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If you don't mind the hours, working on a garbage truck can be really good from what I hear. But oldy very dangerous too. My cousins husband was a garbageman, then he fell off the truck (I forget how) and was seriously hurt permanently. But until then he really loved what he did.
I don’t think many places have guys ride on the back of the truck anymore. It’s less dangerous and I assume less expensive to have one guy driving a truck with a robot arm to grab the bins. I’m guessing the money is still fairly decent, although the company that does ours seems to be having some sort of staffing problem. We’re supposed to have trash and recycling collected on Mondays, but for the past few months usually one of them won’t get collected until the next day.
If there’s can lifting involved, I would be worried about an unexpectedly heavy can fucking up my back.