So, have you been anywhere recently when you realized how lucky you were not to have the job of the person you were dealing with?

We have a bottle bill here in MA. Soda cans and beer cans go back to the store for a refund and recycling.

Today I stopped to bring back the diet Coke cans....I have a few

Anyway, the local store has a machine you feed the cans into, but it was out of order. There is another place nearby that has someone take them in. I stopped there.

They have two employees at individual windows, they have a little shelf before them. You dump the cans on the shelf, they count them up and give you the $. It smells like stale beer (not everyone rinses the cans, we do), and these folks likely just spend hour after hour, on their feet, counting smelly cans.

My job isn't great, it's got some additional issues right now, but at the moment, I feel pretty lucky not to be counting cans all day.

 

I wouldn't want part of the job my son does, de-icing planes at the airport in the winter, I'd rather be inside where it is warm.

 

I dunno there were a few jobs along the way the I have had that I didn't want either...

cleaning the morgue might top the list although pouring greenleaf ceramics and emptying the molds wasn't my favorite activity either.

 

Interesting on the bottle return. Growing up small glass soda bottles were $.02 each and the quart size was worth $.05. We did a lot of scrounging for bottles. Job that was bad was being a summer janitor in one of our towns school buildings. Nothing like scraping off 3 month old gum from a desk or chair. We had to clean out all the lockers and found some amazing "science experiments" growing on month old bread.

 

My brother-in-law runs a "honey wagon" pumping out the pits under hog containment buildings.

 

Definite dirty job......

 

Glad I'm not the one repairing failed lights on radio towers. (Arcophobic)

 

I wouldn't want to be a drug dealer.

 

Until you go to jail, I've heard it can be a lucrative career. Of course contributing to the downfall of others isn't exactly a stellar way to spend your working career.

 

I worked with an electrician that did that for a "side job". He said they paid him a dollar a foot to go up and replace bulbs. That was 30 years ago. I wonder what they pay now.