Victor (Vic) Strecher

I remember we had a septic tank that needed emptying out in the front of our house.

And I remember talking to the manager there and asking him about his job.

Said, why do you do this?

Because, you know, it's a pretty smelly job, obviously.

It's a very smelly job, actually.

And he looked at me like I was kind of crazy.

And he said, well, for the money.

And I said, do you realize that this is one of the most important things that one could ever do in public health through the history of humankind, taking the poop out of the water?

system is one of the most important things anyone has ever done for the public salt.

And that's what you do.

In a way, you are a public health worker.

And his eyes kind of lit up.

He literally then said, can I give you my card?

And I said, well, of course.

And it suddenly it almost was like some light clicked in him.

I don't know whether that will stay.

I don't know whether it's changed his life.

But at least at that point, he may have viewed his job in a

in a different way.

One of the jobs that's been considered the least purposeful and the least paying is parking attendant.