T.V. Show "Dirtiest Jobs"...
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Anybody watch that T.V. show "Dirtiest Jobs" (I think that's it.)? It's on cable here watched it while living with the in-laws. Makes me wonder... What's the dirtiest job you've ever done whether it was a few hours, one day, a week or years? Mine was being a road and mountain bike mechanic. I hated complete overhauls as you had to use the solvent tank to degrease all the cogs, chainrings, chains, etc... That and the day I decided to lay 12" of additional insulation in the upper level of my old house. The outside temperature at the time was 102 degrees F. That was a *dirty* job... How about you I'm sure some of you can top that (I mean I know at least a few of you have had to work in VB 5/6/.Net ;P)?
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My "dirtiest job" and ironically my favorite was McDonald's when I was 17. I was a cashier for 5 months. But the job included some other parts and I had to do all kinds of dirty jobs there - unloading a truck full of frozen meat twice a week, mopping floors and of course cleaning the grill was my "favorite". I guess what I liked most about the job was the fact it didn't include any thinking process. I also did a load of dirty jobs in my service (painting, greasing, cutting trees) but that's a different story all together... Isaac Sasson
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In the place I used to live, the pipe to the septic tank had tree roots growing in it, and the landowner (this was a mobile home park) refused to do anything about it, even though it was "his" problem. We were lucky that he fix water main breaks. Anyways, the tree roots and something that flushed down the toilet caused a blockage, and you don't notice these things until the pipe gets filled. I was taking a shower and noticed that the tub wasn't draining. Thinking it was a localized problem, I finished my shower. Well, the tub was draining, but the water pressure in the tub drain was sufficient to come back up out of the toilet. So I had about an inch of water on the bathroom floor. [edit]Actually, first, the tub had to be bailed. Then the toilet had to be bailed. Then...[edit] the floor needed to be mopped up. Then I had to remove the toilet to get to pipe, and snake it a good 30 or 40 feet to before I got the tree root problem. And this was a manual, hand cranked snake. Pulling it back out after hearing that satisfying "floosh" sound and seeing the water drain out of the pipe, man, that was disguisting. Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 20:30 Saturday 29th April, 2006
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Anybody watch that T.V. show "Dirtiest Jobs" (I think that's it.)? It's on cable here watched it while living with the in-laws. Makes me wonder... What's the dirtiest job you've ever done whether it was a few hours, one day, a week or years? Mine was being a road and mountain bike mechanic. I hated complete overhauls as you had to use the solvent tank to degrease all the cogs, chainrings, chains, etc... That and the day I decided to lay 12" of additional insulation in the upper level of my old house. The outside temperature at the time was 102 degrees F. That was a *dirty* job... How about you I'm sure some of you can top that (I mean I know at least a few of you have had to work in VB 5/6/.Net ;P)?
The enemy's gate is down.:cool:
Welcome to CP in your language. Post the unicode version in My CP Blog [ ^ ] now.People who don't understand how awesome Firefox is have never used CPhog. The act of using CPhog alone doesn't make Firefox cool. It opens your eyes to the possibilities and then you start looking for other things like CPhog and your eyes are suddenly open to all sorts of useful things all through Firefox. - (Self Quote)
I also grew up on a farm. I did manual labor until I was ~19. I learned very early on the value of a good education. :) Jon Sagara Look at him. He runs like a Welshman. Doesn't he run like a Welshman? Doesn't he? I think he runs like a Welshman. My Site | My Blog | My Articles
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I also grew up on a farm. I did manual labor until I was ~19. I learned very early on the value of a good education. :) Jon Sagara Look at him. He runs like a Welshman. Doesn't he run like a Welshman? Doesn't he? I think he runs like a Welshman. My Site | My Blog | My Articles
Yeah, my father grew up on 500,000 acres here in Grandview, ID. His parents owned the land, the towns only store and the post office. He understood (and still does) farming better than anyone I've ever met. Which is why his energy conservation programs designed as a E.E. working for Idaho power have gotten him on the covers of newsweek and national recognition on many occassions (I only mention this to confirm your own notion that a good education is everything.). His stories of growing up on a farm amaze me. I'm still astounded by the fact people *choose* to that for a living but then again many say that about what we do...:doh:
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I grew up on a dairy farm, so the dirtiest jobs i've done were also some of the first. Easy enough to end up covered in shit in the winter, chaff in the summer. Can't say i really miss either. :) As for feeling dirty... well, CG's got that one down - for sure, telemarketing is right up there. Spent six months at it, going home each day found me easily the most depressed and worthless i've ever felt after a day's work. :sigh:
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That's how I felt working in the bike shop and I did it for 6 years. I worked for a guy that could only be known as the Italian Stallion (in every negative way you can imagine). I could have dismantled that guy from the neck down (and gone to jail for it) and never did. I was going to school at the time the hours were good, the pay better and I was his best wrench. He walked all over me like a cheap rug. To this day my colon aches when I even think about the guy for a second. JERK! Does not even describe... He ran off one of the best men I've ever met. A South African who was such an amazing guy. Completely ran him off, turned in his Visa and went back to S.A. which was a tragedy to me. Yup my self-esteem had everything in common with sea-level hard to get much lower without drowning... When I was done with school I blew that place in seconds. FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!!!:-D
The enemy's gate is down.:cool: Welcome to CP in your language. Post the unicode version in My CP Blog [ ^ ] now. People who don't understand how awesome Firefox is have never used CPhog. The act of using CPhog alone doesn't make Firefox cool. It opens your eyes to the possibilities and then you start looking for other things like CPhog and your eyes are suddenly open to all sorts of useful things all through Firefox. - (Self Quote)
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Anybody watch that T.V. show "Dirtiest Jobs" (I think that's it.)? It's on cable here watched it while living with the in-laws. Makes me wonder... What's the dirtiest job you've ever done whether it was a few hours, one day, a week or years? Mine was being a road and mountain bike mechanic. I hated complete overhauls as you had to use the solvent tank to degrease all the cogs, chainrings, chains, etc... That and the day I decided to lay 12" of additional insulation in the upper level of my old house. The outside temperature at the time was 102 degrees F. That was a *dirty* job... How about you I'm sure some of you can top that (I mean I know at least a few of you have had to work in VB 5/6/.Net ;P)?
The enemy's gate is down.:cool:
Welcome to CP in your language. Post the unicode version in My CP Blog [ ^ ] now.People who don't understand how awesome Firefox is have never used CPhog. The act of using CPhog alone doesn't make Firefox cool. It opens your eyes to the possibilities and then you start looking for other things like CPhog and your eyes are suddenly open to all sorts of useful things all through Firefox. - (Self Quote)
The summer after I finished high school I had a job watering down foundations in very sandy dirt that were being compacted in preparation for slab on dirt housing. I then worked on the sewer trenching crew. For non-paid jobs, there's replacing a starter motor in pouring rain without a jack and then there's tearing out and putting up drywall. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Anybody watch that T.V. show "Dirtiest Jobs" (I think that's it.)? It's on cable here watched it while living with the in-laws. Makes me wonder... What's the dirtiest job you've ever done whether it was a few hours, one day, a week or years? Mine was being a road and mountain bike mechanic. I hated complete overhauls as you had to use the solvent tank to degrease all the cogs, chainrings, chains, etc... That and the day I decided to lay 12" of additional insulation in the upper level of my old house. The outside temperature at the time was 102 degrees F. That was a *dirty* job... How about you I'm sure some of you can top that (I mean I know at least a few of you have had to work in VB 5/6/.Net ;P)?
The enemy's gate is down.:cool:
Welcome to CP in your language. Post the unicode version in My CP Blog [ ^ ] now.People who don't understand how awesome Firefox is have never used CPhog. The act of using CPhog alone doesn't make Firefox cool. It opens your eyes to the possibilities and then you start looking for other things like CPhog and your eyes are suddenly open to all sorts of useful things all through Firefox. - (Self Quote)
code-frog wrote:
How about you I'm sure some of you can top that
I have had some jobs that where less interesting than others, some where fun, some not so much. Anyway it’s what you take from the experience that really matters. I have helped repair a few waste (sewage) lines (in the house) that had their own umm fragrance. Some days working for a large corporation feels just like working on waste lines. :rolleyes:
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I had a summerjob when I was 17, which involved deconstruction of heavy digging machinery. Mostly, they had been burning, so they were quite dirty. The worst part was messing with the hydraulic system. Hydraulic oil smells bad.. X| The worst accident happened when we thought we had drained the hydraulic system completly. Apparently a shunt and a couple of tubes had been so badly burned, that it prevented the oil to flow through. You can imagine the sheer joy I felt as I loosened a tube overhead, and the oil poured over me, as if it was maple syrup... :doh:
I have this image of a 6 foot stack of pancakes :drool: The tigress is here :-D
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Ray Cassick wrote:
and it froze solid one winter...
Ewwww. Yup, that's one better. :) Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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That's how I felt working in the bike shop and I did it for 6 years. I worked for a guy that could only be known as the Italian Stallion (in every negative way you can imagine). I could have dismantled that guy from the neck down (and gone to jail for it) and never did. I was going to school at the time the hours were good, the pay better and I was his best wrench. He walked all over me like a cheap rug. To this day my colon aches when I even think about the guy for a second. JERK! Does not even describe... He ran off one of the best men I've ever met. A South African who was such an amazing guy. Completely ran him off, turned in his Visa and went back to S.A. which was a tragedy to me. Yup my self-esteem had everything in common with sea-level hard to get much lower without drowning... When I was done with school I blew that place in seconds. FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!!!:-D
The enemy's gate is down.:cool: Welcome to CP in your language. Post the unicode version in My CP Blog [ ^ ] now. People who don't understand how awesome Firefox is have never used CPhog. The act of using CPhog alone doesn't make Firefox cool. It opens your eyes to the possibilities and then you start looking for other things like CPhog and your eyes are suddenly open to all sorts of useful things all through Firefox. - (Self Quote)
That sounds a lot like my first programming job. I started working for a little consulting company when I was in my second year of college. The president of the company was domineering and very much of the 'do as I say, not as I do' school. Speaking of which, he didn't have a college degree, but loads of experience. He never said anything overt, but I always wondered if he held it against me that I was getting my degree. The guy was a bully of the worst sort; he knew how to hit you, metaphorically speaking, without leaving visible marks. While I was there, one of the two junior partners left, largely due to the president's personality. I left a couple of years after I graduated from college. It took me years to build real self-confidence, and to not reflexively justify my views and decisions to the people I worked for. The ironic thing is, my current boss, over 25 years later, was the other junior partner. He left the company not too long after I did.
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My "dirtiest job" and ironically my favorite was McDonald's when I was 17. I was a cashier for 5 months. But the job included some other parts and I had to do all kinds of dirty jobs there - unloading a truck full of frozen meat twice a week, mopping floors and of course cleaning the grill was my "favorite". I guess what I liked most about the job was the fact it didn't include any thinking process. I also did a load of dirty jobs in my service (painting, greasing, cutting trees) but that's a different story all together... Isaac Sasson
Same here. I worked at a Ponderosa (a steak house) for seven months. I washed dishes, cleaned, washed, and wrapped potatoes, and scrubbed bloody meat trays. After a while I was trained as a fry cook. This job involved making french fries, baking rolls and potatoes, and frying fish. I ended up getting cut or burned at least once a week. I sliced the palm of my hand open once on a broken glass some moron had thrown into a sink full of dirty water. What really took the cake was the manager. He reviewed everyone at three month intervals. At mine, he told me he wanted to nominate me for manager training. I turned him down because I was in college at the time. He told me "that college education won't do you a damn bit of good" :wtf:. After that, he scheduled me to work on Wednesday nights every week, so that I got to unload the delivery truck. Up to 100 75 pound boxes of meat, 30-40 100 pound boxes of potatoes, and other stuff. At the time I weighed 165 pounds, and wasn't fit at all. I went home every Wednesday night barely able to move. The fun part was going back there to eat after I graduated from college, and realizing I was making more money as a new graduate than he was as a senior manager.
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Anybody watch that T.V. show "Dirtiest Jobs" (I think that's it.)? It's on cable here watched it while living with the in-laws. Makes me wonder... What's the dirtiest job you've ever done whether it was a few hours, one day, a week or years? Mine was being a road and mountain bike mechanic. I hated complete overhauls as you had to use the solvent tank to degrease all the cogs, chainrings, chains, etc... That and the day I decided to lay 12" of additional insulation in the upper level of my old house. The outside temperature at the time was 102 degrees F. That was a *dirty* job... How about you I'm sure some of you can top that (I mean I know at least a few of you have had to work in VB 5/6/.Net ;P)?
The enemy's gate is down.:cool:
Welcome to CP in your language. Post the unicode version in My CP Blog [ ^ ] now.People who don't understand how awesome Firefox is have never used CPhog. The act of using CPhog alone doesn't make Firefox cool. It opens your eyes to the possibilities and then you start looking for other things like CPhog and your eyes are suddenly open to all sorts of useful things all through Firefox. - (Self Quote)
Sign shop was right up there due to some of the chemicals we had to work with. Potato farm was pretty bad, I worked on an assembly line bagging potatoes and sewing up the burlap bags as fast as I could keep up. But probably the dirties job was cutting cedar shake blocks in the bush (Bush is what we call the "forest" in these parts). It involved chainsaws, back ache, near heat stroke, climbing up real mountain sides carrying huge amounts of gear and equipment, mosquitos and biting insects of all kinds, encounters with black bears and cougars, lot's of horrifying injuries to the crew, the worst I got was a 60 pound shake block tossed at my head and cut my scalp open along with chronic back pain. I did that from age 12 during school breaks including summer holidays up to age 18 and for a while after school. Purely piece work so if your eqiupment breaks down or you are too hung over to work you don't make any money.