America’s Toughest Jobs is a new extreme competition television series that will test contestants who are willing to take on what the show considers the most challenging and dangerous jobs on earth, competing for both glory and a paycheck.
The jobs include logging, crab fishing, search and rescue, ice road trucking, monster truck driving, bridge work, gold digging, and rodeo bull fighting. There are 13 contestants, including a Wall Street executive, a recruiter, a carpenter, a personal trainer, a teacher, and an administrative assistant.
At the end of each each episode, the contestants' new boss and co-workers decides who can do the job and who gets to go home. The over-all winner gets the combined annual salary ($250,000) of all the tough jobs. America's Toughest Jobs premieres on NBC Monday, August 25 at 9 pm ET.
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One of the definitions of
dog days, according to Merriam Webster, is "a period of stagnation or inactivity." That can happen to the best of us when the temperature is hot, the beaches are packed, and we're trying to hustle up a new job when everyone else is having fun. In fact, it can even happen when you have the opposite weather pattern, like we have had this summer - or what summer? - with rain almost every day since mid-July. And then there's
estivating, passing the summer in a dormant state, much the same as a bear does in winter. It can be easy enough to do that, too.
Even though August is a big month for vacations, employers are still hiring and this is a good time to be job searching - especially since lots of people quit looking until after Labor Day. There may be less competition for available jobs and even if you split your time, some at the beach or park, some estivating, and some working on your job search, you will still be able to make headway and beat the crowds who will be job searching in force after the summer.
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