oh my gosh, and you think we work hard....

[shroomgirl]

I had a couple of farmers(one a farmstead cheese maker) and a chocolatier over for dinner tonight.....after 4-7pm farmer's market.
Dinner was outside with wine, but I knew these guys had a 2 hour/2.5 hour drive ahead of them so everything was ready when they showed up at 8pm.
They left at 10 and "have chores to do when they get home". oh man.
I washed dishes, put everything away....it's 10:40 and I'm going to bed.
After working with them for so many years I knew they worked hard but this was mind boggling.

[OzarkRose]

I've logged loads of hours catering & kitchen now farming (a very much typical day is 12-15 hours 7 days a week 12 months a year) but in every respect catering & kitchen (a typical day was 16 hrs 6 days a week 6 months then 8-10 hrs 5 days a week for 6 months) was one **** of alot harder. Farming is an active moving around alot job and you get constant little positive moments, not to mention you eat better ... seriously. I remember all the crap I stuffed in my face on the fly catering; I can count the times on my 2 hands that we were ahead on time enough to actually have a family meal. Catering was so hard on your body: wrists hurt, knees hurt, blister on your finger calus, crammed splinter from the 50th skewer up your finger nail with 950 more to go ...

[fingerpie]

I have a collegue who works on computers.... and they seem to put in long hours, although there seems to be a debate about whether they get paid hourly/daily... and if daily how many hours consitute a working day.

My collegue sometimes has little blisters on his fingers from tapping the keyboard so many times...