My Job in an Apple Plant
Working in an apple plant was the worst job I ever had. First of all, the work was physically hard. For ten hours a night, I took cartons that rolled down a metal track and stacked them onto wooden skids in a tractor trailer. Each carton contained twenty-five pounds of bottled apple juice, and they came down the track almost nonstop. The second bad feature of the job was the pay. I was getting the minimum wage at that time, $4.50 an hour, plus fifty cents extra
for working the night shift. I had to work over sixty hours a week to get decent
take-home pay. Finally, I hated the working conditions. We were limited to two
ten-minute breaks and an unpaid half hour for lunch. Most of my time was spent outside on the loading dock in near-zero-degree temperatures. I was very lonely on the job because I had no interests in common with the other truck loaders. I feel this isolation especially when the production line shut down for the night, and I spent two hours by myself cleaning the apple vats. The vats were an ugly place to be on a cold morning, and the job was a bitter one to have.
point: Working in an apple plant was the worst job I ever had.
reason 1: the work was physically hard.
a: loaded cartons on skids for ten hours a night
b:
reason 2:
a.
b. had to work sixty hours for decent take-hone pay
reason 3:
a.two ten-minute breaks and an unpaid lunch
b.
c. lonliness on job
（1）no interests in conmob with otjer workers
（2）by myself for two houra cleaning the apple vats.
