Reply #99: Did you ever watch the show "Dirty Jobs"

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The one where the host, Mike, goes around and helps people do their nastiest jobs? It is amazing, but pretty much every person that he works with seems to get a satisfaction with their job beyond a simple paycheck. He's worked with septic tank pumpers, sewer cleaners, cleaning animal waste, just plain horribly disgusting jobs. But the men and women do seem to enjoy themselves.

Not to say that there are people doing that kind of job that hate it, but humans can find a sense of accomplishment from the strangest things whether or not they make a lot of money at it.

I suspect that there would be jobs no one would want to do or that people might try out for short stints. But I'd bet we would all be surprised at what people would be willing to try out.

The other part is why are the "disgusting" jobs low paid? If they are necessary and required maybe the people doing that work should be paid at a rate that fits the inconvenience and nastiness.

It has been said in these forums that our current economic system is not working - maybe we need a fresh look at how pay and jobs are related.