From now on, you can call me Jurgis. [another reference to The Jungle]
I arrived in Sac on Thursday at noon. A full trip report will have to wait. My hands are still sore and tinlgy due to compressed nerves. So I have to rest and ice my wrists for the next week or so. This campaign was as much about personal growth as it was about the money. Although I would have liked to come home with more dineros, I would be lying if I said my face didn't light up when I saw my name on the fly-out list.
The Miami Heat are snake bait. (Black Mamba)
OUT
Monday, July 19, 2010
Sunday, July 4, 2010
The Great White North
What day is it?
I really don't know or care at this point.
Greetings and salutations from The Last Frontier. For those of you who don't know, I am in Alaska, working in a fish (salmon) procesing plant for the summer. "Like on Deadliest Catch?" NO! I am on land, in a factory. Although I did see one of the Deadliest Catch guys walking through the Seattle airport while waiting for my connection. We touched down in King Salmon, Alaska at 11:46pm (PST) [10:46 local] and it was as light as late afternoon in Sac. Trippy!!
16 hours a day, seven days a week. I rip the esophagus out of a headless fish and send it down the line to be gutted and cut into fillets. DO NOT buy canned salmon! I must see a couple dozen fish a day dropped on the floor, picked up, and thrown back into the mix. It's like The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) but with seafood instead of beef.
I'm on fumes. But making it through. A "day off" is 8-12 hours of work instead of 16. I'm averaging 5.5 hours of sleep a day and drinking more coffee than I ever have in life. Caffeine is a powerful stimulant that i know i am overdosing on when I get these 10-20 second buzzes in the 12th and 13th hours of a shift.
I'm taking pictures with my phone but am unable to upload them because there is no cell signal. The demographics of the workforce here belie description. All walks of life from the college students to the CA central valley farm workers to weirdos like me. Sacramento and the whole 916/530/209 area is in the building THICK. I came with three other guys I know. Out of the blue, I had a guy from Folsom assigned to be my roomate. We are packed three to a room in accomodations that would be comfortable for preteens at summer camp.
I'm tired and I stink like raw fish. I'm going to shower and then to bed; no transition. OUT-
I really don't know or care at this point.
Greetings and salutations from The Last Frontier. For those of you who don't know, I am in Alaska, working in a fish (salmon) procesing plant for the summer. "Like on Deadliest Catch?" NO! I am on land, in a factory. Although I did see one of the Deadliest Catch guys walking through the Seattle airport while waiting for my connection. We touched down in King Salmon, Alaska at 11:46pm (PST) [10:46 local] and it was as light as late afternoon in Sac. Trippy!!
16 hours a day, seven days a week. I rip the esophagus out of a headless fish and send it down the line to be gutted and cut into fillets. DO NOT buy canned salmon! I must see a couple dozen fish a day dropped on the floor, picked up, and thrown back into the mix. It's like The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) but with seafood instead of beef.
I'm on fumes. But making it through. A "day off" is 8-12 hours of work instead of 16. I'm averaging 5.5 hours of sleep a day and drinking more coffee than I ever have in life. Caffeine is a powerful stimulant that i know i am overdosing on when I get these 10-20 second buzzes in the 12th and 13th hours of a shift.
I'm taking pictures with my phone but am unable to upload them because there is no cell signal. The demographics of the workforce here belie description. All walks of life from the college students to the CA central valley farm workers to weirdos like me. Sacramento and the whole 916/530/209 area is in the building THICK. I came with three other guys I know. Out of the blue, I had a guy from Folsom assigned to be my roomate. We are packed three to a room in accomodations that would be comfortable for preteens at summer camp.
I'm tired and I stink like raw fish. I'm going to shower and then to bed; no transition. OUT-
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