It sucks having to work on Saturday

[Krooser]

54 years of trucking. Sat/Sun is just another day.

The first ten years I drove I made four Christmases at home.

 

[j-c-c-62]

When you are in the concert business, most of your work is weekends, nights, and holidays, and you can throw in missing a lot of birthdays, anniversaries, and when not working, you are traveling.
One upside is no two days are ever the same or often in the same place.
Staying married is nearly impossible.
The rush can be addicting.

 

[Hey-O]

My last 26 years before I retired, I worked in a climate controlled inspection lab in an auto parts plant. I worked straight days, with occassional Saturday overtime. As a skilled tradesman, I was earning the same as toolmakers, mechanics, etc. It was the best job I ever had. There were only 2 of us in the department. Half of the job was was dimensionally inspecting tooling used in the factory presses to form powdered metal parts. The other half of the work was repairing, maintaining and calibrating all the production gauging in the factory. I preferred the latter, and my co-worker liked the former. It worked out very well. I have been retired almost 13 years, and that is great, too.

In the plant we called it Lay Out Inspection. They'd set up a body in white, bare metal, on a jig and this probe would come down and touch every square inch to check the body for perfect fit off the master. Great job!!

 

[Hey-O]

I help maintain 5 million square feet of a manufacturing plant and the admin building. If I had a weekend off it was spent with the family. I would turn wrenches, slowly, just for fun. Cars, boats and houses, were my drug. My family was my mission. I worked till I was 52, retired and started a business with my brother. On the job by 9, business lunch, and home by 3 to 4, 2 to 5 days a week till I totally retired at 57. It was funny how many people made fun of me for working all the time in the early years. Then they'd ask how I could afford this or that, WTF, are you stupid!! They don't ask anymore. We all pick a road and there's nothing wrong with hard work.