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Do you love your job? What if it required a jump suit to do it or a shower after you were done, would you still love it? Well many people do love their jobs that leave them a little ripe at quitting time. But you know what? Somebody's got to do it.
The world is filled with jobs that require getting dirt under your fingernails. From auto mechanics to fry cooks there are thousands of thankless jobs that require a change in clothes when you're done.
CBS 42 Reporter Al Ratcliffe rode along with Frank King. Frank loves his job.
"I don't have to deal with a lot of traffic. I can get into job sites and I’m not in anybody's way. I do what I have to do and I'm gone."
Sounds pretty good doesn't it? That’s until you find out that King works for Birmingham Hide and Tallow, pumping out restaurant grease traps.
“We take this contraption here we call our crud buster. And mix that stuff up in there," said King.
Roughly 2,000 gallons of grease, oil, and any other thing that can come down the drains of a restaurant kitchen is what they encounter.
"I've pumped out stainless steel sauce cups, shot glasses. Some of everything comes out of these traps," said King.
It takes him just a few minutes to get the pump working. And suddenly he's bringing up three months of gray water and goo.
King gave Al an opportunity to do a little work. Handling the vacuum hose isn't as easy at it looks.
"When this thing is running it's very heavy, and the smell is just unreal."
That is putting it mildly. Most people say it smells like nothing else they’ve ever smelled before. And it just gets worse the further you go down in the trap. King says, "You get used to it."
"People ask me how I stand it, how I put up with it. I tell ‘em I smell money," said King.
The work can also be very slow. Frank says he's been on traps that have taken several trips to get cleaned out. A few weeks ago he had one that took seven hours to empty.
“It had set up and practically turned to lard," said King.
Besides the fact that there are few distractions and interruptions, another aspect that King likes about his job is fact that it's an eco-friendly profession.
"As we look in there you can see what it does just inside the trap that contains this stuff. And what it would do for our sewer system," said King.
The grease that comes out of the trap is trucked to a waste water treatment facility for disposal. The only facility in Jefferson County able to handle the waste grease is the Village Creek plant.
“We take this contraption here we call our crud buster. And mix that stuff up in there," said King. 
Besides the fact that there are few distractions and interruptions, another aspect that King likes about his job is fact that it's an eco-friendly profession.