ARIZONA 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, AZ"). Arizona ideas only.
Pack Rat Trapper & Nest removal Mr. Pack Rat, Inc. Tucson, AZ
Mike, are you stuck up? If not, you will be with this dirty job. We live trap pack rats and dig out their nests. Where do pack rats nest? In cactus, in the Arizonan desert where everything will either stick you, bite you or sting you. Pack rats are not like the regular sewer or roof rats you have dealt with in the past. Pack rats build elaborate, often huge, nests from any available junk, including all types of cactus, sticks, dog poop, rocks, and dirt. True to their name, keys, balls, toys and other shiny objects are often included. Add a healthy dose of sticky rat urine and feces and you have a pack rat nest! One nest may contain hundreds of pounds of debris; all collected diligently by the ever-industrious pack rat one piece at a time. We remove it all, lucky us. In fact, we remove over 3,000 rats and 600,000 lbs of collected rat crap a year.
But wait, there’s more, did I mention the Sonoran desert where summer temperatures can top 110 degrees? Did I mention lots of cactus spines that stab and stick every part your body? Did I mention those things that also live in pack rat nests that want to bite and sting you? Rattlesnakes, scorpions, Gila monsters and brown recluse spiders, we’ve got them all.
If you want to see a stinky, sweaty, sticky and sometimes dangerous dirty job come visit me in July. You won’t be disappointed.
Rats, why’d it have to be rats? I hate rats, especially hot ones!
Just over the centeral Utah/Arizona border is a town called Page. Page sits on the edge of the Colorado River and Lake Powell. Lake Powell was created by the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam and is operated by the Bureau of Reclamation. Maintaining the entire structure has to be a Dirty Job whether it’s structural, hydraulic or electrical. And with the present dry conditions, there may be unique opportunities to do work that can't normlly be done.
Glen Canyon Dam Maintenance Worker, it’s a Dirty Job and Mike would be the Dam’an!
FYI- The Animal Planet just played the Most Extreme Top ten Collectors in the Animal Kingdom and #1 was the Pack Rat! The show explained how some pack rat middens (nests) can be ten feet across and five feet high and voer 40,000 years old. Varnish like urine glues the whole thin together. Mike, you have to see one of these and for fun, dig a few out with me. Its dirty, interesting and a little dangerous - we had one employee bite by a rattlesnake in 2007. --
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Originally posted by mrpackrat: Pack Rat Trapper & Nest removal Mr. Pack Rat, Inc. Tucson, AZ
Mike, are you stuck up? If not, you will be with this dirty job. We live trap pack rats and dig out their nests. Where do pack rats nest? In cactus, in the Arizonan desert where everything will either stick you, bite you or sting you. Pack rats are not like the regular sewer or roof rats you have dealt with in the past. Pack rats build elaborate, often huge, nests from any available junk, including all types of cactus, sticks, dog poop, rocks, and dirt. True to their name, keys, balls, toys and other shiny objects are often included. Add a healthy dose of sticky rat urine and feces and you have a pack rat nest! One nest may contain hundreds of pounds of debris; all collected diligently by the ever-industrious pack rat one piece at a time. We remove it all, lucky us. In fact, we remove over 3,000 rats and 600,000 lbs of collected rat crap a year.
But wait, there’s more, did I mention the Sonoran desert where summer temperatures can top 110 degrees? Did I mention lots of cactus spines that stab and stick every part your body? Did I mention those things that also live in pack rat nests that want to bite and sting you? Rattlesnakes, scorpions, Gila monsters and brown recluse spiders, we’ve got them all.
If you want to see a stinky, sweaty, sticky and sometimes dangerous dirty job come visit me in July. You won’t be disappointed.
job tittle: shipping and reciving of windows Company: RKF City: phoenix, AZ Name: Dale Sumrall
Hey mike, This would be a great work out and dirty job for you during the summer. If you decide to make it out my way make sure you got plenty of water, deoderant, a good breakfast in you and be ready for a long early morning. This job isnt considered very dirty but you get very sweaty, tired and you build some muscle. What we would do is off load a fully loaded 53 foot semi truck with windows and doors. Then if you have the time reload a similar semi truck with windows and doors and deliver them to a job site. If you have any questions about this or are considering it just e-mail me at az_4x4_outlaw@yahoo.com
Safety Crew WGAS Motorsports North Office Cool, California
Hi Mike, have I got a job for you. Have you ever wrestled a monster truck tire? We put on motorsports events on the west coast which includes Monster Truck racing and Freestyle,Freestyle Motocross,Demolition Derbies,Truck and Tractor Pulls, and Mud Racing. We set up the track,tech the racing machines, track officials, and clean up and return the arenas to the way they were. We are the show behind the show. You might have seen Monster Trucks, Demolitions, Mud Drags etc., but being on the track during the racing, up close and personal is a whole new and unforgetable experiance you will never forget. Have you ever wondered what it takes to clean up the mess, the mud, and the destroyed cars. Did I mention we do it in the dirt? And we never finish the show clean. You need to experiance a monster truck roaring by you or a multi-engine pulling tractor jumping on the throttle to really apreciate them. If you do a good job picking up all the pieces of smashed cards, I'll see you get to ride in one of the monsters. We will be doing shows in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and a couple out of the country. Our season starts this weekend in southern California.
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!
I have the ultimate Arizona job for you. I am the warehouse manager for a whitewater rafting/ river equipment outfitter mainly suppying boaters on the Colorado River. We are based out of Flagstaff, AZ. The trips we outfit are for up to 30 days, with a maximum of 16 people. It is an incredible adventure for those who get the opportunity. Like most rivers, the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon is protected, and certain rules are enforced for all private trips. "Pooping" is no exception. River runners rent "groovers" given this name for the creases it put on your cheeks prior to the toilet seat adaptor invention. These are either army ammo cans or specially designed cans made of heavy aluminum. As you can imagine 30 days worth of poop for that big of a group adds up. A few times a month we head out with about 60 of these cans filled to the brim with crap. We go to a special treatment facility in Flagstaff, where we HAND dump each can. We brush out each can with a giant toitet brush, and rinse with a firehose. It is one of the highlights of the job as you can imagine. I would love to show you the dirty side of whitewater rafting. You can always count on poo day being memorable. We always make the best of it, joking around and laughing all the way. Flagstaff is nice and cool compared to the hot desert, and rafting is a very unique and specialized community...come join us!!
Sincerely,
The River Princess and the warehouse boys
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Pack rats build elaborate, often huge, nests from any available junk, including all types of cactus, sticks, dog poop, rocks, and dirt. True to their name, keys, balls, toys and other shiny objects are often included. Add a healthy dose of sticky rat urine and feces and you have a pack rat nest!
Before Old Tucson burned down I remember removing them from the buildings on Kansas street.
Nasty little boogers!
On the bright side, one day I walked off with over $15 in odd change.
I was thinking PetSmart stores. The person who has to clean all them fish tanks and filters, and the critters,rats,hamsters,guinea pigs cages, and all them bird cages, cat cages, dog cages plus what the customers dog leaves behind.
Hey hope that jam is hurting any stomachs but my mom lives in Az and i had an idea. Extracting Venom from spiders in the area. Black widows, Tarantulas, ect. But any way theres Arizona speedway outside Phoenix and im posotive there is some dirty job they can give you there. Theres also some agricultral blocks outside of phoenix on the California side that has plenty of jobs. Or there is and Airplane repair feild outside of phoenix that you can repair planes at. But any way thats it for now. i will post when I have more ideas.
Okay how about kinda dirty? But definitely cold?! I work for Southwest Storage and Distribution Phoenix, AZ. We ship and store food stuffs for stores all over the West Coast our facility is clean (has to be - we are a food grade warehouse) but it can get messy especially when you are dealing with the maintenance of the place and equipment. The contact info is 602-233-3296 if you decide to give a go...
If you're ready to get dirty with the USAF again, come on down to Davis-Monthan AFB. I'm sure I can round up a couple folks to walk you through a wash/lube on an A-10. I can tell you from first hand experience, the grease we use smells like baby crap. It's wet, it's hot(or cold depending on the season) and it's dirty. Takes a full shift to do it right.
Time it right and we might be able to get you a bonus ride through the aircraft boneyard.
How about serving in a busy, high volume resturaunt for a night. I'm sorry, I cannot post the name of where I work online. However, it should not be too difficult to find a place that's busy and where once the customers sit at your table, you are the sole provider. No food runners, no bussers refilling iced tea, you are it. Now, it's not dirty in an unsanitary way, but food gets slopped around constantly, I usually look pretty torn up at the end of the night. I've had BBQ sauce on my neck, and no idea how it got there. It seems as though Dirty Jobs is not strictly geared toward "dirty" but instead a solute to hardworking, blue-collar positions. As a waitress/waiter, you do not have the right to have a bad day and the severity of your opinions must be kept at a minimum. Your senses must be keen regarding when wit and jokes are appropriate. Lord knows I've pissed off a few people with silly jokes. I lift and deliver trays with 20 plates on them and must listen to complaints of why I was not available during that time to refill a soda that's still 3/4's full. I must cater to those who say they are ready to order, but instead of doing so, they say, "hmmmmmmmm," and click their annoying tongues at me. I'm sure they honestly believe they are the only customers in the room at that point. It's difficult to depend on complete strangers to ensure your car payments are made, especially when the paychecks that come say, "this is not a check," you get nothing.
I work in a very dirty job, a Donation Attendant at Goodwill of Central Arizona at the Cave Creek store and during the summer the dirt and the sweat really get to you.
when i work at peter pipper pizza i got dirty all the time when u make dough insted of a red shirt its more like pink, and u leave a trail of flower behind u. when u make the pizza u get sause on u some times. thats some what of a diry job
a really good dirty job is some where my dad used to work it is called hyponex. now it does not have they same name. its in maricopa the best job is a bagger.
To Dirty Job's. Hey,if Mike wants to get a dirty job,just look up any Construction company,and tell them he'll help the Heavy Equipment Mechanic for a day.Trust me,it's not a good job.He'll be covered from head to toe with grease or multi forms of oil. Also another idea,there should be a dirty and difficult job,on the new hwy 93 bridge project over looking the Hoover Dam.And that would be a historical thing as well.Not to many people will have a chance to do that.Well,unless he's afraid of height's. Another in Nevada would be,someone has to have the job of cleaning all the window's on the Stratosphere Casino,way up underneath the top.That would definitely be interesting. Oh,if he should need assistance on any of these jobs,or just two people to give moral support.My wife and I would help. Hope these idea's might be of some help. Bob Bontrager
Seriously, Mike, preventative maintenance on semi trucks! We get ours done in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a bonus, our company gives us company T-shirts - get you one before you get started and you can throw THAT away when you're done!
It occurred to me when I got back into the truck after fueling and noticed my white jeans were no longer as white as they once were, that this, being a driver's wife, was really not a dirty job. My husband had once climbed under the truck to determine why the truck's fifth-wheel locking mechanism was not attaching firmly to the kingpin shank and, coming back in to the truck, threw away his shirt because once fifth wheel grease gets on an item of clothing the ONLY thing you can do is throw it away I thought to myself, "THIS is not a dirty job."
You see, Mike, the dirty job is handling that lubrication all day long, as the mechanics at our company shop do every day. One slip and your clothes become refuse.
As for my husband? He still claims that the dirtiest job he's ever done is riding logs in a lumber mill log pond. Apparently the water is so full of pitch and filth, one slip can dump you in water that will send you home for the day, no questions asked. I don't know, I've never seen him after falling in a log pond, but I've tossed his fifth-wheel lubed shirt in the nearest garbage can. That's dirty enough for me! Is it dirty enough for you?
