A worker and loving it

2 weeks working as a labourer and loving it. Mind you, being outside every day all day, the weather has its effects. Living in the tropics the rain can be torential, and my job is mowing lawns and whipper snipping, but we just keep going, drenched or not. I don't wear my skin gear at work, rather I wear navy work pants, orange hi-viz shirt and 14 hole steel caps. We look after the city council water and sewage plants, water and sewerage pumping stations and the roads leading up to these areas as well as the local dump site. As you can imagine the work is dirty, muddy and in most cases wet. Your boots fill with water, your clothes are drenched and the only thing dry is your tobacco because it's wrapped in plastic.

Apart from mowing etc, we also spray weeds, and cut down trees and bushes with chain saws. Work is usually a 12 hour day 6 days a week, starting at 6am and seldom finishing till 6pm. Hard, hot and steamy but the money is good, not the hourly pay but the long hours give you heaps in the hand. Yeah I know I got a brain I can use for better jobs than labouring but I like what I do and who cares, I'm not a snob and don't care what others think. A skinhead is a worker from working class roots and even if he climbs out of the mire, he is always a working man. I am a labourer and a skinhead. That's who I am so get over it.