My brother did the canning fish in Alaska thing, and he will never eat canned salmon again. We burnt his clothes in a bonfire at the rager we had when he came home.

phoQ wrote:

Fuck you AskMen.com.  I’ve had 2 of those jobs.

Yuh, me too, and I'm here to tell you there's worse. I may have mentally blocked out the grimmest but nothing ever sucked more ass than lab animal tech. Shoveling shit after the elephants was a close second, followed closely by pushing a broom in an electrolux plant and canning pickles. There's more but why bore myself all over again? There's no end of shitty jobs.

I knew a guy in college who was a bull-semen-catcher during the summers.  Guy was massive, as you might guess--one of those human walls with no neck to speak of, but a really sweet young man.  He did not talk about it much, but I saw some film of the, um, "interventions" once on some cable channel and immediately realized why having a refrigerator build and no neck would be an advantage.

God love dishwashers. Our dishwashers are iron men who keep the kitchen running. They don't get paid nearly enough, it's true, but the other cook and I do what we can to make sure their job doesn't suck any more than it does. We also keep them well fed, on top of the standard free meal per shift. My job would seriously suck without them.