stanikon wrote:
I know it's a rotten job, one that I could never do, but it needs to be done and I'm glad you are there to do it. A lot of other people are as well, maybe they just don't know it.
I guess that it's relative Stan. Have you ever seen Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs?
One particular episode comes to mind, he was shadowing a guy whose job was to clean out a holding tank in a San Francisco sewage treatment plant. Sorry, you can file THAT job under fat chance.
stanikon
Loc: Deep in the Heart of Texas
Mike D. wrote:
I guess that it's relative Stan. Have you ever seen Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs?
One particular episode comes to mind, he was shadowing a guy whose job was to clean out a holding tank in a San Francisco sewage treatment plant. Sorry, you can file THAT job under fat chance.
My granddaughter's husband had a job at a fertilizer plant. They have huge vats of sewage, including human excrement, that has to be stirred and sorted by hand before it is dried and goes to the presses. It involved actually getting in the tank with a paddle. He was hired as the guy to do that. He did it, and he did it well, and he stuck with it (unlike most people) and has been amply rewarded with promotions and raises and no longer has to deal with that part of it.
Funny thing is, his last job before that was as a corrections officer at a prison unit. He liked the free meals but the rest of it got to him and he quit. He's a very nice guy, takes care of his family and is responsible but he does pick terrible jobs.
For me it was a matter of convenience. My commute is less than 10 minutes unless there is a bunch of snow on the ground and really, it's not a hard job. You just have to be smarted than the felons.
Case in point, there are few people in this world who have not seen Pirates of the Caribbean, right? And yet I have baffled more than one person in this facility with the phrase, "I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request". Barbossa even tells us what it means in case one wasn't paying attention in English class.
For low cost toy, I buy the grand dogs (labs) Walmart / Internet / etc bags of tennis balls. They love them even though they are older dogs. When they get in their beds, one or more tennis balls are with them.
Brings up another subject; everyone should know. Toys and balls can be a danger. So Google this: heimlich maneuver for dogs video
martin muller wrote:
For low cost toy, I buy the grand dogs (labs) Walmart / Internet / etc bags of tennis balls. They love them even though they are older dogs. When they get in their beds, one or more tennis balls are with them.
Brings up another subject; everyone should know. Toys and balls can be a danger. So Google this: heimlich maneuver for dogs video
We generally shop at Wally World or the Dollar Tree. Cheap is good when the toys have such a limited lifespan. lol Also, it keeps them away from our $35.00 per pair alpaca socks.
The doggy Heimlich thing sounds ominous. I have had to do it on a person once but the anatomy is obviously different. Thanks for the tip.
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