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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by danbruc on Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:42PM (#16194692)
[...] but there is virtually no plausible amount of money that would make this job a good job [...]

I think I would happily do that if it paid well enough so that I only had to work, say, three months or less a year.

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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by dogma1138 on Saturday January 20, 2018 @01:49PM (#16194728)
There are pretty hard seasonal jobs that can pay 50-60K for a season (3-4 months), e.g seasonal fishing.

Even in the UK you can find fishing jobs that pay £1500-2000 a week during peak season which means you can earn what Amazon pays in 2.5 months but it’s much harder than sorting items at a warehouse.

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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by walshemj on Saturday January 20, 2018 @05:14PM (#16195709)
Its almost the most dangerous job in the UK though
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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by dogma1138 on Saturday January 20, 2018 @05:59PM (#16195905)
Not in the top 10 (well the list only goes to 8 but number 8 is already only 1 deaths per year) in the UK.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/08/07/deadliest-job...

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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by walshemj on Saturday January 20, 2018 @06:28PM (#16196010)
Its the death rate % I was talking about.

According to the industry's trade body, Seafish, there are 126 deaths per 100,000 fishermen each year; "many times higher" than any other sector of UK industry

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-13947723

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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by dogma1138 on Saturday January 20, 2018 @06:45PM (#16196079)
I don't get where the BBC gets those numbers, unless there are only like 5000 fishermen in the UK which would somehow make the 126 deaths per 100,000 sound plausible.

http://www.hse.gov.uk/agriculture/pdf/ag-fatal-1617.pdf

Also please note the the vast majority of injuries and fatalities seems to be in farming rather than fishing those statistics are unified but the causes are broken down.

The individual deaths and causes are also listed http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/fatalities/2016-17.htm I couldn't find one that related directly to fishing.

Don't get me wrong fishing is dangerous but I haven't seen anything that would indicate that it's one of the most dangerous jobs in the UK.

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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by somecontext on Saturday January 20, 2018 @07:15PM (#16196197)
I don't have a horse in this race, but fyi, I found some fishing-related deaths here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/marine-accident-i...
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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by dogma1138 on Saturday January 20, 2018 @07:22PM (#16196220)
Thanks for that source, not sure why HSE doesn't list those maybe because they are still under investigation.
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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by walshemj on Sunday January 21, 2018 @10:04AM (#16198281)
Its from the fishing industry its self as the BBC article says.
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Re:The Amazon worker: paid £18,000 a year to shift 250 items... by dogma1138 on Monday January 22, 2018 @06:02AM (#16203450)
"fishing industry" doesn't mean much, all job related deaths are recorded by the HSE in the UK (this is equivalent to OSHA in the US), which is why I asked for the actual statistics.
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