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Originally Posted by Ayles
As above, I got the impression from the one longshorman I know pretty much sounds like the above. A family affair with a few years of actual hard dangerous work up front followed by a generous number lucrative years after. The part that blew me away though is the easy jobs like working the cruise terminal paid the same as the crane jobs as well as the getting paid for a full day just showing up and checking in.
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It wasn't that here, the crane guys were definitely making much more money than the guys like me stacking containers, the risk and danger is very real. Nothing opens your eyes as you are finishing your 12 hour shift, watching the sun come up and the morning do making the top of the container slippery, and you on the cop container, in what seems like a different zip code from the water, waiting for the crane operator to swing a basket up so you can get back to the ground. It literally felt like you were so high, back then, no harnesses (I don't know if they even do that now) and if you took a leak off the side( literally, there is no where else to go) you could put your junk back up and walk to the other side before the pee hits the water.