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Working in Belgium a few years ago as a game keeeper and the rearing pens for the chicks were under ground in a old farm building and i got the job of cleaning them out... It was unbearably hot and smelled sooo bad! Did some amazing stuff over there aswell though...

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Working in Belgium a few years ago as a game keeeper and the rearing pens for the chicks were under ground in a old farm building and i got the job of cleaning them out... It was unbearably hot and smelled sooo bad! Did some amazing stuff over there aswell though...

 

Belgiums dead flat, so I suppose rearing the birds underground makes them fly high? :lol:

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Haha good one...The chicks were only in there for a few weeks then moved to a larger rearing pen outside. It was easier to regulate the temp inside as they still get harsh frosts on clear nights over there.

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Worked for gressingham duck farms, collecting all the breeding eggs, 6 hours bent over in hot smelly barns, then collecting all the dead birds and pressure washing excrement covered equipment......lasted 3 weeks.....

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Telesales was mine. Did one morning when I was in Australia in the 2001. I was selling mobile phones. I had to call someone on a mobile to try to sell them a mobile. I lasted one morning which was one morning too long. There is only so many times you can be told to sod off!

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I've done a few menial jobs (pot washing in a pub, helped on a gang clearing blocked drains) but the worst job I've had was made that way by the boss, not the work itself. Many things are tolerable when everyone is in it together; in my case I had a boss who gave no support or steer but wanted everything done yesterday. I lasted nine months.

 

When I left uni, I went to a temping agency in Manchester and got offered a place starting the next day on the Salford City Council council tax helpline. I was desperate but not that desperate...

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Worked on a concrete gang on the south coast really crap wages meant long hours of backbreaking work.

 

Sweeping sand back onto the beach at Bournemouth ,7 miles of the stuff then back to the beginning again.

 

Lots of really crap agency work in factories etc.. (No wonder I ended up on drugs)

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Turf stacking 7am to 7pm everyday for 6months - got me strong though

Concrete breaking with kango for 14hours a day for the summer months on friends farm

Ragwort picking and poppy picking

Working on dairy farm as apprentice all the worst jobs and long days

Cleaning out grain dryers

Chicken shed cleaning but already been said

 

 

Done more but it's all made me a better person I think

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