Fortunately, woodland creatures don’t hire lawyers

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Lawyer? I don’t know what else could put up numbers like that

    I used to pull 300 hr months from May to December stomping though the bush and digging holes. Tiring doesn’t even begin to describe my field seasons.

    My off season was working on mines as a soil monitor, and those months were 220-250 hrs. A lot easier work, but it takes its toll on you too.

    Did that for 10 years. My hips and lower back were completely toast.

    Now I work 37.5 a week at a desk. Made in the shade, baby.

    Finally rehabbed my injuries as well.

    Life is good.

    Any one who says work life balance is a myth or for the weak can come get eaten by black flies with me. That’s if I don’t brain them with my shovel first.












  • Here’s a sample of an interview he weaves into his songs:

    Well at that time we were working 10 hours a day, and we were getting 6 and a fraction cents an hour. Well, we breaker boys, we’d have our feet in the chute. And we’d be picking the slate out, when the breaker boss would sneak up behind us, and if he’d see a piece of slate coming through, he’d pick up the scrape and he’d hit you in the back with it, and he’d hit you hard! And then he’d say “Pick that slate out!”. Well they used to abuse us, actually

    A breaker boy is literally a boy who sits in the mill, sorting ore, pulling out waste rock.

    Remember, capitalists did this to us before, and they would do it to us again if they thought for an instant they could get away with it

    Don’t believe me? Look at the use of international Temp workers in agriculture, mining, meat packing, or oil and gas