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I'm a manual laborer and I enjoy moving around to different job sites and being outside but the job is hard and my body is starting to feel it.
Within blue collar jobs what's the less taxing options for a guy that is somewhat dumb and has bad memory?

>> No.2845909

>>2845903
Anything that’s repairs and not new installation, or small specialist stuff. The jobs are much shorter and less intensive than new construction. If you really want to be on a building site, probably equipment repairs or maybe trenching, hydrovac, utility connection, water meters, optic fiber etc

>> No.2845912

>>2845909
I wouldn't mind working with fiber cable but I'm a high school dropout so quite dumb desu.

>> No.2845919

>>2845912
We have new immigrant Afghanis doing entire city fibre optics installations up here in Canada. They barely speak English and drive like madmen and can't even use computer or smartphone very well but they still do a good job because they're able to follow exact instructions and repeat it, and are creative problem solvers.

>> No.2845930

Contact your local cable provider and tell them you're a new contractor looking for work, ask if they have any drops that need to be dug. This is something you can do with a shovel and a truck and should net you 100-200 dollar per drop. They have infinite drops, you just need to get in with their project coordinator.

>> No.2845958

>>2845930
LAmfaoo. Digging ditches sucks ass, not what I would call “less taxing”.

T. Shovel Mexican.

>> No.2845962

>>2845958
Eh it would beat having to carry heavy windows up and down stairs and scaffolds. Also less risk of shit falling on your head.

>> No.2845968

>>2845912
You don’t need to be a wizard, basically you get a big wire stripper/crimp tool with clear instructions and training, it’s just expensive when you do it wrong

>>2845930
> trenching with a shovel
What year is it

>> No.2846023

>>2845903
Cobras are reddit, gatora are faster.

>> No.2846030

>>2845968
It requires a steady hand. Bare fiber is super easy to break during cleaving and connectorizstion. The hardest part is calming down after pulling a half mile drop solo over the previous 4 hours hauling a ladder through the woods or hooking multiple poles. Going from grug mode to clean room mode is a hard transition to do instantly.
Also, fiber splicers/installers don't get paid what they used to anymore. Still pays well, but no where near what it used to.

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2846039

>>2845958

You can use a power tool such as an auger to achieve the labor of several shovelers, it can can be used to carve out a bulk of the hole much more quickly, along with a shovel for more careful digging.

Technology augments labor and renders old labor roles redundant, that's why we have massive recurring economic crises like market crashes.

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2846040

>>2846039

>it can* be used to carve out a bulk of the hole much more quickly

Like a mechanical digger, but these are very expensive and are often bought on loan by businesses and governments.

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2846044

>>2846040
I thought a vertical hole with an auger would also be an efficient way to dig graves, not for mass graves for zionist genocide in Palestine, or even formal burials. More like disposing of recalcitrant informants or really burying anyone head-first without leaving a trace.

>> No.2846095

>>2846044
Seems like a prefectly cromulent idea really.

>> No.2846100

>>2846095
Ideas like that embiggen even the smallest man.

>> No.2846673

>>2845903
hire startups, and send them to job sites on your behalf. put up ads as an "agent" for guys starting new, say you know where the work is, then take a percentage out of their fee.
that, or you can look for jobs in the immediate areas, maybe get gadgets aimed at making the job more comfortable..etc.

>> No.2846682

>>2846044
You would be drilling 12 feet down, or else run afoul of the 6 foot principle. 12 feet is a deep ass hole to be making on a whim.

>> No.2846698

>>2846682
>a deep ass hole

No no no... Not ass-hole. Hole in ground.

>> No.2846754

>>2846682
graves don't actually have to be six foot below surface. local regulations vary, but usually three or four foot is acceptable.

>> No.2848031

>>2845903
How do you find work? I've needed some warm body/stop trying to trap me laborer gigs to get some capital to chase a real job. It aint the great depression out there where you can dig a ditch from a sandwich....but it's also the great depression cause I can't get fucking hired....

>> No.2848086

>>2845912
You don't need to splice proteins or do calculus proofs to lock down a trade. The jump you need to make is from "laborer" to a specific field that you can leverage income and contracting from. Tiler, painter, caulking, tinner, hardscaper, mason, pipe fitter, drywall finisher, wallpaper installer, idk. In large metro areas you can go even more niche to charge a fat premium, say like venetian plaster or specialty cement or epoxy solid surfaces maybe install minisplits.

>> No.2848188

>>2848031
Dude everyone is hiring. Looking in the eyes and having a firm handshake is all you need.

>> No.2848390

>>2848188
I got a job only off an interview, back in may. Didn't even submit a resume, I interviewed that well. First sales job I've ever had. It was a meat grinder/boiler room scam, and I was only there a week.....a middle aged man with spotty work history is business poison.
https://youtu.be/cyz1O8iGLFU
They want a flatened person with commitments who can't walk away.

>> No.2850392

>>2845919
They get the job because of subsidized wages.

>> No.2851352

>>2848188
https://youtu.be/yi3hoeevAkQ

>> No.2852067

>>2845958
The entire nation of Germany loves digging

>> No.2853772

Is there a single career that feeds diy more than manual labor?
>naturally leads to truck ownership
>trash materials for free
>logistically dovetails with leaving jobsite every day
>stays in shape/forms habit of using hands to learn by doing/brainstorm/know methods/costs

Best story I've ever heard was a brick layer who stole two bricks a day and BUILT A FUCKING HOUSE!

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>> No.2855401

>>2845903
Janitor, preferably public sector (school system etc).

>> No.2856483

>>2851352
>>2851352
i want to impregnate her

>> No.2856484

>>2845919
>they're able to follow exact instructions and repeat it, and are creative problem solvers.
OP said he's stupid. The things you listed Afghans can do are the exact ones that require real intelligence/memory. OP can type in English and use a smartphone but most retards can do that with a whole childhood's worth of on the job learning. Means nothing.