It cracked me out when people gave me a funny surprised look on their face when I told them I was working as a part-time laborer in a construction site before I got accepted to attend a Safety and Health course. Some said " What are you doing there?!" or even worse " Are you planning to work there the rest of your life?". Hahaha. Come on guys, I know where I should be. Being a laborer was just for fun's sake.
Labor job is not a codswallop job seriously. You really need to be physically fit and skillful in handling tools. That is the basic thing you need. Hitting the gym for hours everyday does not guarantee you to fit in this job. It is not like lifting irons. It is all about you, your skills, strength, agility and your tolerance of a very low hygiene level at work place (herh, you have no idea how those foreign laborers live and work!)
So there were 4 of us in the team, of course all locals. We were the so called "special" laborers. All laborers ought stick with one task only at a time and make sure they get it done well. So in our case, it was not because we were not skillful enough for the job, but we were the multipurpose type.
Sometimes we dismantled things
Sometimes we compiled books
Sometimes we washed things
Sometimes we did cleaning. That is me by the way, with improper safety equipments.
This is where we worked. And we only managed to cover the second floor.
There were still a lot of things we did like painting, scrapping, scrubbing, removing mirrors and more. So now you know why we were multipurpose.
But above all, even though we were never equipped with proper personal safety equipments, I am so so very much grateful as there was no major accident or incident happened when we were working there. As I go through my SHO course now, I am still very much thankful that there was nothing bad happened when I was a laborer.
Tell you, it smelt worse than the look
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