Tell me about your most blue collar job.

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Not sure all are blue collar, but:

Reading ground inset water meters (one at a time, by hand)
Grocery clerk
Grocery cashier
Several electronics stores (Radio Shack and Circuit City)
Restaurant work
 
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Whenever there was a dead rat in the Sears call center, me and my coworker friend would alterate to go get it..nothing like picking up a huge nasty rat in front of 30 mostly females and act like it didnt bother me..lol

I used to try and run them over when mowing..dang things would sit there and split second make me miss..of course if I hit one, it would probably wreck the mower..like the size of rabbits.
 
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Orangeburst said:
Whenever there was a dead rat in the Sears call center, me and my coworker friend would alterate to go get it..nothing like picking up a huge nasty rat in front of 30 mostly females and act like it didnt bother me..lol

I used to try and run them over when mowing..dang things would sit there and solit second make me miss..of course if I hit one, it would probably wreck the mower..like the size of rabbits.
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Was that the one in Gray?
 
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Ritzwatch said:
When reading the threads here in the PF, one thing that often comes up is people's jobs.

We have plenty of professionals here: attorneys, educators, entrepreneurs, etc. Those positions are sometimes referenced in policy discussion as providing a unique or specialized outlook that informs a particular poster's positions on issues. I certainly think our work history influences our current decisions, and there is much discussion as to which candidate "relates to" or "cares for" average Americans more. To that end, I am curious what everyone's "blue collar" work experience.

So, what is your most blue collar working experience, when did you do it, why, and for how long? How has that experience influenced your political decision making process, if at all?

Looking forward to hearing what you have to say.
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Early in my life I have worked on a factory assembly line at multiple companies - some heavy presses. When I was in college, I spent some time going to school during the day and working 2nd shift on one such machine during a summer taking upper level classes. Before I started white collar work after college, I ran my own line at a door company stamping small parts, calibrating and fixing the tooling, moving inventory and matching runs to the production schedule. It was a gravy job because they liked me.
 
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Worked as free child slave labor for my dad when he used to flip houses. That was probably 7 years old through high school.

Also in high school, worked at my friend's family's little hole in the wall Italian place in Alcoa.

Then summers in college I worked for Petroleum Services basically doing construction for new or existing gas stations. Digging footings, installing underground gas tanks and gas lines, forming and pouring footings, installing gas dispensers, gas tank vent pipe fitting, etc. Made $8 per hour and damn near killed myself. Almost caught on fire standing in a sump with a gas pump once. There were fumes present and the electric motor arced while I was standing in the sump. I dove out of that sump and was panicking as a solid monument of flames just kept burning. Then this old fat slow talking stoic redneck strolled over while the whole sump was on fire, and gently placed the cover on it. And out it went. Lol.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Nice. Spent 3 of my formative college years frequenting Chapman highway. There was a little goat ranch driving range near Ye Olde, and we would splurge on occasion at the Great American steak and buffet company. Of course (you know me) Disc Exchange captivated much of my expendable cash.
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Are you talking about the driving range in Seymour out past Ye Olde that’s been there forever?
 
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kiddiedoc said:
That's the one
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Yeah, if it’s on the right going in toward Seymour, my great uncle owned that until he passed. I think his son took it over and runs it now, but not entirely sure. I remember he had a couple of old washing machines hooked up out there to wash the golf balls in. Last time I drove by, I believe there was a goal post on the range you could try and launch balls through.
 
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volfanhill said:
I was a line cook for a few years. The nastiest thing I've ever done for money, not counting things I've done for @McDad, was clean out the nacho cheese machine at the pool snack bar when I was like 11. Had to use a damn hose
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Having to use a hose probably came in handy for the things done with @McDad .
 
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Working for @McDad be like
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I've mostly been blue collar.

10 - 17 Hauling hay and mowing a handful of yards. Earned a little money digging and selling ginseng as well.

17 - 21 Krystals Cook --> Shift Leader --> Assistant Manager --> GM. Attended trade school during this time for an Industrial electricity certificate.

21 - 34 Postal hub. Material Handler and Expeditor, Loading/unloading Tractor trailers full of mail and sorting it --> Maintenance technician. Eventually got into the maintenance department full time. It was a multi-craft department. Main responsibility though was keeping the large automated tray sorting machine running. --> Maintenance supervisor/Electronics technician. Attended college at this time studying engineering. Loved the job.

34 - 45 (current). Field service engineer/Controls engineer. Best job I've ever had. The creativity and freedom I have to get automated machines in the auto parts industry running and customized all by my lonesome is fantastic. My nearest boss is almost always hundreds of miles away, so I fly solo. Pretty dang good pay too.
 
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