Examine the roughest, toughest careers imaginable.

Think your job is hard? Discovery Civilization Channel examines some of the most challenging jobs on the planet. The new series UK's Toughest Jobs, premiering Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 9 pm ET/10 pm PT, disenfranchised youth are offered the opportunity to turn their life around in exchange for 10 days of back-breaking labour.

Discovery Civilization Channel throws down the gauntlet to some of Britain's roughest kids. After years of dabbling in drugs and petty crime, three jobless, unmotivated young adults are offered the chance of a lifetime on each episode of UK's Toughest Jobs. One of them will walk away with a job, but they will have to prove their worth to succeed.

From the bare mountains of Scotland to the freezing cold waters of the North Atlantic, they will be pushed to the limit in some of the most hostile environments known to man. To succeed the raw recruits will have their work cut out for them in the scorching heat of a steelworks or amid the dust and dirt of the biggest building sites in Britain.