Don't Quit Your Gay Job - 4 ª Season

Tommy and Adam leave the comfort of the big city for the outdoor life in Campbell River in learning the ins and outs of being a lumberjack. While much of their preconceived notion is true that it is a lot about brawn which gives Tommy the advantage, they learn from their instructors, Darren R. Dean and Scott Thompson with the West Coast Lumberjack Show, that speed, agility, and endurance are also important. After a warm-up of doing a task mimicking removing logs in a forest setting, the boys find out that they will be learning many of the events in a lumberjack show: the tandem sawing of a log, tree climbing in two different means, ax throwing, log sculpting using a chainsaw, a race on a log while using a chainsaw, choking a log using a seventy-five pound steel chain, and log rolling i.e. running on a rolling log in the water. Darren, Scott and their guest, five-time Canadian lumberjill champion Anita Jezowski, will judge the boys on day 2 in a full out lumberjack show competition, Tommy probably still having the edge just in terms of his physical build, but Adam could surprise in just having an overall better attitude to the work.

Tommy and Adam embark on work in one of the trendiest industries: beer brewing. They will be spending not only their usual two days but four days total spread over several weeks learning the craft at Granville Island Brewing Company on Granville Island in Vancouver. Adam will enjoy this experience for more than just the beer, which both enjoy drinking. They will first test their palates with Mike Sharpman in the company's education department, they trying to identify different beer types in a blind tasting. They are then shown the A-B-C's of making beer with brewmaster Kevin Emms, the science behind which which may baffle one whereas the physical labor aspects may baffle the other. On day two, they are each to make a pitch for their own beer flavor to Mike and Kevin, Tommy and Adam, under the direction of head brewer Mac Remington, making said beer using the knowledge learned from Kevin the day before. A few weeks later, Tommy and Adam return to flavor their respective beers. Then four weeks after the start of the process, their beers are ready for consumption, they which will be blind tasted by themselves, Robyn, Mike, Kevin, Mac, and Tommy and Adam's invited friends and family. The winner of this challenge will be decided by a combination of who Mike, Kevin and Mac feel did the best during each of the steps over those first two days, and the results of the blind tasting.

The stakes for this next challenge are even higher as Tommy and Adam have agreed, in addition to the regular cash award for the winner, that they will put up their winnings from last season in a winner take all scenario. They are going back to their roots, both literally and figuratively, in learning how to be high end florists. Tommy and Adam will be under the tutelage of floral shop owner Dushan Karunasena. After answering Tommy and Adam's questions about the business in general, Dushan leads them on two tutorials, first on creating floral boxes, which are currently in vogue in the floral industry, and second on creating floral centerpieces, both which have the same fundamentals but on different scales. Their official judging will be two parts: first, to create a centerpiece apiece for one of Dushan's actual clients for a high end event, and second to come up with a concept for their centerpiece to be photographed by high end photographer Ellen Ho.

Tommy and Adam are less than thrilled when their next job will be as garbage men as they know that they will literally have to deal with s***. Under the supervision of the management staff of Super Save Disposal, Tommy and Adam will indeed have to learn about solid waste disposal in setting up and cleaning porta-potties, which is worse than even their imaginations had made the job out to be, but also learn other aspects of setting up a temporary work site, including the fencing and the general waste bins. They enter the training more excited than they expect for a less than surprising reason. They enter into day 2 learning that their challenge will be to set up a temporary work site on their own covering those three different areas of the fencing, the porta-potties and the waste bins. They know that Adam is at a disadvantage if the judging is solely on physical brawn, which the jobs do require, but with the heavy equipment involved, a focus on safety may trump all.

Tommy and Adam have mixed feelings about their next challenge in operating a food truck: while they love food and frequent food trucks, neither has any idea about food preparation itself. In learning about the business, they receive the assistance of the owners and staff behind two food trucks in Vancouver, The Reef Runner and Reel Mac and Cheese. The business starts with the concept, which cannot be all things to all people, and the food delivery which must be quick from order to the customer getting that order. As a restaurant on wheels, they learn about the trucks themselves, what makes them run, and the different layouts that are available. They are then shown the food preparation at the two trucks prior to service. While Tommy and Adam each come up with their own ideas for the food truck they would operate, they will be judged on how they handle themselves in an actual lunch time service, one competitor at each of the two existing trucks, they handling everything from front of house, to preparing an order, to cooking in that lunch service.