What's the most dangerous job have you ever done?

Tossup:

a) Six years as a typesetter in a single-wide trailer with four chain-smokers. Equipment included oldstyle phototypesetters with stenchy developing chemicals, an offset duplicator with stenchy blanket-wash, and a tabletop folding machine that once grabbed my tie and tried to pull me in.

b) Two years in a small print shop doing pretty much everything, including running a different small duplicator. SOP for determining whether the water rollers were wet enough to start printing was to run your finger along it while the press was running. I got careless once, it grabbed me and peeled a large section of my right middle finger.

xpost you don't think "no-one here will appreciate that" seems a bit "ha ha my job's more dangerous than your job, you couldn't possibly understand", especially when you aren't giving concrete examples of WHY it is?

Jesus, Ailsa, take a deep breath. If you're familiar with that environment, then obv you are among the exceptions who will appreciate the stories above. The rest of us pampered pets will just have to imagine them.

Or, y'know, learn about them from movies. I'm sure it's all very romantic.

i almost gotten eaten by a hueg flim processing machine in the dark - it would bend big steel racks in half like no big deal if you put them on there wrong - i misunderstood where it was in its cycle and was feeling around for a spot for a rack when i felt a piece of the machine start to push my arms up so i instinctively dropped to my knees and slipped may arms out at the last second - they totally wouldve been broken in half - still kinda gives me shudders to think abt ten years later

xxxpost

nope.

if i could just pick you out of my throat for a moment-

i just meant that thee's a pretty romanticized idea of irish travellers out there compared to the reality, and that for the most part people don't know how rough they generally are.

it wasn't meant as a comparison against every other groups out there (i'm sure that there are tougher), just that the majority of people mightn't appreciate how difficult they are to deal with from the coverage they get in movies/journalism.

sorry bout that, and maybe calm down a little?

Laurel, I'm quite happy to appreciate others' stories. darraghmac hasn't given a story to appreciate. OK? Which is why I asked him for concrete examples of WHY it is so dangerous - I've done plenty social worky-type jobs with supposedly-rough groups that weren't even remotely dangerous as well.

xpost. fair enough.

Oh, look, I misread your post entirely! Please delete me.

I was gonna say.