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the top 10 Dangerous Versions of Normal Jobs!
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Normal Jobs Gone DANGEROUS 10 - Why be a regular journalist when you
can be a War Journalist!
Local newspaper and online journalists cover events like village fates, store openings,
school plays, local concerts and the unveiling of new benches.
Unless they get lucky, or unlucky, depending on how you want to look at it, usually the
most dramatic thing they will have to cover is who vandalised old Jeff’s sweet shop
window or who lifted up the wise men’s skirts in the church hall’s nativity display.
War Correspondents, however, are Journalists sent out to areas of conflict to cover political
and social upheaval.
Countless war correspondents have been, wounded or even killed as they get too close to the
conflict.
Some have even been taken hostage.
9 - Knitter – Vs Spy Knitter!
I mean….spy anything is pretty dangerous!
In World War 2, Phyllis Latour Doyle turned her usual knitting job into a spying job as
she turned codes into knitwear!
She would hide codes in silk she used to tie up her hair, too!
What a lady!
8 - Street Sweeper – Road Sweeper Being a street cleaner becomes more dangerous
with the more vehicles you add to the working environment.
Sweeping streets in the developed world usually involves riding on a cool little automobile
which brushes as you drive.
Of course there are some road based risks here, but imagine being a street sweeper in
a third world country.
Street sweepers in Kiva, Rwanda are mainly women and they work roadside at all hours
of the day using just brushes.
Sometimes they’re run over, and often they’re attacked, and sometimes they are raped.
7 - Recycle Plant Worker – E-Waste Recyclers Working at a recycling plant does have some
risks, as does any job that involves machinery, however usually recycler workers work with
safe to handle substances like Aluminium, plastic and paper.
However E-Waste Recyclers, especially those in places like Guiyu China, specialise in
handling piles of broken electronics, often spilling out harmful to touch chemicals.
Batter acid for example, isn’t fun to be around.
6 - Pot Washer – Equipment cleaner at a hospital
Pot washer, ah, those were the days.
I used to clean cutlery at a restaurant when I was 15 to earn some pocket money.
I am pretty sure I used to get paid 20 pounds for 4 hours work…so rolling with the big
leaguers back then!
Pot washing is an easy and low skilled job that many people carry out for a bit of extra
cash.
It is pretty risk free.
However, cleaning pots and instruments a hospital is not!
The Danger in being the person to carry out this kind of work is not just to yourself,
but to others too.
If contaminated pieces of equipment are not carefully cleaned, then diseases and viruses
can ne spread.
5 - Teacher – Teacher in a Problem area Why be a teacher in a nice area with nice
neighbourhoods in the catchment area, with a great support network and a good school
board, when you can work at difficult school with higher crime rates.
Being a teacher is becoming an increasingly more dangerous jobs, and the level of comfort
can vary so much between schools.
Some schools have great reputations, others do not.
Kids may bring weapons to school specifically to attack teachers they dislike.
in one school in the US, kids poured cleaning liquid into a teachers water bottle.
The United States has also been known to see mass shootings
in schools.
4 - Librarian – Librarian at a Secret Facility Y
While it may seem like that being a librarian is a dying job, you should know that libraries
are still thriving in new ways by including other media and digitalized books.
A librarian’s job is pretty low key, unless you’re a librarian in a secret facility….yes,
they have book keepers too.
For example, Charlotte Serber was the head scientific librarian at the Manhattan Project
Facility.
She was tasked with the job of keeping plans for the atomic bomb secret …a tricky and
very dangerous job!
3 - Electrician – Vs Being a High Altitude Electrician.
Fixing electrics on the ground is one thing, but changing the bulbs and fixing the electronics
at the very top of sky scrapers or electrical mast, is another.
You may have noticed that tall buildings and structures have lights at the very top of
them?
This is to stop planes accidentally smashing in to them, letting them know they are there,
and they are not the runway.
I have noticed these many times, but I have never stopped to think about how those lights
get up there….until now.
Eeesh. 2 - Trash Picker – Trash Picker on Mount
Everest.
Cleaning up garbage in my eyes is a honourable job – nobody wants to do it, so good on
you if you do…unless of course you are doing it as a punishment.
The trash pickers on Mount Everest, Kilimanjaro and other insane peaks of the world do so
by choice, and without them, hikers would not be able to enjoy the mountain.
To climb Everest, for example, hikers and sherpers take a lot of food and water – the
climb takes around two months, so they need these supplies.
Of course with supplies comes waste, which is where the Everest Cleaners come in.
They carry bin bags filled with rubbish weighing 176 pounds, so more than your average person.
They’re then winched on to helicopters and taken to lower camps where they are then taken
down the mountain.
It is quite the operation, and conditions are often treacherous.
Sadly It also sometimes involves picking up human remains, too, as some climbers die while
attempting to summit.
1 - Window Cleaner – Window Cleaner of Sky Scrapers
Cleaning windows outside of big cities usually involves heights of 8 – 10 meters, but inner
city window cleaner who specialise in sky scrapers have one hell of a job on their hands.
Imagine being the window cleaner for the Burj Khalifia, the world’s tallest building?
Standing 830 meters high, this is one task force I would not want to belong to.
The BBC has a video on youtube that shows a team of cleaning experts cleaning the Burj
Khalifia’s windows and it makes my stomach drop just looking at it.
Would you do any of these?
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