OT: Chris's Job :)

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is there a reason you're staying with this job, which sounds awful? I'm

sure there are aspects about the job that you like, but the sheer amount of

chemicals and particulate matter you're exposed to, and the backbreaking labor,

seems like enough of a reason to quit and work an office-type job, or retail,

anything that's not so hazardous to your health, since you clearly care about

your health being a member of NN. Just curious.

Tom

ChrisMasterjohn@... wrote:

> In a message dated 2/21/05 12:56:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, rbjr@...

> writes:

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>>Who do you work for and what do you do for them? I spent 3 years building

>> concrete forms on high rise buildings in Atlanta. We used a rather nasty

>> smelling spray on form release agent. That was a fair while ago, at this

>> stage of the game.

>

> ____

>

> I make concrete steps (mostly, also curbs and some other small stuff) for a

> local subsidiary of OldCastle which is a large transnational corporation based

> in Ireland.

>

> We use some spray-on petroleum-based form oil, but this is also supplemented

> with " lard " on certain areas of certain forms that are particularly sticky.

> The " lard " is brushed on with a paintbrush, while the form oil is sprayed on

> with some kind of spray gun, probably the same stuff you used.

>

> The spray-on form oil smells pretty gross but I don't notice it much since

> I'm covered in it all day. It comes out as a mist, so it inevitably floats

> backwards onto the person spraying. My pants get damp with it over the day,

which

> sometimes produces a mild rash on my legs. My arms also get hairless patches

> which the lead man in my shop says is from the oil seeping into the hair

> follicles. The " lard " smells better than the form oil. Sometimes it smells

like

> donuts :-P

>

> Chris