Need a job? Would you take one of these "dirty" jobs?

[Svnla]

I know that I won't take a few, such as Embalmer, Proctologist.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/20-jobs-pay-off-not-154507057.html

 

[Slew Foot]

10. Livestock sperm collector
$30,000 to $50,000 per year. That kind of money that could go pretty far in many rural communities." data-reactid="38">This job involves collecting sperm to be used for breeding purposes — and getting bulls to ejaculate on command is, well, a dirty and dangerous job. Although there isn’t a lot of salary information available for this job, most sources quote a salary ranging from $30,000 to $50,000 per year. That kind of money that could go pretty far in many rural communities.


Sign me up!

And no way these numbers are right:

Deerfarmer.com, an online information network for deer and elk farmers, estimates that a typical urine farmer stands to gross “$93,440 to $303,680 per deer per year.” If that math is correct—and [these deer urine farmers] will neither confirm nor deny those numbers—then [their] annual profit… is likely in the multimillions.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If I was stuck I'd do any of those. Some of them don't actually seem all that bad. Like gutter cleaner is not really a big deal, did not even realize that was an actual job. I clean my own gutters, don't all people do? The stuff that comes out of there is kinda nasty, but it's not really gag nasty. Just smells a little funny.

 

[BoomerD]

6. Landfill equipment operator
11. Mining

Both of those are decent jobs. Good pay, usually very good benefits. Sure, the landfill operator will have to learn to deal with the stench of garbage...but it doesn't take very long to "get used to it" to the point where it doesn't bother you. I've worked a few jobs building sewer treatment plants. Almost always next to operating sewer plants. Stinks...sure, but after a few days, it rarely bothers you...and it's usually a government/city/county job...

Mining...above ground/open pit mines aren't terrible, for the most part, pretty boring work...underground mines can be VERY dangerous...but guys who do it say that you always know how to dress for work...it's never hotter or colder than the day before, (deep mines can be FUCKING HOT! places...and it never rains. (although there can be significant groundwater to deal with.

 

[purbeast0]

The only one of those that really "pays off" as the title of the article claims is a proctologist. The rest seem to be pretty standard pay ranges.

 

[purbeast0]

If I was stuck I'd do any of those. Some of them don't actually seem all that bad. Like gutter cleaner is not really a big deal, did not even realize that was an actual job. I clean my own gutters, don't all people do? The stuff that comes out of there is kinda nasty, but it's not really gag nasty. Just smells a little funny.

Old people can't get up on their roofs and clean it. There are also really steep roofs that would require harness and stuff to clean, and/or extremely long ladders, which comes with high risk of something bad going wrong, which most home owners probably don't want to deal with.

I typically just take my leaf blower up onto my roof and it takes me about 3 minutes to clean my gutters.

 

[Linflas]

6. Landfill equipment operator
11. Mining

Both of those are decent jobs. Good pay, usually very good benefits. Sure, the landfill operator will have to learn to deal with the stench of garbage...but it doesn't take very long to "get used to it" to the point where it doesn't bother you. I've worked a few jobs building sewer treatment plants. Almost always next to operating sewer plants. Stinks...sure, but after a few days, it rarely bothers you...and it's usually a government/city/county job...

Mining...above ground/open pit mines aren't terrible, for the most part, pretty boring work...underground mines can be VERY dangerous...but guys who do it say that you always know how to dress for work...it's never hotter or colder than the day before, (deep mines can be FUCKING HOT! places...and it never rains. (although there can be significant groundwater to deal with.

I worked for 5 years at the Naval Research Lab which is right next door to the DC Blue Plains sewage treatment facility. The cafeteria was right next to the fence separating the 2 facilities and amazing enough you do get used to it. The wonderful aroma was always the first thing visitors commented on when they came on base.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I know that I won't take a few, such as Embalmer, Proctologist.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/20-jobs-pay-off-not-154507057.html

Any/all, except for slaughter house worker, not sure I could do that.. same reason as working for a kill shelter. But, some of those are dumb too, like plumber? Really? Hell, I've considered switching out of IT into something like plumbing/electrician work because it's probably less of a headache.

Only job I probably wouldn't do aside from the above would be a chemist dealing with hardcore odorous chemicals. Some of that shit gets into skin layers and *does not* come out. I don't wanna be 'that smelly guy'.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

He'll yes! Let's get dirty. Any of those jobs is preferable to being a cube monkey.

 

[cbrunny]

a typical urine farmer stands to gross “$93,440 to $303,680 per deer per year.” If that math is correct—and [these deer urine farmers] will neither confirm nor deny those numbers—then [their] annual profit… is likely in the multimillions.

Deer urine farmers? Is this real life?

My pee is for sale, fyi. For you, good price!

 

[Red Squirrel]

The idea of urine farming would be kinda gross and probably smell horrible, but at that salary I'd put up with it, haha.

 

[SKORPI0]

Odor Judge.
http://www.insidejobs.com/careers/odor-tester

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Deer urine farmers? Is this real life?

My pee is for sale, fyi. For you, good price!

Yeah. Various animal urines are used for all sorts of stuff in the outdoorsey/rural world. Wolf urine for keeping coyotes and stuff away, deer urine for marking areas during rut season or w/e, masking human scent with animal scent for hunting. Quite a few useful uses for it, and it sells for a crapton too.
https://www.amazon.com/Predator-Pee-Urine-Squeeze-Bottle/dp/B01600EAPY

 

[Cappuccino]

100!!!? F yeah.

 

[Darwin333]

Old people can't get up on their roofs and clean it. There are also really steep roofs that would require harness and stuff to clean, and/or extremely long ladders, which comes with high risk of something bad going wrong, which most home owners probably don't want to deal with.

I typically just take my leaf blower up onto my roof and it takes me about 3 minutes to clean my gutters.

I'd wager that half of homeowners don't own a ladder that is safely capable of getting them onto their roof. Moving a step ladder every 6' or so is a serious PITA.

 

[Darwin333]

Yeah. Various animal urines are used for all sorts of stuff in the outdoorsey/rural world. Wolf urine for keeping coyotes and stuff away, deer urine for marking areas during rut season or w/e, masking human scent with animal scent for hunting. Quite a few useful uses for it, and it sells for a crapton too.
https://www.amazon.com/Predator-Pee-Urine-Squeeze-Bottle/dp/B01600EAPY

I dunno if collecting 12oz of freaking wolf urine, bottling it, marketing it and then selling it with all the associated costs involved is worth $26. At the very least I would not say that it sells for a crapton.

How much does a wolf even piss at one time and how the hell do you get them to piss into a container for you?

 

[pcgeek11]

Old people can't get up on their roofs and clean it. There are also really steep roofs that would require harness and stuff to clean, and/or extremely long ladders, which comes with high risk of something bad going wrong, which most home owners probably don't want to deal with.

I typically just take my leaf blower up onto my roof and it takes me about 3 minutes to clean my gutters.

This leaf blower for the win.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I heard of people using leaf blowers, but are they really powerful enough to get rid of all the gunk? I usually go in there with a gardening scoop and just scoop it out and throw it on the lawn. Then I go spread it around with the rake after.

My gutters pretty much have their own ecosystem, I've even had trees start to grow in there. I do it once a year but almost have to do it twice. In fall after all the leaves fell and in mid summer to clear any gunk that started to form.

 

[pcgeek11]

Funny I normally have only damp leaves and pine straw which blows out quite well.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

I dunno if collecting 12oz of freaking wolf urine, bottling it, marketing it and then selling it with all the associated costs involved is worth $26. At the very least I would not say that it sells for a crapton.

How much does a wolf even piss at one time and how the hell do you get them to piss into a container for you?

It's probably not at 100% concentration, but an average adult grey wolf is apparently 50-110lbs, with the largest on record being 175. That's roughly akin to a very small human. 24hr urine volume for an adult human is 800-2000ml with a normal intake of 2L/day. 12oz of urine undiluted would be 354 ml, so assuming our wolf friend is putting out around half of an adult human (probably conservative, assuming the average human is between 100-220lbs which is probably safe to say, and wolves don't sweat), you could get somewhere between 2-3 bottles (24-36oz) of the undiluted fluid per day, per wolf.

Per this study, apparently, even a 15-fold dilution of wolf urine is very effective in mice, with a drop in effectiveness of <50% from undiluted:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3634846/
That would lend credence to the idea that they probably just dilute it to make more of the product per urine sample. At those rates, a single wolf could make between 30 and 45 bottles of this stuff per day, roughly. That's between $780 and $1170 per day, per wolf, at the vendor. I'm assuming they aren't selling it at cost, so average and scale that back by say, 40%, and you get something like $585/day from each wolf.

I'd leave the harvesting/farming of such things as an exercise to the reader, but even a single wolf might be worth wrestling around for $213k/yr. Kinda makes me wonder why I work in IT when I could just fight wild animals for more.

 

[Eug]

I know that I won't take a few, such as Embalmer, Proctologist.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/20-jobs-pay-off-not-154507057.html

Really? Proctologists are surgeons and are the highest paid on that list. They say $300000 per year.

Unfortunately though, you'd have to go to school for roughly 14 more years after high school to get that job.

 

[Svnla]

Really? Proctologists are surgeons and are the highest paid on that list. They say $300000 per year.

Unfortunately though, you'd have to go to school for roughly 14 more years after high school to get that job.

I have no doubt about the monetary values of those jobs. I am just saying that I do not want those jobs because of what I have to do if I have those jobs. Same for brain/heart surgeons. I am just not into cutting open/examining body parts for a living.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

10. Livestock sperm collector
$30,000 to $50,000 per year. That kind of money that could go pretty far in many rural communities." data-reactid="38">This job involves collecting sperm to be used for breeding purposes — and getting bulls to ejaculate on command is, well, a dirty and dangerous job. Although there isn’t a lot of salary information available for this job, most sources quote a salary ranging from $30,000 to $50,000 per year. That kind of money that could go pretty far in many rural communities.


Sign me up!

Some people do that for free. At least until they're caught.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

The only one of those that really "pays off" as the title of the article claims is a proctologist. The rest seem to be pretty standard pay ranges.

Maybe not to us ATOT Zillionaires. But I suspect that article is targeted at entry-level white collar folks like paralegals who are doing well if they're making $35k/yr. (While they sit in their cubicles reading Yahoo News.)

Also, butt jokes.

 

[BD231]

Yeah I'd definitely be a male prostitute for money.