The Toughest Jobs In America

Firefighter, construction worker, doctor are just a few examples of the Top 10.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello there, Cubby with Nina and for Christine producer Christen.
The toughest job in America, according to this nationwide survey,
a firefighter at number one. I get it totally. I mean,
but you could argue a lot of these others could
be number one, like construction worker at number two. Job
couldn't do it? Construction worker, yeah, military number three, certainly,

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doctor number four, that's mental, police officer number five, that's stressful.
Number six, e MT or paramedic number seven, an astronaut.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Some astronauts certain ones. Yeah, Katie Perry.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Again, toughest jobs in America farmer.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Farmer's very hard and very stressful.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Now what is it about being a farmer that's so hard?
I know it's hard. Is it the hours of the weather.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I think the weather is a lot of it, and
I think the stress of it.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Okay, Yeah, this has been in the news. At number nine,
air traffic controller, very stressful. Yeah, a lot of lives
at stake, right. Number ten is an oil work you.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Have to work on one of those rigs out there
in the ocean.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
You know what I always heard was the toughest and
it's not on here. And they said the deadliest is
a lagger. A lagger, you know how you're out there,
like you have to climb the trees, trees falling, you're
getting the river with the you'd have to like be
on the river, and like they said, that was the
biggest cause of death or the most likely cause of death.
And work when you have to, you know, put the
logs on the river and they float them down or
maybe fall in between and get crushed. Ooh yeah, not

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that we have a lot of loggers around here. But
all right, I got always stix in my head.

Speaker 1 (01:30):
Number eleven is a nurse. Number twelve is a roofer.
Thirteen is an electrician. They must get electrocuted all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh my god, imagine their fingers.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Even to me, even the smartest electrician must get electrocuted
all the time. Of course, it's so many wires. Let's
get to the bottom here. A home builder number fourteen,
an engineer number fifteen, a pilot number sixteen, a teacher
number seventeen. Shout out to all the teachers. I know
your job is very hard but also very rewarding. Lawyer eighteen,
carpenter number nine eighteen, And that's a woodworker or a

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cabinet maker as well. And finally at number twenty, a
dry wall or plaster installer.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
There's a guy on Instagram. I wish I could remember
his name who does drywall, and he's like a magician
with the drywall, you know, putting it up so quickly
and cutting it and could put the whole sheet up
like it's a whole skill set. Notice how most of these,
a lot of these have to do with construction.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Does anything here surprise you? Though? On the list, it
all makes sense to me.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Lawyer's tough in what way, like mentally, like you hate
your client and you got to defend them. Yeah, is
that what that is about? Well?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Number what number was lawyer? Oh, you're right, it's number eighteen,
so it's near the bottom of the top twenty. But still,
I guess you just have to have all your facts,
right man, You got to like have everything, sleepless nights, sleepless.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Nights, a lot, a lot of work, a lot of reading.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
But ah, you know, kristin your thoughts, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
I think there's certain I guess the order, you know,
I would think that you know, a policeman maybe police officer.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
I don't know, was it be higher.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
Yeah, I think so. Well.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Shout shout out to your dad, by the way.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Thank you. My dad's retired. Yeah, my brother is too.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah cool. Yeah, dad served for a long time.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
And what area did they work in?

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Well, my dad was he retired detective for the Port
Authority okay, and my brother now works for Oh he changed.
He was NYPD now he is Rockland County Okay.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
He's in rock them country.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Name and badge number police.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah, no, I don't know that. I don't know all that.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Technically, I think by law they have to give their
name and badge number if you ask right, maybe like.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
If you don't like like you're giving me a ticket,
why I need you name and badge number? That kind
of thing.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Or you can just go up to a police officer
at random.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Like if they're having lunch, well don't they wear it?

Speaker 1 (03:38):
They do wear it.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
It's like Smithers four five eight nine.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
But if you can't read it, I think by law
they have to say their name and badge number. They
can't go why do you want it? Like, they can't
do that. They have to say it. Correct me if
I'm wrong at four four