Doing it for the kids
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I’d be interested to learn what the reporter earned whilst he was there
My late father did peace work on the forestry commission they had a range of jobs he said first week on a job you made nothing but basic second week you made a little bonus third week you made a wage you were happy with , 4th week they moved you onto something else as it was costing to much in wages , he described it as great fun/camaraderie but really was white slavery .What i find odd is folk will knacker themselves playing sport for nothing but take no pride in manual work.
What I find is with jobs like bale iggling, (moving small bales by hand) is that the first week or so can be awful but once you rebuild a level of fitness it becomes easier as your muscle tone improves. I reckon folk just don't stick at these jobs for long enough to get over the pain barrier.
I quite enjoy manual work and would be happy to do it for say three months if I wasnt already busy (doing manual work) but certainly I wouldn't want to do it all year.
if it was relatively easy to av £30/hr they'd have no problem....story is bs
I have done that sort of work nearly all my life. I am too old and fat now but I can do £30 an a hour speed, only for 6 hours though. I have met a lot of good workers also capable of that kind of speed both British and foreign, it is very rare to come across one that can do it beyond 6/7 hours. Pretty much all the fast workers I have known have stopped after 6 hours even if they had more work in front of them.Question is how achievable is that wage repeatably
1k a week for a good six hrs is not a bad number , no gym membership required but someone with work ethic could make something of themselves giving it a bloody good go .I have done that sort of work nearly all my life. I am too old and fat now but I can do £30 an a hour speed, only for 6 hours though. I have met a lot of good workers also capable of that kind of speed both British and foreign, it is very rare to come across one that can do it beyond 6/7 hours. Pretty much all the fast workers I have known have stopped after 6 hours even if they had more work in front of them.
It would be 6 days a week, or maybe 6 and a half, but yes the good workers could do it every day
Our old neighbour claimed he bought his farm out of the proceeds of his forestry commission work during the war. Before that he had worked as the butler at the big house, then became the local miller before working for the commission then buying a farm off the estate. He was extremely careful with money, never bought any expensive machinery, got contractors in for those jobs, but was a good and fair man in any dealings he had with us.My late father did peace work on the forestry commission they had a range of jobs he said first week on a job you made nothing but basic second week you made a little bonus third week you made a wage you were happy with , 4th week they moved you onto something else as it was costing to much in wages , he described it as great fun/camaraderie but really was white slavery .
Veggie picking and farm labouring was ever done by migrant and itinerant labourers. It’s the same the world over. Tough work, tough conditions, poor pay, requires labourers who will travel, live in basic condition, work like hell to make really good money, relative to what they could at home, in poorer countries.
Brexit Britain has cut off it’s right hand, in pursuit of “sovereignty”! The notion that Eastern European’s in this case, would be replaced by able willing Brits, was never in the slightest bit realistic.
I never saw Brexit as having anything to do with preventing foreign workers from coming here. In fact au contraire we should now be free to welcome workers from wherever we like including the commonwealth and I am sure this will happen once the dust settles. Most importantly we will manage immigration to fill vacancies as we see fit, not as Brussels sees fit.Veggie picking and farm labouring was ever done by migrant and itinerant labourers. It’s the same the world over. Tough work, tough conditions, poor pay, requires labourers who will travel, live in basic condition, work like hell to make really good money, relative to what they could at home, in poorer countries.
Brexit Britain has cut off it’s right hand, in pursuit of “sovereignty”! The notion that Eastern European’s in this case, would be replaced by able willing Brits, was never in the slightest bit realistic.
Not really, if you’re in a good squad and everyone pulls their weight, anything is a good job, because you’ve got a team spirit, if you have a laugh and a giggle then so much the better. Back hurts for a while, then the muscles get stronger.Let's face it- it's a dull as fudge job and probably in poor conditions: if you want a pish you have to stand behind the harvester or trailer and by the end of the day I bet your back hurts like hell, I know mine would.
And pray tell, what do these folk do when harvesting veg by hand is finished? Get fudged off down the road no doubt?
At a guess non !Not read the article, but and as it is the Telegraph how many of their readership are picking field vegetables? Let alone willing to do so.
Yep, not a "salary" like they suggest. Its a temp job when they need you at piece work rates. I notice no one told the reporter how much her efforts would have earnt her. I bet she was topped up to minimum wage.
It seems she didn't even do 1, 8 hour day.
Yep the combinable cropping boys will be finished for the winter shortly, they could go pick veg and to reduce the subs they get
How many folk on here would get up at 5 tomorrow morning to be in a veg paddock by 6 and stay there picking all day?
Well doneWelll I've just come in from packing sprout stems in 5's to a box & off to wholesalers at 3am
Then tomorrow more sprouts, caulie, cabbage & broccoli & its not a great forecast.