Not for someone who has been diagnosed with CHF.

Trust me, after an extremely exhausting long walk from the subway over to a building at Harvard University, doing all that backbreaking work in the dishroom, doing heavy cleaning of waslls, floors and work tables for 9 hours, walking back to the subway with excruciating back and leg pain, not to mention having some shortness of breath, I'd hardly call that a cake walk!

All I would do was drag myself home and get in the bed because I was way too tired and spent.

When I was much younger, I could do that stuff. I just can't do that any more!!

Even the school where I tutor the kids - it's kind of on a hill, and walking up there from the subway is physically exhausting!! Once I'm there, I have to sit down right away!

The kids don't understand why I'm so tired when I get there. It's a long story to tell them.

I guess I sorta misunderstood where you were coming from, Big D. I thought you were singing to woes of having to wash dishes early on in your career... I didn't realize you were saying you actually had been expected to start out as a dishwasher at the beginning of every job you ever applied for.

I washed dishes for 2 years when I first started in kitchens at age 14- and a short time after I was prepping some food items whilst still technically a dishwasher. By 16 I was a pantry cook- then never really filled a dishwashing position again ever, after those first initial 2 years.

Though certainly as a kitichen staffer and chef my hands were in soap & water millions of times over the years helping-out on busy nights and on busy holidays, and filling-in for sick staff or no-shows, and the like...

Are you actually saying you applied as a cook- got the cook position but STILL was tasked as a dishwasher well into your career, as a 20, 30, 40 year old w/ lotsa experience?

No, I was NEVER offered a cook's job at all after being trained at school.

All I was offered were jobs washing dishes. That's why I say that it was so damn demeaning and unfair. I was supposed to be a COOK, not a dishwasher.

I spent almost a year searching for a cook's job that I never got. Everyone gave me the run-around. I was always friggen turned down or ignored!

One co had me go for a drug test, which I gladly did, and they STILL friggen turned me down also!!! And I was tested clean because the only drugs I'm on are those prescribed by my doc!!! I was really aggravated, ****ed off, frustrated and fed up!!!!!!!!!