Mine-clearing is the new job fad

[dArKeR]

By Barbara Hollands

Young people keen to make a quick buck working on oil rigs or cruise ships, packing fish in Iceland, and throwing pints in British pubs, now have another "more dangerous" alternative.

Those with a penchant for the wild side or for offering humanitarian aid can now clear landmines in previously war-torn countries like Serbia, Eritrea, Mozambique and Angola.

"This is a low-skilled, high-risk, highly paid job," says the Johannesburg-based managing director of Unique Jobs, Howard Joselowitz.

Landmine clearers are paid $444 a day (R2 600) over a three-month period.

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20040725180803566C507917

I am 100% sure that Bush and ALL republicans will never make it to heaven! Nothing on Earth so evil ever could. Nothing on Earth so ignorant ever could!

U.S.: Bush Administration Abandons Landmine Ban
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2004/02/27/usint7684.htm

[Spinzonner]

1. Well, it certainly isnt a hand-to-mouth existance

particularly if you make a wrong move.

Yes, I know it's sick.

[BattyDem]

2. "Bush Administration Abandons Landmine Ban"

:wow:
I didn't know about this! How did miss I this story? :shrug:

This administration is barbaric! The entire world has recognized the danger and cruelty of landmines ... and the US says, "Let's keep on using 'em!" No wonder they all hate us. :grr:

[WindRavenX]

6. Whoa, when the hell did that happen!

That's sickening. Simply sickening.
Landmines are one of the cruelest human created devices ever. All too often children and innocents suffer...:mad:

[0rganism]

3. An explosive new career field!

You get more bucks for your bang as a minesweeper

Tired of the same-old? Cubicles got you down? Don't want to pay an arm and a leg for college tuition or retraining? Well, exciting opportunities await you in the action-packed world of munitions detection and disposal, where no two clients are quite the same. Work outdoors with adventursome spirited young people like yourself for high wages and commissions in a gauranteed growth industry!

(C'mon, peeps, let's write some more ads for this job of the future)

[Mokito]

4. Uhm....was this irony intended?

Don't want to pay an arm and a leg for college tuition or retraining?

[0rganism]

5. Maybe...

:)

[KareBear]

7. Kinda wish they showed where to sign up..

I have friends that have been out of work so long they'd do it in a heartbeat.

[Big_Mike]

8. Well, I wouldn't say unskilled

I cleared minefields in Panama and Saudi/Iraq back when.

If you use unskilled personnel to clear mines, you pay more in life insurance payouts than wages. This is demanding, dangerous work.

Good luck to those who do it. They need all the good luck they can get.