Last year, I worked with a government lab to test water quality. This job was pretty good, all things considered. However, it made me aware of some of the worst jobs of all time.
The first one was Biosolids. Thank goodness I didn’t have to work in Biosolids because I probably wouldn’t have made it. Basically, you work in a plant that blast furnaces all of the city’s excrement and turns it into fertilizer pellets for non-food uses. Having something go wrong and ending up covered in shit is apparently a regular occurrence there. Every single person who works Biosolids gets sick for their first couple of weeks.
The next one, however, I would argue is much worse. In my city, oil companies will keep their tankards on the river, holding pretty much all of their oil for the region. Since it is a requirement, at least one person has to be on “fire watch”. This job basically entails sitting on top of one of these tankards with a fire hydrant (like that would do anything). Basically, you are in the hot sun doing nothing all day except waiting to die or for your shift to end. The job is like a tedious game of Russian Roulette.
Can anyone think of worse jobs in the US?