The Jobs No One Wants

[Liberal_in_LA]

The Jobs No One Wants <---- stupid article title given the recession

You think your job is bad? Well just be thankful you don’t work in one of these positions. We searched for jobs that are incredibly dangerous, pay very poorly or are just plain disgusting (or all of the above). On top of all that, several of these jobs are in industries that are quickly dying out, meaning that, for all your hard work, you aren’t even guaranteed a moderate amount of job security.

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I think there are plenty who would want these jobs. Here is the list. Click on the link to read the explanation as to why they are the worst. I'm surprised by some on the list. If any DUer hold one of these positions maybe they can elaborate.

Feces piper
Fast Food cook
Janitor and cleaner
Landscapers
Sewer inspectors
Hospital laundry worker
roustabout
Telemarketers
Reporters and photographers

http://www.mainstreet.com/slideshow/career/employment/worst-jobs-america?cm_ven=msnetzero

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. I've worked at more than one of those jobs in my life.

I actually liked landscaping. Hard work but you got to see your results.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. I cleaned hotel rooms one summer decades ago... It wasn't that bad

Yeah, I'm sure it was wear after awhile, but it wasn't stressful.

[closeupready]

2. Lettuce-picker, as John McCain informed us last year, right?

That's a job Americans REALLY don't want to do, if they won't do it for $50/hour.

[eyeofdelphi]

3. i don't know about any of the others, but

as far as landscaping you have to be pretty tough. it's not a gross job or anything. my family owns a landscaping business. if you like plants, it's not so bad. but as my boyfriend can attest, when it's 90 degreees and 85% humidity, it really sucks. and you're out in it all day long, with no escape from the heat. guys that can't hack it only last a day or two. some pass out and puke. then it's a lot of physical labor, getting stabbed by trees and plants, discovering hornet nests, lugging around superheavy equipment and trees. and after all your hard work in the spring and summer, you're left with not enough hours in the winter to support yourself. so, it's not really a "desirable" job by any means.

[Fla_Democrat]

4. Roofers, Rodbusters, Field welders.

:smoke:

[MineralMan]

18. Done roofing. 100 degree days on the ground -- 130 degrees on

the roof with hot tar on my shoes. I'd love to have been a good enough welder to do field welding. I just never could manage to certify as an all-position welder.

[Blue Owl]

5. Feces Piper?

Sounds like some kind of weird teabag groupthink experiment.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. Feces Piper definition (fecal transplanter)

Feces Piper

Each year, Popular Science comes out with a list of the worst jobs in science. Their list is full of cringe-worthy positions like Oceanic Snot-Diver and Armpit Detective (don’t ask), but none are quite as gross as the Feces Piper. The position itself is very serious. Scientists are looking for alternatives to antibiotics, and one of them, according to Popular Science, is “introducing healthy poo into an infected patient’s gut to help recolonize the body with good, microbe-fighting bugs,” a procedure called a “fecal transplant.” Sure, at the end of the day, you get the pleasure of knowing that you did something to try to help humanity, but really dude, you just spent your day playing with poop.

[Urban Prairie]

26. Metal foundry employee

I breathed in the resulting toxic fumes and smoke from making alloys out of melting zinc, copper, manganese, aluminum, nickel, brass, lead, iron and other incidental scrap metals in gas fueled furnaces for several years, back in the mid-80s, it was a very hot, dirty, physically exhausting, and dangerous job to do.

Edit: meant to reply to the OP.

[hootinholler]

29. Damn I thought it was a musical gig

Associated with Haggis.

-Hoot

[Dulcinea]

6. Telemarketing absolutely has to be the worst job ever.

I did it in college, and it was awful. I have no idea how those people sell anything in the age of Caller ID. If I don't recognize a number, I just don't answer the phone. I refuse to waste any of my time listening to someone try to sell me something I don't want or need.

Reporter/photographer is something you do because you love it, not to make big bucks!

[Scuba]

7. I thought this was about Steve.

[AnArmyVeteran]

9. What about chicken sexer and highway line painting jobs?

In case you're not aware, a chicken sexer is a person who determines if a new chick is female or male. They use either the visual method or the digital method. Sadly, male chickens are tossed in a garbage can and the females are allowed to live to produce eggs.

Painting strips on a highway in the middle of summer when temperatures on asphalt are over 120 degress isn't a very hot, er, 'good' job to have either.

BTW, what in the hell is a feces piper? Is it something liked a pied piper?

[rfranklin]

11. I've been a photographer for 20 years...

but with my own business. It is a profession that has always been undervalued because everyone can push a button on a camera, and now with P.h.d (push here dummy) cameras the results are usually acceptable. And like music on the internet, photos are free, right?

[conspirator]

12. Household cleaners are paid 12 euros per hour in Germany. Not bad. n/t

[MineralMan]

17. Heck, I'm going to import a German housekeeper. We pay

$25/hr to the woman who comes in once a month and gives our house a once-over, and she doesn't even do windows. $12/hr. How do I get one of those H1b things, anyhow?

[conspirator]

20. $25/hr (20 euros/hr) for cleaning!! I am in the wrong business, or in the wrong country n/t

[MineralMan]

24. It's the going rate here in the Twin Cities. She does a good job,

but I work faster, so she only comes here once a month, and does some in-depth cleaning.

[JDPriestly]

13. Used to wash dishes at a pizza place and served and cooked

at McDonalds. I'm surprised to see reporters and photographers on the list. Must be some kind of joke.

[Jkid]

14. Definitely a joke.

Because we still need reporters and photographers to cover newsworthy stuff.

[RobinA]

15. Just For the Record

There are people out there who aspire to janitorial jobs. Not everyone has the personal resources to be able to look down on a job like that. To some it would be an achievement to be proud of. Just a note of perspective.

[Wickerman]

16. I've done 4 of those jobs

and currently hold one of them part time. Reporters do have a hard go of it these days. Thanks Rush and Fox.

[damntexdem]

19. Hey, while in high school, I was a fast-food fry cook.

And for years in college, I was a custodial worker (janitor and cleaner) in a university building. It was a great job for a college student: the work became automatic, so I could think about other things while sweeping and so on; and I could finish my tasks in about half of the time allotted, so I could sit in the janitor's closet the rest of the time and study (but had to be there, so didn't off and do non-studying activities).

[mdmc]

21. mental health direct care worker

low pay, high drama

[Hannah Bell]

22. plenty of people want those jobs -- or any job, for that matter.

[Brickbat]

23. I hate articles like this.

They are classist and ignore the fact that the vast majority of them are underpaid.

[sweetloukillbot]

25. Journalist here - well, former journalist

Reasons why we hate our jobs.

1) Editors who are increasingly looking to increase page views rather than convey a good or important story.
2) Editors who want stories told in less depth so they can sell more advertising in print editions.
3) The general instability of the industry.
4) Low pay compared to our education levels.
5) Constant fear of lay-offs. I have copy editor friends whose papers have outsourced their copy-desks.
6) Constant lay-offs increasing workloads - Pretty much everyone I still know at the paper is putting in 80-100 hours a week.
7) Cross-training that waters down the quality of the product. I'm not a good photographer, but because the paper laid off 10 photographers, I was shooting the photos for my stories as well.
8) The increasing reliance on student interns over seasoned reporters.
9) Public apathy to our work. And worse, public mistrust of our motives.
10) Which leads to another problem - when editors ask us to do a story that pushes an agenda (usually amounted to promoting an event the paper was sponsoring)
11) In my case, the newspaper's financial over-involvement with local sports teams (see #10).
12) Publishers who were unresponsive to the Internet and ignored the exodus from print to online journalism until it was too late.
13) For me personally, websites like Examiner.com which pay pittance to amateurs costing professionals freelance opportunities.
14) Also a personal beef - news websites that allow comments on stories - all they do is allow a bunch of assholes to spout off, they don't encourage meaningful dialogue and they inevitably seem to be trolled by the ugliest freepers in the country.

[rock]

27. Exploding ball of nails packer

It's a really neat device with high demand, but hard to keep workers. (I'm just joking.)

[Uncle Joe]

28. "Assistant Crack Whore."

That's one I recall Norm MacDonald spouting off on SNL Weekend Update as the new #1 worst job in America, it replaced the former #1 of "Crack Whore."

Thanks for the thread, Liberal_in_LA.