ILLINOIS 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, IL"). Illinois ideas only.
Fire extinguisher inspector/Aurora Tristate, Aurora IL. Western suburb of Chicago
My brother owns this company with two other men. Their clients include large shopping centers, hotels, Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Marx studio, etc. They have clients both in fire protection and in alarm protection.
He and I have put our heads together several times to try to come up with 3 to 4 dirty jobs that Mike could do at this company. Cleaning and re-filling old individual extinguishers is messy. My brother has suggested cleaning the powder room...I don't know what that is. The dirtiest job per my brother, would be inspecting/servicing the extinguisher system for a restaurant fire hood.
These have to be inspected every so often, as does every fire extinguisher in any public building. This can be scheduled at certain times, and would have to have the restaurant owner's agreement.
The cleaning and refilling of individual extinguishers is done at my brother's company. My son has done it and come home as a teenager complaining bitterly, but I doubt that it ranks as a dirty job to Mike.
There is also the wiring of alarm systems that is done all the time..they do schools, apartment buildings, and individual homes. Also there would be the installation of new range fire protection systems in restaurants. They even do the huge CO2 systems above printing presses that fill the whole room with foam immediately.
My brother does have several employees, guys who probably don't give a darn about DJ that he thinks would be great for Mike to work with. In other words, if Discovery or Dirty Jobs is interested in doing anything that has to do with fire extinguisher systems or alarm systems, my brother has a company that is successful doing just that.
Actually the Steel Mill episode was in Alton,IL. Which is just up the Mississippi River from St.Louis
BTW, Mike and Dave. I have numerous e-mails from DJ's Research and a typed letter from Mary Bess, saying that you guys were still coming to Casey Equipment in Arlington Hts., IL. To repair Paving Equipment and Pave with one of our customers. I still got copies of the release forms that I sent per Mary Bess's request. Do you guys need me to Fax these releses back over to you again ??? Or are we not doing this anymore ??? I recieved a e-mail a few weeks back saying your not going to be in this area anytime soon. My question for awhile has been this: " So I'm not wasting your time and mine. Are you still planning to do this shoot with me and the company I work for ??? " A Yes or No ,would be GREAT !!!
I think that there are people that have to clean the sides of the I&M canal near the riverboats in Joliet as well as the same job for the Chicago river in the city. There are also companies that need to clean up the graffiti on the walls in the city.
Driver/setup, Sam Joker, Enterprise, Hampshire, IL. Sam Joker is an office modular delivery service owned by Matt Brenan. My husband delivers office modulars and setup. Sometimes he comes home with so much black on his clothes I ask him if he rolled in it just to be sure he didn't miss a spot. The basic function of his job are block and level and anchor the trailors. There is also on the road axel tire repairs.
I know of a place in Hamilton, IL. The town is a small town but has a company that is... well, Dirty. It's a Company that makes candles and bee's wax products. It's pretty cool. The name of the company is Daydants.
My family owns and runs a company called Industrial Battery in Villa Park, Illinois. We recondition batteries for electric forklift trucks. The job entails scientifically testing batteries, cleaning sulfuric acid corrosion, drilling lead from inter-cell connectors, burning on new lead inter-cell connectors, hot tar sealing the cells, acid adjusting batteries and then painting the batteries. The job is very dirty and dangerous. Acid and corrosion eats through cotton clothing, the batteries come in extremely dirty, and burning lead is dangerous. The whole process is pretty interesting and more complicated than what I just explained. The website shows pictures of batteries before and after reconditioning. Industrialbatteryinc.com
(1) Work the clamboats on the muddy Mississippi - dive to the bottom of the black water river and dig (by hand???) the little buggers out of the 3 feet of sludge. The clams aren't eaten - rather their shells are used to make buttons (or at least they used to be - not sure if that's till the case). I see these guys all the time when crossing the bridge from Moline, IL to Bettendorf/Davenport, IA and think it has to be one of the scariest, most disgusting jobs ever - the river mud is thick, deep, dangerous, and disgusting... and I hear there are giant catfish hiding down there. Eee-ewwww.
(2) Work as part of the clean up crew scooping immense quantities of garbage and crap out of the Mississippi River for "Living Lands and Waters." This is a non-profit waterway clean up organization that is based out of East Moline, IL. It's founder, Chad Pregracke, has become a local and national legend amongst environmentalists and Mississippi River lovers. Google him. He and his organization are truly amazing...and very dirty.
Hi my name is Chris im a stay at home dad for my 4 yr old dieabetic son while my girlfriend of 5 yrs in a semi truck mobile machanic she is 23 and works for her dad out of west chicago il 60185 she works long and hard hours and is very dirty i think it would be nice to see a show about women doing a mans job so to say. the company is owned by her father. Quality repaer of west chicago. Very Very dsirty job. Thank chris
Truck Driver Instructor / Eagle Training Services Inc, Lake in the Hills, IL
I work at Eagle Training Services Inc - a truck driving school. It would be SO NICE if the yard at the school was paved so instructors didnt have to stand in two feet of mud, snow and ice in the winter AND stand in a dust bowl that adds two to three pounds on a person before a shower.
The instructors have amazing patience - well, most of them do, but the weather in the yard is a difficult thing to deal with any time of year.
We just hired a new employee and wed laughed at him because he came in all clean and went home all dirty. We joked about his wife wondering what he was doing all day.
It's a fun job, an interesting job to say the least and of course, thanks to a naked yard, it's a dirty job.
Car wash manager/Wareco Car Wash Jacksonville Il. Being a manager is not all desk work. I myself am a working manager. I prep cars before they go through our conveyor wash. living in a midwestern rural community means gravel roads as well as farm ground, and I think most of it is on the vehicles when they come to our wash. And were does all this mud go? Yes into a pit. We all know how much Mike loves pits. we manually scoop out the muck, and when I say muck I'm not kidding.
Thats just the half of it. Getting the mud off the vehicles is a whole other dirty job in itself, with high pressure needless to say. So if Mike is interested in getting filthy muddy, and not to meantion what the mud smells like, drop me a line. Thanks Brennan
How about a deer rancher? An aquaintance and her husband are raising 150+ deer. Maybe Mike would like to collect and ship semen straws. They are very valuable.
Large remanufacturer of brake calipers located in Chicago. duties include the dissasembly process, cleaning castings, brackets, pistons, tapping and sorting. Calipers are rusty, greasy and sometimes have to be heated to get parts free before the cleaning process begins.It is a loud, hot and Dirty Job
Garage Door Installer, Consolidated Garage Doors, Batavia IL. From new construction installs to residential take downs its a dirty job. Weather it's a freezer in winter or a sauna in summer every garage needs a door. It is the largest moving object in your home. During installation the dirt, saw dust, grease, metal shavings etc. seam to stick with you. This makes being a "DOOR GUY" a "DIRTY JOB"
hey there mike i work at a antique steam traction engine repair shop and i show steam engines runing and working on them is a very hard and dirty job i seen the show where u cleaned the boat boiler but that only scrached the surface and this is a totally different thing the repair on antique boilers is sooty oiley hot all the tools are big heavy and very powerful and at her shows u get up at 430 am start geting ready by cleaning out ashes oiling washing starting the fire then we do threshing sawmilling plowing horsepower tests and much more we do all this to keep the history of how farming and industry was compared to today and if ur not a mess within 30 min of beeing with me someone is doing something wrong so if u wanna see and try what i do i know u will enjoy
Originally posted by steam guy: hey there mike i work at a antique steam traction engine repair and restoration shop and i show steam engines runing and working on them is a very hard and dirty job i seen the show where u cleaned the boat boiler but that only scrached the surface and this is a totally different thing the repair on antique boilers is sooty oiley hot all the tools are big heavy and very powerful and at the shows u get up at 430 am start geting ready by cleaning out ashes oiling washing starting the fire then we do threshing sawmilling plowing horsepower tests and much more we do all this to keep the history of how farming and industry was compared to today and if ur not a mess within 30 min of being with me someone is doing something wrong so if u wanna see and try what i do i know u will enjoy
My dirtiest jobs involve scaffolding, and stinky-slimy-goopy oil glazes, TONS of dirty tissue paper, endless amounts of oil soaked, spontaneously-combustable cheescloth and pair after shredded pair of latex gloves. I am an artist, and whether I am faux finishing someone's 18ft. high entryway or painting a giant canvas on stage during a worship service at church-my workers and I are always coverd in paint... My company name is S.D.G. Artistry out of Yorkville IL-and I have a dirty, smelly job that I LOVE.
Railroad switchman/engineer, Illinois Central, Benton, IL (618) 949-3719
I don't believe Mike has ever been done a job in a railway yard. This would be a good one--difficult, dirty work, no matter what the yard does. This particular yard office will be able to get you on a train that goes to the local coal mines. My dad worked for 30+ years for the Illinois Central (for the last 10+ years out of this office), and he would come home tired and grubby after his shifts.
grave digger, wunders cemetary dig the grave with shovels, lower vault, next day put dead body in the vault put dirt back in hole. chicago IL. please call open schedule next barriel Feb.11,12 2008 otherwise we have plenny other dates you can come along and help out give us a call 847-258-5372 wunders cemetary
