September 2006 Advocate cover
In September 2006 our cover story was all about neighborhood residents who work the ickiest jobs — in our Lake Highlands edition, that included an aquarium curator at the Dallas Zoo, whose yuckiest day on the job included busting open an old pelican egg in his office. “He picked up the egg and gave it a little squeeze. “All those years of sitting in that eggshell all came back at me. It was the most hideous smell – a rotten egg times 10,000,” Potvin recalls. “We had to vacate the area for several days, and he made me clean it up. I will never forget that, nor will I ever do anything like that again.”
The story also features a paramedic and a female terminator.
The Dallas Zoo’s aquarium curator. The job apparently requires a high tolerance for stench.
Us editors discussed this story, which you can read in full here, at our last meeting, and we’ve decided we might do a 2016 version — do you have a horrible, weird or disgusting-job story you’d like to share? If so, email us at editor@advocatemag.com.
