I had a Grandfather, Uncle and a Cousin all work for HL&P when it was the power company in Houston. I always wondered why their feet and backs hurt so much. Carrying loads up a pole like a mule for years on end was why. When it stormed in Houston, they weren't off.

On holidays, local churches provided us with dinners at our stations. I always felt guilty because I knew there were WAY more people away from home bringing home the bacon besides us LEOs.

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Power plant operators / schedulers / dispatchers / controllers / emergency crews.

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Damn!
Just when you think that job didn’t suck enough!

Ramadan, there they are!
Christmas, working their ass (which might be a possibility) off.
Hanukkah, all 8 days.

Remind me to cross that off my list of “retirement jobs”!

Never heard of “fluffer”, so I went and looked it up. I nearly died laughing so hard.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
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Hmmmm ... just wondering about your familiarity with this line of work.

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Dairy farmers..

grandparents did this,

milk at or before sun up, and at sundown, every day

My grandfather and father both did this and I grew up doing it. Watching that constant demand and the low compensation for it are two of the primary reasons why I decided to not follow in their footsteps.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
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Hmmmm ... just wondering about your familiarity with this line of work.

Para was just a cameraman. Fact. Lol.

POTUS

Linemen.

Foster parents.

Hospitality business. Hotels, resorts, guest ranches.

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Originally posted by smlsig:
Dairy farmers..

Horse Farm- they eat every day, have to be led out to paddocks, taken in at night, stalls cleaned, fed, medical, and then you have to take care of the farm itself.
any Farmer for that matter, there's always something that has to be done...

Along the same lines, Cattle Rancher.
Met a rancher in Wyoming that never took a vacation. Once the kids moved out, he and his wife were on their own.

All of the energy and utility businesses - electricity, water, natural gas, oil production, refineries, electric generation, water treatment, sewage treatment, etc. Not every employee is working, but there will be operators and technicians 24x7x365.

Then there are those of us with normal 40 hour work weeks but when the phone ring are now working 16 hour days, 7 days a week until emergency over. For example, a couple years ago my role in an emergency was more day 3 to figure out why it failed but I was covering for a day 1 guy on vacation. I found 40 missed calls and 40 texts while motorcycling on Memorial Day weekend when I pulled my phone from the saddle bags. I spent the next 10 days working 16 hour days doing his role and my normal role. I received my normal salary plus an Amazon gift card.

Anything with hospitality or logistics, including the terminals they utilize.

When I was working, Funeral Director.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
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Halloween, there they are, getting a treat for helping out with a trick.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
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My grandparents did this,

Fluff at or before sun up, and at sundown, every day