What jobs could you train a monkey to do, yet get the highest levels of pay?

Think of this as a converse to the other thread. What jobs seem to be unfairly well-compensated for how little education and skills they require?

I have a few ideas, but I’m not sure if they’re grounded in empirical reality.

My job, for one.

Homer’s Monkey Butler

Union labour.

Sewage workers and trash men are supposed to be paid highly due to the unpleasant nature of the job.

Trust fund baby, but thats not a job.

I’m sure some mundane jobs which are union and done in undesirable conditions (eg: working 3rd shift in Alaska) pay pretty well. Janitor for example, but a monkey may not be able to do that. Some factory jobs too.

My brother told me that optic cable splicers, in Australia at least, earn huge amounts of money. Apparently this is largely due to the fact that the government laid off all the qualified workers they had so they could outsource. As soon as this happened the contractors, who now included the laid off workers, raised their fees several hundred percent.

He explained to me how most of the work is computerised and he learnt to do it in a few weeks.

Stock broker

Wheel of Fortune letter turner.

Some of those union factory jobs pay pretty well but reduce down well - red light goes on, throw the lever. Widget looks funny, throw the lever. Egg smells bad, push the button. Assemble widget A into widget B. I know not all of them are like that, but there’s probably a few places for monkeys on any assembly line.

Paris Hilton?

Yes, but not the other way around.

Geez, surprised no one has said the obvious answer.

What’s the highest-paying job a monkey has been trained to do?
He’s in the White House. :smiley:

Ceo

That should have been “CEO”

Now wait a minute, Wolf Meister, do you really think it would help our world image if we had a president who flung his poo at people?

I’m not sure flinging missiles at them is much better.

The President of the United States is not at all well paid by corporate standards.

I would instead vote for “CEO of Enron.”

Some CEOs have difficult tasks to do, but according to Ken Lay himself, he had no idea what was going on at Enron, he just signed whatever papers his staff brought him in to sign. A monkey could easily be trained to do that.

At least you would be finally telling them what you REALLY thought.

Pro athelete.