I want a job with simple hard physical labor

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So a blizzard hit. I had to do tons of shovelling. It was nice. Because of all my recreational weightlifting, it was easy for me. My sister worked like 1/7 of the time as me and woke up with muscle aches for the rest of the day and I woke up with almost zero aches.

I want a job where I can just do hard physical labor without any real organizational components. My executive function is crap I guess. I can't multitask. I'm bad socially. But I'm apparently strong as an ox and in great health compared to my peers. Once I get working I have tremendous work ethic, usually outworking and outlasting peers who do a similar job, but much of the time I'll have too much fear to start a new task for fear I'll mess it up.

Seriously, do ditch diggers still exist? What is the best field to look into to be a ditch digger or someone who like carries logs or 80lb bags of cement all day or something? Something not technical, not multitasking, not requiring social interaction. Ideas?

I used to work in plant nurseries. Excellent. A lot of repetitive muscle work shifting heavy pots and bags around.

my father has a landscaping business that i sometimes worked for when i was younger. the work he had me do mostly involved shoveling and raking topsoil (installing new lawns). it was not mentally demanding and i enjoyed it. the difficulty, i suppose, is finding a job like that in the first place when you have poor social skills. there is no straightforward application process. another issue is that such work is seasonal (at least here in new england). my father would not work at all through the winter (except for snow removal, sometimes) and often picked up jobs as a programming consultant. if you want to make a living doing this kind of work you need to have another job for the winter (you could try fed ex or ups as a package handler (another job that requires a lot of simple lifting and not a lot of executive function (there is some training involved in sorting packages, so that may not be what you're looking for))).

Adobe or compressed earth block house construction? Making adobe blocks or compressed earth blocks? Making indoor and outdoor tiles?

Just apply to be General site labour. Basically you're the guy who moves stuff around, Mixes cement and does all the physical stuff the Tradesmen don't want to.

Tree service groundman. Moving brush and wood to the chipper all day. Very physical work, and easy to find a job because very few people want to do it.

What about a brick masons helper hauling bricks? That could develop into a respectable career.

Go into any form of construction and you'll get your wish! Of course, some are more labor-intensive than others.

I knew of an autist who was happily working as gardener at a graveyard. Because people are moving much more then in earlier times, you often have graves whose relatives cant take care of the grave on their own. So they let a company take care of it.

So there was a plan for every day, which graves should be taken care of, and a plan what kind of flowers should be planted on new ones, or the gravestone should be cleaned of moss... So he didnt need to have contact with the customers on his own, but got from the office of the company clear written instructions about what graves, what flowers, what kind of work he should do on that day. About half of the day he took normal care of graves like watering existing plants and flowers, fertilizing, remove weed on graves and so on, and half of the day he planted new graves or took care of overgrown one, to remove the old plants completely and plant new ones.

He liked it, because the place was very silent ^^, he was not forced to do the same movement the whole day, still most of the work was of an physical kind and he got clear instructions to do it. Misadvantages were that he had to work in all kind of weathers and in winter there was less work, so he got only payed the half.

I used to be a block layer's helper and loved it. Always toting blocks and brick, mixing the mortar and such.....great job

My grand father owns a roofing and construction company. I work for him making a 135 a day. I am strong as f**k just like you. I out work, out move and out lift anyone there. As a bet, I carried 4 bundles of shingles up a 40 foot ladder. The bundles of shingles are 75 pounds a piece. I was the first person to ever do it lol Because of boxing and running, I have crazy stamina! I rally enjoy the physical aspect of the job but there are other areas where i am required to multitask and think outside of the box. The problem is that i have no common sense and my social skills are very sh***y!! I have to spend time with my co workers on our hour break and riding with them to the job site. Its so mentally exhausting! The days where i do not have to run around lifting heavy s**t like a maniac, i do things like lay rubber. Which is super easy. We rip up the old stuff which is usually the first 4 hours then after break we lay new rubber. Depending on the roof, concrete or wood, will depend on what material we lay before the rubber. Base sheet or insulation squares.

What i am trying to say is that even construction is more than just being a laborer even if your just a laborer! For us roofer laborers, we have to know a lot. Like how to set rubber, lay paper if we're doing a shingle job. Cut wood and replace the old. Cement seams with tar(karnax), Set up a site and ready it for the mechanics(pro roofers). I think the only job where you can just be a straight laborer is masonry. I could be wrong but from what i have heard, they just lift, move, and carry s**t.

Roofing is sh***y work though! The pay is decent but weather it be summer or winter... it sucks! The winter is freezing and were always high up with wind. The summer is hot as f**k and even hotter on the roofs. Especially when were torching down rubber! I work 14 hours a day due to the fact that I have to travel and hour and half to work with the CEO everyday. Grand fathers step son. Which is the person running the company for my grand father. It is mentally draining!! !

UPS. I can't post a link because I don't have enough posts, but Google "UPS physical labor jobs" and you'll get an application website. All you do is move boxes. You have to do it quickly, but from what I understand it's just hauling. And as a bonus, it pays really well, too!

my husband cut grass for years. it was one of (if not the only) things he could handle having AS. Just contact the local lawn companies in your area. It's usually not hard to get on.

See if you can get an apprenticeship in industrial pipefitting or if you can find a construction job that specializes in more ambitious projects (bridges, dams, etc.). Ultimately, mining jobs are probably the most demanding of them all.

Sounds like you belong in Houghton, Michigan. Houghton is on the Keweenaw Peninsula which sticks out into Lake Superior from the Upper Peninsula. Someone who graduaged from Michigan Tech told me years ago that they get about 180 to 200 inches of snow, on average, per year.

For a long time I've wished I could spend a year in Houghton, Michigan so that I could see that much snow in one year. One year would probably be enough for me, though.

Work in a Factory. There is always a need for motivated hard workers. Some of the work involves math and other thinking skills, but there are still plenty jobs that don't.

Look in the phone book under temporary employment and call those agencies. They have names like Labor Ready or Labor Finders etc. For the ones here, you go and register and then show up in the mornings at 5am or so and they send you out to jobsites. It's first come, first serve and when they have sent out everybody they need, they send the others home. You get paid at the end of every day too.

One good thing about that is that it can work into a full time job with a company sometimes. If you do a good job and they like your work and are a local company, they may hire you directly and have you just work for them from then on. It saves them money because they have to play the temp place to send them people. Sometimes local companies use those places because they have a temporarily large workload and don't want to hire on people and then lay them off in a few months, but it's usually out of town contractors.

You can also see about construction clean up work. Pushing a broom at the job site. Sometimes they hire folks who come to the job and ask for work, and other times they use temp agencies, and sometimes the guys who work there recommend somebody like their kid or something.