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Originally Posted by john70t

Coal mining, lime pits, installing radio antennas, children's psych ward, prison guard, military scout. Nah.
I could do underwater welding though.

similar/related, but less well known in the first world is sulphur "mining" and salt "mining" from salt water.

I've seen some articles and videos on third world folks mining sulphur from geothermal/volcanic active areas. The air is poisonous and the ground is caustic/acidic, and many of the folks barely have clothes and shoes much less PPE.

Similar for the folks that get salt from sea water. I've seen pics of them working manually in shorts and shirts, so the salt dries and cuts their hands and feet.

In India where the caste system has been outlawed for years, the low caste manually go into the sewers to unclog, and all of the photos that I've seen show them basically in a loin cloth to do it.