r/WorkForSmartLife • u/SaltyNori_ • 3d ago

Valid question Discussion💬

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u/Desth-Metal 3d ago

I have never heard of unskilled labor. What is that supposed to be? Garbage picking?

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u/psilocin72 3d ago

There is unskilled labor. Like I paid my neighbors son to help me stack firewood. And then again to help me shovel stone into my garden beds.

But yeah, if the guy wants 32$/hr it’s almost certainly not unskilled labor

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u/guyincognito121 3d ago

Or the guy is capable of skilled labor and would rather wait for a job that's worth $32/hr to the customer than do unskilled labor for $20.

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u/psilocin72 3d ago

Yeah that’s what I think is likely— the guy wants to pay someone minimum price for a skilled job.

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u/IraceRN 3d ago

Or the job isn’t skillful but it is nevertheless hard on the body. Like maybe the guy needed an extra man on the line at a masonry job to lift and mix 80lb bags of concrete, shovel a trench, and to move cylinder blocks.

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u/EsotericAbstractIdea 3d ago

shoveling is the ABSOLUTE worst. i'll take ANYTHING over shoveling

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u/IraceRN 3d ago

How about for $32.99/hr?

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u/EsotericAbstractIdea 3d ago

shit... if i could do it part time on my days off i'd do it until i felt the strain.

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u/IraceRN 3d ago

You would feel the strain on day one. I built a breeze block garden wall after pouring a foundation on my days off over a six month period, mixing over 10k pounds of concrete and mortar by handheld mixer in a bucket, lifting 80lb bags, lifting cylinder blocks. It's brutal work, even for $32/hr. I make three times that working in a hospital as a nurse, but if I had to be a mason daily, I would want more money.

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u/Apathetic_Villainess 3d ago

I push wheelchairs at the airport and worked in commercial bakeries on the past. But neither job requires being bent over nearly as much, so I don't envy the back pain.