Worst job you ever had

[lostatsea]

Not me, but I had a friend in high school who worked part time for a funeral director. The cash was good, they paid him $15 an hour. He quit after working there 6 months. He told me some things about the job, like how the director used to drain the bodies, and he had to help the guy with the pan and the instruments, Creepy crawlers, I wouldn't do that for twice the money.

[DarkSkies]

Turkey milking and other great jobs -

I hear the pay is good....
but no way would I do it.
Hat's off to the guys who can..


Finchaser is involved in the food business, he's got a lot of interesting stories. This is just one of them relating to the job of turkey milking.

What the heck is turkey milking?
Turkeys in captivity are prevented from breeding. They have to be kept apart or the hens will kill the toms.

So someone has to get out the juices from the tom to impregnate the hen with, hence the turkey milker job, a lucrative position where there are lots of job openings. I wonder why?



A first hand account from a blogsite:
[I have never done this, but saw an ad in a west virginia newspaper in the job section, looking to hire "Turkey Milkers".

Not being familiar with west va, or turkey culture, i asked my neighbor what a "Turkey Milker" did. As she explained it to me, a Tuurkey Milker picks up a 50-plus pound male turkey and stimulates it to ejaculation to collect sperm to inseminate female turkeys. I believed her, as her brother-in-law shortly was hired to perform this task. Sadly, he only lasted about a week....and that was at 15.00 an hour. Apparently his technique just ticked the turkeys off.]

[Turkeys used for breeding cannot mate naturally due to artificial growth rates. Male and female turkeys used for breeding are masturbated and artificially inseminated in order to obtain semen, which is driven into the female bird’s body. A “milker” at a ConAgra turkey breeding facility in Missouri described his job: “I have never done such hard, dirty, disgusting work in my life: 10 hours of pushing birds, grabbing birds, wrestling birds, jerking them upside down, pushing open their vents, dodging their panic-blown excrement and breathing the dust stirred up by terrified birds.”]

[DarkSkies]

I hear the pay is good....
but no way would I do it.
Hat's off to the guys who can..


Turkeys in captivity are prevented from breeding. They have to be kept apart or the hens will kill the toms.

Another great job with hardly any unemployment is the Turkey sexer. This is a lot less strenuous than turkey milking, as the only thing you have to do is decide the sexes of the newborn turkeys as they come down an assembly line.

However you have to be accurate, as one mistake will get a tom turkey killed if it is placed in with females.

From what I understand, the turkey sexing runs in the family, as generations of people "fall into" this type of job. Most are quite good at it or they would lose their jobs. And honestly, it does take some special skills to be able to determine the sex of a newborn turkey, as there are no distinguishing sexual charasteristics at that age.

So the next time you're at a party and the group is talking about fascinating or worst jobs, you can tell them about these!

[DarkSkies]

Finchaser as a turkey milker?

It seems I may have gotten the above story mixed up. This morning Speedy and I were talkin. He told me Finchaser allegedly "worked his way up" to the food broker job he now has. When he first started, he allegedly had the job as a turkey milker.

Couldn't find a "turkey milker video" so I'm posting this one where they artificially inseminate birds. What a great job!

[albiealert]

That's just plain nasty. I hope you guys are just kidding.

[dogfish]

Turkey milker hohoho!
Thats worse than cleaning the fry vats for sure.

[paco33]

You could jerk your gherkin or jerk the turkey?
Isn't that bestiality? I'll stick with jerking my gherkin.

[finchaser]

That's just plain nasty. I hope you guys are just kidding.

He's just kidding about me but we do have turkey milkers in many of our plants and I'm not a broker either,Dark the bird man is delusional.

[DarkSkies]

...Dark the bird man is delusional.

He's right, I'm delusional.
For anyone who read that, we embellished there, guilty as charged.
Speedy and I thought we could twist the facts around a bit and cheer ya up, Fin, get your mind off of life for now...

Anything to get the OGB to laugh.
Look for more bird stories soon.