[extropy-chat] Worst job

[David Lubkin]

At 12:56 PM 12/20/2003 -0800, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:

>>  Yeah, sometimes I have to shovel manure, too.
>
>Damn it! Every time the opportunity comes up for me to point
>out that I really *have* shoveled manure as a job, I realize that
>Eugene is there really to win the "worst job ever" contest by pointing
>out that he's shoveled real live dead frozen heads, or something.

Of all the worst jobs I've had, shovelling out a chicken coop in 110 degree 
weather is on the short list.  At that temperature, it feels like half the 
manure is in a gaseous state above where you are shovelling.

During the Yom Kippur War and the months afterwards before reservists were 
back at their jobs, I had an assortment of volunteer jobs to help out.

Most profound was as an orderly in the ER of an evac hospital, listening to 
the soldiers discuss which of their wounds they would tell their families 
about.

Most unpleasant was garbage crew, standing in hip-waders inside a dump 
truck on the garbage, as we loaded the biological waste from a maternity 
hospital.

The worst job that comes to mind, though, is being one of the Orthodox Jews 
who go to a battlefield collecting body parts for proper burial.


-- David Lubkin.