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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dogoftheunderworld" data-source="post: 2844483" data-attributes="member: 1485">In one of my jobs right after college, I worked at a limestone quarry.  They made crushed stone products for concrete, asphalt, road construction , etc.  I worked in the lab, checking quailty (mostly checking for correct sizing of stone products).  Some of my wonderful duties include:- Setting up a seizmagraph in home owners yards, because they just knew that the mine/quarry explosions were going to tear their houses in half -- "Look at the cracks in the driveway!"  (The worst was for one of our company's salemens wives -- they built their house next to the quarry!!@#$!%#$^!#)- Climbing up piles of stone and sand to measure the side with a tape measure to calculate the volume & therefore the tons of product in inventory (my second boss wouldn't do it because she had "broken her ankle walking up piles like that").- Driving to little known parts of the property to find 4' (1.2 meter) flat, steel "X"s  and re-painting them with white paint every few months. -- They were used for aerial photographs to ... check tons of product inventory...- (Of course) Reconciling my physical measurements (estimates) of product to the fly-over measurements (estimates)- Driving a couple of local Tool Rental managers around the property showing them where all the port-a-pottys were   (at least I got to drive their Hummer <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)- Training a union manager to do the job the company wouldn't hire me to do  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> - and #1 worst thing... washing my first bosses company car  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />    (Fortunately he was promoted up, up, and away from me)</blockquote>

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