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on the whole, babysitting;s not that bad.
dealing with diapers with what looks like clif bars in them is the bad part.
actually, then going cragging and being offered clif bars is the worse part.
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I did construction for 2 years but already had the rack by then. Eventhough it was hot (Palm Springs installing aluminum shade awnings) we got paid pretty well (25-30/hr cash) and eventhough I will be making more as a Physical Therapist (in 2 years) after taxes it will be about the same.
The best part about it was that my boss climbed too and understood the "emergency Valley trip" that occasionally needed to be taken.
TRADitionally yours,
Cali Dirtbag
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25/30 an hour thats dope! I am making like 14 out here in the humid South Carolina heat for the summer on a framing crew currently, before i return to college
thanks for ya'lls input and cheers
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Argh... 12 hr days alone... painting.... if only could see what i turn into
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Cleaned toilets for 4 months. To be honest, I thoroughly enjoyed the job. I became intimate with each worker's bowel movements.
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the dirtiest?
donut baker
demo
construction
production welding (current job)
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worked in the oil fields at prudhoe bay
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Emptying the 8-day-old portable toilets from our Grand Canyon river trips. They'd bake in that 130 degree heat for days, full of Salsa and Chile Verde. You'd have to clean a rack of 12 after every trip out back behind the shed.
By far the nastiest event happend when when my friend forgot to release the pressure valve before he opened the 8-inch aluminum cap. It shot off like a rocket and cut his face all to pieces. He was covered in LOTS of blood AND a few gallons of hot, week-old, baked lime green and red shit from all the passengers.
not cool.
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Quote: "Emptying the 8-day-old portable toilets from our Grand Canyon river trips. They'd bake in that 130 degree heat for days, full of Salsa and Chile Verde. You'd have to clean a rack of 12 after every trip out back behind the shed. "
OK, That takes the cake. But, like mine, you were in a National Park!
Well it's not as gross as that but I worked on a trail crew in Yosemite. That was the dirtiest job I have done. Proud work building trail, but dusty,muddy,hot, sweaty, knuckles busting work. But working with granite you really become one with the rock. :wink:
Thanks
See you on the rocks! 8^)
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In reply to: After viewing a new show on the discovery channel on "dirtiest jobs in US" I discovered that the only 3 jobs i have ever had made the shows list. 1.Junkyard 2.Construction 3.Road Construction I am a junior in college and i love the fact that i get the opportunity to say that i have sweated my butt off in the dirtiest conditions for my rack, i was just wondering if anyone else feels the same? |
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In reply to: .... I'm professionally a dirty man! :wink:
...rrroooowwwrrrrrlllll.... :P (i get a good discount, right, babe?!?!)
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Dirtest job I have had is a stable hand. Muck horse stalls, all 130 plus rent string and excercise ring. Worse part was in the spring after the rains. you had to dig out the black shit that had become mush in the stall. Started at 5am and went till 12 then in the saddle till feeding time. Ahh good times.
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play it again sports!...
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telephone surveys. Doesn't get much dirtier than interuppting folks' dinnertimes all over the US.
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Janitor
Picking up after people in a mental health center.
Concrete Construction
Digging hole and then filling them backup.
Flood clean up.
Scrubbing and shoveling out buildings in Fargo ND after the big flood.
Architect
Telling someone where to dig a hole and what to fill it up with.
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For me it was probably tree lopping. Getting covered in dirt, mud, sap, saw dust and wood chips. Fu#$ing hard work or a great workout depending on how you look at it.
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In reply to: Emptying the 8-day-old portable toilets from our Grand Canyon river trips. They'd bake in that 130 degree heat for days, full of Salsa and Chile Verde. You'd have to clean a rack of 12 after every trip out back behind the shed. By far the nastiest event happend when when my friend forgot to release the pressure valve before he opened the 8-inch aluminum cap. It shot off like a rocket and cut his face all to pieces. He was covered in LOTS of blood AND a few gallons of hot, week-old, baked lime green and red s--- from all the passengers. not cool. |
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Aug 16, 2005, 10:32 PM
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Being a paperboy :P Being trapped in a blizzard mid-winter while delivering papers sucks, take it from me.
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This summer i lived in Yosemite. and if any one knows about DNC (aka the Devil Needs Cash of Delaware North Company), the concessionaire for the park, the in themselves are destroying the place on touron (tourist moron) at a time. But in order to live there not necessarily to buy my rack, i had to bus tables at the buffet, basically scrapping crap of grumpy peoples plates so i could afford my habit of the valley. and I'm sure i will look back on my life and the will be the dirtiest most degrading job of my life.
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Several jobs I would rather NEVER have to do again:
Dustman (I was the "chucker" - I'd travel around hanging onto the back of the dustcart stopping at every bin to "chuck" it into the back of the truck.) Amongst the sort of trash I'd get down the back of my neck would be cat litter, dirty diapers and used syringes (pre-sharp disposal boxes). Ugh.
Also in this same period (I was employed by the city council to fill in for regulars off sick/vacation) -
Grave digger and Road Kill Collection crew.
Ah, the memories!
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I worked for a year pumping squid out of the fishing boats in Oxnard Ca, it was hard work plus, you always smelled like fish.
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Man we have done some dirty shite to do what we love!
cheers
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In reply to: I worked for a year pumping squid out of the fishing boats in Oxnard Ca, it was hard work plus, you always smelled like fish.
(reminds me of the joke. punch line was: "How are we ever going to get the smell out of the fish?!" dont ask me how it went, I've forgotten)
I once blew a mental-midget in a dark alley in exchange for a couple of runners and a locking biner. Why, you want them back? That damn locker never worked that well anyway.
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Aug 19, 2005, 11:07 PM
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Someone mentioned this already but cleaning out horse stalls and water basins was pretty damn dirty and you smelled like horse muck. NASTY
Also I used to clean and re fiberglass boats. It's pretty icky too.
And for those Bay Area people...climbing at Castle Rock is pretty damn dirty job. :wink:
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I work on a deep sea chater boat, cleaning fish is alright but the toilet broke the other day... pumping 20 gallons of raw sewage into a five gallon bucket with a hand pump was not much fun, but it pays for gear.
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Not much compare, but it does make me feel like a whore.
Hauling some jerk's canoe and food pack across a muddy portage in the slim hopes that they'll realize that I'm not some damn packmule, but instead I am a poor college student hoping that they'll tip me even a bit for all the extra work I put in. And pretty much it gets me jack.
Tip your driver!
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I wanted to be a nurse a few years back. My moms best friend owned a nurses registry. Her advice was to work as a nurses aide at a convalescent hospital and train there to get a Certified Nurses Aid licence. It turned out to be the hardest I have ever worked and I did things there that would turn most peoples stomaches. Many of the patients could not move and it was my responsibility to take care of their needs, like wiping their butts, changing their pee bags, feeding them, changing their bedding, comforting them when they needed it, learning to understand those who could not verbalize and interpreting what they needed. Those are just a few of the things I did. I never got my CNA license and returned to work as a construction equipment mechanic. As hard as that job was, it was also the most rewarding experience of my life. There was an old woman that I never her say anything other than "Why did daddy die, did daddy die, did daddy die?", unril she took my hand and looked me in the eye and said "I love you". Dirty work, but the most rewarding experience of my life.
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i wash dirt, no joke. So technically i should win, because nothing is dirtier then dirt itself :P
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Ambulance driver
Morgue assistant (ever see what a person vs. train looks like? head vs. bullet? temple vs. scissors?)
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dish washer and landscape
at least with washing dishes you get free food (You make yourself not left overs)
there are definitely some jobs on this list i would never do
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Lab assistant in the microbiology department of a medical lab. Trust me 72 hour stool samples, pieces of lung, intestines, vaginal warts, toenails and whole toes (I actually had to set up a severed, black toe for culture) are NASTY! It was third shift too - NEVER AGAIN!
Deirdre
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Ooooooooooo, I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok. I cut down trees,eat my lunch and like to press wild flowers. Now try to get that out of your head.Ha! Seriously hard work when you are in Oklahoma and it is 100+ degrees.
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In reply to: i wash dirt, no joke. So technically i should win, because nothing is dirtier then dirt itself :P |
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Well... trail work is dirty work. As in filthy, stinking, sweaty, dusty, dirty work. But honestly, trail work is FUN! The pay is shit, the hours are long, the labor is backbreaking; but what could be more fun than spending weeks at a time in the wilderness swingin tools and camping?? :)
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In reply to: In reply to: Emptying the 8-day-old portable toilets from our Grand Canyon river trips. They'd bake in that 130 degree heat for days, full of Salsa and Chile Verde. You'd have to clean a rack of 12 after every trip out back behind the shed. By far the nastiest event happend when when my friend forgot to release the pressure valve before he opened the 8-inch aluminum cap. It shot off like a rocket and cut his face all to pieces. He was covered in LOTS of blood AND a few gallons of hot, week-old, baked lime green and red s--- from all the passengers. not cool. Didn't he get any horrible diseases of that ? |
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tenesmus
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In reply to: I wanted to be a nurse a few years back. My moms best friend owned a nurses registry. Her advice was to work as a nurses aide at a convalescent hospital and train there to get a Certified Nurses Aid licence. It turned out to be the hardest I have ever worked and I did things there that would turn most peoples stomaches. Many of the patients could not move and it was my responsibility to take care of their needs, like wiping their butts, changing their pee bags, feeding them, changing their bedding, comforting them when they needed it, learning to understand those who could not verbalize and interpreting what they needed. Those are just a few of the things I did. I never got my CNA license and returned to work as a construction equipment mechanic. As hard as that job was, it was also the most rewarding experience of my life. There was an old woman that I never her say anything other than "Why did daddy die, did daddy die, did daddy die?", unril she took my hand and looked me in the eye and said "I love you". Dirty work, but the most rewarding experience of my life.
yeah, and NOW I'm a physical therapist. Most of the time with children who have severe and profound special needs. Ever seen the cottage cheese that grows in a severely scoliotic back? nasty. I also work doing home-health with seniors and occasionally have to wipe a butt or two. Nothing like the plummer's comment.
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Cleaned fish at a cannery in Alaska. 18 hour days suck.
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I worked in an environmental lab for a while analyzing pig, sheep and cow manure. Shake it up with water, filter it and analyze. I could never get the smell out of my clothes and hair.
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philbox moved this thread from Trad Climbing to Community.
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I am a Medical Technologist (as my primary job).
My second job, well I do autopsies. And yes I have seen head vs. bullet from the inside.
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We had a job at an abbatoir or meat works if you like. Anyway we had to do some work on the rendering house. That`s the place that they render down all the offal to make blood and bone fertilizer. It`s a big cook house on an industrial scale with a smell that stinks to high heaven and the flies to match.
Whilst walking around on the nearly flat roof there was so much grease up there that I was skating around on it and sliding down the roof towards the gutter.
The gutters were full of grease and maggots. and we had to clean them out. The roof was about forty foot off the ground so it all felt a little tenuous up there but that wasn`t the worst of it.
The offal was piped over to the render house using compressed air though a 4 inch line. When they sent it over there was this huge rumble of the material heading through the pipes and then it exploded out the end into a huge hopper and the building would shake like it was in an earthquake of 6.5 on the richter scale.
Due to all the vibration acting on the building it had vibrated off one of the corner flashings and so it was left to me to stand on tippy toes atop a 30 foot ladder and hang on for dear life on this greasy wall cladding and reattach a new flashing onto the wall cladding corner. All the while I was atop the ladder I was assailed by explosions and earthquakes of offal flying through pipes. The whole building would shake and attempt to pitch me off my perch.
At least it was an experience that I am able to recount to the apprentices.
It would also be worthwhile relating an experience that did not actually happen to me but rather to a carpenter working at the local poo works.
He fell in.
Need I paint a picture.
Full cavity clean out and huge doses of antibiotics.
Then there were those jobs that when I was a kid none of us wanted to have anything to do with.
One of those jobs was being a dunny man. The dunny was the little house up the back yard before sewerage came along. There was a timber box that one sat on and a can that one took a dump in and then covered over the job so to speak with sawdust. Every week the dunny man or nightsoil carter would pay the little house a visit and he would open up a small door in the back of the dunny and change the can over.
I have seen maggots and liquid sewerage spilling over the top of the can and down their backs. That would definitely be the worst job in the world.
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Not speaking from experience, mind you, but mop boy at a peep show doesn't sound very glamorous.
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Worked on a dairy and dealt with all things shitty and dead.
Driving the honeywagon (manure spreader) was interesting. No cab on the tractor and so I would drive along hunched over trying to avoid flying chunks of shit and shit covered dolie rocks.
Also used to assist the dairy farmer when he artificially inseminated the cows. Luckily, I never had to stick my arms up any cows asses. Man, he had one arm stuffed up the ass and the other up the cooch with a big syringe. Zoiks.
Then pulling out calves that were half hanging out was another fun one. Grab both legs and start monkeying around until plop the calf, placenta and all sorts of liquid comes out in a hurry. I learned to jump out of the way real quick on that one.
Ah, at least it wasn't working fast food.
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Wow...you guys have had some crazy ass job!! Ick!!
Dirtiest job I ever had was working for my dad's drywall company a few years ago...yes...girls can do construction too! I mostly did special textures, which wasn't too bad except that I am a messy person and always got drywall mud ALL over myself. The sanding got to be pretty bad when it was hot...it sticks to your skin and itches!! I'd have to say the dirtiest part was the human waste that the other workers would leave in closets and bathrooms...sucked when I had to go sand a little dark closet in the heat that guys had been peeing in for a couple of weeks! Blech. Stocking houses (carrying 50 35lb. boxes of mud) sucked too, but that wasn't really dirty unless I tripped and fell in the mud when it was raining. And, uh, that never happened :roll: :lol:
At the time, I wasn't doing it for gear. But, it looks like I may be doing it some more on the weekends...and this time it IS for gear ;)
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P*ssies.
I got married!
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In reply to: P*ssies. I got married!
wildtrail wins. Mate I feel for you, condolonces dude.
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worked boats once, and had to handpump the septic tank. twelve 50-gallon drums full once. At least I got a gasmask to help with the ammonia.
that wasn't so bad though. clogged heads (toilets to all you landlubbers) was the same spiel.
was hiking at mt. washington, NH, when I saw one of the guys who worked up there shovelling out one of the latrines. He was in his rain gear, waist deep in shit. I asked him how he could stand doing that sort of work. He took one look around, the clouds were rolling down tuckerman ravine, and he told me "I get to live here"
true.
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Dirtiest ever???
That's easy...
Working with dirty hippies at a mountain shop...LOL
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