7. Sewage Worker
If you’re planning to relocate to India, you might want to avoid the sewage cleaning industry. It’s one of India’s dirtiest, most disgusting and most dangerous occupations. Approximately 1,000 workers have lost their lives to drowning in waste, diseases like tuberculosis and hepatitis contracted on the job and from drowning in waste products – in the last seven years alone.
Most workers belong to India’s lowest caste, known as the Dalits or untouchables. Most do their work in their normal clothes equipped with a hoe, steel bar and bucket. It’s a pretty solitary job aside from the cockroaches and giant rats.
The take-home pay isn’t great either. Most workers in India don’t earn more than $100 a month.
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