Oddly Enough Blog
News, but not the serious kind
Do YOU have the world’s worst job?
Email 
Print
It is gratifying to see the response to yesterday’s post about the Very Worst Job in the World. Guesses are still very welcome, and the actual job will be announced at 11 a.m. on Thursday.
With regret, I’ve disqualified all the folks who guessed their own jobs. That’s just too easy. One of those was the guy who edits this very blog. Sorry, I don’t think so.
I have to say the single most commonly guessed job was U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Good try, people, but that one is just too obvious.
There were some very creative suggestions. In Peoria, Ill., 76 pre-teen boys sat in a room for three hours, brainstorming the question. They sent me 462 guesses, not one of which can even be printed here. Way to go, boys!
So keep them coming – you have like 20 hours left. Just to help you along, here’s a small section of the real Worst Job person at work. Tomorrow, the entire photo.
Remember to make your guess at the Worst Job in the World
Hey, Mr. Big-Talk! Join the Oddly Enough blog network!
President-elect Barack Obama (L) hugs Colorado Senator Ken Salazar, his nominee for secretary of interior, at a news conference in Chicago, December 17, 2008. REUTERS/Jeff Haynes
Comments RSSPost Your Comment
-
Author Profile
-
I’m guessing … elephant enemas. Eeeewwwww …
Or maybe Elephant Emetics … one way or another, eh?
Elephant Masturbator. While generally not a job in and of itself, modern zoos often have their animal trainers collect semen from animals for artificial insemination purposes.
These are all pretty good guesses, I must say. You guys have done this professionally, haven’t you?
The medieval profession of gong scourer springs to mind.
Take a small trowel and go into the sewers of a major city and scrape all the accumulated shit off the walls.
No protective clothing provided, and the sewers awash ( literaly! ) with germs such as cholera, typhoid, and dysentry. Nice!
ok we all know elephant masturbators require TWO hands, NOT ONE!
I choose the guy who has to clean out massive tanks of fecal matter.
Took a minute looking at the glove, sleeve, and duct tape. And that’s not an elephant, it’s cracked concrete. So I’m guessing a Mexico City Sewer Diver. The poor guys who have swim down to remove the not-so-mushy-things from the mushy-things in the sewers of Mexico City.
We were filming a music video in San Fransisco many years ago at night. One of my coworkers and myself wandered off and walked into one of those porn theaters that has all individual booths. It seemed vacant so we walked down the hall and found the attendant hard at work in one of those tiny cubicles. He was on his hands and knees scrubbing the walls in front of the seat but directly under the screen and only 20 more rooms to clean…
I would have to say a crime scene cleaner, come in and take all the brain matter, blood, shit and all other manner of crap that comes froms bodies and what ever else was lieing about at the time of death, mutilation, suicide or just kinky shit gone bad.
I have to disagree, I think it is minefield clearance teams.
I’d have to go with the old standard: Assistant Crack Ho
those untouchable Indians who sit at the bottom of the caste system which is prevalent in India. They clean latrine with bare hand and carry human excreta on their head
My guess is working in caves where bats live, where guys (or gals?) must don protective clothing maybe similar to in the photo, as they wade around knee deep in dangerous, possibly virus infected, disgusting, putrid, bat dung.
Saw that one on a tv show. To me, that one was the worst.
I have to agree whit most of the sugestions, however the people that right parking tickets (at least in Portugal that the job is done by a private company) have a hard time.
Lets see, here are my 3 top picks:
1). Preisdent of USA in the present situation
2). CEO of the bailed-out firms giving out multi million dollar bonuses
3). Being Tim Geithner
Life insurance agent