UTAH Please include job title, company/organization, city, etc. Must be a specific job, and not theoretical ("plumber" vs. "pipe fitter, Pipe City Plumbers, Silver Spring, UT"). Utah ideas only.
The world’s largest open-pit copper mine in the world lies just southwest of Salt Lake City. Open-pit copper mining, it’s a Dirty Job: http://www.utah.com/attractions/kennecott.htm
While in the Salt Lake Area you can stop in at Morton-Thiokol and help them test their rockets way out there in the mountains.
Bryce Canyon National Park, one of the most spectacular geographic parks with hoodoos. Some of the trails are exceptional and maintaining them has got to be a hot, strenuous and Dirty Job. Trail Hike Mike doing superior for the Dept. of Interior. http://www.nps.gov/brca/parkmgmt/index.htm
We have an industry here that harvests Brine Shrimp from the Great Salt Lake. This might be an interesting "Dirty Job". I realy do not know who to contact, Sorry.
Every fall the Utah State Devision of Wild Life Resources has a wild Bison round-up on Antelope Island in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. They do this to keep the herd healthy. This could be a "Dirty Job".
I used to work for Skywest Airlines as a "blue angel", driving a little truck around that sucked the ramp trout and blue juice out of the airplane lavatories. Then I'd have to take it over to this place called the "grinder" and dump it all out, turn the grinder on, and was it all down with a high pressure hose. I also loaded tons of bags, cleaned up baby crap and one time at least 30 out of 50 passengers puked on a rough flight coming over the mountains. I also used to deice aircraft, 16 hours a day in freezing temperatures spraying down the planes with burning hot glycol. Lots of fun!
Just an aside, when I was in Afghanistan, that experience paid off in a way. The president of Romania came to visit and nobody knew how to empty the lavs on his 707 so I got to do it. I know a ton of dirty jobs that military contractors do in Afghanistan and Iraq everyday, I spent 4 years with an open sewage lake about 150 yards from my tent.
And I think mike could try his hand at driving arepo truck, not necessarily dirty but in the short time that I did it, I was attacked by dogs, had guns pulled on me, had angry cops run me off and threaten me, and was physically assaulted on a number of occasions.
And maybe Mike should try working in a morgue. Or how about one of those companies that prepares animals for dissection? And one of my friends mom used to work at a chicken processing facilities where they would de-feather the dead chickens, cut them up, and then sort the pieces out. I've got a ton more ideas...
I work at Kennecott Utah Copper in field maintenance and this would be an excellent dirty job. I did a specific task yesterday that involve scraping out a couple feet thick of a combination of open gear lubricant and dirt to get to several ring gear bolts on a large electric shovel trust me excellent dirty jobs material would be happy to give more specific details
In scenic Moab, UT there is a manufacturing facility called "Mega Blue" they produce urinal cakes. Their address is 1320 S Hwy 191 / Moab / UT / 84532 The phone number is 435-259-8439. I do not work there, however, the people who do are easily identified because they look like Smurfs when they are about town! The place also smells. thanks, Dana
A company called Loy Fisheries harvests carp in Utah Lake near Provo. A friend of mine worked for them as a carp gutter. He said he smelled so bad at the end of the day that he stripped nude and hosed off in the back yard before entering his house. The owner of Loy Fisheries is Bill Loy. Phone number: 801-375-2136.
There is a Potash Mine in Moab, UT that is owned by Intrepid Potash. I don't work there so I don't know the job title, but the mineworkers have a hard job. http://www.intrepidpotash.com/loc/moab.html You can contact Brandon Bartosh at the Moab site 435-260-0486. Also there is a tour company in Moab, Tag-a-long Expeditions. They have a positions called "Yard Boy" that is in charge of cleaning the feces out of portable toilets that come back off of trips that have been in the sun for about 6 days. The company also does whitewater rafting trips, and 4x4 Jeep Expeditions. You can contact Jessica Irish for Tag-a-long at 435-259-8946.
Recycling collector, that picks up recycling from households and businesses and separates out materials inside truck. These materials include glass, plastic, aluminum, tin, paper and cardboard. The problem is that many materials that end up in the bin are not recyclable and those that are are not exactly clean. For example, diapers and half full milk jugs. Then the recycling is brought to recycling center for further processing. The company is Curb It Recycling in Park City, Utah. Email curbit@mindspring.com
MIKE IS HOT! Beef processing is NOT! the largest Beef processing plant in the USA is located in Hyrum, UT. Literally the whole south end of the Cache Valley reeks every Wednesday morning, you can find out why! see people going at it with chain-mail gloves and all.
Landscape concrete curbing in Utah, I own a small Landscape curbing business, All About Curb Inc. We do decorative landscape concrete, this job can get pretty messy we mix our own product on site with our own equipment especially when doing stamped and colored curbing you are sure to get a face full of cement, color and more wonderful chemicals thrown at you www.allaboutcurb.com
A friend of mine used to have a dirty job as a mink skinner. I know there are several mink farms in Utah, and I believe this is the one he worked at.
Blackwillow Mink Ranch; 340 N. Main St. Coalville, UT 84017; (435) 336-5513
The brine shrimp fishing is a great idea. There is about three dozen companies that harvest brine shrimp out of the Great Salt Lake. The harvest is usually October 1 to January 31. It's smelly, salty, and unpleasant.
Western Brine Shrimp Intl.; 957 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84104; (801) 3643642
Sanders Brine Shrimp Company; PO Box 610, Morgan, UT 84050; (435) 829-4040
Brine Shrimp Direct; PO Box 13147, Ogden, UT 84412; (801) 782-4700
Sorry guys but I have the taker. I work for Davis County Mosquitoe abatment. There is hardly anything dirtyer then wallowing in the mud that is infested with squirming discusting mosquito larvae. What could make it very exciting is that there are frequently mosqutoes and biting flies to torment the worker. After a day out on the lake front, saving the world, you come home coverd in mud, thick pollen, burrs, and spiders, not to mention the many mosquito bites. It would be fun for you Mike because part of the job is getting out to these places, and to do that we have to use ATVs, it's the only way. We also have to draw blood from chickens for testing, deal with smelly fish, and varrious other very dirty but interesting and fun jobs.
