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As If You Needed Another Reason To Play Poker Instead of Working

If you were ever weighing the relative merits of working, and improving society, and sitting on your ass playing poker, I though I might throw an awful job experience of my own onto the scales.

It was a summer job that I had several years ago. I was gainfully employed as labor for a bricklayer. Now this wasn't a job that I would have applied for on my own, my older brother had it initially, but after he decided he had better things to do with his time I got roped into it.

My main job consisted of two things. The first was to mix mortar in a large trough about 6 feet long, 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep. If you aren't familiar with mortar it comes as a powder and needs to be mixed with water and throughougly stirred with a hoe. The second, and even more fun part was hauling the bricks to the roof of a two story house so that the three bricklayers could build a chimney. I did this by means of a pulley. I would hand over hand haul up buckets of mortar and brickes and then they would send the buckets back down. Usually by dropping them.

Anyways all was well and good for the first several weeks. I did come home exhausted after every day but was developing muscles and getting a farmers tan that no chick could resist. One day as I finished mixing up a batch of mortar I turned around and set the hoe in a bucket of water so that the mortar wouldn’t harden on it and ruin it. As I did this I noticed that I stepped in something. Looking down I saw it was a patch of spilled mortar. "Aw, great, now I'll have to deal with mortar on my shoes."

The very next thing that I noticed was the handle of the hoe tipping over and hitting me in the face. Later inspection revealed that the water bucket I had set it in was in fact empty, all the water had leaked out through cracks in the bottom caused by dropping, thus causing the hoe to tip over when it was leaning on the side. However this was not my biggest concern at the moment.

Now I do not know if you have ever been hit in the face with the handle of a hoe. If you haven't then I suggest that you structure your life to avoid doing so. It is a bit of a suprising… nay… dare I say shocking experience. Well needless to say I was not expecting it. And after it happened I shuffled a step or so back. And in the process caught my heel on the large trough, pitching myself backwards into it. Now if you remember that I was concerned with some mortar on my shoe, you can easily imagine that I was not pleased to soak myself in it. Needless to say I was quite happy when the summer ended a couple weeks later.

Now I'm not saying that all jobs suck, at least not as bad. Nor am I saying that you should quit your job and sit around in your underwear playing poker all day. However next time you are debating whether or not to get a job, really consider just how much you need the money.