15 most dangerous jobs in America<\/a>, and i find that I have done two of them. I was a roofer in 1978 for most of a summer, and I did iron in 1979-1980. The #4 and #10 most dangerous gigs.<\/p>\nRoofing never scared me, because I had not at that time fallen. Heights didn’t concern me because I was young and lithe and flexible, and could balance on anything. I didn’t see any danger but I didn’t see anyone get hurt, either. We had a good boss and good workers and were very safety conscious for 1978. Iron was another story, I saw lots of accidents and remember several times standing shivering in fear on a beam as someone who had been doing the same job I did got injured or killed, someone I considered an old hand while I was young and inexperienced. There are good reasons why a lot of steelworkers used to be alcoholics, and i was on small buildings, eight, ten stories. The guys who slung high iron, real iron, were a breed apart, and still, for the most part, are. A friend left a job where he climbed a ladder each day to the cab of a crane 90 feet above the tallest point of a skyscraper; he made enough money in five years to retire comfortably though modestly, and I don’t blame him that his home is a single story bungalow. <\/p>\n
A lot of what I do is to prevent people from having to do dangerous jobs, but some can only be automated so far. Some dangerous jobs will always have to be done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
John Venlet talks about Coal Mining, and dangerous gigs. While I’ve never been in a mine outside of the one at the Museum of Science and Industry, I spent more than my share of time around coal. It’s not fun stuff to deal with, even above ground. His post, though, links to an article in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}