Stigma of `dirty' jobs no bother, study finds

SAN DIEGO It's a dirty job, but Fred Dean figures he might aswell be the one to do it.

Dean's job is scraping dead animals off San Diego's streets.

"It gives me peace of mind. I'm making an honest dollar, andputting food on the table and a roof over my head. And I know myjob's not going anywhere," he says. "There's always going to be aneed for somebody like me."

In fact, people like Dean - garbage collectors, hospitalorderlies, bail bondsmen, strippers and others who work in jobs mostfolks find either physically, socially or morally tainted - aren'tparticularly bothered by the stigma, according to researcher BlakeAshford, who presented a study titled …