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Moving Furniture isn’t about Muscle
Every spring moving companies receive calls from college student athletes requesting employment opportunities. One by one, the students come in and shortly ( usually after a week or two of “moving” ), they leave. Don’t get me wrong – there are those few crew members that stick it out – those that handle the everyday precarious positions that moving twists, turns, bends, squeezes, rotates, wrenches, and distorts your body.
- Its not about muscle. Being strong is of course an important characteristic of being a mover but not the most crucial. Many mover wannabees who are “jacked” don’t understand how they cannot hang with other movers. The answer is:
- ENDURANCE is #1. Twelve hours, up and down flights of stairs. This is not easy – period, let alone carrying boxes, couches, mattresses, desks, safes, appliances, etc. Then, when you think you can take a break – get up the next morning and do it again.
- Spacial Recognition is key. Some great movers have excellent space recognition skills and can negotiate objects easily. Think a huge game of 3D Tetris with really heavy things.
- Kindness and Compassion above all else. Moving is extremely personal. Essentially, movers are coming into someones home and taking everything they own. You can only begin to imagine the intense feelings that sometimes accompany this difficult job of a mover. Being kind and compassionate, treating the furniture like it belongs to your grandmother – this is what a great mover can do.
The best moving companies hire movers who frankly just love to move. They love the daily challenge that moving a person’s household goods comes with. Those are the movers I would want to move my home.