Referee or Umpire - any level. Doesn't matter the sport or the level, there are always angry fans/parents that only see things as they could be for their favorite player/child
the guy who cleans the grease traps at Taco Bell
Third shift factory worker at a factory that makes heavy things that ultimately cause people great harm
Hillary Clinton's publicist
Lawyer for big tobacco
IRS auditor
Trash man - I know we all discovered how much they make when we were in grade school...and then thought it wouldn't be that bad of a job. They pick up trash, bags tear, stuff leaks on you, you have to lift heavy things all day, try climbing onto and off of a truck 500 times in one day...even without the lifting....and did I mention you have to do it when it's 20 below?
Defensive tackle playing the Broncos
Fourth grade teacher in NYC - your kids might be older than you
Paulie Shore's road manager
New guy for a salt removal company in Minnesota (up all night spreading salt by hand...and it eats through your clothes...and you never know when you're on and when you'll actually get to sleep)
Amen to the defensive tackle playing the Broncos. How many legs are they allowed to jack up before someone puts a stop to it?
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ReplyDeleteI had a friend in high school who worked for Wendy's. He slipped on the floor in the kitchen and tried to catch himself on the way down. In trying to catch himself, he stuck his hand, elbow-deep, into the grease trap (still boiling).
He sued them for a lot of money. But his hand is ugly.
I'll keep my perfectly formed, beautiful hands and forearms - he can have his money.
I worked at Wendy's when I was in high school and had to clean the deep fryers. There is a nozzle you attach to the bottom and then a valve you open to drain all the boiling hot grease into a vat with a filter over the top. When it is done filtering you perilously pick up that 50 lb. vat of 200 degree grease with a pair of gloves as your protection and then you pour it back into the deep fryer very carefully.... oh but first you shut the valve on the bottom of the fryer so that it doesn't pour onto you leg while you are doing this. Did I forget to mention that? Probably because the last time I did it I forgot to do that. The beautiful thing about being clothed entirely in polyester is that if you pour burning hot grease on your bony 16 year old leg, the polyester and it's permanent crease make it possible to stand stark still straight up and the grease simply adheres to your plastic pants and not your flesh. I stood that way for quite a while and then I went on to finish my shift which consisted mostly of mopping the floor which only served to make it even slipperier than when it was coated with grease. It stayed dangerously slick like that for about a week. Did your friend happen to work at the Blue Ash Wendys Mike? If so, tell him I'm sorry about the hand. I tried to convince them that my grease incident had given me right facial paralysis. It didn't work and neither did I much longer after that incident.
ReplyDeleteWhy does this blog sometimes refer to me as David and other times Wolfenberger?
ReplyDeleteand sometimes anonymous?
ReplyDeleteI am crediting all that to you until you guys hang out with us.
i think this would be a lot cooler if it actually were a top 10 list...i'm just saying.
ReplyDeleteI think I might take the trash job if it's here in Columbus, Oh. My trash guy never has to get out of the truck. All he does is drive up, use the remote control that lifts my trash can, spilling half the trash in my nieghbors yard, then drive away. All the while sitting in his climate controled compartment, eating ho-ho's and drinking a coke. Then at the end of the day he gets into his Lexus, and drives to his house that is 2x the size of mine.
ReplyDeleteall i have to add in is that nyc 4th grade teacher might not be SO bad...i've got the 7th, and i think i'm older than most:)
ReplyDeletesubway day driver? never seeing the light? always going somewhere, but not really?
I heard on the radio this morning that the job with the highest satisfaction in a poll this year was clergy and the job with the lowest was roofer followed by waiter and bartender. I have always contended that summer roofing seemed to me to be the worst job in America. I guess I was right. Ironically Sean I believe you have been both of those at some point in your life. I seem to remember you roofing for a very short time with James Yaun of all people. If I waa a roofer I would weat a giant sombrero, skivies, SPF 150, have an IV of gatorade and be harnessed to the chimney at all times. I don't think I would get many repeat customers that way though. It would be like hiring a Will Ferrel character to shingle your house.
ReplyDeleteThe real perplexing thing about our society is that generally the easier your job gets the more you get paid.
Out of high school, I got a summer job as a roofer. I remember that...day.
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