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Oculus Spirit [83070]
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Hottest job you ever had? Mine had to be one summer
Aug 1, 2012, 3:19 PM
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at Urquhart Station an SCE&G Coal Plant in Beech Island, right on the Savannah River. I worked for a construction company and pretty much had to push around a wheel barrow and pick up scrap metal or whatever was lying around.
We'd walk outside and it felt as if the AC was on.
http://www.sceg.com/en/my-community/environment/air/Urquhart-Station.htm
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All-TigerNet [12066]
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Roofer***
Aug 1, 2012, 3:20 PM
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All-In [30481]
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Working the soybean and cotton fields in Darlington county.***
Aug 1, 2012, 3:21 PM
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Oculus Spirit [83070]
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You're a messican?***
Aug 1, 2012, 3:22 PM
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Orange Blooded [2522]
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LMAO***
Aug 1, 2012, 3:37 PM
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All-In [30481]
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All-TigerNet [12851]
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^^^Boss' son^^^^***
Aug 1, 2012, 4:31 PM
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110%er [9107]
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Dad was a self taught engineer that installed 30,000
Aug 1, 2012, 3:22 PM
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gallon propane tanks for asphalt plants and various other industries that needed large volume propane sources as fuel.
Manual labor pouring cement, digging, pipe-fitting, etc during the summer in SC/NC.
Not as hot as a coal plant though. Dang.
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CU Medallion [53231]
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our company services that plant, as well as others......
Aug 1, 2012, 3:22 PM
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that is definitely not the hottest. But hot, nonetheless.
My hottest had to be at Nucor Steel in Texas, in the summer, inside. WHOO..........that was hot!!!
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Oculus Spirit [75714]
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Hauling hay. Was not directly paid for it, just allowed to
Aug 1, 2012, 3:22 PM
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eat that week.
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All-TigerNet [12157]
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Pulpwooding,
Aug 1, 2012, 3:23 PM
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taught me the value of a college edumacation
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110%er [9107]
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Yeah, my grades suffered a bit during college
Aug 1, 2012, 3:26 PM
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and the parents "allowed" me to stay home a semester working for him during football season.
Grades were excellent from then on, lol.
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All-In [27403]
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You made the pulp come out of the wood?
Aug 1, 2012, 3:26 PM
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#HJjoke
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Heisman Winner [137857]
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Lifeguard.
Aug 1, 2012, 3:28 PM
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I mean, geez, it could get up into the mid-90s in July and August in Charleston. I'd have to jump into the pool to cool off at least a couple times an hour. It was crazy.
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Rock Defender [53]
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Working on the farm in high school and college.
Aug 1, 2012, 3:28 PM
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All of it was hot.
But the single, hottest thing I ever did on the job in all my years was re-roofing a barn with new tin. MOTHEROFGAWD.
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All-TigerNet [12851]
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cropping tobacco (my entire childhood)
Aug 1, 2012, 3:28 PM
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where was that law banning kids from farm work when i was 12!!!!?
that Sucker spray still makes my stomach turn.
But I do LOVE the smell of diesel smoke early in the morning
A distant second would be the woodyard at Stone Container Florence
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I'll second that********
Aug 1, 2012, 4:44 PM
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Hall of Famer [21558]
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My early 20's #### career...
Aug 1, 2012, 3:28 PM
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having lots of shecs with hot wimmens.
or did you mean job out side?
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Oculus Spirit [78876]
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He meant job that actually existed.***
Aug 1, 2012, 3:35 PM
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All-In [30481]
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All-TigerNet [12851]
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Ring of Honor [32958]
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Fence building near Elizabeth City, NC.
Aug 1, 2012, 3:31 PM
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Although I have had a couple inside jobs that were hotter, they were only short term situations.
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Hall of Famer [24440]
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i too enjoyed a brief career building fences. hot as crap
Aug 1, 2012, 3:37 PM
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and backbreaking to boot. although after reading some of these other posts, i don't think i had it too bad.
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CU Medallion [60215]
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take your pick:
Aug 1, 2012, 3:38 PM
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- working a peach shed
- cleaning/prepping a public size swimming pool for opening
- weed-eating around a golf course lake (at least I could jump in when necessary)
- tarring a roof
- picking okra (sticky nastiness)
- working in a sugar cane field (sticky sweet nastiness)
- road construction (never did the actual asphalt paving, but stood right by it as it was laid)
Hot is hot no matter what you do.
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Oculus Spirit [83070]
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I worked in a Peach shed for a few years in H.S.but after
Aug 1, 2012, 3:43 PM
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the first year was outdoors or in the hydrocoled trucks loading them.
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110%er [5791]
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Either working on top of the kiln at Richtex Brick
Aug 1, 2012, 3:41 PM
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or working beside the glass furnace at Guardian Inc.
Both good companies. Were willing to hire a mediocre engineer like me.
Both very hot places.
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Rock Defender [53]
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Battery cable assembly line. Corrugated steel building,
Aug 1, 2012, 3:42 PM
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no A/C.
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All-In [40925]
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Metal Building Roofing***
Aug 1, 2012, 3:43 PM
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Heisman Winner [105525]
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Laying asphalt one summer. I was the engineer's observer in
Aug 1, 2012, 3:43 PM
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River Hills. Rich Yankees want you to pave their roads, but they sure don't want you to be in their way.
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Hall of Famer [23693]
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Chainsaw operator
Aug 1, 2012, 3:44 PM
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working land around the Wateree drainage.
ohgodinheaven don't talk to me about hot.
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Rock Defender [53]
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HVAC installation
Aug 1, 2012, 3:49 PM
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spend a summer in attics haulin units, and there ain't much that seems too hot after that.
Although my buddy worked in the smelt shop at SMI and swears no one has felt heat until they've done steel work.
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Oculus Spirit [83070]
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Ding Ding Ding, I think we have a winner.***
Aug 1, 2012, 3:53 PM
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Lot o points [180966]
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I cut the grass this morning.***
Aug 1, 2012, 4:04 PM
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110%er [5298]
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Re: Hottest job you ever had? Mine had to be one summer
Aug 1, 2012, 4:41 PM
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Infantryman in Baghdad, Iraq. Temps push up into the low 120s in the summer sometimes. We used to do dismounted patrols that stretched for up to 10 hours, carrying around 50lbs of gear. Something happened to our company's water supply one day, and we spent about 5 hours on a QRF (quick reaction force) mission waiting on EOD to show up and blow some ordinance that was called in, without any water, in Baghdad, in the middle of the summer. Needless to say, it was miserable.
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All-TigerNet [12270]
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mowing grass!***
Aug 1, 2012, 4:47 PM
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All-TigerNet [11963]
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Leading a project installing a steam washer in the heat
Aug 1, 2012, 5:09 PM
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treat department of the plant I worked in. In August. That was bad timing. Usually the indoor temps were around 110 or so. The steam from the washer just jacked up the 'heat index'. I had it easy though. I just had to stand there. the repairmen and electricians were awesome. That was a fun gig.
Beyond that, my 2nd hottest job was serving as a beer wench at the golf course one summer in Charlotte.
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All-TigerNet [11252]
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Cotton Mill
Aug 1, 2012, 5:09 PM
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Warp room. I says, "What's all that a floatin' in the ayre? They says, What stuff? I don't see nuttin'."
I sez, "Lawd gawd, hep me!" And the Lawd sent me to Clemson that very year and I neva went back to that particular mill. Thank You Lawd for synthetic blends!
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All-TigerNet [12763]
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Casting floor of a Steel Mill
Aug 1, 2012, 5:49 PM
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Change in your pocket would leave burns on your leg, even whering 2 layers of nomex.
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Oculus Spirit [97703]
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Stone Age dry cleaners
Aug 1, 2012, 5:50 PM
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The parking lot was MUCH cooler than inside. And in the back on the steam presses, you could barely breathe. I never took a thermometer, but I know it was over 120 in the back. The bathroom was in the back and you literally had 5 minutes in there before certain death.
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All-In [38925]
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welding at the shipyard***
Aug 1, 2012, 5:51 PM
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All-TigerNet [13190]
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Swimming pool installation during the summer in S.C.
Aug 1, 2012, 6:33 PM
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Standing in the middle of a hole filled with concrete while grinding seems down was about as close to hell as I want to get.
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110%er [8930]
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Installing A/C units in ppls attics in summer in s. carolina
Aug 1, 2012, 7:20 PM
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...also known as my inspiration to study my ### off in college so i would never have to have a job like that again.
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110%er [8930]
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Seriously, the thermometer would read b/w 120-130 degrees
Aug 1, 2012, 7:26 PM
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You could only stay up there for 3-5 min before you were literally dripping sweat and had to come down for air. Like someone said earlier, you'd go stand outside (since the house didn't have A/C), and 90-degree air felt like you were walking in a refrigerator. Then, you'd go home and have to take a cold-as-hell shower; otherwise, your pores would open up in the warm water and all the fiberglass would get into your skin.
I remember working one house that had a tin roof, and as I was walking across the joists, the top of my head (right on the little bald spot) touched the tin. It was like a looney toons episode where Bugs smells something cooking before he realizes it's him. Blistered my dome up something awful. And when it happened, I dropped my clippers in the fiberglass and had to dig around that #### to find them. After searching for about a half hour, I gave up--never saw them again.
Ugh...#### that job.
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Oculus Spirit [83070]
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You and Icffanofcu above are the winners. I could crawl
Aug 2, 2012, 7:28 AM
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in the occasional attic, but to do it over and over would be helll.
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CU Medallion [50635]
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cleaning the inside of sugar tankers***
Aug 1, 2012, 7:41 PM
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Lot o points [163012]
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Dyehouse in a textile mill in the 70's
Aug 1, 2012, 8:44 PM
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it would be 120 in there - we would go outside in high 90's to cool off. Just saw they are closing the mill in Calhoun Falls.
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All-In [38925]
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alot on here will have no idea what a Dyehouse was.
Aug 2, 2012, 8:39 AM
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yep, almost 200 more folks out of work. And its not like Calhoun Falls is packed with industrial work, folks will have to do some driving or relocate.
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All-TigerNet [10155]
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Two summers of sub station mowing for Duke Power.
Aug 2, 2012, 8:54 AM
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With an interesting crew!!
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