What would be the worst job in the world to you?

[jmowreader]

Before you answer, this isn't about a job you could do if the pay wasn't so bad, or one where the working conditions aren't so great.

This is the one job you could not bring yourself to do no matter how high the pay was or how badly you needed a job. You couldn't bring yourself to apply for it, you wouldn't take it if it was offered to you and you'd consider suicide if they forced you to do it.

For me: euthanasia technician in an animal shelter.

[BlueJazz]

1. A Republican Women's husband

[Curmudgeoness]

2. Honey dipper.

Or as they call themselves Septic Tank Maintenance.

But that euthanasia technician would be a bad one too.

[GoCubsGo]

38. And, a job somewhat related to both of those...

...roadkill removal crew member. It's difficult enough to see the dead, mangled animals and the complete waste that is their deaths, but most of the time, they're rotting and the smell would make a person want to puke.

[rbnyc]

3. Any position in these industries:

Fossil Fuel
Factory Farm/Industrial Food
Pharmaceutical
Health Insurance
Weapons Manufacturing

I am a not-for-profit fundraising executive. I would also not work for the Catholic Church and probably not for any particular church.

I prefer to stay out of the for-profit sector altogether, but if I had to, I would.

[BlueIris]

4. You're a wise woman, rb. nt

[rbnyc]

7. Thanks.

I guess I'm also pretty damned lucky.

:toast:

[rbnyc]

13. Actually, I'm kind of a bitch.

I'm having a hard time dealing with people who can't communicate today. At work I yelled at someone in front of my whole office because of his inability to read or write. And now I was probably a little short with one of our dear friends at DU who is famous for using language in a very unique way.

I'm going to take a walk. A little twilight playground time with hubby and son is in order.

:loveya:

:loveya:

:loveya:

[RandomThoughts]

8. You may be seeing it differently.

Many groups moving the same direction, not a group working for some other group.

That is not understanding it is about helping better concepts that help many people, and some people in many faiths do that, and many people of better heart also do that.

Or only God knows the heart, not what a person says is there affiliation, from that I try not to judge by claimed faiths, and believe in tolerance, and many cultures seeing the same thing differently.

Or something like that.

[rbnyc]

11. Please help me understand what you are saying.

"You may be seeing it differently." - I may be seeing what differntly from what? The original question differently than how it was intended? In what way?

"Many groups moving the same direction, not a group working for some other group." - It would so much help me understand what you mean were this a sentence. I don't even know what question to ask about this. I can't even guess what you mean.

"That is not understanding it is about helping better concepts that help many people, and some people in many faiths do that, and many people of better heart also do that." - What is not understanding? How do you help a concept? Some people in many faiths do what? What is a better heart? What do people with a better heart do?

"Or only God knows the heart, not what a person says is there affiliation, from that I try not to judge by claimed faiths, and believe in tolerance, and many cultures seeing the same thing differently." - Are you saying you don't judge a person who says they are from a particular faith? Me neither. But I do judge the church. Are you saying that many cultures just have different ways of saying the same thing? That's probably true, but not relevant to my choice not to serve a particular church.

"Or something like that."

P.S. There = Over there! Their = belonging to them.

[kayakjohnny]

12. OMG!!!!.....

You went there.

[RandomThoughts]

14. I was saying that supporting better ideas.

Weather through some group or another, is not supporting that group, but the better ideas they might also think on.

So Catholics or people of other faiths, don't have to be said to be supporting those churches, but supporting many concepts the church also speaks of, although people have many differences also in many views of many things.

In that a person that says something that sounds like something a Catholic says, is not saying they support that church. Nor a person saying something that sounds like what some other faith says is supporting that faith, it can be supporting the better concepts as that person sees them in a different way.

To me your comment sounded like you were saying twig - branch - trunk of tree. When you said 'working for a church'
I was saying many branches connected to same trunk of the tree.

I said that becuase many of my posts mention many things many faiths also mention, and many stories also have parts of things said by many faiths, but that would not be working for those churches, depending how you see it, it could be many people supporting the same things in different ways.


Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. That can be seen from many faiths.

Rope a dope, that is taking the punches, that is concept of peaceful resistance done by Ghandi and MLK also, and idea of V for Vengeance having to be shot at first, since justice is not preemptive, and how a case has to be built, and how Jedi defend.

There is the same ideas in so many places.

[rbnyc]

18. Here's a great idea taught by the Catholic Church:

When Joseph R. Mallon Jr. bumps up against a complex problem, he thinks back to a lesson he learned in high school from the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.

The Philadelphia-area school's Catholic nuns taught him the art of diagramming a sentence. Once all the parts of speech lined up, Mallon pulled clarity from the chaos. It's a process he uses today to tackle tough issues as chief executive and chairman of Measurement Specialties Inc.

"Sit down quietly. Take (the issue) apart into its component parts. Make sure all the components fit together well. They've got to be well chosen, fit together and make sense. There are few (business) problems that can't be solved that way, as dire as it might seem," Mallon said. "Sentence diagramming is one of the best analytical techniques I ever learned."

Investor's Business Daily
17 October 2000

[BlueIris]

5. Pretty much any job in the U.S. military.

Sorry, DU vets and active duty folk, but I just couldn't do it. Mostly because of that whole increasing the chances I'd be sexually assaulted thing, but also because I just don't have the ethical ability to rationalize these wars, let alone actively participate in furthering them.

[av8rdave]

48. I can understand your sentiment, but there are other aspects to the military

During my service, I taught quite a few people to fly, which was rewarding. Many of them now fly and/or have significant responsibilities in the civilian aviation world. I like to think I had some positive influence on those careers.

In the refueling business, I helped distressed aircraft and crews get home safely, and located foundering watercraft. I also helped (directly and indirectly) move needed supplies to our troops and families overseas. I also delivered badly needed medical support to those in need.

There was some rewarding work to be done.

I am not anti military. I am anti misuse of the military, which sadly has been going on for WAY too long.

[pink-o]

6. Meat Packer.

I've been a vegetarian for 34 years, so even if I got paid 300 dollars an hour, I couldn't ever do it.

[stuntcat]

51. +1

I heard there's lots of turnover in those jobs, partly because it's so bad and part because it makes people sick. Back where I grew up, in NC, they mostly hire immigrants to do it, and other people just desperate for work. I guess there are a few sadists who choose that sort of job though :puke:

[Throd]

9. Airline steward, Roofer, Birthday clown, Clerk at a liquor store in a crappy neighborhood...

[kayakjohnny]

10. Any person who has to notify the family of an unexpected death.

:cry:

[Avalux]

15. Anything that would cause harm or death to an animal. n/t

[grasswire]

23. yeah I was thinking of those awful jobs at animal shelters

It must be hell to euthanize healthy animals.

[alphafemale]

16. Collection Agent. Could not do it. nt

[femmocrat]

17. Day care worker.

Or anything where I had to change diapers, wipe noses, and listen to crying kids.

[lunatica]

19. I've always refused to be a manager

In the last couple of years I've had the best managers anyone could possibly want, so it isn't about them at all. I just think too many sociopaths become managers. I'm 63 years old and other than a very few, most of the managers I had were mean and rotten at their jobs. But the reason I don't want to ever be a manager is that you're owned by the bosses and have to do things that are simply wrong.

[Initech]

20. Professional pooper scooper, anything to do in customer service

I've worked a couple of customer service jobs - they suck to no end, and that's why I generally have a rule not to be an asshole to customer service people.

[hamsterjill]

21. I second your choice!

I could NOT do that job no matter what the pay. And I question the ethics of those who can and do perform that job. I mean, some people believe there is no other way with the dog and cat overpopulation issues, but for me, it's time we FIND a way to make that job obsolete.

[Odin2005]

22. Salesman. I hate professional liars.

[grasswire]

24. school bus driver, I think

That would be hellish.

[kimi]

25. Working in a lab testing animals

I would totally freak out.

I've been reading a book lately - "Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues", excerpts from the online magazine. For the most part it's cool fun stuff, but there was one story about guys cleaning air ducts in an animal lab, and I couldn't finish the essay, it just made me ill.

Anything that involved hurting people or animals (and I was a nurse, so I know that I hurt people on occasion, but that was for a greater good -- their health.) Nope, couldn't do anything that wantonly hurt people or animals, that would be my break-point.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. Telephone solicitor or bill collector

PR person for a right-wing politician

[Duer 157099]

27. I think you've named it

I can't imagine a worse job than that.

[jmowreader]

45. Tell me about it!

I know I could be an executioner long before being a euthanasia tech.

If you're an executioner you could go to the court, get the prisoner's court documents and convince yourself that person needs to die for his crimes. Like this fine citizen:

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/chanthakoummanekosoul.htm

"Upon arrival, police found that the subject had stabbed Sarah Ann Walker in the neck and face causing her death."

Or this man...

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/tablerrichard.htm

"Tabler and codefendant drove up next to a vehicle driven by two men of foreign nationality. Tabler shot one of the men once in the head and the other twice in the neck with a .45 Ruger, fatally wounding one of the victims. Reports also indicate that the subject had the codefendant video tape the last shot fired." (Skinhead initiation ritual? Looks that way to me, as does the photo of the offender.)

How about this fine upstanding gentleman?

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/barbeestephen.htm

"Barbee asphyxiated a thirty four year year old white female and a seven year old white male, transported their bodies to a wooded area and buried them."

Or...

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/robertsdonnie.htm

Shot his live-in girlfriend three times in the head because she wouldn't give him money.

And then there's THIS guy...

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/rhoadesrick.htm

"One day after being paroled, Rhoades entered the home of two white male brothers while they slept. He attacked them with a steel bar and a butcher knife, resulting in their deaths. He also took money from the billfold of one of the victims."

(I'm picking white guys for the most part, because I AM on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's website...)

For people like that I could do my duty. For a puppy who got dumped off at the pound because it peed on the carpet once? No way.

[HopeHoops]

28. Changing RV shit tanks and other maintenance on the damn things like sealing the seams on the roof..

Wait - I HAD that job one summer when I was in college. And yes, it royally sucked.

[jmowreader]

33. I think the worst part of that job...

would be dealing with the rich, entitled fucks who tend to own those things.

[HopeHoops]

35. This was rural PA and most of the owners were retired.

A lot of the RVs I sealed roofs on were permanently parked in KOA campgrounds - little fences, gnomes and flamingos, plastic lanterns linked together by the power line and hanging from the awning, up on cinder blocks, just parked there. There's a whole culture of people who live in these camp grounds all summer and seem to enjoy it.

The REALLY rich owners got the new trailers that at the time (mid 80's) ran around $32K, and yes, they tended to be "entitled fucks". They'd trade in a five-year old trailer on a new one and since that was sales, the boss handled dealing with those people. Generally the only thing the used trailers needed to get them ready for resale was a good cleaning, having the bearings repacked, and a couple of cans of spray paint to spiff up the wheel rims, bumper, hitch, and propane tanks.

Unfortunately, most of the nasty maintenance was on trailers that were of questionable condition - so it was REALLY unpleasant sometimes. But hey, it was a job and they weren't easy to come by. I either worked in the garage or on-site for the permanently parked trailers. Unless I was on-site, I didn't have to deal with the customers that often. The trailer would just show up in the garage with a repair order.

[graywarrior]

29. Customer service telemarketing

[Rochester]

30. Anything that requires contact with customers or the public

I could not deal with that for all the money in the world.

[Phentex]

31. Golf caddy, papparazzi, surgeon, stripper...

to name a few.

[mysuzuki2]

32. prison guard

closely followed by any job in a slaughterhouse.

[bbinacan]

34. Construction worker in high places

No way, no how.

Case in point

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[bif]

49. Same here

I worked for a neighbor who's a contractor a couple years ago. I helped with a couple roofing projects and didn't even like being up 12 feet in the air!

[hobbit709]

36. corporate stooge/ass kisser.

[Kali]

37. at first I had a good list

but after thinking about it I probably could do most anything if I was physically able and properly trained. I wouldn't like doing a few - dealing with public for more than limited encounters, cube work, cold calling people on the phone - that sort of thing. So I guess if I had to do some unpleasant job, I could probably do it.

I probably couldn't teach large groups of adults or other public speaking gigs and I doubt I could handle any kind of job that involved close contact with caterpillars (orchard work? not sure what jobs this would entail, but I have a severe phobia)

[GoCubsGo]

39. I already know I don't like teaching.

I did the teaching assistant thing in grad school. It's pretty much a thankless job. Even more thankless when you are teaching K-12, given all the teacher-bashing on top of the low pay and long hours. I don't like people enough to put up with that.

Caterpillars, on the other hand, would be a really fun job for me, most likely. There are many a day when I wish I had gone into Entomology.

[Kali]

41. for me it wouldn't be the thankless part

I'm a mom, after all :rofl:

it's getting up and talking in front of an audience:scared:

[Lucian]

40. The job I currently have.

If I had the choice, and I knew what it entailed, I'd never do it. I unload trucks for Walmart and put up with too much bullshit while doing it. We're never fast enough in getting them unloaded, we get yelled at by management all the time, and all of this for $7.90/hr starting out.

I'd also never go into any industry where I had to go against what I believe in. I'm a renewable energy guy, so I'd never work for the fossil fuel industry. I'm an atheist so I'd never work for any church.

[solara]

42. I have to agree about being a euthanasia tech in an animal shelter - couldn't do it

2. chicken coop cleaner
3. meat packing
4. roofer
6. bus driver

I have a great job right now, and while it requires a lot of interaction in areas where I am admittedly weak, I am grateful for the opportunity to grow. So, I am very lucky.


:woohoo:

[jmowreader]

43. 5. is Walmart associate?

[solara]

50. Haha possibly, maybe something to do with numbers

:rofl:

[Sanity Claws]

44. Butcher

[LiberalEsto]

46. Republican political wife

The vacant Xanax eyes, the Barbie look, the phony smile, the plastic hair, the mouth that burbles inanities, the hate...

[av8rdave]

47. Manure shoveler/egg handler/rat killer in a chicken factory

Nasty, nasty work.

Oh wait, I've actually done that one. For a blistering $1.25/hour.