Does your job stink?

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Grad school... Where you can do practically anything and call it science. I'm looking at the patterns of skeletal trauma caused to a "suicide bomber pig." Of course, the pig was dead before it got strapped into its vest. And it got exploded from a very long way away, with nobody around (if a pig explodes in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound?). We cut off a lot of the flesh out in the woods, but now I'm cutting off the extra and then boiling it to clean the bones.

My conclusion so far is that the pig is definitely dead. And I don't want to be a suicide bomber.

Oh, and I've got maggots, too. There were fly eggs when I collected the pig. There were baby maggots on the stuff I took out of the fridge on Friday. Haven't taken anything else out of the fridge yet, so I don't know if the baby maggots have grown or if they died. I hope they died. Maggots are icky.

We also work with human remains in our lab. Cases from the medical examiner, like decomposed, burned, or traumatized remains. So we do a lot of stuff that doesn't smell all that great. Sometimes it smells a lot like regular cooking, though, when we boil stuff that is fairly fresh. It's always funny to hear people wander down the hallway outside the lab when we're boiling human bones and they say, "Mmm... somebody's cooking something that smells really good."

I also work in the cadaver lab. That also smells interesting, but in a more chemical way, since all the bodies are preserved.

The job itself, generally no. Low stress-level most of the time and you get to interact with all sorts of different people (which many AS-ppl dont particularly enjoy but i can handle it).

However, the pay is terrible, and the mgmt is often ignorant.

Yes, but I work in an old sneaker recycling plant that used to house a sewage treatment facility, and the only items on the cafeteria menu are asparagus and beans.

Are all aspies doomed to a life of menial and terrible jobs? Or does it just happen that the aspies with troubles in the "real world" come to these forums for support?

What do you think? I work at Taco Bell, for god's sake.

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Cowlypso, you win...hands down.