Thanks all!
Still ill, but a little better than yesterday (obviously, it didn't involve stacking boxes for hours while being ill or getting up at some unholy hour, which makes a rather significant difference).
I had a very nice talk with two actual gully suckers and their manager today. The manager thought to ask his workers to stay a bit after lunch to tell me about the job, they know it better than he does after all.
I felt perfectly comfortable to share my doubts on the long working days: 7 to 5, three days a week, and both workers and managers were quick to tell me to just give it a try and don't be shy to let them know if it was too much. So they already have all the points on the social aspect of the job.
The gully suckers were both in their 60's, and very enthousiastic about showing me their gully sucking truck, turning it on to show all the buttons and how to move the pipe, and then deciding they could as well drive to the nearest gully to show me the actual sucking, they were really lovely.
I bought some soft insoles, apparently most of my day will consist of walking ahead of the truck and sticking the pipe in the gullies, and they've planned me in on tuesday, wednesday and thursday, on my new and very uncomfortable safety shoes...
I have my doubts with those long days, but I'll give it an honest try, who knows!
At least I'll have another 6 days to recover from covid.
Managed half a slice of LC bread with cheese during the day, and I ate all of my evening meal as well.
Granted, it was a rather small evening meal, this is a very small breakfast plate but still!
LC wrap (first time I was happy they are so tiny!) filled with shawarma meat, onion, bell pepper, garlic, some raw endive by way of lettuce, and a little mayo based spicy sauce.
Tasted awful, but pretty sure that was covid, and not the food.
Still ill, but a little better than yesterday (obviously, it didn't involve stacking boxes for hours while being ill or getting up at some unholy hour, which makes a rather significant difference).
I had a very nice talk with two actual gully suckers and their manager today. The manager thought to ask his workers to stay a bit after lunch to tell me about the job, they know it better than he does after all.
I felt perfectly comfortable to share my doubts on the long working days: 7 to 5, three days a week, and both workers and managers were quick to tell me to just give it a try and don't be shy to let them know if it was too much. So they already have all the points on the social aspect of the job.
The gully suckers were both in their 60's, and very enthousiastic about showing me their gully sucking truck, turning it on to show all the buttons and how to move the pipe, and then deciding they could as well drive to the nearest gully to show me the actual sucking, they were really lovely.
I bought some soft insoles, apparently most of my day will consist of walking ahead of the truck and sticking the pipe in the gullies, and they've planned me in on tuesday, wednesday and thursday, on my new and very uncomfortable safety shoes...
I have my doubts with those long days, but I'll give it an honest try, who knows!
At least I'll have another 6 days to recover from covid.
Managed half a slice of LC bread with cheese during the day, and I ate all of my evening meal as well.
Granted, it was a rather small evening meal, this is a very small breakfast plate but still!
LC wrap (first time I was happy they are so tiny!) filled with shawarma meat, onion, bell pepper, garlic, some raw endive by way of lettuce, and a little mayo based spicy sauce.
Tasted awful, but pretty sure that was covid, and not the food.