How Do You Make a Brick?

When you think you really hate your job...just watch this.

This is how brick builders start their day.
The process of making bricks begins with a mix of dirt and clay.
BOOM!

The the clay is then shaped and dried for approx 4 -6 days.
After that it's transported into a big oven thingy to bake for 21 days.

This is one that is getting emptied at the moment (notice color of brick change once baked)
but when bricks need to be baked workers will fill this space and cover the top with dirt.
The next picture demonstrates what baking bricks would look like.

Not much, right?
WRONG!
Ms. Wells ran over that and the bottom of my shoes melted.
There are bricks baking under neath there, the WHOLE LENGTH of this rectangular oven.
But how?
The workers fill three rows of brick, one row of coal and repeat over and over again.
And then they make sure that they have little "air ducts" the length of the oven to
pull the fire the whole way through...kinda jumps row to row.
(oxygen feeds a fire; learnt that the hard way ;-(

It floored me how friendly they were considering what they were doing and
for how long...the brick operation stays running 24/7.

So really, how can one complain about their job?
I certainly cannot.
(why didn't I know this when I was rowing? Or before I had to do a 2km?)

P.S. Sorry for the LACK and LATE entries but
GUESS WHO JUST FINISHED SCHOOL ???

YOUPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Thank gawd - I am a sick train wreck!