ROT : How dangerous is your job?

AllenETreat · #1

Me : I'm on Soc.Sec. ( title II ) and have

been outta action about 13yrs!

Previously I worked for the school system in Fairfield, CT as a janitor ( they called

us "custodians" WHAT A JOKE! $35K a year! )

But, 21yrs ago I was an infantryman.

Who puts their life on the line everyday

at work?

What say the augurers?

AET

Let me win your hearts & minds, or I'll burn your **** huts down!

dynaryder · #2

I sit on my butt on a computer floor right now,but that will change when I deploy this Spring. I did a year in Korea. Things were pretty calm then,but you never know. My last deployment was to the United Arab Emerites and we were on lockdown for 2 months due to Bin Laden being in the area. Basically,being in the military,my job can be skate or scary.

tortoise · #3

My partner is a German Shepherd and we look for bombs in NYC.

-Still safer than driving a cab!

CKE · #4

Apprentice Machinist, shop related hazards thats all. Thank goodness! Take Care!!!

"everything else is just a jeep"

4 s ter · #5

I'm retired - my biggest danger is that I might start watching soap operas all day long <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

David

"Not all who wander are lost"

ceya · #6

Allen, I agree as a GRUNT... I know the feeling.

S/F,
CEYA!

Chris_H · #7

I'm not a hero -- I just support them with "wigwag."

Concord_Bob · #8

I'm a Sheriff's Detective. Serve between 8 and 12 search warrants per month. Most of them are not a big deal. 5 or 6 per month are "high risk". Going on 27 years in the business.

sotyakr · #9

Hmmm, don't think my life is on the line, but I suppose there's the possibility of getting a kicked by a giraffe (they've been known to disembowel an attacking lion) or squished by a camel. These are the largest animals I work with, but are either trained or conditioned to having us in close proximity. However, animals like people have "bad days", so it's important that we try to always be aware of their behavior.

Jimd · #10

My job's pretty tame. Hardly any excitement.
:-)

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UK KEN · #11

Hello all

I think my job is the most dangerous!

I look after my six year old son James and my two year old daughter Emily, full time!

Ken

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

samosaurus · #12

Well, my job is the least dangerous.. Been shouted at, verbally abused, chased by an angry mob, almost became fish food, received plenty of death threats.. But hey, where is the fun without danger?

Sam

"have scars will travel.."

JBE · #13

11 years in EMS (Emergency Medical Services)-very high risk occupation- just never know what's on the other side of that door your going through...

"I'd come to realize that my job was less about saving lives than it was about bearing witness....."

KBR · #14

I'm a welder for an offshore services company and believe me when I say that this job is more dangerous than when I was working with munitions while in the service!

Survive, Adapt, and Overcome...

dialex · #15

I work many hours in front of several computers. Nothing dangerous, I'd say. But check this out. One day here comes this guy in the office and he had a pacemaker. He enters the door, than changes his face "oh God, drag me outta here!". Looks like there is a lot of EM interferences there... don't know how these affect me and my colleagues on long term <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> On short term there are those headaches... <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

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java · #16

Leading a tame life now that I've left the Air Force and no longer midnight as a volunteer Sheriff's Deputy. Get to play with high voltage; pyrophoric chemicals; toxic gases like arsine, phosphine, diborane; caustics such as HCl, HF, H2SO4, HPO4, oxidizers; high powered lasers; plasmas; and large fast moving robots. Sounds like a dangerous environment but with the built in engineering controls and personal protection equipment, it's as safe as..... Well it's safe.

Just for info: There are 15 work related deaths in America every day. Workplace violence is on the increase - over 1.7 million violent crimes occur in the American workplace each year. The civilian jobs with the most homicides??? Convenience store clerks, and as Tortise apparently knows - cab drivers.

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Edited by - java on 3/14/2004 7:13:50 PM

sc_rebel1957 · #17

Well yall all know my story..so I don't guess my job is too dangerous.
Maybe the times I've flung knives aginst the wall from frustration.
The G-10 AND C/F is nasty stuff to work with but it doesn't take long to learn you MUST wear a respirator. Ron

firespec35 · #18

Used to do the ghetto EMS thing. Like the man above said, you really don't know what's on the other side of the door. Oh now I run the shift for a private security/ fire/ EMS company for one of the big three at their proving ground. Worst thing I have to look for now is a blister from too much typing.

Rex G · #19

I think it was Jeff Cooper who wrote that danger is the spice of life. Too little danger, and life is bland; too much danger, and it is like having an overdose of hot sauce in your food, just too much to deal with in the long term. Some of us like spicier food than others. In my occupation, big-city police patrol, to some extent I call dial the level of danger up or down by my self-initiated activities, but of course the dispatcher may send me into danger at any time. My job is certainly not the most dangerous, and I agree that convenience store clerk is way more dangerous than my job.

boxer93 · #20

No danger for me. all day in front of a computer. The commute is the most danger I face.
Chris

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