Author Topic: The jobs you hate?  (Read 20584 times)

benkt

  • Joined Apr 2010
  • Cambridgeshire
    • Hempsals Community Farm
Re: The jobs you hate?
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2012, 04:20:42 pm »
Paperwork. Always gets left to the last minute. I can find pleasure in most of the farm work, but not in doing accounts or filling in forms!

deepinthewoods

  • Guest
Re: The jobs you hate?
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2012, 04:24:07 pm »
in no particular order.
 
housework
paperwork
homework
work.
housework.
cleaning out the woodburners, always get covered in ash.
having a bath. i hate having a bath, i dont particularly like showers either. or washing.
heyho. i can gaurantee i have to do at least on of the above each day.
 

RUSTYME

  • Joined Oct 2009
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« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2012, 04:45:22 pm »
Walking !
Walking in the rain !
Walking in the wind !
Walking in the wind and rain !
Walking in the snow !
You get the picture .
The haylage from big round bales thing can bring me to tears at times . My hands  will just not work and the stuff will not pull out , absolute agony !
I have resorted to climbing up onto the bale with a hand saw and sawing the bloody stuff .
I hate the above on 'those' days , but in the main i take it as it comes . Switch off brain and let George do the work !

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: The jobs you hate?
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2012, 05:17:07 pm »
There are loads and loads of jobs that I hate the THOUGHT of doing, but once I start I don't really mind.

Yes, that's true for me too. Weeding - but once I get started I enjoy it. And in our garden, you can always see where you've been.

I don't mind housework but I don't sicken myself doing it. I like changing the bed linen - so that it's all clean and crisp and white. Then a cat either walks on it, snots on it or walks and snots on it. But it's nice while it lasts.

And I do  :love: a white washing blowing on the washing line.

plumseverywhere

  • Joined Apr 2013
  • Worcestershire
    • Its Baaath Time
    • Facebook
Re: The jobs you hate?
« Reply #19 on: November 28, 2012, 05:19:33 pm »
Snotting cats!! Oh Rosemary that's given me my best giggle all day  ;D
Smallholding in Worcestershire, making goats milk soap for www.itsbaaathtime.com and mum to 4 girls,  goats, sheep, chickens, dog, cat and garden snails...

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: .
« Reply #20 on: November 28, 2012, 05:20:55 pm »
Walking !
Walking in the rain !
Walking in the wind !
Walking in the wind and rain !

It sounds like you need to find somebody to give you a lift Russ!  :bunny:   ;D
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." -Terry Pratchett

RUSTYME

  • Joined Oct 2009
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« Reply #21 on: November 28, 2012, 05:29:55 pm »
I love walking !
It is so good for the mind and body i just can't do enough !

Ladygrey

  • Joined Jun 2012
  • Basingstoke
Re: The jobs you hate?
« Reply #22 on: November 28, 2012, 06:03:08 pm »
Spreading fine sawdust on the dairy cow cubicles in strong wind, I'm sure I'm going to go blind pretty soon the amount that gets in your eyes and you can't blink or rub it out!
So a few months back I look around and check the coast is clear before lifting my tshirt up and wiping it out, only to realise the cow cake delivery man has come to talk to me, I didn't hear him coming and he is not talking to my face.....

I still haven't heard the end if it due to all other farm staff being men...

katie

  • Joined Feb 2008
  • worcs
Re: The jobs you hate?
« Reply #23 on: November 28, 2012, 06:17:30 pm »
Love that, Ladygrey!

I hate walking through the mud that is everywhere at the moment. Hate chasing the stupid ducks in when they want to play'here we go round the duck house ' for the nth time. I don't mind mucking out, love re-littering the chicken houses, don't mind housework, even ironing.


happygolucky

  • Joined Jan 2012
Re: The jobs you hate?
« Reply #24 on: November 28, 2012, 06:24:25 pm »
Its great to do a job you hate and treasure that moment of satisfaction..........before you have to do it all over again :innocent:

Shropshirelass

  • Joined Jul 2012
  • South Shropshire
  • A country lass who loves it all!
Re: The jobs you hate?
« Reply #25 on: November 28, 2012, 06:26:57 pm »
Oh god I hate sawdust & yes hay nets OMG >:(! fortunately we don't have any  ;D ;D ;D  Blood, guts & dying animals don't really bother me as its all part of my day job being a vet nurse so you see it every day but its never nice seeing animals being pts or patients dying but sometimes its the kindest thing & the hardest part is trying not to cry  :( but vomit, urine & faeces sometimes gets a bit much x

ppd

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • Sutherland
Re: The jobs you hate?
« Reply #26 on: November 28, 2012, 07:32:04 pm »
but vomit, urine & faeces sometimes gets a bit much x
I can deal with all of the above as long as it is NOT human ;D

Ina

  • Joined Feb 2012
  • South Aberdeenshire
Re: The jobs you hate?
« Reply #27 on: November 28, 2012, 07:43:38 pm »
Dealing with HMRC. It's not that I don't want to pay my tax - well, the little I earn I'm unlikely to pay any anyway - I just hate getting it done...

And writing job applications. Whenever I need to do that, I find other urgent business - cleaning windows etc... ::)

thestephens

  • Joined Mar 2011
  • aberdeenshire
Re: The jobs you hate?
« Reply #28 on: November 28, 2012, 08:27:47 pm »
shropshirelass, is that a Bassett in your profile pic??? we have a 5 month old pup, who is "challenging" to say the least!!!
 

jaykay

  • Joined Aug 2012
  • Cumbria/N Yorks border
Re: The jobs you hate?
« Reply #29 on: November 28, 2012, 08:37:44 pm »
* Gathering my mad Shetlands - no proper pens, no trained dog, frustration and stress each time. Love   
   everything else about them.
* Splodging about in the mud

I don't like the thought of cleaning out everything, especially the goat byre which is a day of backbreaking, sweaty work, nor feeding in the high fields in horizontal sleet, but don't actually mind doing them once I get going and feel good when they're done.

 

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