Someone’s gotta do it! The graveyard shift, picking up trash from the streets of NYC! Not a glamours job, not one that people will look up at you for BUT it seems one that at least some folks are earning a decent living at!

Rain, snow, intense heat, whatever the conditions Noel Molina and his co-worker, Tony Sankar, are out there on the streets of Queens.

They have seen all sorts of mess, dead animals, rotten things we couldn’t imagine and once a human leg! BUT for years they’ve been at it, 7 p.m. to 3 a.m.

And we need them.

CNN Money reported:

Molina made $112,000 last year as a garbage truck driver and Sankar made $100,000 as a helper, riding on the back of the truck. Their wages have grown in eight of the last nine years, according to their bosses, brothers David and Jerry Antonacci, owners of Crown Container, a waste management company.

Molina dropped out of high school in the 10th grade and he’s worked at Crown for 10 years. He says his starting salary was about $80,000. Sankar too dropped out of school before migrating to the U.S. from Guyana 20 years ago.

While the average national salary for this kind of work is around $40k, the problem is their company can’t get applicants, qualified people without criminal records. So, the wages need to rise, there is no choice as the trash needs to be taken away!

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