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The very worst job: he who must not be named!
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Blog Guy, my daughter hasn’t decided on a career. You give great job advice, and you’ve even named the worst job in the world. Could you remind me what that was?
Oh, I’ve written about so many bad careers. There’s crocodile dentistry, being a crew member aboard a homemade submarine, being a trolleybus driver’s assistant.
Yeah, yeah, those are all very bad, but I know you’ve had worse.
I’ve mentioned lots of jobs in the exciting field of fireworks. Firecracker tester, fireworks hauler, firecracker victim, confiscated fireworks gasoline soaker and burner.
Hey, those fireworks jobs sound pretty sweet!
Wow. Do you live in Texas? What about bad jobs in the military? Like the dude who looks down rifle barrels to see if anything seems wrong.
No, worse than that.
The Osama bin Laden look-alike who patrols a slum with a toy rifle? The Semen-collecting fake cow driver? The women in skimpy outfits who have to sit right in the barf-path of Wing Bowl competitors and stare longingly at their greasy mouths?
That would a horrible fate for my Zoe Belle, but I know you have worse.
Look lady, I know what you want, but don’t make me use that photo. Please.
I’m writing to your editor. You’ll show the photo before this week is over!
I want guesses from readers. Go wild, because this photo has never been used here.
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Above: Fernando Aguirre, locally known as Osama Bin Laden, patrols Bogota slum, in 2008 photo. REUTERS/ Daniel Munoz
Below: Wing Bowl champion John “Super Squibb” Squibb wins the chicken wing eating contest in Philadelphia, January 30, 2009. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer
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What about the guy who picks up owl barf off the floor of barns? I saw that on Dirty Jobs. He calls himself an “owl vomitologist.”
Nice try, Krista, but trust me. Compared with the job I have in mind, that dude works in a candy factory.
I don’t know about you but that “cow urine drink taste tester” sounds like a pretty rotten gig to me.
What about the guy who counts & sorts incoming diapers at the diaper cleaning service?
Sorry Jim and Tony. By comparison, those jobs are a breath of fresh air.
Does teh job involve working for Obama?
Can we get a clue?
Sorry NM, I really can’t, because the Gaming Commission has informed me that betting on this question is extremely heavy. So I have to be really clean on this… You’ll know on Thursday.
Ooh, I know. The people who strip the flesh off of animal bones for taxidermy?
Hah, Jenn. They’ve got a day at the beach by comparison. But nice try.
This one’s easy. It’s gotta be that guy cleaning out the sewers in India. Day at the beach? More like a day covered in human feces. EWWWWWWW!!!
The person who scripts these horrible answers and retorts for you?
You write blogs Robert.
What about the guy that had to look at all the pictures of bad careers before writing an article about horrible careers?
Dear God: I know I don’t call upon you much, but humor me this one time and don’t let the picture of the Calcutta guy posing in a manhole show up on this page tomorrow… Amen.
How about the Chinese guy who works at the cat slaughter house in Beijing, making kitty cat skin blankets for people with back pain in France?
What about a suicide bomber demonstration staffmember.
anyone who has the job of putting cats and dogs down at the animal shelters
The ‘clue’ picture looks like a hand on an elephants hide….you know where this one’s going..Elephant ‘mess’ cleaner? That’s foul…..not my job btw!
Nice try, Amn, but compared with the real job, being an elephant mess cleaner would be a walk in the park.
I think the worst job in the world would be sewage treatment plant maintenance diver. I saw it on tv. They guy put on wetsuit and scuba gear and dove in.
“They guy put on wetsuit and scuba gear and dove in.”
Out here in India they dive in without any of that sissy stuff…
http://howichangedcareers.com/2009/04/02 /professional-sewer-cleaner-its-no-apri l-fools-joke/
Now that takes a lot of guts and a non-existent sense of smell I guess… yeah
I love howichangedcareers.com. Always full of good inspirational advice for those wanting to change jobs. My favorite posting is Office Bully.
http://howichangedcareers.com/2009/06/15 /office-bully/