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By Alison Doyle, About.com Guide to Job Searching since 1998

Dirty Jobs

Saturday April 15, 2006
If your stomach is tough enough (mine almost wasn't!) the Discovery Channel program Dirty Jobs is worth watching to see what some people are brave enough to do to earn a living. The episode I watched showed the host, Mike Rowe, cleaning septic tanks and pumping stations, and working on a worm farm, where manure is the worm food of choice. In the upcoming episodes cleaning up road kill and exterminating creepy critters are on the agenda.

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Comments

January 12, 2006 at 7:30 pm
(1) Jed says:

Hey, if you like watching “Dirty Jobs”. Check out a new show called “Crash Test Human”. The show takes a look into how safety devises work with a hands on approach. Like crashing cars head-on with actual living guy in it!

August 11, 2006 at 12:45 pm
(2) Richard Szafranski says:

I know that you show what dirty jobs people do and that mike rowe preforms
them, but consider the set up and filming accomplished by the crew; they have to position themselves to film mike and they have to get each other in the correct place to accomplish this.
why not film that?

February 3, 2009 at 11:55 am
(3) Jessa says:

I like to email TV personalities and profess my love to them in hopes that they will want to hook up. I actually think it’s possible. Isn’t that a little bit sad??

September 19, 2009 at 10:06 pm
(4) george n says:

a mike i have seen u do a commercial for ford i am self r a chevy man chevy is a batter made truck car van &suv thin any other brand but i do like dirty jobs cool show how about working on cars and stuff like that now thats a dirty job i am not able to work due to my health keep up the dirty jobs mike

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