America's Dirtiest Jobs

Think your job is disgusting? From the gastroenterologist who spends
his days deep in the bowels of patients, to the crime-scene cleaner who
scrapes human remains off ceilings, here's a look at five careers that
are hard on the stomach -- and just might make your job seem like a day
at the beach!

Porta-Potty Cleaner
To anyone who finds using a porta-potty distasteful, having to clean
one might sound unbearable. But it's all in a day's work for the crews
at companies like Sani-Hut, who go onsite to clean and service
porta-potties. They start by picking up wads of toilet paper, then
spray every surface with a degreasing solution. Next, they power hose
it all down with scalding water, scrub it, squeegee it, dry it and
finish off with a deodorizing spray.

The entire process takes about three minutes (unless the potty has been
tipped over and sitting out in the heat for a few days), with the
average worker sanitizing anywhere from 10 to 60 potties a day.

"People come up to us all the time and ask how we can do this," laughs
Larry Balz, who says this is one of the best jobs he's ever had. "When
they find out what we make, they ask if we're hiring."

Annual wages are around $50,000. In addition, Sani-Hut offers incentive
pay as well as excellent medical, dental and optical benefits.

Gastroenterologist
Don't want to spend your days cleaning toilets? How about plumbing the
depths of the human intestines? That's what gastroenterologist Sean
Griffin does -- and loves it! "People ask whether I like doing
colonoscopies and, to tell you the truth, they're quite enjoyable,"
Griffin says.

"It's like a computer game with a start and finish point -- and you
might find things along the way like polyps that you have to pull off.
It requires a lot of manual dexterity and the challenge is quite fun."

Aware of his occupation's public image, Griffin often tells people he's
an electrician. However with earning potential of up to $800,000 a
year, most folks are able to get over any initial feelings of shame or
revulsion.

Crime-Scene Cleaner
Perhaps the most mentally disturbing job of all is the crime-scene
cleaner, who must cleanse walls of blood and guts, rip out stained
carpeting and deal with decomposed bodies or loose remains of victims.
Of course all this is done wearing a hazmat suit, respirator and
chemical-spill boots.

Starting salary is about $35,000, but after a few years it can jump to
$80,000 in a big city (read: high-crime market). Those in private
practice make more, as each assignment pays between $500 and $5,000.
(We only hope mental health counseling benefits are included.)

Exotic Dancer
The adult entertainment industry is often not a person's first career
choice and its customers can range from unwholesome to downright
unhygienic. While at certain clubs, an exotic dancer can earn up to
$2,500 in tips a night, most times, things don't go so well. Sandra
Stevens, who writes of her first (and last) exotic dance job in the
book, 'Bad Jobs: My Last Shift at Albert Wong's Pagoda and other Ugly
Tales of the Workplace,' recalls being ordered to strip to Aretha
Franklin's "R-E-S-P-E-C-T" for which she earned $20.

Posterio Odor Judge
Science is full of inquisitive minds that revel in performing jobs
others wouldn't touch with a 10-foot pole. According to Popular Science
magazine, the very worst is that of odor judge.

Mouthwash companies employ them in their research labs, where,
halitosis-inflicted subjects blow into their faces before and after
using the product to test its efficacy.

And just recently, two brave researchers were called in to help
determine the most malodorous component of human flatus and the role it
plays in disease. In the study, 16 subjects volunteered to eat pinto
beans and have their gas syringed into a discrete container. The odor
judges then sat down with more than 100 samples, opened the caps one at
a time, inhaled and rated just how noxious the smell was.

While the researchers did not divulge how much they paid these judges,
it would seem safe to say it was not enough!

Sure, you may be bored, frustrated or feel unappreciated at work, but
remember there are others out there worse off than you. Next time your
job drives you crazy, be thankful it's only testing your patience, not
your gag reflexes.

Copyright 2006 CareerBuilder.com
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Shelodn

On 8 Feb 2006 17:56:05 -0800, "Sheldon" > wrote:

>America's Dirtiest Jobs
>
>Think your job is disgusting? From the gastroenterologist who spends
>his days deep in the bowels of patients, to the crime-scene cleaner who
>scrapes human remains off ceilings, here's a look at five careers that
>are hard on the stomach -- and just might make your job seem like a day
>at the beach!

Have you ever seen Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs"? It's very
interesting and the host is fantastic.

http://www.columbiachronicle.com/paper/arts.php?id=2093

Sue(tm)
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself!

Sheldon wrote:

> Copyright 2006 CareerBuilder.com
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Just another day in the life of a copyright infringer...

> Shelodn

....who can't spell his own name.

<LOL>

Pastorio

Bob (this one) wrote:
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|| Pastorio

You missed the line right above his mis-speeled name?

BOB
every spelling flame is required to have at least one mis-spelled word
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