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The $100,000 job: Garbage workers
When Noel Molina smells trash, he smells money. Lots of it.
Molina and his co-worker, Tony Sankar, have been picking trash together for a decade in New York City.
They've seen, and smelled, it all. Stale fish, footlong rats, dead pigs and cows. Countless drunks have heckled them. And yes, one time Sankar saw a human leg in a dumpster.
They work the graveyard shift -- 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. -- rain or shine, ice cold or burning hot.
And yet, they love their job. Part of the reason is they get paid well for their hard work.
"Your trash is my money," Molina, 32, says with a baby-faced grin.
Molina made $112,000 last year as a garbage truck driver and Sankar made $100,000 as a helper, riding on the back of the truck. Their wages have grown in eight of the last nine years, according to their bosses, brothers David and Jerry Antonacci, owners of Crown Container, a waste management company...
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/24/news...pay/index.html
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They work harder than overpaid entertainers and sportsmen
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Resident Chocolate Monster
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Wow, Lista, that's a big difference - We'd all be up the creek without our sanitation workers - I certainly appreciate their efforts.
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alot of trash talking going on here....
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