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If I had to, there are none that I wouldn't do. Only the vain and the foolish think otherwise.

I grew up on a farm; baled hay, shoveled crap, walked beans, you name it.

My husband quit his sales-rep job after my Dad died prematurely to help on the family farm (for half of his former income). He grew up in the suburbs; his family never farmed.

He is living two hours away from me, and just spent his day cleaning out and rebedding the lambing barn, and changing the oil and hydraulic fluid on a tractor. Last I talked to him two hours ago, he had just finished feeding some bottle lambs, checking on the still-expecting ewes for the night..and was about to head to bed after his 17-hour day of work.

We see each other on the weekends.

These elitists need to get out of DC more often. Jobs American's won't do, my A##.

hehe...there is no job an American won't do.

I put myself through college working in the meat packing plants alongside ever increasing numbers of illegals.
I worked in the tallow room to pay for my college education and I was not alone.
(Tallow is the fat from beef, it goes in huge vats, is seperated and rendered, and...you don't want to know anymore.)

We poor white kids from the trailer park actually did the jobs "Illegals do because no American will".

But wait there's more...
After several years working in education I ended up going back to school for my Master's. I ended up back in KS, in Emporia. I remembered that I could easily pull a third shift again while taking classes. (It's "easy money" as mi vatos called it.) So I went to the Emporia Tyson meat packing plant there.
First, the entire workforce is "immigrant". um, hmm
Second, wages were now down to the 6-7.00 range (from around 10.00 just about 4 years before).
Going to grad school without a job, I was desperate so I applied for any third shift opening.
They never called me for an interview.

Ain't that a ____! A white guy does actually does apply to work at a packing plant, (with 4 years experience in the meat packing industry) and he never gets an interview...

In those two weeks I put in around 50 applications and actually got a good job, but this is a true story!