Worst job in the world?

Oh sorry, but now I have vented my spleen, I feel a bit better.

I think that cleaning the underground railways in London would be awful. Rubbish, rats and darkness, not a very nice combination. I agree about the sewers too. My job isn't wonderful either. Complaints have been made about the u-bends of the sinks in the Ladies. I have tried my best but at some time in the past someone has painted them, and the paint is peeling off. They are spotlessly clean but look horrible! I honestly do not know what to do to make them look better.

Running a pub would be bottom of my list of jobs - too much like hard work! Up early, having to be polite and jolly to people every minute, dealing with drunks, and - worst of all - having to stay up late every night.
Definitely not for me!!

Having spent my entire working life in Pathology, including mortuary stints, I have to say that you soon get used to the gory bits, even the smell when a body was found in water! I loved my career!
I have to agree about the sewers though, or somewhere with not enough to do.

I was so excited when I was asked to project manage the establishment of a book shop (this was in SA) - and then to manage the shop once it opened.

But my God, was I bored after a while, trapped in that shop, especially on quiet days when no one came in, and all that waited for me as distraction was to heft around heavy boxes of books and straighten shelves. Not to mention some of the weird "regulars" that would come in - sometimes I'd hide in the stock room from them. The woman who worked in the computer shop next door to me would come in for a chat (she had colleagues, I didn't, apart from the odd part time student), equally bored, and she was dead boring too. So I was seriously trapped. (this was pre-internet days).

So that taught me that even a "dream job" can be the worst job!

Mortuary attendant. Having had to go to one during the night to retrieve a ring that a relative wanted from the deceased. The hospital mortuary was in the farthest, unlit corner of the grounds.

I would hate to be a much-hated dictator's food taster.

Before I opened the thread I was saying to my self....sewer worker !

Don't fancy environmental health either, or the poor people who have to come in and clean up the mess some people leave behind in houses.

Pest control doesn't appeal, nor does working in an abattoir, podiatry, dentistry, pathology, plus all Absent's choices. I am not very good with orifices and what emanates from them either . I could go on .... but I think working in rat infested sewers is probably top of my list of horror jobs