Awful jobs SOMEONE has to do

[KitchenWitch]

MUZAK musician...

[kwassa]

1. Roofing

the heat, the tar, the height ...

[aclog]

31. my Uncle is a millionaire

thanks to his roofing business, although I personally could never ever do roofing :(

[KitchenWitch]

37. He owns the business, right?

Most actual roofers are subcontractors and do not make the money they deserve for having to put up with the danger, heat and mess.

[aclog]

38. no argument there

he turned the business over to his son who promptly went belly-up

[sasquatch]

2. Jail (Holding Pin) janitor

x(

[no name no slogan]

3. Crime scene cleanup

supposedly there's lots of $$ to be made in that industry

[xmas74]

10. I've heard the same thing.

I've been asking around, trying to find out what it takes to start a business like that.

[swag]

76. There have been some great articles on that profession recently

both in the New Yorker and the New York Times.

I'll try to scare a link up.

[swag]

77. Here's a very good recent NYT article about death clean-up services

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/22/nyregion/22cleanup.html?ex=1138251600&en=a35d38a258606901&ei=5070

[DS1]

4. Train accident guts shoveller

[jpgray]

54. Guy probably has tons of cool flattened coins and spleens and shit

So your answer is wrong.

[azmouse]

5. Changing diapers.

Nope I didn't have kids so I've never changed one. But I wonder how parents do that
for years.

[xmas74]

Imagine being a CNA and

changing adults.
Sad part is that most CNA's are very underpaid.

[zanne]

17. Yup. Two of them come for my mother every day.

I change her too, of course, but for these people, a work day consists of changing adult diapers, changing colostomy and catheter bags, and other things too disgusting to mention. They are WAY underpaid. Alot of recent immigrants do this kind of work--one of my mom's CNA's was an accountant in Russia.

[xmas74]

71. Backbreaking work for minimum wage.

Been there, done that.

[Wapsie B]

33. Ugh! I've done that.

Very hard depressing work. Convinced me not to go to nursing school.

[xmas74]

72. Really hard work

and they treat you like shit.

[IA_Seth]

43. My gf used to be one...VERY underpaid. n/t

[xmas74]

73. I've been one too.

For all the work they do they do not receive nearly enough pay. And many nursing homes offer health insurance but at a price that a CNA cannot afford.
They take care of people who are too sick to take care of themselves. Who's going to take care of them? They can't afford any help at all.

[NMMNG]

58. I work with the developmentally disabled

Changing adult diapers is par for the course (at least in the program I work in now). So is cleaning up vomit, drool and snot during every shift.

[xmas74]

74. I used to do that too.

CNA was my part time work, DAI (developmental aide I) and CMT was my fulltime job for five years. I worked every level-from the profound to the mild to the 552's (court-appointed, not guilty by reason of mental defect). It was a state hospital.
You learn really fast when feeding someone who is the projectile vomiter and how far they can project!

[LeftyMom]

15. You get used to it

If the kid's breastfed or eating a healthy diet of solids, the odor's not too bad. Formula fed babies smell godawful though.

-LM, who changed and washed cloth diapers for four years and didn't really mind.

[Shine]

18. When it's your own kid, it's amazing the shit you will put up with....

literally.

:D

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. My friend said a funny thing... his wife made him clean the poo poo diaper

of their little daughter because it was his turn... while he was doing it, he said, "the really funny thing here, is that 40 years from now, she'll be doing this for ME!" :rofl:

[Shine]

28. Yeah, that's probably about right.

One time when our son was really little he was about ready to vomit and there was nothing around, so the hubby literally caught our son's throw-up with his cupped hands. Ewwwww...... :puke:

now it THAT isn't Love, I don't know what is! :rofl:

[Midlodemocrat]

41. That's the pre and post kid parent test.

Pre-kids, when a kid pukes, you gag and throw up in your mouth a little.

Post-kids, when a kid pukes, you try to catch it.

[Shine]

48. Exactly.

it's just that simple.
;)

[Elidor]

56. He just didnt want to clean the carpet later

Washing your hands is easy by comparison.

[ET Awful]

65. D'oh, should have been a reply to OP

[texas1928]

6. Ipecac tester.

:puke:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. Javelin catcher..... or the person who has to run ahead of

this to make sure it can follow ya ok....




ON EDIT to add my sig.

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[billyskank]

8. Shit shoveller

In India I saw the guy whose job it was to remove the blockages in the sewer (which was open like a deep gutter) so as to keep the turds flowing. :puke:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

9. Most of them. Although I enjoy my job.

[RebelOne]

11. Septic Tank Cleaner

[SeattleGirl]

12. Sausage casing cleaner

I had to do a job analysis of this position, and I almost lost my cookies while doing it. It was like working inside the hole of an outhouse! I was nauseated for 3 days after that! :puke:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. Do you watch the show "Dirty Jobs"? He had one where he helped

the guys at one of the big sewage treatment facilities near San Francisco replace a sewage pump.

Uggghhh. Sorry if you do this job, but I'm glad someone does and that it's not me.

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/dirtyjobs/splash.html

[bertha katzenengel]

22. I really enjoy that show.

Couldn't watch the one with bugs. But I liked the one where he made cheese.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

27. Next to the sewage one, the exterminator was the nastiest I think. He

helped the exterminators, a cool young couple, exterminate someone's trailer home that was FULL of roaches. The most disturbing thing was thinking that, days before, someone was actually LIVING in there... :shudder:

On Edit... it seems that anything involving any kind of farming or ranching automatically qualifies as a dirty job.

I can think of a number of medical jobs that would, but there would probably be privacy hurdles for getting such a show done.

[SofaKingLiberal]

14. Cleaning Bush's bathroom n/t

[texas1928]

23. I bet he misses alot.

[aclog]

34. liberals miss too

[texas1928]

35. If they're drunk maybe.

Oh yeah Bush is drunk too, and all the time.

[KitchenWitch]

36. And your point is?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

39. I think we all know where dude is "coming from"

[aclog]

40. I'd rather not be lumped in with Bush

even if we do both regularly piss on the seat

[KitchenWitch]

42. fair enough!

[AllegroRondo]

16. I know a guy who actually does that

he got a job arranging popular tunes into "muzak" versions. He doesnt have to play them for the final recording, though.

[bertha katzenengel]

20. home chores category: scooping the cat box n/t

[KitchenWitch]

21. especially at YOUR house!

:rofl:

[bertha katzenengel]

26. Oh, aren't you just a riot.

x(

;) just kidding -- you're right! :rofl:

When Mrs. V. and I pull into the garage at the end of the work day, I ask her: what do you want to do: feed the herd or scoop the boxes? Whenever she chooses the chore involving the cats' front end, I can't blame her at all.

[lpbk2713]

24. Someone posted here once that they worked on a horse breeding farm.

And they went into detail of what is involved in the artificial insemination process.


More detail than I care to go into.

[bertha katzenengel]

29. anyone who owns even one horse and has their own stables has a

nasty enough job everyday: mucking the stalls. Raking out the manure and replacing it w/ fresh straw. YECK.

But I think if I had a horse it would be a labor of love.

[neweurope]

51. Two horses, own stable here... yes, it is a labour of love.

I'm not very healthy anymore and the work has gotten hard to do, but once you start it's just what has got to be done. Once or twice every winter I cry, thinking I can't do the work anymore (lugging hot water, breaking the ice on the water barrels, marching through the snow checking and getting the snow off the electric fence etc. etc.), but every time I see those two gangsters I smile.

:) Love'em

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[bertha katzenengel]

67. I don't own horses so forgive me if I sound naive --

have you thought about buying de-icers for the water barrels? Little electric things that keep the water from freezing. :shrug:

Just a thought.

What are your "gangster's" names? :)

[neweurope]

68. We have no electricity and no running water there.

Light in the stable from a tractor battery and a pump (though we have a gasoline pump for it now, thank god).

Adonis is the big one - a Trakehner, really belongs to my SO (but what I feed and love is MINE), Tignous des Balmes - a Barb-Arab from France, my child, so to speak ;). Those are the names the breeders gave them, and of course we have all kinds of nicknames for them, from Doni and Ti to Goooooodboy to What'sthatdoni! and C'mehereyouskunk! :)

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Dukkha]

dup post

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[Dukkha]

25. Jizz mopper

uuuuuuugh :scared:

[Shell Beau]

30. EEEEEeeeeeewwwww!!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

32. Credit to "Clerks"

[WritingIsMyReligion]

44. Cleaning up *'s mess, at home and abroad.

That's a daunting task right there for my generation. Thanks, Republican asshats. :eyes::grr:

[KitchenWitch]

45. We will likely be doing that for the next 5 decades.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

46. Probably more.

:grr:

[leftofthedial]

47. DU moderator

in the Lounge

[KitchenWitch]

49. ding ding ding, we have a winner!

:yourock:

[leftofthedial]

52. I really wasn't expecting this honor--thank you

I'd like to thank my folks for making me believe that anything is possible

and KitchenWitch for believing in this project

and all the little people, Skinner and elad and EarlG, who made it possible for me to post

and the long line of actual DU moderators in the Lounge who inspired me to reach just a little deeper

This award is for all of YOU!

[Initech]

50. Tow-truck driver

Although I'm sure those guys have plenty of interesting stories, that's not a job I could see myself doing any time soon.

[HEyHEY]

53. Run DU

[Texasgal]

55. Hospice nurse...

under appreciated and under paid.

[jmowreader]

57. Survivor assistance officer

The survivor assistance officer has the worst job in the world. Bar none.

This individual gets to tell married soldiers' wives that their husbands are dead, married soldiers' husbands that their wives are dead, and single soldiers' mothers that their sons and daughters are dead.

It is the only job I know of where the instructions for doing it explicitly state that you are not to "'fortify' yourself with alcohol" before you do it.

[Oeditpus Rex]

59. Lib'rul mee-dee-ah person

:hide:

[Heidi]

61. Wrong thread. That one goes on the Endangered/Extinct Jobs list.

:grr:

[Oeditpus Rex]

62. Well, *that* makes me feel secure

:scared:

[Heidi]

63. But it's true.

The US media is _far_ more conservative than liberal. Congratulations on being one of the last hold-outs, OR. Reason 953 brazilian why I luv you. :hug:

[Oeditpus Rex]

64. Oh

I thought you meant journalism was endangered/extinct.



Where's the "Whew!" smilie?

[Wetzelbill]

60. dog food taster

[ET Awful]

66. Grease trap cleaner in any commercial kitchen. . . .

:puke: (talk about a stench . . . :puke:)

[RevCheesehead]

69. Bush's Proctologist.

I mean, can you imagine anything worse than that??

[skygazer]

70. Euthanising perfectly healthy animals

I have a friend who was a vet for many years - that was the hardest part of her job. It's one of the main reasons she gave it up.

[kiki]

75. My friend's an electrician...

...he had to spend a week inside the crawlspaces of an old house scooping up rats. The rats had been poisoned a while before with warfarin, an anticoagulant, so they'd all sort of melted into little dried-up rat patties. Nice. :)