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There are actually people who have retired from their IT jobs to drive garbage trucks. If the garbage hauling job doesn't itch a scratch that you have, then fin
by MisterBastahrd 5y ago
There are actually people who have retired from their IT jobs to drive garbage trucks. If the garbage hauling job doesn't itch a scratch that you have, then find something else or raise the pay until someone is happy to haul your trash.
- shard 5y agoSounds like there are hierarchies in the garbagemen business. I recall reading an article a few years back about garbagemen, the ones who ride on the back of the trucks, they do back-breaking work, and it's definitely a young man's gig.
- MisterBastahrd 5y agoI've admittedly never seen our garbage trucks in operation here in my Dallas suburb, but for over a decade in Louisiana, our garbage trucks were a 1 man crew who ran a robotic arm.
- shard 5y agoFound the article, it's from 2018 about garbage collection in NYC: https://www.propublica.org/article/trashed-inside-the-deadly-world-of-private-garbage-collection https://www.propublica.org/article/trashed-inside-the-deadly...