I would have to say 1- cleaning out our pool after winter when I was a kid. Dad was a swimming pool builder and instead of having one of his crews to come and do it, he had my brother and sister and me do it. He'd drain the pool, then us kids had to go down and scrape and scoop the algae and other crud off the sides and bottom.{not to mention the tad poles, and frogs and snakes and the occasional dead rat or rabbit we'd find at the bottom, oh and did I mention the mosquitoes?] After we got a little older, we discovered if we let it dry for a day or two it would flake off the sides of the pool and we could hose off most of it, but then we had to tote it out by the bucket full afterwards. He'd pay us a quarter an hour when he first had us to do this job, then each year it went up a quarter a year. 2nd - Was doing yard work, we had a very big backyard almost an acre and the front yard was the same. And mom was into designing flower beds that was raised up and made of decorative rocks. Rocks are very heavy! especially to a pre-teen and then a teen, pulling weeds, digging holes and planting plants. I'm not complaining, it taught us the meaning of real work and the value of a dollar, and it kept us out of trouble, but then again, we did live out in the country and there wasn't that much we could get into. Except me, 'cause just as soon as my parents head was turned, I was off on one of my horses and headed for the woods and creek. 3- was helping my now ex as an over the road driver, Semi flatbed, if it could be put on a trailer we'd haul it, and most times we had to tarp loads that were a bugger to do. Especially factory machines that were being pulled out of factories that had either gone belly up or relocated over seas. I'm talking Dirty Greasey Grimey machines that should've gone to the scrap heap. And to crawl all over them pulling a tarp and padding underneath on the sharp points, and then having to drive for hours like that until we came to a truck stop to wash the crud off of us. And then cleaning the inside of the truck of the stuff that fell off of us. Wipe'ems only clean so much on a person. Our cocker spaniels we had with us wouldn't even come close to us until after we had a shower, I don't blame them one bit. I could go on for hours on the dirty jobs I've done in my life to make a living, even when I was single and then married and then single again, like I am now.
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