Weekly Challenge #16....Work!

[sjasis]

My original thought was to show people engaged in various kinds of work...... but let's have fun and see how many different and creative interpretations we can come up with for WORK!

As always: one photo per person per day!

[sjasis]

me too :)

[DebinSC]

Pencils are important.

[sjasis]

Can't forget Librarian! That's me working on some book orders back in 1997:

[Boing Boing]

This photo makes me ask which other contributions really show the subject enjoying their work as you appear to. We cannot tell while firemen and police officers and others wear essential head-gear.

[Keith]

I'm with Louie, Susan... great smile! Really nice photo of you.

[sjasis]

thanks! of course I was 12 years younger then.... ;)

[DebinSC]

You do look happy.

[GTO]

great smile Susan!

[GTO]

Horse working in Philly

[Keith]

Louie, looks like this steed has found a way to sleep standing up. Always liked "paints"

[Manofkent]

You look a very Happy bunny Susan great photo of you.

[Keith]

Ok, so yesterday it was Diane relaxing at the dive shop, while at "work".

Today its the "work" part of being a Divemaster, those scuba tanks each weight 36 pounds. A "Divemaster" at Derrick and Anne's N2 the Blue dive shop has the following "relationship" with each tank each day:

Lift the tank from the filling station into the Dodge Dakota pickup. The boat is a 6-pack, so with only six divers and a divemaster there are 14 tanks, with a spare tank or two.

The truck takes the tanks across the island over to the dive boat. The tanks are off-loaded from the truck onto the dock, then down into the dive boat. At the same time there is all the other gear to be loaded into the boat.

Now each tank has the divers' gear attached by the Divemaster.

As we are reading to dive, each diver comes to the gunwale of boat, sits down, the Divemaster lifts the tank with its attached gear out of the rack, and brings it over to the diver, who then puts it on and does a face-plant-entry off the gunwale into the majestic waters of the Caribbean.

At the end of the dive, the Divemaster takes the gear off the diver, places it in the rack... one-by-one until all 7 divers have removed their gear.

Now while the divers are off-gassing for the subsequent dive, the Divemaster takes the divers gear off the used tank, places it on a fresh tank, which requires quite a lot of tank shuffling in the back of the boat.

So time to get the divers in the water for the second dive, bring each fully gear-laden tank to its respective diver now sitting on the gunwale, strap'm in, and roll them off the boat.

Ahhh, relax time... the Divemaster is in the deep. Oh wait! Some idiot (oops, dive customer I mean) is headed down too deep, the Divemaster has to go "down deep" to fetch them, lest they get "too deep"... like herding a bunch of sheep on the open range!

Dive is done. Divemaster takes the tanks and gear from each diver as they exit the water. All the gear is removed from the tank, and taken to the front of the boat to each diver.

Back at the dock... each tank is lifted out of the boat, onto the dock, and back into the truck.

Across the island, out of the truck, into the filling station, and once filled placed in the rack for the next use.

Oh, and on your dive shop day, with all the tanks filled, time to read a book, and watch the sea!

36 pound tank, with 10 pounds of "gear" attached, plus "Weights" from 4 to 16 pounds per diver.