Something neat,hot,cool and close to the airport. We are Tenecor, we manufacture custom acrylic aquariums. Any shape and size, it's only limited by your imagination or your budget, whichever is smaller. We have a woodworking shop for the stands and canopys, big cutting machines, grinders and polishers, and a really huge oven to bend the acrylic or bake one honking huge birthday cake. Most of our customers need dive suits to clean the bottom of the tanks.
When we're done for the day, we can go to the driving range and hit some balls.
Thanks

Hey Mike!

If you're looking for a job that'll get you dirty, hot, and sweaty, Arizona's a good place to look for one.

SAGUARO CACTUS MOVER -
http://www.arizonacactussales.com/info/saguaro.htm
1619 S. Arizona Ave. Chandler, Arizona 85248
Phone: (480) 963-1061
It gets over 100 Degrees F in the summer(the only shade you'l find is under that saguaro), which is when all the critters come out. By the way, if you take this job...don't forget gloves, a hat, and LOTS of water.
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OLD PUEBLO ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER -

PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577
Voice: 520-798-1201
Fax: 520-798-1966
Email: info@oldpueblo.org

http://www.oldpueblo.org/

Haven't you always wanted to be an archaeologist?

Take a trip down to Tucson, Arizona and become an archaeologist. It's lots of fun. You get to play in the dirt all day, find artifacts, and get hot and sweaty in the heat while avoiding desert creatures. The folks there'll teach you all you need to know about the job.
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CATTLE WRANGLER/COWBOY -

You've been a cattle rancher, but what about keeping track of cattle while sitting on top of your faithful steed all day? By the end of the day you'll be tired, and your legs will want to fall off...if you can still feel them...
Unfortunately I can't recal any names for ranches that round up their cows, but I know theres definately many around. If I'm not mistaken there's one in Cavecreek, AZ...
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Would you like to help save abused horses?

EQUINE VOICES SANCTUARY -

http://www.equinevoices.org/
(contact info on the site)

(The images of the actual farms may be too graphic for younger viewers, but it would be educational. And they always need help around the ranch. )
http://www.equinevoices.org/premarin.php
The horses stand on their feet their entire life(while pregnant), hooked up to equipment gather their urine. When the mare enters labor they send her out in a field to give birth. Right after giving birth the mare is made pregnant again and is sent back to her recent conditions. Mares that are no longer needed or foals that can't help the industry are sent to slaughter houses. Foals that cannot be auctioned to slaughter are given up as Pony Skin Foals. Pony Skin Foals are skinned to make leather products. PMU(Premerin) is the drug that women take during metapause to help reduce hot flashes, etc. There are various organazations around the nation that go into these facilities and rescue the horses.

(NOTE: The job is to rescue the horses, NOT work for the industries torturing the horses.)
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Hope this helps you fill in an Arizona job!
P.S. - No matter what job you and your crew take in Arizona; bring sunscreen, a hat, shade(a cloth) for your neck, sunglasses, and LOTS of water.

I love the show(and a great idea for a show), keep the dirt coming!

Mike,
My father, D'Alon Holder, has been making custom knives for over 40 years know. He makes everything right in his shop in Peoria, Arizona. Everything is done by hand and is very dirty. My mom , Pat Holder, has been engraving the knives for about 20 years. They are quite the couple its almost right out of Pleasantville. Feel free to get a sample of the work they do at dholder.com.

Thanks for your time,
Del Holder

Hey Mike,

How about becoming a Mule Corral Boy at the Grand Canyon! You know, the mule teams who take visitors down into the canyon from either rim (North or South - although the South Rim is much more popular and wellknown). Mules are DIRTY, stinky, and did I mention DIRTY! Just up your alley! And it doesn't matter the time of the year. South Rim runs year-round, while North Rim is from April-October.

Contact:

Xanterra Parks & Resorts.
Call (303) 297-2757
or toll free (888) 297-2757,
or FAX (303) 297-3175, or write to
Xanterra Parks & Resorts,
6312 S Fiddlers Green Circle,
Suite 600N,
Greenwood Village, CO 80111

I am sure they would LOVE to get some FREE elbow grease out of you, and you get to enjoy one of the most spectacular places on earth!

Happy Trails!

Hi Mike!

Here is a dirty job for you. I am an Airshow pilot (Jon Melby Airshows) and based out of Chandler Airzona.

I like staying clean and performing extreme aerobatics at airshows throughout North America. Staying clean at the airshow is one thing, working on my plane while at home is another.

There are plenty of dirty work to do! Cleaning the smoke oil off the belly of my airplane, changing my engine oil, changing my tires, changing my brakes, or hanging upside down inside my cockpit to bleed the brake lines.

Come out to Chandler, Arizona and help me get my plane ready for the next big show. Then I'll show you and your audience what a clean plane looks like while flying an aerobatic routine after we are done. That's if we put everything back together right.

Check out www.jonmelby.com.
Look forward to hearing from you!

Jon

Well i thought i had an original idea for you Mike, but lonewolf A-10 guy beat me to it. I was an active duty USAF F-16 crew chief for 8 years and did the job for another 3 years as a civilian. Washing and lubing an aircraft is a dirty, wet, smelly and all around not so fun job. If youre not washing the landing gear or bottom section of the plane, then you are hiding out on top, trying not to get wet or get soap in your eyes or anywhere else. You will leave sweaty, wet and with soap in your eyes. Then you tow the jet back to its parking spot and put a maintenance suit on and have to lube it. Wether you go to A-10 country in Tuscon or F-16 country at Luke AFB in Glendale then im sure you wont miss a thing. Did i mention the flightline is easily over 140 degrees in the summer. I have since moved onto other aircraft work at the Phoenix airport, but the Luke AFB public relations office would be a good contact source.

Ok I'm kinda suprised no one has mentioned this. I used to work in the Phelps Dodge Copper Mine in Morenci, AZ as a laborer. I worked in the crusher and my job was cleaning up loose rocks and dust from the rocks being crushed. Picture a giant Mortar and Pestle with big rocks getting dumped into it by a convetor belt and being crushed into smaller rocks. The crushers are inside a housing so they wont throw rocks and dust every where. You have to crawl into these tight areas between the crushers and the walls to scrap all the dirt into small holes in the floors that lead to the convetor belts that take the crushed rock to be leached of metals. When your in there cleaning stuff your on your hands and knees in a plastic suit with a respirator, hard hat, gloves, safety glasses and on top of all of that its about 20 degrees hotter in side this building then it is outside. So when its 110 outside its 130 inside. If thats not enough, at least once a week the convetor belt in the "dungeon" would break and we would have to go down there with fire hoses and shovels and clean up dirt piled up from floor to ceiling, it would take hours. If that isnt enough for you then you can go over to the pit side of the plant (I got moved there after a few months) where its not so hot and not as dirty...most of the time. Over there, after huge sections of mountain are dynamited, earth movers move huge hunks of rock and dump them on the convetor belts to be sent to the crusher. My job was keeping the convetor belts clean, not really hard, kinda easy in comparison to the crusher, that is until one of the feeders for the convetor belts gets clogged. Thats when it gets fun. These feeders are about 3 stories tall and get clogged top to bottom, it shuts down all production so its a big deal to get it back up. Down at the bottom you keep hitting the rocks and dirt with digging bars while at the top a guy hangs in mid air from a safety strap with a jack hammer breaking everything up, good times. And if all that isnt dirty enough for ya well then theres always the leach feilds. I personally never had the misfortune of working there but had plenty of friends that did and they were muddy dirty nasty by the end of every day. The leach feilds are where they put stock piles of left over crushed rock after most of the preciuos metal has been removed. They spray chemicals over the piles which then seperates the rest of the metals that they didnt get originally. Its basiclly huge feilds of thick nasty mud. Now I only worked there for a year and didnt get through the entire mine so I'm sure there are more dirty jobs there, more than enough to make a whole show, definitly something you should check out.

Have fun,
Joe Pinder

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kungfu-mama
Member
Posted 02-19-08 09:47 PM
This is a part of the Salt River Project's regular maintenance of the water canals that run through Phoenix. Instead of mechanically cleanning the canals, they now use sterile White Amur fish - and since the fish can't procreate, they have to be restocked. Don't believe me? Here's a link: http://www.srpnet.com/environment/amur.aspx

More info:

A representative from SRP's Groundwater Department can provide additional information about the White Amur Fish Program. To request details, please call SRP at (602) 236-5304 or (602)236-2416.

Or write:

SRP Groundwater Department
Mail Station 16ST52
P.O. Box 52025
Phoenix, Arizona 85072-2025

Here's a job idea-

At Boulder Dam and in Lake Mead, they have a problem called the quagga mussel. A native of europe, it's a mussel about the size of a thumbnail. Due to their having no natural predators in Lake Mead, their reproduction is out of control. They can multiply 6 times faster than normal. The problem is they LOVE stainless steel.

So, take a guess what the pipes at the base of Boulder dam are made from. These pipes are the intake for coolant water to cool the turbines and generators. If they ignored the quagga mussel problem, the pipes will clog and ultimately close up like plaque in a vein.

So far, the only way to definitively remove them is somebody has to dive down to the lakeside base of the dam, and physically scrape the quagga mussel from the inside of these pipes. That sounds like a nightmare of a claustrophobic, dark, creepy, dangerous, DIRTY job to me!

And I would love to see Mike do it.

It's technically not Arizona as the border between AZ and Nevada is at the dam itself. But, I think it would make great television.

Here's more info-
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20080218/NEWS/84187008

The "3 C's" of Arizona are, "Cotton, Citrus, and Copper!"

How about a Copper Miner!

Arizona Mining Association
5150 N. 16th St.
STE B134
Phoenix, AZ 85016-3900
*Phone (602) 266-4416
*Fax(602) 230-8413

Good Luck!

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dacrook
Member
Posted 02-21-08 11:20 PM
My husband served a mission for our church in AZ, and while there he went to a ranch (name and city unknown) and helped them castrate the bulls and then ate Rocky Mtn. Oysters. He can't remember the name or city, but he said there are plenty of ranches in AZ that Mike could go to.

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Foster1
Junior Member
Posted 02-21-08 05:30 PM
Rural/Metro Fire Dept
Yuma, ARIZONA
Curt Foster/ Fire Marshal
Cori Lopez/ Fire Investigator

Mike! So you say you like to get dirty?! How about sooty, nasty, wet fire scenes?! We deal with it on a daily basis. Old food, dropping ceilings, drop-out floors, wet and nasty falling insulation, crap in your boots, down the back of your shirt, digging through piles of burnt debris and shoveling the remains of the structure! This is truly a DIRTY JOB! If you think you can handle it...we CHALLENGE you to come join us in a FIRE INVESTIGATION in Yuma, Arizona where temperatures reach 120 degrees in the summer and drop to 30 degrees in the winter. Can you handle it???!!!

Here are a couple of ideas for Flagstaff, AZ; Pumice mining, Hot Shots control burning, National Park Service, Purina Dog Food Plant and maybe Snowbowl Ski Resort. Also what about going further North, to the Navajo reservation and sheepherding with a sheepherder, which also entails shearing, castrating, and butchering.
then of course, cleaning up after a sploshing party is also dirty.
Come to FLagstaff, Mike Rowe!

~Norchem Drug Testing~
www.norchemlab.com
BEAUTIFUL FLAGSTAFF ARIZONA
Right off the historic route 66!!!

What is more dirty than human fluids? We do urine and saliva drug testing for clients across the United States. "Specimen Processing" is a glorified name for a person who pretty much opens and handles the pee. They leak and explode in the packaging but we still have to process them (yay)!!
There is one position in particular on the "processing" side of the lab that I think would suit you nicely! We call it 'Rover'. The rover has to dispose of no longer needed specimens by grinding them up. The rover also takes care of the samples that have leaked too much for the processors to open. There are a couple of other gems in the job description and a few choice jobs done by other positions, but I think I will just let you find out first hand! The best part about the job? Urine is sterile, so you can splash it all over yourself (which happens every day) and you won't contract anything, you'll just smell real bad!
hope to year from y'all!

Sincerely,
Keep testing positive (Lab tech 2)

Rodbuster
Great Western Erectors
Phoenix, AZ


Tying rebar on a post tention deck in July! Dirty! Hot and very dangerous!

I don't know. read below this.

I'm just spit balling but something to do with the grand canyon. Like maybe Tour guide, or maybe wild life person. I was just spit balling.

I have seen alot of your shows Mike and very few even start to compare with this one. As I watch your show I always picture myself doing that particular job and I dont know anyone who would even try mine, except maybe you. I am a residential remodel electrician and part of my job is running wire through attics. Going up into attics in Phoenix during July when its over 160 degrees plus dealing with the confined space and the blown in fiber glass insulation is very dirty. Maybe the dirtiest. I have come down from attics, and while dusting myself off in the middle of the street with asphault surroundings and 120 degrees out, shivered in the slight desert breeez cuz it was a cooler environment than the one I just came from. So if you're ready to get dirty, sweaty, itchy and possibly taste a little bit of hell that I call just another day at the office, email me at scottcqe@gmail.com. Its a small company, just me, but that may have to do with the scary nature of it. I love my job and taking care of my customers, so I dont mind doing it all myself. Most other companies to get the same job done are just cutting away drywall and giving the repair and paint guys something to do, but I'm not scared! Are you?

Best regaurds,

Scott Ellett

quote:

Originally posted by Schnarfler:
Drill Rig Operator/Technician
Foree & Vann, Inc.
Phoenix, Arizona

Mike, here's a dirty job for you. We are a soils engineering firm. We are responsible for analyzing soils for the purpose of new construction. Before we can make those recommendations, our drill rig goes to a site and drills holes, pulling the soils from below the surface (sometimes as deep as 100') for collecting. We then run the soils through a battery tests in our own dirt-lab for analysis to let us know what's going on down in the dirt. My guys are pretty stinky and dirty at the end of a days work.

If that isn't dirty enough, our firm also conducts construction materials testing. Going out to current construction sites, making and breaking concrete cylinders for compression strength, more dirt testing, and other misc. inspections. These technicians have a hard time staying clean during their day!

The summer is the best time to come and experience the dirt and grime of the Sonoran desert. We would love to have you here!

Contact Info: Foree & Vann, Inc.
ywarner@foreeandvann.com
phone 602-943-6997

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Foster1
Junior Member
Posted 02-25-08 10:20 PM
How about a job that is nasty, hot, dirty, snelly, wet and you get to take all that home with you. Fire investigating is a very dirty job that is very hot during our summer months here in Yuma AZ. If you can't make it to the desert at least call Cori one of our fire investigators that came up with this idea, her number is 928-782-4757 x122, thanks Curt Foster, Fire Marshal Yuma Rural/Metro FD