My experience working at was eye opening and made me realize what real hard work is. We take all the things we have in supermarket for granted but we never really think of the behind the scenes of our food. Or how cozy and commutable are jobs are compared to some other people’s jobs and most of all that we let ourselves become confined to a single location. This world is so big and there’s so much to learn on everything. Those summers I spent I learned a lot about ranching and had some great experiences that I never knew existed as well. While reading ‘bad luck way’ all those memories came back to me. All of Bryce’s struggles and all his rewards as well were all relatable to me.
While I worked up there I got to see how big parts of this valley still are, I worked on a ranch that was on the way to Sopris mountain. There were times when I got to see all these elk in a group of what I may have guessed to be about 50 elk. Up to that point I’ve only seen deer or bears never these huge elk. It was nice that while working, i could stop what I was doing and just look at these animals. I got to see so much wild life it was a really great …show more content…
There was 2 weeks where all I did was just pick up 60-80 lbs. hay bales and toss them into a 3500 dually flatbed. I was relatively fit where i could pick up the bales easily but after about 100 my shoulder were numb and the heat was getting to me. To make it even worse I wore a short sleeve shirt which meant my forearms were all scratched up and almost bleeding from the dry straw. Each row had given or take a hundred bales and each bales would take me like 5 seconds to get on the truck. I did this for 8 hours a day for 2 weeks. I got really tough by the end of it and made me realize how easy somethings are in life. I had never eaten so much after work then those 2 weeks in my
While I worked up there I got to see how big parts of this valley still are, I worked on a ranch that was on the way to Sopris mountain. There were times when I got to see all these elk in a group of what I may have guessed to be about 50 elk. Up to that point I’ve only seen deer or bears never these huge elk. It was nice that while working, i could stop what I was doing and just look at these animals. I got to see so much wild life it was a really great …show more content…
There was 2 weeks where all I did was just pick up 60-80 lbs. hay bales and toss them into a 3500 dually flatbed. I was relatively fit where i could pick up the bales easily but after about 100 my shoulder were numb and the heat was getting to me. To make it even worse I wore a short sleeve shirt which meant my forearms were all scratched up and almost bleeding from the dry straw. Each row had given or take a hundred bales and each bales would take me like 5 seconds to get on the truck. I did this for 8 hours a day for 2 weeks. I got really tough by the end of it and made me realize how easy somethings are in life. I had never eaten so much after work then those 2 weeks in my