Worst jobs for running?

asphalt paving in July and August.

No, you hit the nail on the head. I was a camp counselor 4 summers ago and got paid $40 a week. I've never had a more exhausting job. During the games I actually made a point of chasing my own campers around the entire time so they would be tired by night time and actually sleep.

Forget about running this summer dude.

PE teacher!

breaking concrete 50houres a week

hiatus wrote:

No, you hit the nail on the head. I was a camp counselor 4 summers ago and got paid $40 a week. I've never had a more exhausting job. During the games I actually made a point of chasing my own campers around the entire time so they would be tired by night time and actually sleep.

Forget about running this summer dude.

This brings back memories. I was a camp counselor during the summer after I graduated from high school, over thirty years ago. I was in charge of kids from five to seven years old, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. I think I got either one or two days off the entire summer, and was paid next to nothing. It was an absolutely exhausting job. Just brutal. Who would have guessed it?

How about something that doesn't have a regular sleep cycle? I end up staying up for 30 hours straight a couple times a month for work (experimental physics), which isn't *too* bad, but i'm sure it would be worse for, say, an ER intern or something with shifts at random times all week.

door to door sales

since most of the tough jobs are now done by illegals from south of the border, most of you guys have no idea what manual labor is about.

roofer

painter

hanging drywall

concrete crew

framer

working around molten aluminum is no picnic either children.

two words, "eleven bravo".

Being a professional shotputter.

working at the front desk of a marriott hotel for the past 3 years. You don't have a set schedule and shifts range from 7AM-3PM one day to 3Pm-11pm another day, and sometimes the overnight shift of 11PM-7AM, working 40 hours a week of random shifts, makes sleep very hard to get routinely and can make it is exhausting, its hard working a 3-11 shift and not getting home till midnight and knowing you have to get up and run the next morning and since its summer you have to get up earlier or your screwed with heat pretty much after 10:30, and then going back to work at 3

My contribution: a camp counselor. 24 hours/day with kids, 6 days a week, too exhausted to run on my day off.

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Why do you think parents ship their kids off to summer camp? It's not for the kids; it's for the parents. Plus school is out; school is wonderful for keeping kids grounded and in a routine.

To the orignial poster: I used to be a camp counselor every summer in building my base for Division I XC, for which I placed Top 15 twice at Regionals. Those 24/7 days with kids and 100+ mile weeks is what made me strong come XC season. So, camp counselor, in my book, is one of the best jobs one can have.

$40 a week??? When I had my first summer job at the age of 15 twenty years ago I earned twice as much!

anything physical labor or in the heat

hard labor? running? It's a grind, but it can be done, as long as the hours are normal. I did it for two summers and I was always sore and exhausted at the end of the day, but after a smoothie and a shower, I always felt fresh enough to run. Try laying sod and digging trenches in volcanic soil with lots of rocks all day. Good core work.

Im in the Air Force...

Makes things interesting sometimes

Muger Cement wrote:

To the orignial poster: I used to be a camp counselor every summer in building my base for Division I XC, for which I placed Top 15 twice at Regionals. Those 24/7 days with kids and 100+ mile weeks is what made me strong come XC season. So, camp counselor, in my book, is one of the best jobs one can have.

Believe being camp counselor at a running camp would be different than being camp couselor to Jewish kids in the Catskills.