Dangerous Jobs: The World's Riskiest Ways to Make an Extra Buck

by Abigail R. Gehring

The success of A&E’s hit series “Deadliest Catch” and Discovery Channel’s new reality show, “The World’s Toughest Jobs” prove that Americans are fascinated with danger and the people who make it their livelihood. Here readers will find all the harrying details on dozens of the riskiest jobs on earth. Ever thought about becoming a bounty hunter? Wondered how much bullfighters make? Considered training lions or jumping out of helicopters into forest fires for some extra cash? Did you know truck drivers have steered themselves into one of the most dangerous jobs in America? Dangerous Jobs offers an entertaining and informational guide to employment for the truly adventurous soul.

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 12, 2009

About the author

Abigail R. Gehring is a writer who divides her time between New York City and rural Vermont. She is the editor of Back to Basics, Homesteading, and Self-Sufficiency, and author of Odd Jobs: How to Have Fun and Make Money in a Bad Economy and Dangerous Jobs: The World’s Riskiest Ways to Make an Extra Buck. The Simple Joys of Grandparenting: Stories, Nursery Rhymes, Recipes, Games, Crafts, and More. The Little Book of Country Baking: Classic Recipes for Cakes, Cookies, Breads, and Pies. She's practiced living self-sufficiently since her childhood in Vermont, helping build a log cabin, being home-schooled, home-canning jams and jellies, and enjoying natural crafts. She's held many of the jobs she writes about in her book, including beer promoter, “Cinderella”, lipstick reader, and hot dog vendor.

Reviews

[Deb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very dry, mostly factual, with some humor sprinkled in. Hard to believe it's based on the much more captivating TV show.

[Pierson]

My book was all about every kind of dangerous jobs in the world. Their were crazy jobs from jumping out of a plane to save people to being a brain surgeon and outing other peoples lives on your shoulders. It was very interesting book because i feel like i learned a lot of useful information and potential jobs i could do in the future. I would very much like to do a dangerous job because they are much more fun than normal jobs.
The advantages of having one of the jobs in the book would be that it would be very exciting at work and everyday would be a new adventure. A second advantage would be that it would most likely pay well because risking your life everyday has to be worth a lot of money. I would also like alot of these jobs because most of them have to doing with helping or saving people which would make you feel very good.
The disadvantages of having a very dangerous job, is the most obvious, having a chance of dying or getting severely hurt. The other disadvantages is it would be very easy to mess up and just making one mistake could injury you and other people. There are many disadvantages and advantages but overall i think one of these jobs would be very good for me. Overall this was a very interesting book and i would highly recommend it to a friend.