Tuesday, July 15, 2003

What happens when life hands you moldy lemons?!

Today I started work at a place that makes preserves, like jam. For the first 4 hours, I cut plums. For the last 3, I cut lemons. Exciting stuff! Oh yeah... So, after cutting your fingers more times than you would like, you get to put acidic lemon juice on them! Ooh, feels goood!
Best part of the job: All you can eat! (I like plums a lot more than I thought I did!, but I hate the pits, since that's what I was cutting out of them.)
Worst part of the job: I got 75 cuts on my hands (not deep enough to bleed into the food, tho. They are more like paper-cuts).
Learned from job: I can cut an average of 20 plums per minute. That's 300 per hour and 1,200 for the 4 hours I worked today. Whoo hoo.

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