The US's ten most hazardous jobs - other than being elected president, which brings your chances to getting killed on the job to about 1:10:
1. Logging workers Fatalities: 92.4 per 100,000 employed 2. Aircraft pilots and flight engineers Fatalities: 92.4 per 100,000 employed 3. Fishers and related workers Fatalities: 86.4 per 100,000 employed 4. Structural iron and steel workers Fatalities: 47 per 100,000 employed 5. Refuse and recyclable material collectors Fatalities: 43.2 per 100,000 employed 6. Farmers and ranchers Fatalities: 37.5 per 100,000 employed 7. Roofers Fatalities: 34.9 per 100,000 employed 8. Electrical power line installers and repairers Fatalities: 30 per 100,000 employed 9. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers Fatalities: 27.6 per 100,000 employed 10. Taxi drivers and chauffeurs Fatalities: 24.2 per 100,000 employed SOURCE: http://www.careerbuilder.com/JobSeeker/careerbytes/CBArticle.aspx?articleID=421&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=59ca75a10a184ab8a8dfbda0bb327ea9-223986519-TP-4 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One night, George W. Bush is tossing restlessly in > his White House bed. He awakens to see George Washington > standing by him. Bush asks him, "George, what's the best > thing I can do to help the country?" > > "Set an honest and honorable example, just as I did," > Washington advises, and then fades away... > > The next night, Bush is astir again, and sees the ghost > of Thomas Jefferson moving through the darkened bedroom. > Bush calls out, "Tom, please! What is the best thing I > can do to help the country?" > > "Respect the Constitution, as I did," Jefferson advises, > and dims from sight... > > The third night sleep still does not come for Bush. He > awakens to see the ghost of FDR hovering over his bed. > Bush whispers, "Franklin, What is the best thing I can > do to help the country?" > > "Help the less fortunate, just as I did," FDR replies > and fades into the mist... > > Bush isn''t sleeping well the fourth night when he sees > another figure moving in the shadows. It is the ghost > of Abraham Lincoln. Bush pleads, "Abe, what is the best > thing I can do right now to help the country?" > > Lincoln replies, "Go see a play." >
