it's a good life but it is not easy. otherjobs are a lot easier than oystering you are working nonstop for six hours. no dredges over the side until nine o'clock. and all dredges must be in by three o'clock. six hours is long when you have been pulling dredges. for me, anyhow. a lot of oystermen sufferfrom bad backs. pulling and bending over. it soon loses its romantic bit. we get some good days and some bad days, you know. if you can stick the bad days, that the days are a bonus. lots of people can't stand the bad days.