Of a sort. The place where I'm working had me on evaluation from a temp service. So this Wednesday they handed me an application to work for them rather than the temp agency. As noted that is somewhat good news, but I hope that I can find something a bit better (as far as pay and labor intensity goes) in the near future. I fear though that the only jobs I'll ever get are the type that take a dull mind and a strong back....
Also on the good news side is that if I wanted to show off a sixpack, I definitely have one... I kidded one of the tie-up crew that as long as he worked at tie-up it was easy to stay in shape and look like you'd been hitting the gym regularly...
For a while I was working as the clean-up kid, which meant that I was sweeping the floor and picking the trim up and loading it into a 'barrow' or buggy that is about 30" deep by 36" wide by close to 72" long then wheeling the load to the hog belt where I dumped the load on the belt to be dumped in the hog...
Of course nothing ever being straight forward, the hog belt had a tendency to 'plug up' (that is that it has a couple of places where the side of the chute has been repaired or some new piece has been put in that catches the wood as it goes by and proceeds to swing a piece across the belt to form a dam. Which means I got to work on the ladder master (up and down vertically) no less than two steps and as many as six steps to various cat walks to break up the jam or beat the shit into the hog with a 6' piece of 1 1/4"*2"... Lots of hard work to say the least. But like I said, I can see definition in all my muscles now... of course even at rest the veins in my hands are popped out as if I were working out!