The job nobody wanted was a dream come true for Gilbert Sanchez. “I had just graduated from high school,” he recalls. “I was 19, married and needed a job. I thought to myself ‘I’d be happy shoveling poo.’”
He went to the employment office in his hometown of Twin Falls, Idaho, but the only available job was at the wastewater treatment plant. “What does that involve?” he asked. “Shoveling poo,” they said.
The next morning he was in an aeration basin in a pair of boots shoveling stuff into a clamshell bucket: “I got my wish.” He also got a start toward
