Why put yourself through so much grueling training for what’s sure to be an aromatic job? Which country was the first to put a man in space? This job is a sort of combination of garbage collector and GI, and arguably more disgusting than both put together. Workers are typically required to wear earplugs on the job to prevent permanent hearing loss, and they communicate through hand signals. While astrology is important to some cultural traditions, its claims are not based on scientific evidence. The findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in June 2014, noted that on average, a hurricane with a masculine name resulted in 15 deaths, while a comparable hurricane with a female name would result in 42 deaths. In a much less glamorous role, the sewer worker deals with all of this stuff and more while braving the depths of the hundreds of miles of sewers beneath our cities.

Their job entails walking and sometimes crawling through sewer tunnels to inspect for cracks, clogs and other problems. As you probably guessed, they have to go all out to swim through sewage to clean out clogs. As if wading through human excrement didn’t sound bad enough, some workers are also sewage divers. Asteroids are small, rocky bodies that orbit the sun. Given that modern economies largely depend on it, and as prices soar, you can bet that companies will pay a lot to find and drill for this black gold. It involves spending weeks at a time sleeping, eating and working 12-hour days or nights on a man-made drill rig in the middle of the ocean. Offshore rig life is especially difficult. Daily life on an oil rig is dirty and dangerous. But for most workers, striking oil isn’t so glamorous in real life. Rats, roaches, dark passages and the occasional corpse — no, we’re not talking about a day in the life of Indiana Jones. In addition to the excrement, smell, and creepy crawly bugs and rats, sewer workers sometimes come across dead bodies, both animal and human.

It may come as a surprise, but fishing persistently ranks as the most deadly occupation in the U.S. Although mining has come a long way since “How Green Was My Valley” days, it remains a tough job. Joining the ranks of garbage collecting and fishing, coal mining is also one of the most dangerous professions today. Just from breathing, coal miners ingest coal dust and sometimes develop black lung, a condition that causes shortness of breath and emphysema. Forget getting your hands dirty — working in a coal mine will get your everything dirty. But what will they find when they get there? Have you ever been stuck in traffic and thought: “There has got to be a better way to get where I’m going”? How many rings does Saturn have? If the fishermen can protect themselves from being swept overboard in a storm, they’ll still have to worry about the dangers of fishing machinery and coils on crab boats, which can also fling them overboard. Off the Alaskan shore, crab fisherman face freezing waters and storms that give way to gargantuan ocean waves. And even if they avoid drowning, cold temperatures can give way to fatal hypothermia. Even when a company is cash-strapped, executives still may recognize strong contributions from their employees.

Even if sanitation engineers eventually get used to the smell, it probably doesn’t make them popular after working a long shift. Aside from the cramped conditions, heavy machinery and explosive materials make this a perilous job that requires hardhats and steel-toed boots. And the business side of oil drilling isn’t the only part that’s booming — the machinery is extremely loud. After we’ve done our business in the bathroom, all we have to do is flush our waste goodbye, and we’ll never have to see it again. So you can bet that the GI’s patients aren’t always happy to see him. Your co-workers will see you intently reading the report from yesterday’s meeting, but they won’t see you strengthening your abs and relieving your tired leg muscles. Make sure you replace your air filters often so that your heater and air conditioner will work efficiently. “Ergonomics should be a big consideration when selecting desks and work chairs,” Morris says. I will work every hour God sends unless someone stops me.