THE JOBS OF THE HIMALAYAS
There is no doubt that the jobs here are very difficult, not only to obtain but to perform, in many cases they are done without any technological know how, so basically is the old “elbow grease method”, that prevails in most of the industries.
So they are very labor intensive, sometimes in very high altitudes and with heavy loads, once while trekking I bumped into about 6 workers going up a mountain transporting on their shoulders very heavy pipes about 5 meters each, I try to lift one and my guess is that they weighted about 40 kilos and we were about 11,000ft altitude to this day I don’t know how the job was done, and the porters were, young and old, a truly remarkable job that perhaps pay them 200 rupees a day (4US dlls).
CLOTHS WASHING THE OLD WAY BY HAND
Another very interesting aspect of the nasty jobs around here, is that they are performed by woman, yes woman, very physically demanding Jobs are made by women, in all type of situations, in construction liften very heavy loads of cement, bricks, rock etc, they are transported mostly on their heads, many times you can barely see two legs underneath this heavy load of plant cuttings.
VERY HEAVY CONSTRUCTIONS JOBS DONE FOR UP TO 12 HOURS BY WOMEN
You also seem them falling trees, making cement, selling goodies on the stree/market, and in many cases they have to bring their children to work, so the kids are laying around the job site while their mothers are working hard for 8 to 10 hours.
In the mornings you can see them going up or downhill, going to work on their very colorful Sari’s, and their lunch in those famous metal containers called “ Tipan (steel type) “, and sometimes a pick or a shovel or other working tool.
Children also work, even that is prohibited for anyone to work in any industry if you are under 14 years old, you seem them in stores restaurants and other types of work trying to make a living, I had the chance of talking to some incense makers, young guys about 17 years old and they told me that they make about 1500 rupees a month, which is about 30US dollars.
TIBETAN LADY SELLING TIBETAN BREAD
As you can see its not easy to make a living around here, but what is very noticeable is that they are so happy going to work or performing their job, that many of them are singing away, something that you don’t see back at home, and of course they are sometimes praying.
GAS DELIVERY SYSTEM, VERY SAFE JOB???
Artist of a very high caliber also perform their job in precarious circumstances, butchers, hiding from most as they perform a necessary job for some people and a sin for others.
ARTISTS WORK IS VERY HIGH QUALITY HERE
Monks, nuns, yes they also have to perform their jobs other than their religious obligations they have to clean and do all sort of things around nunneries and monasteries, as well as washing their clothes sometimes by the river.
MONKS WASHING THEIR CLOTHS IN THE RIVER
NUN DUSTING WINDOWS IN THE NUNNERY
Some jobs are very hilarious, like the electricians/phone workers, going up a pole trying to make sense in a medusa like wire mayhem, to all these people that work so hard to survive (as here is no welfare here), I dedicate this Blogg, may we learn something of this people and be thankful for what we have.
PHONE MAN MAKING SENSE OF THIS MEDUSA
IS THIS JOB UP TO A CANADIAN CODE??
There is no doubt that the jobs here are very difficult, not only to obtain but to perform, in many cases they are done without any technological know how, so basically is the old “elbow grease method”, that prevails in most of the industries.
So they are very labor intensive, sometimes in very high altitudes and with heavy loads, once while trekking I bumped into about 6 workers going up a mountain transporting on their shoulders very heavy pipes about 5 meters each, I try to lift one and my guess is that they weighted about 40 kilos and we were about 11,000ft altitude to this day I don’t know how the job was done, and the porters were, young and old, a truly remarkable job that perhaps pay them 200 rupees a day (4US dlls).
CLOTHS WASHING THE OLD WAY BY HAND
Another very interesting aspect of the nasty jobs around here, is that they are performed by woman, yes woman, very physically demanding Jobs are made by women, in all type of situations, in construction liften very heavy loads of cement, bricks, rock etc, they are transported mostly on their heads, many times you can barely see two legs underneath this heavy load of plant cuttings.
VERY HEAVY CONSTRUCTIONS JOBS DONE FOR UP TO 12 HOURS BY WOMEN
You also seem them falling trees, making cement, selling goodies on the stree/market, and in many cases they have to bring their children to work, so the kids are laying around the job site while their mothers are working hard for 8 to 10 hours.
In the mornings you can see them going up or downhill, going to work on their very colorful Sari’s, and their lunch in those famous metal containers called “ Tipan (steel type) “, and sometimes a pick or a shovel or other working tool.
Children also work, even that is prohibited for anyone to work in any industry if you are under 14 years old, you seem them in stores restaurants and other types of work trying to make a living, I had the chance of talking to some incense makers, young guys about 17 years old and they told me that they make about 1500 rupees a month, which is about 30US dollars.
TIBETAN LADY SELLING TIBETAN BREAD
As you can see its not easy to make a living around here, but what is very noticeable is that they are so happy going to work or performing their job, that many of them are singing away, something that you don’t see back at home, and of course they are sometimes praying.
GAS DELIVERY SYSTEM, VERY SAFE JOB???
Artist of a very high caliber also perform their job in precarious circumstances, butchers, hiding from most as they perform a necessary job for some people and a sin for others.
ARTISTS WORK IS VERY HIGH QUALITY HERE
Monks, nuns, yes they also have to perform their jobs other than their religious obligations they have to clean and do all sort of things around nunneries and monasteries, as well as washing their clothes sometimes by the river.
MONKS WASHING THEIR CLOTHS IN THE RIVER
NUN DUSTING WINDOWS IN THE NUNNERY
Some jobs are very hilarious, like the electricians/phone workers, going up a pole trying to make sense in a medusa like wire mayhem, to all these people that work so hard to survive (as here is no welfare here), I dedicate this Blogg, may we learn something of this people and be thankful for what we have.
PHONE MAN MAKING SENSE OF THIS MEDUSA
IS THIS JOB UP TO A CANADIAN CODE??
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