Posted by J.C.in Az. on May 14, 2009 at 12:27:01 from (65.54.98.109):
In Reply to: Dirtiest jobs posted by Mark W. on May 14, 2009 at 09:43:26:
Well Billy Shafer and I share the misery of cleaning Chicken Houses but In my professional life I think the most dangerous and life altering job I was ever involved with was as a Carpenter working Refuel and Repair outages at a Nuclear Power Plant and being crewed up with 3 other men to do a job which normally 6 men would do and we had to do it in a much shorter time. The job,building Scaffold for other Crafts to use at the bottom of a Nuclear Reactor Vessel.We had to constantly monitor our Radiation meters and stay off sensitive parts of the Reactor and at the same time build the Scaffold in a proffesional and approved way.It was Hot,Stressful,and Physicaly a challenge for a 60 year old man working with men much younger.I stuck it out for 12 years of that sort of assignments until I retired in 1999.I miss that kind of work and think back to it often.Sort of Twisted of me I guess.JC
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