<p>My son would love it! He learned his job off the coast of Seattle. If you can learn to love diving there, you can love it anywhere!</p>
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<p>Just got this email. Watch out for the jellyfish!!!</p>
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<dl><dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana . He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne , Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won.</span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">Hi Sue,</span></em></dd>
<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother.</span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all. </span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job.</span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool.</span></em></dd>
<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel poweredindustrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. </span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints.</span></em><br><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose</span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;"> and stuff it downthe back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi.</span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. With in a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony, I realized what had happened.</span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate.</span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt.</span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically.</span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression.</span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber.</span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut.</span></em><br><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt.</span></em><br>
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<dd><em><span style="font-size:14px;">Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.'</span></em></dd>
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