[Drew68]

The 130-foot (40-meter) Scandies Rose was traveling in an area with warnings about strong winds and heavy freezing spray

I couldn't imagine a more miserable occupation.

[pepsi_junkie]

They make a LOT of money. It's dangerous and miserable, as you say. But men do it because they can make a lot more in a season than a year doing contruction or something.

On a side note, whenever I hear about the "gender wage gap" I muse how something like 99% of all work related deaths happen to men. Men take the dangerous jobs that pay more, they take risk to reap rewards (they hope). Women don't. Just one of many reasons men make more, but it's not really "equal work".

[setter]

“I couldn’t imagine a more miserable occupation”

Oil rig North Dakota covered in oil and -40 below winds.

[Bob434]

[[I couldn’t imagine a more miserable occupation. ]]

San Fransisco Street Sweeper