PC name for fishermen?

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But to me that sounds like an insult, as if the person is not worthy of having a gender or am I missing the point somewhere?

Ok. Lets think of someone in a mans body who has a feminine mental gender. This person will dress up as a lady and would be called binlady, and if a person who has a womans body but thinks they are a man and dresses up as a man, then they would be called a binman.

I really do not see why this is not appropiate?

A very big metallic thing that holds garbage (rubbish) is sometimes called a bin in the US.

We also have “diaper bin.” I believe I’ve heard of “nappy bin.”

Fishcatcher would be hard to get used to—but it’s not a bad solution.

It should be noted that Fisher is a common surname…but Fisherman is virtually unknown as a surname.

Where you bin man?

Do you mean "Was I a bin man?"

No. My Dad knew them all as he was a carpenter employed by the local council and they often met together in the depot etc along with other tradespeople such as plasterers, brickies etc.

I went into trades relating to my two main hobbies as somehow to be outside of this area of line of work was stressful. I could relate to my hobbies so it was more natural for me to do that.
The problem is that when I tried going outside my comfort zone, I found I did not get the job apart from eight months of being a postman on the second time I applied (The first time I applied was years earlier and I messed it up through being far too honest, but I was only 16 and it was my first job interview, and they had said on the application form that I have to tell the truth or I will be prosecuted, and the question asked if I had ever been to hospital, so I listed the lot. When I was born, when I had a perforated ear drum, fractured fingers and arm, caught myself in my zip etc, and there was a panel of 14 people interviewing me and I had passed their exams we had to sit with flying colours, and then one said "How long were you in hospital when you fractured your arm?" I said "About an hour or two hours?" and one said "Well we won't ask you about the other occasions" and a few of them were trying not to laugh. I did not get the job. It may have been that I tend to look young for my age so when I was 16, I was very short and I looked as if I was about 12. (I sprang up in height when I was 17 to be normal height)).
I will give an example. Due to spending years in retail working in various positions in the bicycle trade, I had also earned myself NVQ's in retail while I was there.
The jobcentre reasoned with me that I could work in other similar trades in the retail industry and I was willing to give it a go, so I applied for other jobs.
I was told that there was a new chainstore shop opening up selling clothes. (I did not know that clothes were a shutdown trigger back then, and one store I was in where I was the head of a bicycle department was large which also sold other things on other departments (Sports store) which had a clothes department and I would occasionally help there, or on the fitness or golf or footware departments when there was no one to cover them. As that store was large with wide isles and had tiled floors the clothes did not effect me so much as it did if the layout was different as there was plenty of air as the bike department was near the doors).
Now this shop that I thought was a clothes shop was called "Ann Summers". I went in for the interview which was in their store. It was all underwear and other odd things, many of which I did not know what they were. No one told me it was a sex shop, but I did not know, even while being interviewed. It was actually many months after (I did not get the job as they said it wasn't really my line of work. This puzzled me because I said "But I have sold clothes in the past?" which I had) when my brothers wife (Now his ex. wife, who was a very forward and flirty type) was talking about the shop and I said that I had applied there for a job. She looked at me and could not stop laughing! It was only then when my Mum told me that it was a sex shop. My Mum said "Didn't you know?"
"Well, no one told me!" I replied.
"Where have you been all your life?"
Usually I would get the "I don't know. You bury your head in train books or trains!" type reply, but I wasn't given that. They were too busy laughing at the thought of me applying for a job in a sex shop and not knowing what it was.

"Bin" is a common word in the States for "large containers" for either for refuse, or for supplies. But we just dont have the term "bin men".

But...what do you call a bin for hazardous waste?

"A haz-bin"?

Or a "never was"?

"Fisher folk" sounds like something from a fantasy novel. Like a tribe of hobbits that lives on a river.

In the Mesolithic Era (Middle Stone Age) in the UK area, there was a group of people known to archaeologists as “fisher folk.”