If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
Yet Another Expense
"Bastette" wrote in message ... Christina Websell wrote: Is there any chance that you could earn some more money from anywhere? I once trimmed plastic components for a factory when I needed more money once. I did that once, too! I didn't work at home, though. I stood beside a machine all day that injected molten plastic into a mold, let it cool enough to harden, and then dropped into a bin where I would pull it out to clip off the connecting pieces. This was the worst job I ever had, before or since. To grab the newly minted plastic piece, you had to time it just right. The doors on the bin would open, and that was the moment to reach in and grab. They would only stay open for a few seconds and then the doors would slam shut again. If you didn't get the piece, you had to wait until the next cycle and then grab the two pieces. However, I saw the results on several people who had apparently been too slow in getting the piece out before the doors shut - missing fingers. It was about a million degrees in there, and the machine made it hotter. You had to wear safety glasses in case of flying plastic shrapnel. Gloves were necessary for handling the plastic, which might have been cool enough to be solid, but were still too hot to hold in bare hands. I didn't have decent ear coverings (to protect my hearing) so I stuck cotton in my ears - not much help, but better than nothing I guess. To say nothing of the fumes in that place - molten plastic? I'm sure they were breaking all kinds of laws. I lasted 4 days, but as you can see, they were very memorable. Some people there looked like they'd been there for years. I don't know why they stayed - even if they didn't have the skills for any other kind of work, there were plenty of factories around and lots of available jobs, which is what I got. The next place I worked at had much better conditions and paid better, too. -- Wow, that sounds worse than what I did, at least I did it at home. Boxes and boxes of plastic components would arrive with little flanges to be trimmed off with a Stanley knife. Some of them were easier than others. There were thousands in each box. You phoned up the factory when you had finished them and they brought you another lot.. It was very poorly paid (as all home work is) and a bit soul destroying (not to say dangerous and bloody in my case) but it helped me towards a big expense I had at the time. I did it for about 3 months. At least I didn't lose fingers, just had to have 4 or 5 stitches in the ball of my thumb when the knife slipped. Tweed |
|
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|