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Can’t stop thinking about this post I saw a couple days ago that was proposing this kind of… sanitation work jury duty, where everyone would just be garbage men for one day a year because no one should have to work with garbage as their actual job.

I can’t help but think about:

A) How much training it probably takes to even be able to operate a garbage truck, much less all the safety stuff in case someone decided to dispose of their used needles or broken glass or whatnot in a standard garbage bin. I get stressed out driving my silly little sedan. I don’t want to think about how much of a hazard I’d be to myself and everyone around me on my ‘garbage collector day.’

B) The number of specialists it takes to even make a place for the garbage to go. Like. You need so much stuff, so many specialists, just to make sure water runoff from the landfill isn’t contaminating the groundwater. It’s not a one and done thing, and that’s a tiny almost tangential part of dealing with garbage.

C) That some people actually do want to work in sanitation, and that part of the point of a society is that you can trade around jobs to make things easier for everyone.

I don’t know, it’s like people only look at the very surface layer of something, and think that’s all there is to it, or that there’s only the part that they, personally, participate in.

There are a couple people in the tags saying that customer service should be the 'jury duty job’ instead, and I can’t help but feel like some of my point is being missed. Like, my main point was definitely 'don’t undervalue sanitation work,’ but I feel like 'jobs require training’ and 'some people like the jobs you would hate’ were strong secondary points.

Yo I’m a slaughterhouse worker.

I do it for love; my sister owns the farm, needs my help. So I do it. You couldn’t pay me enough to do it for strangers. But someone has to. Livestock is the most effective use of that land; someone has to harvest the livestock. That’s just how it is. I don’t mind doing it; it’s hard physical work but I’ve acquired the skill and it’s satisfying to see it done.

And since I have that skill, I have done it for other farms, people I don’t really know, for no money at all, just an exchange of favors. I wouldn’t do it for money. But I’ll do it for love and for satisfaction.

I can’t think of a dirtier job than that. It’s a lot of chicken shit y’all. But I do it for love, and for the satisfaction of the accomplishment. Plenty of people won’t or can’t do it, can’t imagine it– but that’s fine, they don’t have to do it. Not everything has to be for everybody. (Your picture was not posted)