Used to do concrete work... Girls can do a lot of things but running wheelbarrows is not one of them

"You are girl you can't do it, i did it for few days and couldn't do it...i am not weak it's just impossible to make frames and put liquid cement...they wake up early"

It's about time that someone talks real

construction from 20-25 yr old and I still feel it in my body at 40

this is a concrete statement

Women work in that types of professions although not as often as men and by women I mean that I did a lot of very hard work through my life. I was born in a communist country with very little opportunities to make something out of myself. That wasn’t an easy job physically, I admit. I also found being a farmer equally hard: waking before down, feeding animals 2 times a day, doing physical labour until the sun sets or past that in the winter with 1 break to eat a meal in the middle of the day. The hardest jobs I had were not the ones physically challenging because you can train your body for 100 days to keep up with it, but the jobs that had a mental toll on me, working with victims of an abuse, working with pathologist on childrens’ dead bodies, being a teacher in bad schools. Just saying…

Humans are build to suffer.....it makes us humble. That lady never suffered. Thats why Africa do not have these entitled women. They suffer with the men and do not have the time nor energy to think stuff like that out.

Where are all the women saying they want 50% representation?

2 minutes? 99% of people won’t last more than 10 seconds. Not because it’s hard, it’s because we all lack core strength. Even body builders would struggle with it.

The only way to beat it is to do it not for work, but as something you love doing.

Asphalt babyyyyyy

Did this rotten job for 30 years. Now im a broken down old man. Concrete will kill you.

Did hole factory floors,blocks hard work if u got to push a wheel barrow up planks ,the prep is the trick a good digger driver saves heaps of work , and a dummpie or pump for big jobs , putting up the steel for a second story to be poured is hard work , a blow out is harder, thses days the used pre poured floors ,the copter always gave me the heebe jeebes ,but its a job u can do stoned.

CRUMBLES AS IT AGES 😢

stuff all women get knee reconstructuons, worn out hips, spine fusions, stuffed shoulders from work compared to men as a % , all the old men in my neighbourhood all walk funny, have stooped backs etc meanwhile the women are fine. i have had women on the odd occasion work with me , they cannot hack the pace , they say ill never complain about child birth pain again ive never been in so much pain 24/7 just from work , i say to them welcome to reality

Pound nails and you'll look forward to pouring concrete

Definitely not cleaning and lugging forms

Ummmm get your 3000 pounds back mate 😊

Oh please, this is such bullshit. I get that it's a physical job but it's not so physically difficult that women couldn't do it. A simple Google search would've told you that.

Instead of trying to argue the point or convince women like this, just ignore them. After all, they’re free to go and try it out for themselves.

Even mixing up a full load in a wheel barrow by hand his hard work, youll find stomach muscles you didnt know you had

Hardest job of all is concreting....

Men graft, women complain.

I worked as a concreter for one day the next day my body was hurting everywhere

Respect to all concreters bricklayers and back breaking young men it is not an old man's game

he's absolutely right not even most adult males can do this as a career, let alone females, 0% modern day women can do this

Snowflake 😂

I worked with my dad on his job sites... Concrete is tough and I'd be exhausted way before his regular guys. Miss the old man. 😅

This stuff is not done in an office , first of all Out in the elements mostly. This thing is heavy , tough and rough. Nothing pleasant about it, its pure hard work and nothing but...

Tbf he didn't need to be so rude and arrogant about it.

So true.

Professionally probably not, but there are plenty of women doing concrete work in their own homes, helping build a nest with their husbands.

#fact

Give the lady a chance, b'cos she said "I like to try and proof people wrong" and she never said "I know for certain I can proof people wrong" there is nothing wrong with thinking or trying, we all can dream, but as we all know fellows, reality is absolutely different to thinking or dreaming... I THINK I COULD HAVE KNOCKED Mike Tyson OUT IN HIS PRIME 😢 ✋🏾 😅 And then I woke up and I then said to myself "damn that was a good dream"

I support equality, we need women in this field.

Sh.t pay.

Sh.t pay.

Women saying they can do a man’s job so they can make themselves feel empowered is one thing.. actually doing it is another

I did asphalt, smaller jobs driveways and such. In a city that is literally on the side of a mountain . Every driveway had a pitch from 5° to 25°. I would wheelbarrow the asphalt from the truck into the driveway 16 to 18,000 lbs every day was average. Sometimes we'd break 20. I also worked the hand roller after the rakers leveled. The hand roller was a 75 lb drum with aluminum pole extensions upto 24 ft. I would roll that thing up and down driveways all day long. Strongest I ever got. Doing all that while literally standing on top or working over 250 ° + asphalt steaming off it's beautiful tar vapor.

Women irritate me

Why isn’t the gender pay gap being discussed in the concrete industry?

So true, concrete is hard to do, its heavy, dusty, wet, you are always on your knees or bending,... .

I lasted about 3 hours

Dream on darlin.

Facts!

Had some stuff left over from a job up the road 😂

U can't tell a 🐮 anything💯

Concreted for 2 years, tried to hook a lot of mates and family up with a job…no one lasted more than 3 days.

The Pay Gap in Action

Concreating is tough i was a groundworker, doing big pours was tiring the guys what do it everyday long hours fair play to em, this lady might not last a day but some women are top grafter.I work with a female gravedigger who grafts better then most handigging 8 ft of hard hard clay breaking and shoveling all week long at times