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I think the world would be a better place if we all took a few days on the shitty jobs.

I spent a few years doing a few days dev and a few days labouring, wading in waist deep water planting out wetlands:

https://www.australianecosystems.com.au/wetland-construction...

It wasn't easy to juggle, and taking phone calls in the swamp about dns config and database connection strings was awkward.

In the early days, everyone was part time, once the company was better established, i was a tourist in a full time crew and it didn't mesh

The New Zealand agricultural industry seems to run mainly on tourists (young rich kids on work-and-travel visa) and it's working just fine.

I actually think it's a great idea, because most of the jobs are not very attractive or well-paid, easy to learn and an adventure/fun for about one summer. It wouldn't work for many places, but for New Zealand it works.

Yes, I didn't think of that. It would suck unless the whole crew was people just doing it for one day a week.

I think if you pull your weight, you would earn some measure of respect.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure most folks doing "real" work don't care who you are as long as you show up on time, get shit done, and aren't (the wrong kind of) an asshole. And the last part's negotiable.