# What jobs would you hate to do? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 20, 2018, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041 "2018-01-20T13:48:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/21 "2018-01-20T23:56:44Z")
Anything that involves continuous interaction with human beings, continuous noise, or is meaningless to me. ---
**Author:** ![UCBearcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/77aa72/32.png) [@UCBearcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UCBearcats)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2018, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/22 "2018-01-20T23:59:51Z")
Gay porn star. I don’t want a penis in either opening. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/23 "2018-01-21T01:15:25Z")
I saw a TV show about a morgue. In the morgue, they had a guy who received the bodies that had been out on the street and decomposed a lot. He took the hands off the dead bodies and rehydrated them so prints could be pulled off. Dead body re-hydrator immediately became a job I would never want to have. Really everything in the morgue, though. ---
**Author:** ![Sveltington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Sveltington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sveltington)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/24 "2018-01-21T02:03:25Z")
I do not want any job speaking on the phone or dealing in person with customers. I do not want any job the requires standing on my feet. I do not want any job in food service EXCEPT pastry chef. I do not want any job cleaning anything EXCEPT I wouldn’t mind being the housekeeper for a family. It goes without saying no rubbish collection, sewer or septic cleaners, no sick people. After considerable thought it has occurred to me there are SO many jobs I would not want I can not list them all. Someone should start a “What job would you like” thread. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/25 "2018-01-21T03:04:35Z")
Any job that requires me to be inside in good weather or outside in bad weather. I don’t mind repetitive jobs so much, as long as I can keep working. I used to work for temporary agencies and so many of the jobs I went out on were of the hurry-up-and-wait variety. Twenty or thirty minutes of being busy and then nearly as much time sitting on our thumbs, waiting for the next project to be set up or for some machine to get fixed, or simply because our supervisor was unorganized and we had to wait for him or her to get their butt in gear. I’d sometimes sweep floors two or more times a day if that was all I could find to do during the down times, just to keep busy. Customer service jobs. The older I get, the harder I find it is to be around many people. Having them in my face all day would bring out my anxiety and depression in very short order. I’d rather be inseminating critters because animals are cool! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/26 "2018-01-21T03:50:23Z")
> [@Sveltington](#): > > Someone should start a “What job would you like” thread. I think there is one here somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/27 "2018-01-21T04:47:29Z")
Roofing. I used to work cleaning up on the ground for the roofers and that was bad enough. I want no job where my shoes could melt to what I’m standing on. My ex was a very strong man but roofing was more than even he could bear. ---
**Author:** ![Dereknocue67](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/28 "2018-01-21T08:35:00Z")
Snake Charmer. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/29 "2018-01-21T11:23:34Z")
I wouldn’t want any job requiring me to deal directly with customers - not retail, not food service, not sales, not any position where I could be fired for not sucking up to some whack-job customer. I don’t mind people, but I don’t like the “customer is always right” mentality, especially when the customer is being an ass. Fortunately, I’ve never been in such a position. I’d have to be on the verge of living in a cardboard box before working retail or as a server in a restaurant. And I’m \*so \*glad there are others willing to do those jobs! ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/30 "2018-01-21T12:30:30Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > In high school I worked at McDonald’s. One night some lunatic smeared poop all over the bathroom. All over. The manager asked who was going to clean it up, and all of the employees indicated that we would rather lose our jobs. Aw come on…don’t leave us hanging. With a story like that, you just gotta tell us how it ended. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/31 "2018-01-21T13:26:20Z")
Anything in food service. In fact, anything servile pleasing a picky public. Also, cleaning. Anything. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/32 "2018-01-21T16:12:33Z")
Anything involving having to kill animals: shelter, dog catcher, trauma vet, slaughterhouse, and cremation jobs. Sex worker of any stripe (not that anyone is recruiting me). Any position in which I’m micro-managed. Hair stylist: can’t do the standing and touching people’s hair (major ick factor). Being famous: don’t want public scrutiny, stalkers, and so on. Anything that requires touching food, especially ketchup, mustard, and mayo. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/33 "2018-01-21T17:09:19Z")
Anything with medicine. From patient transport all the way through surgery. ---
**Author:** ![Buttercup\_Smith](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buttercup_smith/32/473_2.png) [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/34 "2018-01-21T17:47:57Z")
Anything I have ever done before. I was a food services director for serveral years and cleaned houses for over five years. Never again. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/35 "2018-01-21T20:37:49Z")
I wouldn’t want to do a lot of these, but I’ll add “pound worker” to the list (or any job where I would have to euthanize animals, especially healthy or young animals). I wouldn’t last through the first assignment, and would probably have nightmares about it for months. I’m not even sure I _could_ euthanize a healthy, non-vicious cat or dog (especially kittens). I’d probably get fired for trying to smuggle kittens out in my backpack or something. ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/36 "2018-01-22T00:42:11Z")
I’m probably not alone in this, but about 98% of the jobs listed so far are things I’d have no issue with doing (beyond needing to support a family on the salary), most seem downright interesting. For me, it’s sales. Specifically, the kind where you need to actively approach people out of the blue. I’ve been working in advertising (mainly in creative roles) for most of the last two decades, and for one three-month period my office put me on a sales team where I needed to cold-call companies and try to convince them to become our customers, all while speaking in Japanese. That was three years ago, and I’m still taking medication for what the stress did to my stomach. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Gay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3ab097/32.png) [@Enola\_Gay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Gay)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/37 "2018-01-22T00:50:17Z")
Pooper scooping ☹ ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/38 "2018-01-22T01:39:32Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > The jobs I have hated have been the bullshit jobs. The ones that exist only to create billable hours and could easily be done away with. I would be okay with cleaning toilets with appropriate PPE; this is a job that has results and kinda really needs to be done. A meta data market analysis survey does not need to be done. Yeah, for most of my career I’ve been around “Ark Ship B” jobs. A vast network of middle managers, consultants, project managers and analysts not doing much more than making PowerPoint decks. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/39 "2018-01-22T04:12:05Z")
I’d hate to be the guy who has to clean out the dumpster behind a liposuction or abortion clinic. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041/40 "2018-01-22T16:20:04Z")
Mortician or anything that involves the dead Sales - of anything - where you have to physically try to sell your wares, etc. or phone sales Euthanizing animals Butcher or stockyard worker Hunter Anything working with the public. I’d rather stock shelves than work the cash register. Daycare provider Hairstylist - I’d be stressed out worrying that I’d ruin someone’s hair Dentist or dental hygienist - yuck Anything involving feet - yuck. I guess that goes for butts too. Teacher Anything involving the arts - I’m not artistic at all Cancer doctor/nurse - so depressing. Anything that involves sewers, outhouses, poop, etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-jobs-would-you-hate-to-do/807041.md?page=3)