This Labor Day I thought I’d recognize some people that I think have really hard jobs. I’ve had my share of sorry jobs, but there’s a few sorry jobs that I haven’t had, and I don’t want to ever try them.
Here’s a shout out to the Nursing home CNAs. They work hard for little pay and there’s just absolutely no way the need for them will ever end. Thank you for taking care of our families.
Another job that is hard is the guys that drive the concrete trucks. I hate pouring concrete with a passion. I’ve got a certain amount of respect to the guys that deliver concrete every day of the week. Thanks for making it look easy, because it just ain’t.
Here’s a shout out to the guy or gal that has to work at a dairy barn. That’s as hard a job with bad hours as I know of. However, I do sincerely appreciate the good, wholesome milk and a whole bunch of school kids need it to develop.
I worked in a feed mill in college. It was a dirty job and fairly often I’d find myself several hundred feet in the air working on a conveyor belt or patching a hole in some sheet metal. My hats off to you for keeping the feed coming.
Whether it’s a job in a slaughterhouse or in a restaurant as a fry cook. Anyone that works in food safety has a tough job. Often working in a cold room or with a stinking barrel of offal food safety jobs aren’t easy, but everyone eats meat. I sure do like a good ribeye or T bone, there’s an art to making a good steak.
My hats also off to the school teachers, especially those that teach the little bitty ones. I like kids, but working with a bunch of minnie me’s can’t be easy.
Lastly, here’s to the horse shoers. Anyone that has a job where their head is lower than they’re behind several hours a day has to have a love for their job. So often the horse shoer gets wrongly blamed, but there will always be a need for someone to tack on a set of shoes. I’ve shod for thirty years and I still enjoy it.
“Labor omnia vincit,” it’s Latin and it translates to say work conquers all. There’s a reason that’s our state motto, have a good holiday.
James Lockhart lives near the Kiamichi mountains in southeast Oklahoma. He writes cowboy stories and fools with cows and horses.
Get Local News!
