8. Electrical repairs. This is another occupation taken for granted unless the power goes out while you’re under anesthetic. When Fluffy the Siamese cat meets a transformer — the kind not under the hackneyed direction of Michael Bay — the first one on the scene, or maybe the second after the fireman with a putty knife for feline scraping, is the electrical technician. While window washers, construction workers, or the guy teetering on the top rope in a WWE pay-per-view need only fear gravity, electrical workers scale power lines during inclement weather at all hours of the day or night and risk not only falling but electrocution and encounters with rabid squirrels.

Cost / Benefit Analysis:

Cons: Don’t need to commit pre-meditated murder in the United States to know what the electric chair feels like.

But on the Plus Side: Panoramic views, stealing cable and getting mileage out of jerking around like you’ve just been electrocuted to scare passersby.

A blind man walked into a bank with his seeing-eye dog that guided him everywhere. He walked into the center of the bank floor, took the dog by the chain, and started swinging him around his head.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked. The other customers were very confused and some very upset at the way the animal was being treated. A off duty police working security ran up to the blind man and asked, 'Sir, what are you doing!?!'

The man turned toward the officer and simply said 'Looking around'.

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