menial, arduous, husking, unskilled, labor intensive, laborious, exhausting, sisyphean, toilsome, grueling, tedious, thankless, torturous, demoralizing, subsistence farming, herculean, hardscrabble, unrewarding, unglamorous, manual laborer, excruciating, semiskilled, dry walling, hard, indentured, monotonous, painstaking, graveyard shift, meager, dirty, hoed, hellacious, unremunerative, strenuous, gritty, unstimulating, remunerative, hod carrier, rickety, uncomplaining, blue collar, ditch digger, miserable, splintery, unworked, grimy, ungodly, rice paddy, callused, scut work, painful, numbing, daunting, improbable, hellish, sacrificing, migrant, wrenching, joyless, burdensome, relentless, unenviable, skilled, unproductive, gimpy, hod, gandy dancer, brutal, cotton picker, subsistent, pogey, sweaty, unmerciful, costly, threshing machine, gutty, mummifying, fulling, agonizing, onerous, perilous, epic, capped, unendurable, overworked, shucking, horrid, workmanlike, upward mobility, tarpaper, xeric, unimaginably, foodless, shiftless, interminable, exacting, calloused, measly, putrid, sackless, galley slave, wearisome, fatiguing, gruelling, irksome, timeconsuming, breaking, humdrum, taxing, tiresome, consuming

effortful, heavy, labourious, punishing