The Ten Worst Jobs in America

[k4kyv]

We have a lot of abysmal jobs, so any list of this kind will necessarily omit some true horrors. Still, there's no doubt these are 10 of the very worst:

Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be... (http://www.alternet.org/rights/24927/)

[W7DJM]

I've never seen the website that you posted before, and I have not idea of the "usual" drivel that shows up there, but let me say this to that:



Mississippi prison inmate/forced laborer


IS NOT A JOB---it's punishment for something you did wrong.



Street prostitute

IS NOT A JOB.


U.S. soldier, active duty in Iraq


IS NOT A JOB. It used to be known as "serving your country."

[W2LYS]

They left out QRZ Forum Moderator...

[KG4CGC]

A person is sent to prison AS punishment not FOR punishment. There's a big difference there.
Protitution IS a job.
Serving your country IS a job.
I think you're just trolling.

[N7VQM]

Quote[/b] (W7DJM @ Sep. 13 2005,18:28)]U.S. soldier, active duty in Iraq
IS NOT A JOB. #It used to be known as "serving your country."
Job - noun - A regular activity performed in exchange for payment, especially as one's trade, occupation, or profession.
From: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

Being a US servicemember certainly *IS* a job.

A servicemember provides thier talents to thier employer (the #people of the United States) in exchange for pay and other benefits.

An employee of a private company provides thier talents to thier employer (the company) in exchange for pay and other benefits.

Yes, a servicemember does serve thier country. #The private company's employee serves his company. #Either way, they person is EMPLOYED to do something and therefore has a job.

It certainly would have put me off if I was told I didn't have a job while I was in the Marine Corps!

[KI6ADA]

Ten Worst jobs in America:

1. plumber
2. janitor
3. custodian
4. stall cleaner
5. maid service
6. housekeeper
7. orderly
8. nursing assistant
9. Congress person
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George Bush!! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

[kd7msc]

Sign installer, service man

[KI6ADA]

ob/gyn specialist-shall I add details?? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[KG4CGC]

Plumbers around here make a nice chunka' change. Wouldn't call it amoung the worst jobs. Independs though are a dying breed with all the Wal-Mart sub contractors on the scene.
[edited for smelling]

[W7DJM]

Quote[/b] ]Yes, a servicemember does serve thier country. The private company's employee serves his company. Either way, they person is EMPLOYED to do something and therefore has a job.



My point is, that "serving your country" is, or should be, far more than "a job."

If you have a job, whether it's shoveling stuff, tossing trash, or fumigating farmigans, is usually something that you can quit when you've had quite enough.

That isn't quite so with the military "Hey Chief/ Sarge/ etc "take these stripes and shove 'em." ya right.


I take issue with CGC, who claims that prostitution is a job.

Sorry, wrong answer. It's not, unless of course, you live in certain parts of the state of Nevada


While we're on the subject of CGC, please have the courtesy not to fall to the word game temptation. One could argue either way whether a prisoner has been delivered to a particular "prison" facility "for" or "as" punishment.

Let's see, the driver kicks the Potential Prisoner out of the transport device, and tells the operator/guard/ caretaker at the "facility" that he's delivering "Mr. Smith as punishment." Doesn't make sense to me.

More sillyness.

But back to the point---being a member of the military service "may" have benefits, and of course you do get "paid" but it is hardly a "job" as compared to other, uh, professions here in the states.

I find that trying to compare "serving a company" with "serving one's country" out and out insulting.

Finally, trying to suggest (if one, for a minor bit of time assumed that the military "is" a job) that it's near the top of the "bad" list is also misguided.

Hell, being a farmer or logger here in the states may well have an injury and death "on the job" rate nearly as high as being a current US soldier----but at least a person can "quit" those two examples of jobs.


Finally, the "nanny" thing. Sounds to me like someone is working on the sly without their "green" card, and the rich snobs with kids are taking advantage. That sounds to me more like a law enforcement or sociatal problem, rather than just a "bad job."

[W7DJM]

Quote[/b] ]1. plumber
2. janitor
3. custodian
4. stall cleaner
5. maid service
6. housekeeper
7. orderly
8. nursing assistant
9. Congress person

I certainly don't agree with that list, either. In many places, janitor work is fairly well paid, considering, and is good honest work. Most of the time, it's not all that dirty.

Ditto, custodian

Ditto, maid service

Ditto, housekeeper

I don't know what you mean by "orderly"

Congressperson is an insult. Those people get far more perks, in most cases, than anyone ever deserves, and their retirement bennies are far and above the rest of us poor slobs.

[KG4CGC]

Oh Puleeze! Wrong answer my pale pale behind. Prostitute provides a service. Prostitute receive money in exchange. Done deal. Doesn't matter if it's in Nevada or New York.
# In America, a convicted criminal is incarcerated AS their punishment. They are not placed under lock and key to be abused by gaurds and wardens. Sorry OM, doesn't wash. Abuse at the hands of their fellow inmates in another topic for another thread. We do not need to follow the examples of Turkey or Mexico when it comes to the treatment of prisoners unless you want the UN to start rewriting our constitution.
# Don't take it personally. I didn't take your original statement that I responded to personally, nor the last one.

[N7VQM]

Quote[/b] (W7DJM @ Sep. 13 2005,22:20)]My point is, that "serving your country" #is, or should be, far more than "a job."


That's neither here nor there. #The fact is service in the armed forces is a contract job. #Both parties have to live up to the bargin. #Some people do it because they feel it's a calling. #Some do it because they think there's no other avenue.

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I find that trying to compare #"serving a company" # with "serving one's country" # out and out insulting.
Suit yourself. #I don't find it insulting in the least. #I had a job to do in the Marine Corps to directly serve our country and help defend it. #Now I have a job to do to indirectly serve our country.

[kd7msc]

proctoligst

[KG4CGC]

And the Doctor says "open wide".

[kb9iou]

Prison labor is not a job. Prisoners have it too easy in prisons sitting around getting their meals taken to them while they watch tv and sleep all day.. pretty much what they did on the outside. I agree 100% with what Mississippi is doing, and trust me. Anything verbal coming from the guards is minute as compared to what comes out of inmates mouths directed towards the guards. Anyone who has ever worked corrections can attest to that.

[KA9VQF]

Today’s army is supposedly a volunteer army. If so why do they get paid?

According to an online dictionary the word volunteer:

vol-un-teer n
1. A person who performs or offers to perform a service voluntarily: an information booth staffed by volunteers; hospital volunteers.

2. Law a. A person who renders aid, performs a service, or assumes an obligation voluntarily.
b. A person who holds property under a deed made without consideration.

3. Botany A cultivated plant growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed.
adj.
1. Being, consisting of, or done by volunteers: volunteer firefighters; volunteer tutoring.
2. Botany Growing from self-sown or accidentally dropped seed. Used of a cultivated plant or crop.
v. vol·un·teered, vol·un·teer·ing, vol·un·teers
v.tr.
To give or offer to give voluntarily: volunteered their services; volunteer to give blood.
v.intr.
1. To perform or offer to perform a service of one's own free will.
2. To do charitable or helpful work without pay: Many retirees volunteer in community service and day care centers.

I have always wondered why supposed volunteers are paid. I guess that if someone wants to voluntarily pay the people that have volunteered to do something its different somehow.

When I was on the volunteer fire department we got paid $3.00 for every run we made. It didn’t matter if it was a fire, automobile wreck or anything else that our department was called for. In the early days the department didn’t charge for this volunteer service.

While I’m not sure how they managed to obtain any equipment they did have quite a bit. I remember volunteering a lot of my time to fund raisers to obtain more equipment. I was never paid for this investment of my time, didn’t expect to be.

We rolled equipment on a lot of what turned out to be false alarms. It didn’t take to long before the department decided to try to recoup some of the lost funds that these false alarms generated. Shortly after that they would charge by the hour to have firefighters and equipment on the scene of an actual fire.
None of us on the department were paid an hourly wage to fight said fire.

I fully understand that there is no free lunch. It just bothers me to see the word volunteer miss used to such a great extent. If you are paid for doing a job that you have volunteered for it ain’t volunteer exactly.

I also appreciate those who are in the volunteer army.

[kf6rdn]

I am assuming they mean ILLEGAL Immigrants, Legal immigrants would deserve protection under the law of being paid like anyone else.

ILLEGALS however.. #I am sorry, I have absolutley no sympathy, you are here illegally, don't be surprised if someone takes advantage of you, just as YOU are trying to take advantage of me and my Country, via not paying taxes, welfare etc.

Post edit - if you are terribly sympathetic to them, maybe you need to read 'KRP's topic:
Out of Arizona (http://www.qrz.com/ib-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=17;t=101577)

It's TIME to stop the PC BS of "oh those poor immigrant workers". Instead, how about "those bastards that are stealing YOUR tax money by not paying taxes so YOU have to pay for THEIR kids and THEIR medical"?


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And if they are immigrants, it's not unusual for employers -- usually contractors or private individuals -- not to pay them at all.

[AC0H]

Anything in a packing plant.

Quote[/b] ]It's TIME to stop the PC BS of "oh those poor immigrant workers". #Instead, how about "those bastards that are stealing YOUR tax money by not paying taxes so YOU have to pay for THEIR kids and THEIR medical"?


Ditto. Why are ILLEGAL immigrants entitled to the same protections under our constitution as native citizens or LEGAL immigrants. Anybody else noticed the media isn't using the term illegal immigrant anymore? They've dropped the ILLEGAL part.

[KA4DPO]

Quote[/b] (N7VQM @ Sep. 13 2005,22:44)]Quote[/b] (W7DJM @ Sep. 13 2005,22:20)]My point is, that "serving your country" #is, or should be, far more than "a job."


That's neither here nor there. #The fact is service in the armed forces is a contract job. #Both parties have to live up to the bargin. #Some people do it because they feel it's a calling. #Some do it because they think there's no other avenue.

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I find that trying to compare #"serving a company" # with "serving one's country" # out and out insulting.
Suit yourself. #I don't find it insulting in the least. #I had a job to do in the Marine Corps to directly serve our country and help defend it. #Now I have a job to do to indirectly serve our country.
I don't find comparing serving in the military to any other job insulting. #I have served, and still am serving, my country every day for over 20 years. #The military has a job to do and we do it every day. #Without the millions of Americans working in every kind of job you can think of, we, the military, wouldn't be here. #My job is to defend the US, so that's what I do. #Someone elses job may be to build automobiles so that's what they do. #I need a car and so do you. #

I don't feel like my job makes me more special than anyone else who works for a living. #I do it because I wan't to and because after all these years I've become pretty good at it, at least I like to think so.

[KD4LEI]

Quote[/b] ]Not provided with the basic tools to protect themselves, many have to pay for their own body armor.

Well duh... You only paid for it if you were boneheaded enough to lose it on your own accord. There is a bad case of disinformation if I ever saw it.

Quote[/b] ]And, larger issues aside, it can get as hot as 120 degrees over there! (i.e. Iraq)

Oh boo hoo... I was patrolling around in a compound near Riyadh when the temps were 130 - 140 degrees.

NEXT!

[K8ERV]

Dangerous, difficult, smelly, low-paying. How did you find me?

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TOM K8ERV Montrose Colo

[kf6rdn]

Quote[/b] (K8ERV @ Sep. 14 2005,06:47)]Dangerous, difficult, smelly, low-paying. How did you find me?

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TOM K8ERV #Montrose Colo
Yellow pages!
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[k4kyv]

Stan, Stan, janitor man
Chief custodian of the crapper can
Mops the floor and picks up towels
While listening to the rumble of other people's bowels.

Harvesting tobacco would have to be pretty low on my list.
No machines have been successfully invented to do it, so it is still backbreaking manual work, done at the worst possible time of the year, when summer is the muggiest, plus the tar-like residue stinks and gets all over you from head to toe. No wonder the work is increasingly done by "guest workers", both legal and illegal.

As for the proctologist (I think the currently accepted term is "gastrointerologist"), he gets well paid to dip deeply. I would do worse jobs than that for that kind of money.

Nevertheless, for all those who complain about how much money doctors make, remember they spend almost half their productive life just getting through university, pre-med, medical school, internship and residency. Once they are able to establish a practice, they are often deeply in debt, plus if they work independently, there is the costly overhead of the office personnel and medical equipment, not to mention malpractice insurance. Then, add the 60-hour work week and 24 hours on call. I don't think many of them are in it primarily for the money.

[k4kyv]

Quote[/b] (W7DJM @ Sep. 13 2005,22:20)]Finally, the "nanny" thing. Sounds to me like someone is working on the sly without their "green" card, and the rich snobs with kids are taking advantage. That sounds to me more like a law enforcement or sociatal problem, rather than just a "bad job."
These are often students who agree to work "au pair" for a year or two in a foreign country to learn the language. They agree to serve as a nanny in exchange for room and board, and little or no pay. They are usually on a student visa or some kind of temporary work permit and don't need a green card. Overwhelmingly female, young in age, they are frequently exploited by their "hosts", sexually and otherwise.

[n2nh]

I always thought Lumberjack was a tough job. Long hours, dangerous and sometimes work alone. If a Lumberjack gets hurt - who else knows?

[KA4DPO]

Got this from an old email entitled, " And you think your job stinks".

Picture is of a North Korean soldier pulling duty on the rifle range. They have different safety standards than we do. Note the look of job satisfaction on his face.

http://home.earthlink.net/~buracho/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/lousyjob.jpg

[n0jaa]

You forgot to add "blue water system servicing on an airplane."

[ac4ut]

Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ Sep. 14 2005,10:26)]Quote[/b] (W7DJM @ Sep. 13 2005,22:20)]Finally, the "nanny" thing. # Sounds to me like someone is working on the sly without their "green" card, and the rich snobs with kids are taking advantage. # #That sounds to me more like a law enforcement or sociatal problem, rather than just a "bad job."
These are often students who agree to work "au pair" for a year or two in a foreign country to learn the language. #They agree to serve as a nanny in exchange for room and board, and little or no pay. #They are usually on a student visa or some kind of temporary work permit and don't need a green card. #Overwhelmingly female, young in age, they are frequently exploited by their "hosts", sexually and otherwise.
Our J1 students are a mix of male ,female college students and are quite intelligent.
I know of none that have been sexually assualted in the last 7 years.
That's how long the program has been going.They are normal 20ish year olds and I am sure they are probably not virgins,but I can't speak from first hand knowledge.

As far as street prostitutes...I agree lets get them off the street and back into the house where they belong.

[k4mya]

hard job = teachers

[ac4ut]

Quote[/b] (k4mya @ Sep. 14 2005,12:27)]hard job = teachers
From what I hear I would agree with you. No thanks in order just criticism.

[G0GQK]

When all the customers, guests, passengers, or clients have left the premises, the grottiest job is cleaning up the toilets where they stood or sat and evacuated their bladders or bowels into a receptacle which they never flushed, or where they missed their aim by two feet.! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/sad.gif

Mel

[KG4CGC]

I think the current clean up effort in New Orleans is the worst job in the world. Picking up the dead out of chemical and fecal sludge infested waters has to be the pits. Mind you, some of those people are volunteers but it's still a "job" no matter how you wish to paint it.

[kd7msc]

Radio tech. um my radio doesnt work after i droped it in the chemical toilet. yuck. It is worse when they dont tell you.

[KW4MW]

k4myaQuote[/b] ]hard job = teachers

My BIL taught school for 35 years and took early retirement because he couldn't take much more of teaching kids that could care less. #

After the latest attempt by the Feds to control the schools he wore a tee-shirt that proudly proclaimed on the front #"No Child Left Behind" #- On the back it said, "No Teacher Left Standing".

[KW4MW]

Has anybody mentioned the poor saps in jails and prisons that do cavity searches? # Bleeecchhh!

[KG4CGC]

Quote[/b] (KW4MW @ Sep. 14 2005,17:31)]Has anybody mentioned the poor saps in jails and prisons that do cavity searches? # Bleeecchhh!
From some of the stories I've been told, the guys doing the cavity searches are the ones who enjoy giving them. Lots of job satisfaction for those guys.
I'm not trying to be funny.

[k4mya]

the police the have to watch the people that have to drain the tolets on airplanes http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif

[KG6JTB]

How come salesman at HRO the week before field day didn't make the list?

Dave
KG6JTB

[KI6ADA]

California grape pickers, enough said. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[n2nh]

Quote[/b] (ac4ut @ Sep. 14 2005,15:45)]Quote[/b] (k4mya @ Sep. 14 2005,12:27)]hard job = teachers
From what I hear I would agree with you. No thanks in order just criticism.
Agreed. Same for College Professors. They've got to love their jobs, otherwise how could they do it?

[w4ass]

NAAAAA YA ALL FORGOT ABOUT THE GUY THAT CLEANS OUT THE NASTY BLUE WATER IN THE PORTER POTTYS AT CONSTRUCTION SITES , NOW THATS A NASTY JOB


73
bob ki4ltg

[kd7msc]

Quote[/b] (ki4ltg @ Oct. 08 2005,16:08)]NAAAAA YA ALL FORGOT ABOUT THE GUY THAT CLEANS OUT THE NASTY BLUE WATER IN THE PORTER POTTYS AT CONSTRUCTION SITES , NOW THATS A NASTY JOB


73
bob ki4ltg
What about the guy who has to fix a radio after being dropped in the nasty blue water. yuck been there done that. By the way Bob one of those dang Honey Wagons tipped over going to fast around a corner near my house. Wow what a smelly mess that was. They had several people cleaning up that mess.
73, Sean

[w4ass]

Quote[/b] (kd7msc @ Oct. 08 2005,23:48)]Quote[/b] (ki4ltg @ Oct. 08 2005,16:08)]NAAAAA YA ALL FORGOT ABOUT THE GUY THAT CLEANS OUT THE NASTY BLUE WATER IN THE PORTER POTTYS AT CONSTRUCTION SITES , NOW THATS A NASTY JOB


73
bob ki4ltg
What about the guy who has to fix a radio after being dropped in the nasty blue water. #yuck been there done that. By the way Bob one of those dang Honey Wagons tipped over going to fast around a corner near my house. Wow what a smelly mess that was. They had several people cleaning up that mess.
73, Sean
i heare ya there, lol had one guy have a crew tip one over while he was in it , lol man when he came out he looked like a big ol smerf lol






73 bob
ki4ltg

[W2ILP]

In my opinion...

Field Service Engineer.

ENUF SED.

w2ilp (Investigating Lotsa Problems)

[w7lpn]

Quote[/b] (k4kyv @ Sep. 13 2005,18:10)]We have a lot of abysmal jobs, so any list of this kind will necessarily omit some true horrors. Still, there's no doubt these are 10 of the very worst:

Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be... (http://www.alternet.org/rights/24927/)
A chance for Liberals to bash the war.

[w7lpn]

I have a friend who my heart goes out to, who pumps out septic tanks! That has to fit in here somewhere, right next to a nursing home CNA, or laundry worker.