and mind-emptying.
Grading was the fun bit, at least you got to think about what you're doing. QC on the conveyer pulling out the bent cucmbers that would jam up the graders if left (already been sorted twice by this point so not many!) is literally hell.
Yukirin
Sounds like the strawberry picking I did occasionally in the summers at sixth form.
In my head: hazy summer morning, chatting to the farmer about butter and cider, hedgehogs snuffling around protecting their strawberries.
In reality: painful work, competitively trying to pick more by weight than colleagues before days quota is made, unable to move the next day.
I think it's probably the hardest job I ever had.