Worst job you can think of

[vulturesrow]

Yes this is a play off of M2Ds post about the ultimate job. The worst job I can think of is gynecologist. I think I would rather be a nerve agent taste tester than be assaulted by an unending wave of nasty snatch. The occasional nice boobs you would get look at would hardly be compensation for the horrors you would have to witness. In the words of Mr 10000, Hollah!

[MelchyBeau]

OBGYN assistant. You don't get the big fat paycheck that the Doc does.

Melch

[istewart]

Urologist.

[mosquito]

Proctologist. D'oh

[bholdr]

god, you're right. and i've cleaned septic systems, dug ditches, and helped dig up avalanche victims- all dead (luckily i was on the sidelines for the actual body finding part)


though i will say, i saw some guys breaking up a 4in slab of concrete with sledges and prybars once. that looked pretty bad too.

[bholdr]

nah, i don't that'd be so bad. a bung's a bung, but a vagina can be sooooo nice, and conversly, soooo nasty. but i think either way, there is a professional detachment that docs acheive that takes care of that. and i'm sure 150k/yr doesn't hurt.

[ClaytonN]

Recruiter for fat people olympics

[istewart]

Being the parent of a kid with Down Syndrome? Not a job per se, and not PC, but that would suck.

[daryn]

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though i will say, i saw some guys breaking up a 4in slab of concrete with sledges and prybars once. that looked pretty bad too.


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done it. good upper body workout. manual labor isn't that bad.

[bholdr]

i agree; trying to hold back all that laughter would be terrible.

[Michael Davis]

Somebody must test butt plugs.

-Michael

[bholdr]

do it for five years, 50 weeks a year, 8 hours a day, then tell me how you feel about it- these guys looked like they'd made a carrer out of it, and they were both obviously in the early stages of labor related deformity and pain.

manual labor is a (life shortening)nightmare, for those who have no other option.

[bholdr]

hey, if you're into that kinda stuff i'm sure it's not that bad. i wonder if they use animal testing? butfugging animals for a living would be pretty bad.

[Nottom]

Doctors make way too much $ for that job to be anywhere near the worst.

There are enough jobs out there that literally involve shoveling [censored] all day that one of them must be near the top.

That said the guys that had to clean-up after Chernobyl prolly had close to the worst job I could think of. Doing backbreaking work and basically knowing you would die a painful death as a result of it has to suck.

[tek]

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Being the parent of a kid with Down Syndrome? Not a job per se, and not PC, but that would suck.

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I used to be a volunteer at Special Olympic events (mostly bowling because I used to be into competing in bolwing tourneys myself).

Those kids are not autistic, just below average IQ. Some can learn more and learn quicker than others.

I learned they are friendly and happy. More so than many of us above average IQ people. They hold jobs. They compete, but aren't hung up on winning as much as we are.

These are some observations from someone who doesn't spend extensive periods of time with them, so it may not be totally accurate.

But I would say until corrected that there's worse things in life than being with Down Syndrome kids.

Just posting this for information purposes. I'd choose a DS over an Autistic.

[onegymrat]

Clean-up crew after a crime scene.

[gaming_mouse]

poo-eater

[oddjob]

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Recruiter for fat people olympics

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it's not that bad

[cnfuzzd]

Sponger's mom


peace

john nickle

[oddjob]

jizz mopper at an adult theater. actually jizz mopper anywhere. it might even be worse if it's somewhere else.

[wacki]

When my sister was in med school they had a guy that was a professional prostate dummy. Every med student would line up and shove their finger in his butt and try and find the prostate.

[doughhater]

Although prostate test dummy sounds pretty bad, I know a few people who are hot tar roofers in AZ. I cannot fathom having to be up there in August when it's 120 degrees with about 60% humidity.

[daryn]

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do it for five years, 50 weeks a year, 8 hours a day, then tell me how you feel about it- these guys looked like they'd made a carrer out of it, and they were both obviously in the early stages of labor related deformity and pain.

manual labor is a (life shortening)nightmare, for those who have no other option.

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obviously it would blow full time. i used to do it during the summers, like 3 years in a row. paving driveways in intense heat. still only 20-30 hours a week, not bad at all. also a lot of time was spent just chilling out waiting for the hot top to show up, and there was tons of joking around going on.

[realwtf]

Being a Catcher in the Rye.

[juanez]

Years ago I was actually a "copy guy" (a la Saturday Night live).

I would take thousands of pages of data (oil and gas well procuction data), copy it for several clients and snail mail it to them.

I would also fax it to several other clients - faxes were the new COOL technology at the time. Imagine faxing a 1500 page document and trying to not get any jams, misfeeds, etc. I would just sit there watching for hours, adding pages as the fax machine went through them, fixing jams before the line disconnected....it was tourture.

That job lasted about a week....

[rusellmj]

When I was 18, I would get out of school and hand dig the footers for block walls around luxury homes in a senior community in AZ. I had 3 tools: flat-head shovel, 40lb. spud bar and a maddock. All for the grand total of $6 an hour. At least when it was 115 it was a dry heat. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif That said, I think any job that includes working relentless hours with fecal matter would be pretty bad.

Russ

[bholdr]

that still sucks. it was housepainting for me. and i had as much fun doing that in college (it was mostly standing around and smoking cigs, watching the primer dry- good times) as i did playing frisbee golf- until i became the boss. Unfourtunatly, i got hooked on the 40$/hr i was making and dropped out- now i have a bad back and no degree. (well.... it was a little more complicated than that, involving a girl and an unfourtunate skiing habit, (coke is not the most addictive white powder, imo) among other things)

...but there's nothing like hard labor to build up the 'ol work ethic and make sitting in front of a computer gringing 1/4 and 2/4 seem like easy street.

good stuff.

[bholdr]

that sucks, but i'd rather get a finger or two up the butt than tar roofs. E Z money!

and i'm sure, for the right pervert (er... person) that's a dream job.

[Boris]

There is a young guy here in the Bay Area that started a company doing exactly that. He is 30 and a multi-millionaire. He has a hot wife and people are beating down his door to work for him. not that bad if you ask me.

[Boris]

I once had a job at the mill where I worked the graveyard shift. My duty was to clean up under the plywood manufacturing line. Plywood is made from glue that is made from chicken [censored]. I was basically up to my balls in chicken [censored] for 8 hours. But I didn't mind. I was able to quit my job at McDonalds. Even more amazing was that my best friend's dad was a big union boss and I had to get him to pull strings so I could get the job.

[Boris]

A friend of mine worked as a bill collector for an emergency room. That has to be the worst.

[david050173]

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A friend of mine worked as a bill collector for an emergency room. That has to be the worst.

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I would think either mortuary bill collector or funeral home home bill collector would be worse. Sorry your significant other is a corspe, but we need our cash. In the ER at least some of the people are still alive.

[BreakEvenPlayer]

Assistant Crack-Whore

[deacsoft]

Any job that someone else would get to tell me what to do.

[Duke]

Subject (not extra) of a bukkake video.

~D

[fatmongo]

For me the most undesirable job I can think of would involve sitting in front of a computer in a cubicle for 8hrs a day 5 days a week. I dig manual labor. I've paved driveways since I was 14. I've worked in the sewers. I like being outide and enjoy semi-hard work.

[Ulysses]

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do it for five years, 50 weeks a year, 8 hours a day, then tell me how you feel about it- these guys looked like they'd made a carrer out of it, and they were both obviously in the early stages of labor related deformity and pain.

manual labor is a (life shortening)nightmare, for those who have no other option.

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obviously it would blow full time. i used to do it during the summers, like 3 years in a row. paving driveways in intense heat. still only 20-30 hours a week, not bad at all. also a lot of time was spent just chilling out waiting for the hot top to show up, and there was tons of joking around going on.

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An order of magnitude worse is that kind of job in India (or any third-world nation). It's amazing the type of manual labor you see done without the aid of any machines.

[MMMMMM]

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...but there's nothing like hard labor to build up the 'ol work ethic and make sitting in front of a computer gringing 1/4 and 2/4 seem like easy street.

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I've gotta disagree with you and Daryn here.

I find sitting in front of the computer with my hand glued to the mouse, my arm glued to the table, and my eyes glued to the screen, to be physically harder than any manual labor I've ever done.

I've dug clams for a living in a Downeast Maine winter. Your hands get SOOOOOO cold and your knees and back ache like hell, working the low tide. But it goes away later. I also chopped enough firewood to heat that uninsulated cabin all that winter too, and in June (yeah it snowed pretty good in May) raked up enough wood chips from the winter's wood-chopping to fill 40 jumbo plastic trash bags.

I've washed windows for a living in an Oklahoma summer in 23 days of straight 100 degree plus heat wave. Humid too. You'll sweat your balls off washing windows out there, boy, lemme tell ya.

I've painted and other stuff, too. Manual labor is hard, but at least you're body is moving. You're changing position. You're not frozen in front of the screen screwing up your back and neck and eyes. And yeah I have a pretty decent ergonomic chair--also I'm gonna go to Wal-Mart to buy one of those giant exercise balls tomorrow and try that for a chair: El D recomended something like that and maybe it will help.

Sometimes I think I should start up a part-time window-cleaning route again just for old times' sake, and to get unthawed physically. The money I'd miss, but how much more friggin' 15-30 can my back take? Gawd. I'm only 43. Cleaning windows for strip malls and restaurants on 30 degree winter days--with bare wet hands--never froze me up anything like playing online poker does. And the physical aches from manual labor always went away. The physical aches from online poker never go away.

I'll say one thing. If cleaning windows paid as well as online poker I'd be back in it in a flash. This is just BULLSHIT. At least when you play at the casino you can move around a lot more in different positions.

Hey I got an idea. Tell me whatcha think. I'm gonna start going back to the casino and pay their $25 fee every day to use the spa and fitness center. I'll play live again like I used to, except that I'll use the spa pre-session, mid-session, and post-session. Hahahahaha I'll sure get my money's worth that way! And I'll start just as soon as I lose enough weight to fit back into pants instead of Wal-Mart sweatpants. Friggin' online poker done it. Just look at me. Oh gawd damn, gawd damn. And why does my back ache like this? It didn't a year-and-a-half ago. Screw this. Gotta lose 15 pounds and squeeze back into my pants and live the high life at the Woods. This lifestyle is for the friggin' birds. Yeah it pays pretty good at the moment but WTF am I doing to myself. Heck I'd even take a 20% cut in pay just please let me go back to cleaning windows. But I can't take a 60% cut in pay. Wtf wtf wtf.

So see you at the Woods this Spring, Daryn. Maybe I'll even be wearing a Red Sox cap. If I'm not d'ya think Joe would let me borrow his? SEE...online poker not only screws up your back it also screws up your sense of humor. God damnit I'm going to sleep. When I wake up my back will still be aching. I could really use about six months in the Bahamas. And SCREW this online poker bullshit just as soon as I lose 15 pounds. Online poker will become a mere 30-minute morning coffee habit; nothing more, and I'll try my best to forget it ever ran my life.

Well let's see, the Woods, the Woods... I hear the turkeys are everywhere at the Woods nowadays! They're supposed to be as thick as seagulls in a feeding frenzy...and that means...EVERY day will be Turkey Day at the Woods! Thanksgiving will be starting this Spring! And yes I do love the Spring! And I love Turkey! And I love Thanksgiving! And I love the Spa! So.....Yipeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! Yippeeee! Yayaaaay! No more cruddy computer staring into my brain! No more aching back! Just swimming and sunning and turkeys galore. OMG I can't believe I let it pass me by for 18 months--or is it 2 years now. WTF was I thinking. Maybe Vince could tell me what I was thinking. No more thinking. Time for sleep and dreaming of Spring and Turkeys and Spas. Maybe I'll really get a good night's sleep for a change, now. But even if I do when I wake up my back will still be aching.

[BadBoyBenny]

Policeman in the New Iraqi Republic.

[tek]

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Hey I got an idea. Tell me whatcha think. I'm gonna start going back to the casino and pay their $25 fee every day to use the spa and fitness center.

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Maybe if you play enough they'll comp you...

[sfer]

For all of you kids in college, First Year Analyst jobs are pretty incredibly crappy and just within your reach. Especially crappy if you enjoy sleeping.

[Shajen]

I cleaned portajohns for a state park near my house in NM for a couple years in high school.

People are [censored] nasty.

[El Maximo]

I think we have a winner!

[swede123]

Maybe not the worst job, but definitely one of the crappier jobs I've heard of: One of my good friends in college had a summer job once where he worked for his dad as a product tester. What did he test, you ask...recliner mechanisms. Yup, the factory made the spring mechanism inside lazyboys so my friend's summer job (along with numerous semi homeless people) was to sit in a chair, recline, incline, recline, incline etc. etc. all day. It paid a few cents per cycle, but the kicker was that after doing it nonstop for about 10 minutes your arm was so tired you had to rest it for a while. I think he did this for a few weeks before he found a better job.

Cheers,

Swede

[Voltron87]

professional low limit online poker player.

[GreywolfNYC]

A number of years ago I worked as a deckhand on tugboats in New York harbor. We worked 6 hours on/6 hours off around the clock for up to two weeks at a time. Believe me it is no fun at all jumping on and off ice-covered garbage barges from the deck of a moving tug at 4:00 a.m. underneath the Verrazano Narrows bridge.

[BeerMoney]

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I cleaned portajohns for a state park near my house in NM for a couple years in high school.

People are [censored] nasty.

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That's just terrible. Now there's a character building job.

I used to load trucks at a UPS hub. Hardest job I've ever had. I would lose ten pounds of water weight, even after drinking 1+ gallons of water in a 4.5 hour shift.

[Gronk]

Door to door encyclopedia salesman

[guller]

honey dipper

[Shajen]

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I cleaned portajohns for a state park near my house in NM for a couple years in high school.

People are [censored] nasty.

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That's just terrible. Now there's a character building job.

I used to load trucks at a UPS hub. Hardest job I've ever had. I would lose ten pounds of water weight, even after drinking 1+ gallons of water in a 4.5 hour shift.

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My neighbor down the street used to do this. He's the strongest man I've ever met. Seriously. Not as in can lift 600lbs, but can work all day lifting heavy(ish) stuff and not take a break. Unreal. You have my respect man, that's one back breaking job.

[WDC]

The worst job I had was running an incinerator at a manufactured home plant. I would shovel garbage of all sorts into an open flame incinerator. Every once in a while someone would hide an aresol paint can in the garbage. I was actually hit by paint can shrapnel once.

That job was so dirty that I would not be let inside my house until I was hosed down outside.

I had this job for two summers in college because it paid well in 1982 I was getting $12 an hour which was huge for a summer job.
Job sucked but in 1981 between college

[droolie]

I had two terrible jobs.

One was working in a day habilitation center with adults with severe mental retardation. I had to change diapers on full grown men all day long.

The other job I had that was far far worse was working for the Department of Motor Vehicles. My job was to verify records. From the time I got there in the morning until I left in the afternoon I would have to do the following... Take a pass/ fail card out of a HUGE box full of cards and type the license # on each card into a computer. A screen would come up and would have a P or an F stating whether the person passed their driving test or not. This had to match the P or F on the card. Each card would take about 20 seconds and there were hundreds of thousands of them to be verified. I would literally go days without finding a single record that was incorrect. The monotony was so excruciating it is impossible to describe. You had to use just enough brain power and concentration that you couldn't even daydream. I only lasted 3 weeks as it was just a summer job while I was in college but there were people who were doing this for a career who had been at it for years. I would have blown my brains out if I had to do it one more day than I lasted.

I'll take gross, painful and disgusting over boring and monotony any day.

[gilper]

My buddy had a job loading cayenne peppers into the grinder at a spice factory. The pepper dust would get everywhere and he said it felt like he was on fire all day.

[Victor]

worked in a fiberglass factory one summer in college. no ac either. so there were a bunch of 900 degree F presses in a factory while it was +85F outside. The fiberglass gets in your entire body and its terribly uncomfortable. you just feel like there are little shards in every one of your pores. it takes 2 weeks to get all the junk out. also, breathing it in cant be good. some people have been working there for 40 years.

[CORed]

I would also have hated that motor vehicle job. It sucked not only because it was mind numbingly boring, but because what you were doing was basicly a useless waste of taxpayer money. The bureaucratic moron who decided to do this instead of just burning the damn cards should be fired, or possibly taken out and shot.

[droolie]

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I would also have hated that motor vehicle job. It sucked not only because it was mind numbingly boring, but because what you were doing was basicly a useless waste of taxpayer money. The bureaucratic moron who decided to do this instead of just burning the damn cards should be fired, or possibly taken out and shot.

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The cards would come in from the various DMV offices throughout the state. Some blocks of cards would be entirely uncoded while others had already been entirely complete. Some blocks were mixed batches of coded and non-coded. They had no way of knowing which blocks were done and which were not. I'd literally go through hundreds where I had to enter P or F or else the license would not be issued then I'd go through days of finding cards that were already completed. The errors I was asked to look for were practically non-existent. There's no question whoever set the card system up was completely incompetent but as long as they could get some mouth-breathing moron to double-check the cards for $8/ hour it all worked out in the end. It just sucked being that mouth-breathing moron. Trying to stay awake was literally painful.

[LockForward]

Getting the "product" for livestock genetics companies. Your arm has to get REAL tired.

[snowden719]

fluffer for a gay porn video. Do you see why?

[Duke]

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fluffer for a gay porn video. Do you see why?

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I think the "subject" in a bukkake video is worse for obvious reasons.

~D

[drewjustdrew]

catheter tester

[realwtf]

You know i was thinking. Worst job would be window cle3aner on a skyscraper. Once you get finished with the last one you would have to start over again.

[Ten7offsuit]

Working for free.

[tyfromm]

http://web.mit.edu/avvorogu/www/myweb17/funnypictures/worst_job.jpg

[J.A.Sucker]

This is the dude with the spiffy black pickup truck, right? That guy rules, and I think he was on Insomniac w/ Dave Atell one time. I've also seen him here at Stanford a few times, over by the dorms, but the school didn't report anyone kicking the bucket. Big surprise.

[AncientPC]

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