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Funny I found the same lists looking for support for my argument.

Did some poking around and here's a few lists of "most dangerous jobs" I found, while what shows up where on which list varies one thing I found to be rather consistent: dangerous jobs don't pay too good.

I would have to disagree with you about that. They DO pay good if your in a Union. If not I guess your just assed out.

1. Truck driver - Only pays well in a union.
2. Farm worker - Doesn't pay well. Pays better for union
3. Sales supervisor/proprietor - Primary cause of death is homicide. They are talking people that own small shops they get held up.
4. Construction worker - Only pays well in a union.
5. Police detective - Pays well. Always union.
6. Airplane pilot - Pays well. Always union.
7. Security guard - Only pays well in a union.
8. Taxicab driver - Only pays well in a union.
9. Timber cutter - Only pays well in a union.
10. Cashier - Only pays well in a union.
11. Fisherman - Usally pays well.
12. Metal worker - Only pays well in a union.
13. Roofer - Only pays well in a union.
14. Firefighter - Always union.

Gee. Notice all the most dangerous jobs in the country have strong Unions. I wonder why that is?

I'm not sure fishermen get paid well, at least none of the ones I've seen. Notice though they only pay well when they have a union. Then you turn to less dangerous unionized jobs (like delivery men, teachers, postal workers, janitors, most hospitality related (that's hotels to us regular folks) jobs, here's where I grabbed a lot of that http://jobsearch.about.com/cs/unionjobs/ ) and they still get paid well. The common thread for getting paid well is having a union. And there a plenty of cush jobs with butch unions out there.

And let's not forget that almost every single aspect of the entertainment industry is unionized. Last time SAG and SWG threatened to strike all the networks suddenly fell in love with reality TV... talk a bout a powerful union, these clowns own Fox. And the players of every major sport are unionized. One look at what the MLBPA has done to "Americas Pasttime" shows they're pretty powerful (and my personal poser child for unions meddling where they don't belong... advertising budgets, they were negotiating to set the advertising budgets).

Whether or not the job can get you killed, the union will make sure you're paid an exhorbitant fee.