@LnzyHou
Back before almond growers got those machines with blowers, I raked almonds.
I also cut flowers, and you may not know this, but potato harvesters drop a lot of potatoes, and I once walked behind them throwing potatoes over to where they would get picked up on the next pass.
I also worked loading potatoes, carrots and onions onto boxcars and trucks.
I was 16 years old, though.
Why didn’t you stay with it?? BTW, none of what you describe requires bending over crops/picking 8 hrs a day.
Why didn’t you continue to work fields as an adult? Like migrant workers do.
@LnzyHou Hell, are you crazy? I went to work in the oilfields for $15/hr, but then the price of oil dropped to $30/barrel, contractors went out of business, and wages dropped to $6/hr, so I enrolled in college eventually and pursued one of my passions at the time: computers.
You made my point. No one in their right mind would be a field worker. Those who take those jobs have no choice. They are NOT stealing jobs from white folks. They were desperate to make a living.
@LnzyHou I was usually one of the few white teenagers doing field work during the Summer.
My parents generation did that work as kids and their parents--who came to California during the Dust Bowl--did that work as adults, Californians didn't like them "invading" either, Called them shiftless Southerners.
Whoever does that work gets shit on.
@LnzyHou Also, loading potatoes, for example is how I know that if you stack them right, you can fit 1288 50lb boxes of potatoes in a box car. I did 100 lb sacks too. 5 am to 6pm usually.
And walking behind a potato harvestor for 12 hours... that row it cuts forces you to walk pigeon toed, and you can't even bend your knees at night.