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Unpleasant Jobs in Our Society
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Introduction
P1: Why these are jobs unpleasant?

People in to Kill a Mockingbird
P2: Atticus (took on case, knew town wouldn’t like it, defended hard …)
P3: Zeebo (Calpurnia's oldest son, is the town garbage collector. He is one of only four people in First Purchase church who can read, and so he is the vocal leader, leading hymns in the black First Purchase Church by "lining," reading a line of verse and having the congregation repeat it. After Atticus shoots a rabid dog, Tim Johnson, Zeebo is called to remove the animal's corpse and disinfect the location.)

Worst Jobs Today
P4: Executioner (Don’t know life, could be killing innocent, some of the world’s worst jobs have thankfully been confined to the history books, and none so happily as this one. Anonymous work it may have been, but cutting off heads for a living was a messy and precise job. You’ve seen the state of a butcher’s coat during the course of a normal day, right? Try explaining that at the laundrette. Axe wielding executioners had to be sure to swing the tool of their trade in just the right way to ensure total beheading and therefore immediate death. Not a job for the clumsy...)
P5: Exterminator (Being an exterminator has to be somewhere near the top of the list of unpleasant, if not disgusting, career choices. From creepy crawly cockroaches to bees, fleas and rats, the exterminator’s job is a smelly, dirty and sometimes dangerous one. Imagine a carpet seemingly alive with fleas, or a cramped loft space literally buzzing with angry wasps...small spaces, biting, and stinging creatures are all part of a day’s work for the boys and girls in pest control.)

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