# What Is The Worst Job To Have? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 17, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145 "2003-07-17T14:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mephisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@Mephisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mephisto)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/21 "2003-07-17T22:59:17Z")
I bet it would really suck to be the wrong soldier in the wrong unit in the wrong army at the wrong time. Personally, I thought those three days I spent working at Burger King were pretty bad. Basic Training kind of sucked as well, but I guess Burger King traumatized me more. I can still eat an MRE . . . can’t say the same for a Whopper. I don’t know if I could have done **Magayuk** ’s job at all. ---
**Author:** ![Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/22 "2003-07-18T00:26:53Z")
It certainly is well paying, but for emotional, I’d have to say pyschiatrist. Imagine having to have more than several people talk to you all day, nearly everyday about their problems. I imagine that you might get quite down after a couple years of counselling rape/child abuse victims and various other seriously bad things. IIRC it was said that pyschiatrists have the highest suicide rate, or one of the highest. I imagine that being a double for Saddam would be pretty bad, what with a lot of people wanting to kill you. Do they even get paid, or is it basically a food and “We won’t shoot you if you do it” type of deal? ---
**Author:** ![LauraLittlePony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LauraLittlePony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LauraLittlePony)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/23 "2003-07-18T00:55:03Z")
Clown. I would definitely rather masturbate any animal to harvest semen than be a clown. ---
**Author:** ![Rhum\_Runner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rhum\_Runner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhum_Runner)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/24 "2003-07-18T02:26:36Z")
Cleaning up unattended death/suicide? Yuk. Though uncloggin sewers sounds pretty damn awful too. I think I saw part of the TV coverage of the same story, the Indians who burn the bodies on open fires? Yuk x 2. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/25 "2003-07-18T02:54:17Z")
Some years back I ran across a truly charming job at a chicken plant – craw puller. Standing there pulling the craws out of chicken carcasses all day long. Ewww. ---
**Author:** ![croaker67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@croaker67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/croaker67)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/26 "2003-07-18T03:11:23Z")
Car Salesman. ---
**Author:** ![Ferris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ferris/32/11573_2.png) [@Ferris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferris)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/27 "2003-07-18T03:11:27Z")
> [@](#): > > _someone_ has to jerk off the elephants, flush the clogged feces pipe, fluff the porno stars, check the sex of crocodileans, smell the armpits, test the experimental drugs, suck up to the asshole boss, or be the co-star with animals in a porno flick or worse, a snuff film. When I read that, I immediately thought that having to: > [@](#): > > jerk off the elephants, flush the clogged feces pipe, fluff the porno stars, check the sex of crocodileans, smell the armpits, test the experimental drugs, suck up to the asshole boss, _and_ be the co-star with animals in a snuff film… …all in the same day would appear to be the worst job in the world. [Obligatory ‘_Life Of Brian_’ reference] “At least it gets you out into the open air.” [/OLOBR] ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Dracul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@Vlad\_Dracul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Dracul)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/28 "2003-07-18T07:15:28Z")
Here’s a job that REALLY sucks: ``` Cutting open living things, sticking your hands deep into their internal organs, getting covered with possibly-infected body fluids, and taking the risk that one little mistake will open you up to life-destroying legal action. Pretty bad, huh? ``` Well, that job is called “surgeon”, and people struggle for years to earn the priviledge of doing it. People are delighted to do ANY job, so long as it earns them enough status among other people. It’s not the “gross-out” factor of a job that makes it really awful, it’s the low pay and low prestige that do it. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/29 "2003-07-18T09:56:26Z")
I had a lot of terrible jobs when I was younger. I think terrible bosses are worse than terrible jobs, but that’s a whole different threat. I had a job at an aluminum foundry. You spend all day in a sweltering hot room filled with smoke and dust. You wheel around a vat of molten aluminum running on a rail from the ceiling, you have to hurry, you pour the aluminum into each of the molds on the ground and they immediately catch on fire and send a plume of odd colored smoke into your face. When you are done with the pour, you go back and flip each mold over. Hopefully by this time most of the fires have gone out. Then you start the whole process over again, carrying 40 pound molds, one at a time, to the other side of the smokey room preparing for the next pour. Sounds like fun eh? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@Eli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eli)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/30 "2003-07-18T10:32:21Z")
A suicide bomber. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/31 "2003-07-18T11:48:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Isabelle \* > \*\*What is the worst job you can think of having? Would you do something really disgusting for money? > > I think the worst jobs are a Geriatric Nurses Aide (can you imagine changing adult poopy diapers) and also a Garbage Man \*\* Being a Nursing Assistant is far better than jobs that require you to ask if one wants their order Super Sized. ---
**Author:** ![phraser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a88e4f/32.png) [@phraser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phraser)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/32 "2003-07-18T12:02:17Z")
well, i’ve been a horse masturbator, a chicken masturbator, a dog masturbator and i have been a driver for a prostitute, but i still think the worst job I ever held was delivering pizza for pizza hut. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/33 "2003-07-18T12:48:04Z")
Cleaning up unattended death/suicide? My husband cleaned up after his brother blew his brains out. Yuk. Asphalt dude in Arizona has to be a sucky job. ---
**Author:** ![Pergau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@Pergau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pergau)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145/34 "2003-07-18T12:55:39Z")
This thread reminded me of what Spike Milligan said in one of his autobiographies: He was talking about the guys in his unit teasing the fellow who had the job of digging the latrines and maintaining them. The guy said “It may be shit to you lot but its bread and butter to me” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-worst-job-to-have/189145.md?page=1)