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Sometimes I wonder why I chose my career. But, even when things are stressful, usually all I have to do to feel better about myself is turn on the television and wait for a commercial.

I think I would HATE to be a struggling actor. I mean, I don't want to be that guy on television saying, "I have genital herpes, but I'm not going to let it stop me from living my life to the fullest."

I'm glad I don't have to find a gig doing erectile dysfunction commercials. Or even being the "before" guy on the weight loss commercials. Or being the guy who acts like it's nice and normal that the animated corporate mascot is flying around and talking to me, when in reality I'd be scared shitless and wanting to destroy that evil colleague of lucifer.

The ultimate indignity would seem to me to be a Pepto-Bismol commercial. I'm so glad that I'm not so strapped for cash that I'll allow myself to be filmed doing some yo-yo dance about diarrhea and screaming, "YAY!"

Anybody else agree with me?


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The guy that picks up and drops off port-a-johns



I've dealt with those guys (back when I was in the Army - it's amazing that humans were the only form of life not allowed to leak in the woods) and it didn't seem so bad. They didn't get too dirty.

I always did refer to them as "Norton" though.


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Fluffer.

But then again, it could be a way to meet interesting people and expand my circle of friends.



Add your sig line, "Nice people swallow." Well, fluffers don't swallow (it's not their jobs), so I guess they'd be mean. I don't want to be mean, so I think "Fluffer" can be added to that list.


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The guy that picks up and drops off port-a-johns



Here's to you, Mr. port-a-john dropper offer & picker upper. Tirelessly sucking chemically treated shit up the pipe leading to the large green tank on your truck. The sign on its side might read something like, "We're #1 in the #2 business." You proudly drive down the road not caring at all if the stench runs people into their houses. You're the Man and you know it. This Bud is for you. B|

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Sometimes I wonder why I chose my career. But, even when things are stressful, usually all I have to do to feel better about myself is turn on the television and wait for a commercial.

I think I would HATE to be a struggling actor. I mean, I don't want to be that guy on television saying, "I have genital herpes, but I'm not going to let it stop me from living my life to the fullest."

I'm glad I don't have to find a gig doing erectile dysfunction commercials. Or even being the "before" guy on the weight loss commercials. Or being the guy who acts like it's nice and normal that the animated corporate mascot is flying around and talking to me, when in reality I'd be scared shitless and wanting to destroy that evil colleague of lucifer.

The ultimate indignity would seem to me to be a Pepto-Bismol commercial. I'm so glad that I'm not so strapped for cash that I'll allow myself to be filmed doing some yo-yo dance about diarrhea and screaming, "YAY!"

Anybody else agree with me?



No, i dont agree. i have one word...."residual." cut a few right deals are the checks keep coming and coming and coming. but i may be biased...my wife is in the SAG union.


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Sewer diver - people that dive in sewers looking for cracks. I knew a guy that did this and he wore full bio-hazard protective suit. But still ...

Bare-handed line repairman. They repair high-voltage electrical wires while voltage is still in them. It pays good, but your life expectancy isn't that great.
Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

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Well,

After Walt's laundromat story, I would never want to own one....or even work in one!

Seriously, my brother-in-law works in a prison as a counselor for sex offenders. I am so GLAD I'm not him!
Mrs. WaltAppel

All things work together for good to them that love God...Romans 8:28

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There is no way that I would want to be a proctologist.

When I was a kid growing up in Brisbane we had back yard dunnys, you know the ones, little outhouses where you had to go to take a dump. Every week a bloke would come around and take the can away, we used to call him the dunny man, other more kind than us kids would call them the night soil carter.

When the can got real full it would slop over onto the dunny mans shoulder after he hefted it on to his shoulder and he would run full pelt out to the dunny truck. I still see visions of grogans spilling over the edge of the can and maggots and swill slopping all over the poor dunny mans back. They would have had to pay those blokes heaps of bucks to do that job.

Us kids used to pee on the back wall of the dunny to keep from filling the can up to overflowing. Guess where they had to dig the sewerage trench. The ground at the back of the dunny was just about bright green and stank to high heaven. The poor old plumbers had a bad time having to work in that trench. I am sure that they should have worn full biohazard suits.

All of Brisbane is now fully sewered and the last dunny men retired only about 4 or 5 years ago.

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Just for the record, I held this job for about a year and a half.

My father purchased a portable sanitation company around the time I dropped out of school. He swore up and down that they were little brown nuggets of gold...

Well, we never got rich off of it, and he sold it shortly after I told him I wasn't going to work in it any longer.

That job was instrumental in rekindling my desire to return to college.

Oh yeah, as far as those guys not getting that dirty, I have to call absolute bullshit on that one.

Methane Freefly - got stink?

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