Uneasy jobs

The faces behind five cringe-inducing businesses

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Some people work in fields that aren’t for the squeamish, but the services they provide are often important and necessary to our everyday way of life.

In the CN&R’s special Business issue, you’ll be introduced to several local businesspeople whose professions appear to have a disconcerting aspect to them. They include a mobile butcher, a funeral director, a porta-potty maven, an exterminator and a woman whose specialty is giving colonics.

These folks gave the CN&R behind-the-scenes access, speaking candidly about their work, which, depending on your perspective, may not be so unsettling after all. You decide.