Dangerous jobs.
0patience
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My son read this article
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/27/the-10-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america-according-to-bls-data.html
He said "Dad, they list logging and commercial fishing as the top 2 most dangerous jobs, you worked in logging for a long time and commercial fishing for years with Grandpa, would you say they are the top 2 dangerous jobs?"
My answer, I'd say soldier, police, firemen and first responders are the most dangerous jobs.
He hadn't thought of it that way.
It seems it is all in perspective.
Anyone think of more dangerous jobs?
In Fumo Pax
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Wylaff said:
Atmospheric pressure and crap.
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post office.. you never know when someone is going to lose it and go in there and well go postal...
I'd have figured you would have said comedian.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
@0patience named them pretty well if you ask me. I was a Soldier for 20 years, State Officer for 2, but in my mind Correctional Officers have the most dangerous job. They go behind the wall daily for 8 plus hours with people deemed to be too dangerous to be out in society
The 34 deadliest jobs in America
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america-2018-7#1-logging-workers-34
I would say, having worked crabbers in Bristol Bay and the Bering Sea and worked logging, that Alaska Crabbing should be #1 and logging #2.
The difference is, in the Bering Sea, there are dangers while you sleep. Logging you go to sleep in a nice safe bed.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
After 30 years in law enforcement, I realized that you can't print enough money to pay corrections officers for what they do. I'll chase a guy down an alley with a gun any day. Don't ask me to work on a tier.
Farming's not so great either.
I've lost family members that were killed logging, so I'd agree.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
I have a cousin who is a little "short handed", because a combine decided to take a bite of his hand.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Yeah, and pto's are dangerous too. I got off easy with just some bad arthritis and a few broken ribs.
Power Take Offs?
I didn't see tower climbers on the list, but I'm sure that they fall under one of the other general categories.
Professional Bull Riding or bull riding in general is as dangerous as it gets! 2,000lbs. testosterone/trenbolone injected beast wanting to kill you every time the rider gets on to make a living.
Ranching with them is very dangerous to, have two Uncles that nearly got killed as this one insane bull wouldn’t get vaccinated...damn thing mauled the four wheeler through the air like a feather, the 1/4” steel on the big farm truck is still bent in where it mauled one of my uncles up into it, they are lucky to both be alive.
I think I'd count bull riding as a hobby for the mentally insane.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
It’s not a hobby though when they’re with the PBR doing it for a living.
Naked woodturning.
My barber is missing an eye from being stepped on while training to be a bull rider.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
I have a friend who used to ride bulls....He has a metal plate in his head, lost some vision and his eye wanders from a horn. He's sterile from having his tentacles being crushed by a hoof. Had his pancreas damaged after being stepped on under his flack jacket...All by the age of 22.
ouch.
Used to know a guy who was so tough he worked at a sawmill eatin’ sawdust and poopin’ 2x4’s...
He said the big danger was splinters.... 😜😜
You got a one eyed barber huh? (Too many jokes, not enough time.)
I pay him in cigars for what it's worth.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
Well, let's put this matter behind us by asking,... are you getting Davidoff haircuts or Swishers'?
Alec Bradley.
At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
LOL. Not bad for a one eyed barber.
I would have guessed La Barba cigars.