🇨🇦 Canada 7h ago · Robert Barron

COLUMN: Some jobs harder than others

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Cooling weather and shorter days at this time of year always reminds me of my experiences working in a sawmill at Duke Point in the 1990s.
I got the position at the end of summer and it was the hardest job I’ve ever worked at, and I’ve been employed at a number of physically demanding jobs over my long work career.
We worked 12-hour shifts at the mill, and my shift started at 4 p.m. and ended at 4 a.m., five days a week.
I worked on what is known as the green chain, in which lumber o

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