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TURD DIVER - cleans the grate at the sewer treatment plant

HOG SLAUGHTERHOUSE PROCESSOR - I work in a slaughterhouse where we process hogs. They come in by the truckload and sometimes I have to lead them to the killing pen and kill them with a bullet in the head. Usually this job means that the technician ends up covered with blood. The hog is then placed upon meat hooks by its hind legs. After the hog is lifted into position, its neck is slit so that blood can drain into a large vat. Sometimes it seems that gallons of blood pours out. One benefit, though, is cheap hams and bacon. We get to buy meat at very low cost. Too bad we don't make enough money to buy very much. $9.00 as processor. It's a living.

BURNT POTATO CHIP PICKER - For minimum wage you get to watch cooked potato chips quickly fly by on a conveyor belt and you have to pick out the burnt ones. This is done in 90+ degree temperature, with a thick coating of oil in the air. With these three ingredients, it isn't long before motion sickness (watching the chips fly by) increases with the smell and temperature causing you to want to barf. And you know how it is having a minimum wage job, you don't get a break and have to keep your nose to the grindstone. Needless to say I turned down overtime.

GAY BAR JANITOR - Think about it . . . Cleaning a bar is a bad enough thought. In a gay bar some of the things you see, hear and find can be very confusing and leave you not wanting to touch anything! Ever!!!

ARMPIT SNIFFER in a deodorant factory.

The World's Worst Jobs

- Nuclear Warhead Sensitivity Technician

- Circus Elephant Clean Up Specialist

- Rotten Sardine Taste Detector

- Assistant To The Boss's Nephew

- Shark Baiter

- Hurricane Photographer

- Director Of Public Relations, Chernobyl Nuclear Facility

- Prison Glee Club President

- Road Kill Removal Crew

Worst Jobs

1.Lumberjack

2.Fisherman

3.Cowboy

4.Ironworker

5.Seaman

6.Taxi driver

7.Construction worker

8.Farmer

9.Roofer

10.Stevedore

World's Worst Jobs

Do you think your job stinks? You could be a Flatus Odor Judge.

That's just one of several of the Worst Jobs in Science according to the editors of "Popular Science" magazine, who just compiled the list for the latest issue.

Topping the chart for worst jobs are the odor judges at a Minneapolis gastroenterologist -- they're are paid to smell people's farts to determine potentially critical medical symptoms.

The second crappiest science job is being a Dysentery Stool-Sample Analyzer. That's a person who opens stool canisters and analyzes feces to test the effectiveness of the kit.

Meanwhile, the Barnyard Masturbator, a researcher who collects semen for insemination purposes, comes in third, beating out jobs like Prison Rape Researcher, Carcass Cleaner and Fish Counter.

America's Best-Paying Jobs*

Occupation Total Employment Median Annual Earnings

Physicians And Surgeons 598,000 Over $138,400

Dentists 152,000 $129,030

Chief Executive 547,000 $113,810

Airline Pilots 98,000 $110,940

Podiatrists 18,000 $107,560

*All data for calendar-year 2000. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

America's Worst-Paying Jobs*

Occupation Total Employment Median Annual Earnings

Fast-Food Cooks 522,000 $13,590

Cafeteria Workers 431,000 $13,580

Fast-Food Servers 2,206,000 $13,550

Waiters 1,983,000 $13,350

Casino Dealer 88,000 $13,330

world's worst jobs

something struck me kind of funny today...

the dog started barking, as she does when someone or something comes walking down the street. I looked out the window and saw the oddest thing. I wished I had a digital camera...

it was the phone book delivery person. walking on my sidewalk...pulling a red flyer wagon with the phone books in it. I snorted. it struck me so funny that a person wouldn't...I don't know...drive around with them in their trunk? how many books would actually fit in a wagon, anyway? I couldn't stop to look, I had to run from the door so he wouldn't hear me laughing. we have a pretty large neighborhood. I wonder how many trips he has to make back to his stash (his house, I assume?) to complete his daily deliveries?

other jobs that might just suck:

1. a candy factory worker, whose main job is to pack up the fudge (use your deductive reasoning folks...what would his/her title be???)

2. a pooper scooper in a parade on a sickly humid and insanely hot day...ahhhhhhh the stench!

3. a cleaner of livestock stalls at a farm

4. the custodians at truck stops

5. bedpan emptier

6. mulch salesperson (stiinnnnnnnky!)

pretty much, any job that smells like body fluids or solids would suck. I guess I'm kind of stuck on that today. any other