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As with many jobs, more people should probably be doing it, less. Everyone's an EMT, everyone's a cashier, everyone flips burgers, everyone teaches, everyone keeps the servers running - at least, for a little while.

Also solves a lot of problems with (long-term) unemployment.

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It also helps a bit with a lot of other issues with labor. I'm taking a break from using a backhoe to finish installing my cistern, and running that equipment for a couple of days has been fun and easy. Since the rental co is coming to pick up the machine soon I am okay pushing my body a little bit to get the work done.

I think after a couple of weeks I'd probably get pretty good at it, but between the pay and the repetition that work would be pretty annoying and if I had to do this much work every day plus overtime I think it might put the hurt on me. But once a month, that's interesting. It's just really hard to find folks who don't want all my waking hours once I agree to do a little bit of work for them.

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