Dirty Jobs

Mike works at Gills Onions, then helps build wooden ladders at the San Francisco Fire Department.

Mike helps erect a radio communications tower, then creatively commemorates a milestone.

Mike travels to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to spend the day working as a medical waste processor.

Mike travels to Mobile, Alabama to get a behind the scenes look at a Mardi Gras "Folly" float. He spends his day assembling cow bladders that will be used during the parade to drive away evil spirits.

Mike learns the tricks of the trade with a barber, then works as a landfill operator.

Mike works as water softener technician, then takes on the job of a coin washer.

Mike visits the Chicago Botanic Garden to help with the millennium seed bank project that collects and preserves flora seeds from around the world so life can replant itself in case of a catastrophic event.

Mike travels to a remote area near Moab, Utah, to take on the job of being a paleontologist.

Mike works as a fish squeezer in New Mexico, then practices pet acupuncture on a goat.