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They also left out drug dealer. Seems they get shot up on a regular basis...
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I've had 7 of the 10 listed......plus a few that are a lot more dangerous. Try substation bus welder.............the boss watches you with a spotting scope from a few hundred yard away.
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I would have expected firefighters to be near the top That's funny as hell. If you listen to cops and firefighters,they have the most dangerous jobs in the world. Reality is they mostly sit around on their dead asses drawing a salary,and pension!! Mike
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I would have expected firefighters to be near the top FF is really quite safe these days. We do a LOT of work trying to make it as safe as it can be. And its improved a lot over the years from what I've read of years ago. you almost always hear when any FF dies close to you, and within a 4 hour radius, I'm aware of only a couple except for the west explosion that got 12 IIRC.. but if not for that, I"d suspect I hear of only maybe 5 a year close to us.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I would have expected firefighters to be near the top That's funny as hell. If you listen to cops and firefighters,they have the most dangerous jobs in the world. Reality is they mostly sit around on their dead asses drawing a salary,and pension!! Mike Or you can be like me, work a day job, but on call 24/7 for no salary.... Just counted last years calls to see if I can get a break from IRS... I left my personal house 10 miles from teh station, not paid, not during work hours, but during MY hours... 174 times. That doesn't count leaving work to go to calls... Most folks though, want FF and LEO around if they need em... funny irony there.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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I would have expected firefighters to be near the top That's funny as hell. If you listen to cops and firefighters,they have the most dangerous jobs in the world. Reality is they mostly sit around on their dead asses drawing a salary,and pension!! Mike They've learned that the squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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You are more likely to die from wrecking the Fire Truck while running Red Light and Stop Signs on the way to the Fire than from the Fire itself .
A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.
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Ranchers make $73,700 a year?  That one seems a mite high to me too. It is if you ask a farmer. They're the poor mouthinist SOB's that ever lived. They'll tell ya how they work 25 hour days, 366 days a year, just to owe money at the end of it all. Then they hang their head for effect and crawl in a $60k diesel truck. 
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The only one of those jobs I spent much time doing is #2.
Saw a few get hurt and a few more not make it back. I was buddies with a guy a few years younger than me that went over the back of a boat laying ground line for halibut. Bad chitt when your rain gear gets to tangling in the fishing gear.
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I would have expected firefighters to be near the top That's funny as hell. If you listen to cops and firefighters,they have the most dangerous jobs in the world. Reality is they mostly sit around on their dead asses drawing a salary,and pension!! Mike Or you can be like me, work a day job, but on call 24/7 for no salary.... Just counted last years calls to see if I can get a break from IRS... I left my personal house 10 miles from teh station, not paid, not during work hours, but during MY hours... 174 times. That doesn't count leaving work to go to calls... Most folks though, want FF and LEO around if they need em... funny irony there. Are you a volunteer firefighter? Kudos, if so. Something that not enough know and government employed firefighters try hard to hide is that most of America by several measures is covered by volunteer firefighters not government employees. The government types bashing of volunteers is BS, too.
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If only drugs were legalized, there wouldn't be this many injuries.
Son of a liberal: " What did you do in the War On Terror, Daddy?"
Liberal father: " I fought the Americans, along with all the other liberals."
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Mikeone, yes it is true that fire and police folks mostly just sit and wait for something to happen. But when it DOES...
The same might be said for aircrewmembers. That old saying about hours and hours of boredom interrupted by moments of sheer terror wasn't made up just for laughs. (Have you read my books? Object lessons for the foregoing.)
As for jobs like convenience store clerk, the list is about accidents. The bad things that happen to store clerks, cops and such are deliberate.
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Ranchers make $73,700 a year? That one seems a mite high to me too. It is if you ask a farmer. They're the poor mouthinist SOB's that ever lived. They'll tell ya how they work 25 hour days, 366 days a year, just to owe money at the end of it all. Then they hang their head for effect and crawl in a $60k diesel truck. Yet every other accountant, welfare recipient, and retiree pulling a camper also seems to be driving a $60k pickup. What someone drives is not a very good indication of wealth. They let about anybody take out a loan....
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Well I am a professional pilot, have been for close to 40 years now. Flight Engineer seat at the Airlines has been pretty much non existent since the 1990's The only place I know were you could possible get a job as a FE in Piston or Turbine would be in Alaska Flying For Everts, they still fly DC-6's and they have a 727 or two maybe more now. The pay it bullshit too. Not even close for most of the pilots working out there..
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As for jobs like convenience store clerk, the list is about accidents. The bad things that happen to store clerks, cops and such are deliberate. No, the list was drawn from the latest information on all work related deaths - accidental or intentional. Some jobs are simply not as dangerous as their propaganda insists; but the danger in some, like to convenience store clerks, is diluted by being but a subset of customer service or retail sales which is otherwise quite safe.
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I can vouch for the ironworkers. Had to lift a man out of the basement 2 weeks ago after he went 3 stories into the hole. Doesn't look like he'll be working for a long time if ever again.
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No, the list was drawn from the latest information on all work related deaths - accidental or intentional.
Some jobs are simply not as dangerous as their propaganda insists; but the danger in some, like to convenience store clerks, is diluted by being but a subset of customer service or retail sales which is otherwise quite safe. This list has little to do with which jobs are most dangerous. It is more about which occupations employ the the most vunerable to natural selection. #7 and #3 being the obvious exceptions.
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It's about working from heights and/or extremely heavy moving parts, natural or mechanical. An illiterate illegal is in no mortal danger with a pick, shovel, broom... while the supervisor running the crane is.
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No, the list was drawn from the latest information on all work related deaths - accidental or intentional.
Some jobs are simply not as dangerous as their propaganda insists; but the danger in some, like to convenience store clerks, is diluted by being but a subset of customer service or retail sales which is otherwise quite safe. This list has little to do with which jobs are most dangerous. It is more about which occupations employ the the most vunerable to natural selection. #7 and #3 being the obvious exceptions. Both the numbers and my own experiences give me reasons to disagree, but I'd like to see your reasoning for such a derogatory and condescending statement.
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