Dirty Jobs Recap: Turkey Farmer
Turkey Farmer. Where do people even think of these jobs? I mean sure, someone has to raise all those turkeys, but who was the first guy (or girl) to figure out you needed a huge building to house them (about fourteen thousand at a time)? Then how did they figure when you needed to split them into different buildings? That's just crazy. Regardless, they did, and they invited Mike along for the ride.
Most of this segment involved just one thing: Poo. Lots and lots of poo. Whether it was shooing the birds so that the poo could be turned, thus clearing the ground around the feeding station, or whether it was adding the dead birds, along with more poo, to the compost pile, or shipping the whole pile to Dr. Gobbler and then turning it over with a really big tractor, there was poo, poo and more poo. And I never thought I would ever write a sentence like that. But at least I wasn't in the poo like Mike.
Potato Farmer. Once he finished with all the turkey farming (and the poo), Mike headed to the Rockies to take up potato farming instead, with a family who appears to enjoy three things: Growing potatoes, building things to harvest the potatoes and then eating the potatoes. Even the youngest of the family got into the act, but that seems to be because they even grow purple potatoes. I'm not sure how dirty this job was, but the ground did appear to be frozen. And there was a lot of poo in the last segment, so I'll let it slide.
Wastewater Treater. The final stop during this episode was the wastewater treatment plant in San Francisco, and let me just keep this brief by saying that the folks there appear to have plenty of waste. Either that or there are a whole lot of them. Or both. Because that plant was huge. And it's only one of two of them. Not only is the plant gigantic, and dirty, it's also dangerous - Mike had to clean out a room filled with, uh, waste (I've didn't want to say that word again), but he had to constantly monitor a gas alarm to make sure the level didn't go above a certain point. And it did. Twice.


















Comments
Mike does seem to be attracted to poo.
Posted by: Ted | April 8, 2006 11:30 AM