# What is your Nightmare Job?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 16, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-nightmare-job/622134 "2012-05-16T20:01:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-nightmare-job/622134/61 "2012-05-17T16:12:45Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Sally\_Mander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@Sally\_Mander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sally_Mander)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2012, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-nightmare-job/622134/62 "2012-05-17T16:58:45Z")

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> [@Hampshire](#):
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> Anything requiring physical labor in high heat and humidity.

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

> [@Eliahna](#):
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> 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.

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**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2012, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-nightmare-job/622134/63 "2012-05-18T12:00:58Z")

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I would rather shovel elephant poop than do a job that’s _really really_ boring. Boredom is the worst.

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