What is your Nightmare Job?

[Kaio]

Originally Posted by spooje

I already had it and quit it.

Here it is. the company made desktop calendar books. On a long table there are stacks of paper. A pile marked A, a pile marked B, a pile marked C...and so on.

My job was to walk around the table, taking one page from each pile until the book was complete, then do it again and again and again......

Ah yes, collation. For added ick mine was a graveyard shift. Thank god it was a one-weekend temp job.

My nightmare job I've already done -- line worker at a chicken processing plant. Disgusting, absolutely freezing (I'm pretty sure I was heading for some kind of hand damage because my hands would instantly get so cold I was practically in tears from the pain), and shitty bosses who would call me on the carpet for not chatting with the other line workers while I was supposed to be working... I still have NO idea what that was about, it's not like we even could talk -- the machinery is so loud that we used OSHA-mandated hearing protection. I couldn't make out a damn thing anyone said on the floor, nevermind being able to chat and keep up with a rapidly moving line at the same time.

And for added ick this one required I get up at 5am to drive for an hour to get to my shift on time. And at 3pm I had a second awful job waiting for me. I cried every morning. I cried myself to sleep every night.

Military could be a nightmare, but honestly I think I'd just wash out pretty quickly. You don't want me handling a machine gun.

[PalJuicy]

Air traffic controller.
To me, that seems to be the most stressful job ever created.
I just can't imagine . . .

[Nava]

One where I had to work at heights wearing a safety harness (the problem is not the heights, it's the harness), under the orders of one of those guys who want to be a Sturmtruppenführer when they grow up (as they're completely deluded about the job of Sturmtruppenführers, but they saw one once in a movie and thought the uniform looked spiffy). Oh, and it would involve staying late frequently with no actual tasks to do, simply because Sturmtruppenführer Wannabe felt like making us stay late.

[PookahMacPhellimey]

Vet or farmer.

I don't like animals and I'm categorically not outdoorsy. I'd actually rather shovel the shit then having to touch/handle the animal that produces it.

[Dave Hartwick]

Kiao wins. Factory chicken always wins.

[Corcaigh]

Anything in the animal slaughter/meat production line. I'm a meat eater, but I do no want to see how it got from field to fork thank you very much. Knowing about it is bad enough, and no I don't want to go veggie, that would be practically impossible where I live, I cannot live on pasta and cheese alone.

[JohnT]

I will say that my "filling out forms" job was based on the likelihood of my applying for a position where I would have to fill out forms. Obviously such a job would be far better than chicken plant/child abuse caseworker/slaughterhouse zapper, but the chances of me applying for one of those is nil, so I didn't consider them.

[gallows fodder]

Stand-up comic.

I'm not funny, I hate public speaking, I hate embarrassing myself (which is not a necessary quality of the job, but would absolutely happen to me because of the first two items), I hate exposing myself to harassment, I hate traveling for a job, I hate competing for attention, and the pay to start is terrible.

[Patience Jones]

Waiting tables. Lousy pay, rude customers. Honestly, the thought of taking any customer service job again depresses me beyond reason.

[kushiel]

I have two categories:

1. Anything with lots of people interaction. I'm an introvert with social anxiety. I tried cashiering once, it was exhausting and my nerves were shot just because of all the people. I get frazzled just *being* at Walmart!
2. The really hard manual labour. Like roof tarring mentioned above.

[Laggard]

Telemarketing or any job where you stand in place all day inserting tab A into slot B over and over.

[Sally Mander]

Originally Posted by Hampshire

Anything requiring physical labor in high heat and humidity.

Yeah, I couldn't do this either. Roofing, especially. I'd die before the lunchbreak.

Originally Posted by Eliahna

I also think dentistry is a horrible job. I'm sure there are millions of dentists who love their job and can elaborate on the many, many true and valid reasons why it's worthwhile but for me, the idea of sticking your hands into other people's mouths all day, dealing with blood (let's face it, any job where you expect to see blood in the course of a normal day isn't for me) and being a person so many people fear just adds up to something I'd hate to do.

Not just fear you, but actively hate you. Get a group of people together, have someone say, "I have a dentist appointment tomorrow", and I bet more than half of them will say, or at least think, "I HATE the dentist."
Plus, sticking my fingers in people's mouths all day long? No way.

I'll add in being a podiatrist. Dealing with nasty feet? Yuck. Even worse would be one of those podiatrists who deal exclusively with geriatric patients. They go around to nursing homes and cut the toenails of old people. Have you ever seen old people's toenails? Just plain gross.

Telemarketing or sales, especially commissioned sales.

Any kind of customer service job where I'd be subject to a lot of verbal abuse, and basically have to suck it up and take it.

[Crafter_Man]

I would rather shovel elephant poop than do a job that's really really boring. Boredom is the worst.