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2024-10-29 19:42:56DANTE'S POV
It was another day of back breaking work and as much as I loved my dad, I still resented him a little for sending me to the factory.
My uniform was thoroughly soaked with sweat, so I had to remove and unzip my overall and tied the sleeves on my waist so my white vest was in full view. I wiped sweat from my forehead as I tightened some screws I had found loose on the line to be sent out for production.
It was quite hard at first, learning the intricacies of food manufacturing, but I think I was finally getting a hang of it. I was certainly feeling better about not doing the boring office work, but being out here with this crew, doing the manual labor which the work was really about. The sound of machines doing it's work knowing I had done that, was satisfying and I would sm
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