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As they say nothing ever comes easy or without some work involved. If your up for a challenge and you don’t mind a bit of danger, there is one job where you can make thousands of dollars in just a few days. Of course, it doesn’t come without it’s risk. In fact, it is the most dangerous job in the world with a fatality rate 30 times higher than any other in the world. Still, if you’ve got it in you and you can get a spot, there’s good money to be made.

What’s the job? Crab fishing in Alaska on the Bering Sea in the middle of winter, working 20 plus hour shifts with little more than a couple hours break between them, battling 20 to 30 foot waves when it’s 20 degrees on a ship that’s sometimes covered in inches of ice on a sea that’s as unforgiving as your wife or girlfriend after she finds you banging her best friend.

If you haven’t watched it, then I highly recommend you check out the reruns of this season’s Deadliest Catch on Discovery Channel. All I can say is these guys are crazy nuts and next time I sit down to enjoy an Alaskan King Crab that I paid $30/lb or more for I’ll certainly have a better appreciation for it after seeing what these guys go through to catch them. It’s definitely good money, even a greenhorn stands to make a years worth of slopping hamburgers in just a few weeks if they can brave the brutality of the Bering Sea.

So, if you think bloggings hard, here’s a couple of videos to remind you what it could be like. Check them out after the jump.
What do you think? Could you handle it?

I’m sure I could, provided I get to stay in the wheel house with the Captain where it’s nice and warm, but that’s about as far as I’m willing to consider going, homey ain’t going out the deck for nothing.