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brooklynite

(94,360 posts)
Sun Jul 9, 2017, 09:35 AM Jul 2017

The $100,000 job: Garbage workers

http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/24/news/economy/trash-workers-high-pay/index.html

Molina and his co-worker, Tony Sankar, have been picking trash together for a decade in New York City.

They've seen, and smelled, it all. Stale fish, footlong rats, dead pigs and cows. Countless drunks have heckled them. And yes, one time Sankar saw a human leg in a dumpster.

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Molina made $112,000 last year as a garbage truck driver and Sankar made $100,000 as a helper, riding on the back of the truck. Their wages have grown in eight of the last nine years, according to their bosses, brothers David and Jerry Antonacci, owners of Crown Container, a waste management company.

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Will Trump supporters leap to grab jobs like these?
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The $100,000 job: Garbage workers (Original Post) brooklynite Jul 2017 OP
Probably not Motownman78 Jul 2017 #1
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