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I do Lawncare in south Florida, very hot and even a job that wouldn't be to demanding physically is with the heat conditions. I actually enjoy it though and I think I'm rather tolerant of the heat! I have worked at a grocery where it was pretty physical labor with lifting and stocking shelves. An 8 hour shift definitely gave you a days worth of exercise.
I was a cocktail waitress at the Kingston Plantation pool deck in Myrtle Beach (it was the Radisson) back in the late 1980s in the summer! Talk about hot! We worked 11am to 6pm seven days a week.
I remember when the temps would hit 100 (we only worked Memorial Day through Labor Day), we would have to constantly jump in the pool. Good thing our uniforms were one piece fuschia bathing suits with these hideous teal green sashes.
Seems as if for the vast majority of women they never have had to work any physically demanding jobs. But are there any women here that have? I am talking working 90+ degree heat while also having to do something physically demanding?
I am an oceanographer and I go to sea on a research vessel a few times a year for a couple of weeks at a time (usually during the summer). I had the opportunity to work at the deep water horizon oil spill site on one of the research vessels during the summer of 2010. That was the longest (8 weeks) and most physically demanding stint I have done. We work every day, no days off, for 12 hr shifts. Temperatures on deck were upper 90s during the day, and the first 4 weeks we had to wear tyvek suits while on deck. The work itself involved taking water samples, chemically analyzing them, packing and moving them according to DOJ chain of command rules. These were large samples, almost a gallon at a time, and we would put them in boxes of 6-8 samples in a cooler, so it weighed 35-60lbs in a cooler. Which I also had to move across the deck to the refrigerator. To say we were drenched in sweat is an understatement. But it was the coolest thing I have ever done. Oh, and of our 24 scientist crew, 9 of us were women as was the commander of the ship
One of the requirements to be cleared for these jobs is to be able to lift 80lbs. It wasn't one of those doctors sign off that you can, when I had my security clearance they tested if we could run through doorways with 18in sills, lift the 80 lbs and get in a survival suit in less than 2 minutes. Then they tested the survival suit thing on deck (in the 100 ° heat) twice a week at least.
Depending on your size that could be close to a record. Pics?
Thank you very much. I was bigger so it was not a record. I looked it up there is a girl in 2014 in the teen catagory who squated 391.25. In 2008 a girl squated 402.25. That is crazy. Those girls can do some real manual labor I'm sure.
Maybe. Maybe not. I've noticed that bulked up people sometimes can't go/work for long periods of time. Some can, but many cannot.
I've noticed that with boys in my high school years they only do weight lifting and not cardio so they have a really big torso and really skinny legs and they can't actually lift things and carry them around they can only lift them up. This made me think of another thing. If you are lifting really heavy things at work and aren't used to doing it, please lift safely. I have seen a lot of people get hurt lifting things way too heavy and getting really really hurt. If you don't think you can lift it, don't lift it :
I've read that nursing has a very high rate of back and other muscle injuries among all occupations. Orderlies have the worst of any occupation - almost three times the injury rate than that of construction workers. The problem is, a nurse can't expect to be able to call for a male every time she needs to work on a patient.
It's gotten worse due to the fact that people are getting much heavier in recent years.
Have you ever tried to pick up a child (or dog) that goes completely limp? Imagine having to lift or roll over a 350 pound unconscious person while bending over a bed. Now imagine they fell on the floor.
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