motherfucking corn
what that wiki article fails to explain is that the manual labor part is very physical.
the corn leaves have sharp edges and if you dont wear protective clothing from head to toe you will get cut up by the leaves. You have to wear a hat, eye protection, bandanna around face and neck, long sleeve shirt, full pants, gloves, and boots (for mud and snakes).
you get up really early and in the early dawn the dew on the leaves will soak your clothing fully. then the sun rises, burns off the dew and everything gets humid, and your clothing, which is soaking wet, gets heavy and warm. Then you get to eat lunch! then you work again until the afternoon. you walk for miles and miles doing the same motion over and over and over in corn that is as tall as your chest. you get sweaty, muddy, and exhausted.
the fun parts though are that you are in a crew of 7 other people and a crew boss (who is usually an experienced detassler who over sees the crew, pushes them faster or slower, and cleans up what the crew misses)
and you just fuck around in the field while working, being stupid teenagers.
i like that it was my first job. it was really hard, a lot of kids never finish a summer working the job. i worked as a detassler for like 3 summers in a row. after my first year i was promoted to a crew boss. i was 13 and i was a boss
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