My Job in an Apple Plant
Working in an apple plant was the worst job I ever had. First of all, the work was physically hard. For ten hours a night, I took cartons that rolled down a metal track and stacked them onto wooden skids in a tractor trailer. Each carton contained twenty-five pounds of bottled apple juice, and they came down the track almost nonstop. The second bad feature of the job was the pay. I was getting the minimum wage at that time, $4.50 an hour, plus fifty cents extra
for working the night shift. I had to work over sixty hours a week to get decent
take-home pay. Finally, I hated the working conditions. We were limited to two
ten-minute breaks and an unpaid half hour for lunch. Most of my time was spent outside on the loading dock in near-zero-degree temperatures. I was very lonely on the job because I had no interests in common with the other truck loaders. I feel this isolation especially when the production line shut down for the night, and I spent two hours by myself cleaning the apple vats. The vats were an ugly place to be on a cold morning, and the job was a bitter one to have.
point: Working in an apple plant was the worst job I ever had.
reason 1: the work was physically hard.
a: loaded cartons on skids for ten hours a night
b:
reason 2:
a.
b. had to work sixty hours for decent take-hone pay
reason 3:
a.two ten-minute breaks and an unpaid lunch
b.
c. lonliness on job
（1）no interests in conmob with otjer workers
（2）by myself for two houra cleaning the apple vats.
Working in an apple plant was the worst job I ever had. First of all, the work was physically hard. For ten hours a night, I took cartons that rolled down a metal track and stacked them onto wooden skids in a tractor trailer. Each carton contained twenty-five pounds of bottled apple juice, and they came down the track almost nonstop. The second bad feature of the job was the pay. I was getting the minimum wage at that time, $4.50 an hour, plus fifty cents extra
for working the night shift. I had to work over sixty hours a week to get decent
take-home pay. Finally, I hated the working conditions. We were limited to two
ten-minute breaks and an unpaid half hour for lunch. Most of my time was spent outside on the loading dock in near-zero-degree temperatures. I was very lonely on the job because I had no interests in common with the other truck loaders. I feel this isolation especially when the production line shut down for the night, and I spent two hours by myself cleaning the apple vats. The vats were an ugly place to be on a cold morning, and the job was a bitter one to have.
point: Working in an apple plant was the worst job I ever had.
reason 1: the work was physically hard.
a: loaded cartons on skids for ten hours a night
b:
reason 2:
a.
b. had to work sixty hours for decent take-hone pay
reason 3:
a.two ten-minute breaks and an unpaid lunch
b.
c. lonliness on job
（1）no interests in conmob with otjer workers
（2）by myself for two houra cleaning the apple vats.
