[extropy-chat] Worst job

[R.Coyote]

Worst Job I ever had is a tie

1: disemboweling thousands of  freshly killed turkeys on an assembly line by
hand, occasionally some bone spurs would project like jagged needles from
broken ribs, jabbing deeply into the back of my hand thus squirting turkey
abdominal fluids under my skin, right through the rubber gloves, day after
day in sweltering heat and humidity.

2: cleaning a city parks latrine, where a supervisor would show up a bit
earlier than I did every day that I worked, fill the toilet with paper and
defecate copiously upon it then flushing it to overflow, forcing me to clean
it up day after day. ( I HAD to have this job..) some people have a strange
sense of humor (working for that city department caused my first impetus
towards libertarianism)


----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lubkin" <extropy at unreasonable.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 1:41 PM
Subject: [extropy-chat] Worst job


> 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.
>
>
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