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What’s a job that’s way harder than most people give it credit for?

People who do any kind of driving and or Delivery. Way higher fatality rate than I think Lotta folks realize. Morons in traffic will kill you , weather will kill you and muggers and or road ragers might also try to kill you. Kinda job where it's boring like ground hog day til it's not.
 
Content filtering for social media companies. The stuffs you see on Youtube or FB etc.. are screened by real person so they are exposed to gore, violent, p0rn (inc ped0) stuffs uploaded on the daily. I can't imagine the damage done to their mind after a while in this job
To be exact it's also overwhelmingly offshore labor, which makes it doubly fucked since it's not even content for them.
 
I did that for a while, was brutal for sure. Long long hours in freezing conditions and very easy to make mistakes that could fuck you up permanently. Luckily nothing bad ever happened to me but I saw some guys get messed up (Mostly slipping and falling or getting their hands pinched or crushed)

I remember years back there was another Sherdogger who had worked the rigs and saw a guy get decapitated

This is a good vid showing what I was doing (Besides this there was a lot of physical labour and endless cleaning of the rig and digging trucks out of mud)



Damn how tough are you bro? I have mad respects for oil riggers. That's a hell of a job to do. And very dangerous any moment can cause you your death or permanent disability.
 
Crime Scene clean up. I heard a story that pretty much the death smell is encapsulated by the human body even with the appropriate air filtration; you will smell death at your next bowel movement. Heard it in an interview with a guy that did it out of college.
I hadn't thought of this one.
Some of the other hard jobs mentioned, I would have already figured were doggone hard.
 
Agriculture work. High chance you get paid under the table. Most likely done by illegals. Modern day slavery
 
Even something we take for granted like being a garbage man is tough. It had almost 50 deaths last year and a shit ton of injuries, especially in my city where they don't use the large trash storage bins they literally walk up and down the alley and collect each individual bag. The repetitive motion of throwing thousands of trash bags into the back of the garbage truck per week sounds absolutely brutal on your arms and shoulders. Plus I'm in an area with high summer temps and UV index so try not to pass out
 
I did that for a while, was brutal for sure. Long long hours in freezing conditions and very easy to make mistakes that could fuck you up permanently. Luckily nothing bad ever happened to me but I saw some guys get messed up (Mostly slipping and falling or getting their hands pinched or crushed)

I remember years back there was another Sherdogger who had worked the rigs and saw a guy get decapitated

This is a good vid showing what I was doing (Besides this there was a lot of physical labour and endless cleaning of the rig and digging trucks out of mud)


Even if some idiot tells you rig work is easy.... They also say " Hell No " if asked if they would do it.
 
Sherdog Poster for teh UFC

Dana isn't handing out the bonuses like he used to
 
I hadn't thought of this one.
Some of the other hard jobs mentioned, I would have already figured were doggone hard.
He also said the times when response is immediate is the best case scenario. People or what was left of them fused to bedding. One instance involved a resident of the apartment complex below the deceased. You can just fill I the pieces there. And I think it was like an 11/hr job complete with the possibility of contracting a communicable disease no matter how much precautions they take. Pretty much duck taped into a tyvek suit. I wore one for a demo job and those things are a freaking sauna. Yeah, absolutely no freaking way.
 
Crime Scene clean up. I heard a story that pretty much the death smell is encapsulated by the human body even with the appropriate air filtration; you will smell death at your next bowel movement. Heard it in an interview with a guy that did it out of college.
Been on more deaths than I can recall... the smell stays in your nose for a long time. Like a sweet, sour, rotting smell...spoilt pork or a really bad drunk with ulcers breathing in your face
 
Roofers face significant challenges in their profession. They work on sloped surfaces, high above the ground, in extreme weather conditions such as blazing sun, freezing cold, wind, and rain. In the summer, shingles can reach temperatures of over 150°F. Additionally, roofers are at risk of injuries, as falls are a leading cause of construction fatalities, and they are particularly vulnerable. Furthermore, the compensation they receive for such a dangerous job is often inadequate.

HVAC technicians also encounter difficulties. They must crawl into confined spaces, such as attics and roofs, and work in extreme weather conditions. They also deal with high voltages, gases, and mechanical parts, which can pose safety risks. Even a minor mistake can lead to costly repairs, carbon monoxide leaks, or fire hazards.
Porn star.

 
Assistant crack whore.


I used to clean foreclosed homes for a few years, heroin needles everywhere, crack and heroin spoons, human feces on floors, rotted food, hoarding, rat droppings, bed bugs, hauling literal tons and tons of trash, and ungodly long hours (up to 18 hours and then you had to get up 4-5 hours after you get home to work again) in homes with no heat or electricity (so you needed head lamps at night) in winter and no air and closed windows in the summer (and you had to wear layers to protect yourself from the filth).
 
As an animal lover, I’d imagine being a vet or animal surgeon would be mentally draining. I had to spend 17k in last year to have both my dogs legs operated on due to torn ligaments. I think about how many people must have to say no because they can’t afford it and the vets have to watch some poor dog limp away in pain. Or vets who see an array of fixable ailments but the owner can’t afford the fix or just doesn’t care. Or having to put animals down for various reasons. Fuck doing that on a regular basis, the negatives would outweigh the positives for me.
 
Slaughterhouse.
It takes a special type of person to work in one.
 
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