Do it.
One of my first jobs was for British Steel with an agency, working nights.
It's shut now, but in its prime it was a brilliant part of the income for the country as they primarily exported and did so to the value of all the car manufacturers put together. Big business. They had their own rail lines in and out of the factory going to ports across the country.
They heated up giant blocks of steel and ran them on huge rollers from one end of the factory to the other at about 25MPH, and in the middle, there was a shaped 'thing' that squeezed it through a gap that got smaller each time. Eventually, you'd end up with H shaped girders and that sort of thing.
As it went through that process, steel filings used to sheer off and end up in a river under the rollers that went from one end of the factory to the other. The idea was the river would cool the filings, and push them down into a collector at the bottom, and when half full, they'd use a magnet to pick them up, and melt them into a block to use again.
Problem was, the river would get blocked and even the walkway at the side of the river would end up part of the river.
My job: go down there in wellies with forks and shovels and clear out the river. Was a daily job, used to take 8 hours to clear a few feet per man, and the factory was half a mile long. The rollers would still be hot, the filings would be sharp, my jeans would be soaking wet through from the minute I got there, the **** in my pocket would often get wet so we used to put them in our hard hats, which used to fall off (or get knocked off by a fellow worker for a laugh so you had to go fishing for it down the river).
Loved it. It paid for going out on a saturday night.
I think you do work to live. Sod the job. It's an income.
Can't find anything on youtube about BS, but here's something that'd give you an idea of the amount of water required, and how filthy everything was.
[video=youtube;6xnKmt_gsLs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xnKmt_gsLs[/video]
