What Is The Worst Job Ever

[WillJ]

Defense attorney. How can they sleep at night?

Accountant. How can they stay awake during the day?

For me, it would be surgeon. The fact that I'm not at all comfortable with the sight of blood combined with the enourmous level of responsibility, severe stress and emotional strains that must also come with the job would make it a living hell, I think. Even though the pay is fantastic.

True. It's obviously not a universally-hated job, but yeah, for me personally, I'd hate to be a medical doctor, especially a surgeon.

 

[Masquerouge]

I wonder why anybody would WANT to be a proctologist.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

I wonder why anybody would WANT to be a proctologist.

I had a friend whose dad was an OB/GYN. I've heard people say that it would be a great job because you can see lots of female *****, but as it turns out they are usually old women or their ***** is diseased. Don't get me wrong, it is a vital field, but it has to be pretty gross.

Yes, I really did type out *****, with 5 asterisks.

 

[Sidhe]

Monotonous factory work is well up there.

The worst job in history has to be septic tank cleaner, these guys used to go in and manually shovel out months worth of excreta and urine mixed together. Needless to say it paid well, but there were a fair few fatalaties from methane poisoning. Is it worth it?

 

[Raisin Bran]

I wonder why anybody would WANT to be a proctologist.

Disgusting job ... but for some who are not disgusted when they see that, there is lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$.$$ to be made !

 

[Atropos]

Head of the NKVD under Stalin in the 1930s. Not only guilt, but a high probability of being tortured and killed yourself

 

[Tycoon101]

For me, it would be surgeon. The fact that I'm not at all comfortable with the sight of blood combined with the enourmous level of responsibility, severe stress and emotional strains that must also come with the job would make it a living hell, I think. Even though the pay is fantastic.

Yes, I agree entirely, I dislike blood and gore, and I'm too much of a spazz to be safe.

 

[jameson]

IMHO the worst job ever is the guy that watches the coke cans go by at the end of the coke botteling factory!

I actually did something like that; worked at a beer brewery and half of the time, I had to check that returned bottles had been properly cleaned by the machine (the other half, I was lifting crates onto a conveyor belt, and at the end of the day, I did the cleaning of that hall - revoltingly filthy). Heard the sound of bottles crashing into each other while trying to fall asleep days later.

Not quite as nasty as telephonic sales, though.

 

[warpus]

What about altar boy?

I don't think you get paid, mass is boring, there's priests trying to grab your ass.. not very fun!

 

[Taliesin]

Did anybody see Tony Robinson's hilarious special on this very subject?

 

[Sidhe]

Indeed that's why I mentioned the septic tank cleaners of the Victorian era.

Tanners who scraped rancid fat off hides, and people who stood in cold urine all day to de-grease wool are also in there. And man those making a living from flotsam and jetson from the Thames, risking disease for a penny or two a day. Good series that.

 

[madviking]

Microwave repairmen
Telephone Cleaner
Refrigerator Painter

 

[Taliesin]

I thought Henry VIII's personal bottom-wiper might have a reasonable claim to having the worst job ever.

 

[Irish Caesar]

^ Ah yes, the "groom of the stool"?

Anyone else read the Tony Robinson book full of 'em?

 

[shortguy]

Kafka2 has a funny "Historical Filth" article on this. I think his answer was King (Queen) of Scotland.

 

[Fifty]

Defense attorney. How can they sleep at night?

I want to be a defense attorney for a Tobacco company

 

[EolTheDarkElf]

Computer Scientist/Programmer is easily the worst possible job.

did you really have to tell me???

I though I had a nice job..... until now...


Anyway my mother teaches anatomy and they have formaline pools where "specimen" corpses are being preserved, and they employ a guy who (among other duties) fishes them out and preps them for students................

Being a programmer may be bad, but I wouldn't trade jobs with him.

 

[capslock]

I wonder why anybody would WANT to be a proctologist.

Haha. Have you ever seen the Sienfield where Kramer gets the license plate that says "Assman"? It might be a little gross, but I bet they have alot of funny stories, too.

"You're never going to guess what this guy had stuck up his ass..."

 

[capslock]

did you really have to tell me???

I though I had a nice job..... until now...


Anyway my mother teaches anatomy and they have formaline pools where "specimen" corpses are being preserved, and they employ a guy who (among other duties) fishes them out and preps them for students................

Being a programmer may be bad, but I wouldn't trade jobs with him.

Yeah, I've had bad experiences with CSC and CPE here at college, its not something I want to be stuck doing for the rest of my life. But its just a personall opinion, I'm sure overall, computer programmer is probably ranked one of the top jobs.

Fortunatly, EE is very closely related, and has some fields I'm much more interested in.

 

[Eukaryote]

Coal miner, janitor, sperm-collector.

Even worse is when you have to combine all three!

How, would you do that? Clean the semen that the rock monsters made off the coal and then when you've got them separated bring them back to the closet?