Worst job in the world?

You are absolutely right POGS

We have no 'worst jobs in the world' compared to the poor souls who live in other countries.

Think of the men, women and 'children' who have to scavage polluted rubbish tips to find items such as plastic containers, electrics, cables etc., you name it whilst sucking in deadly toxic fumes. Then go 'home' to a hovel, if they are lucky!

Children who are purpously maimed to go out on the streets to beg or those who are prostituted , yes I do know the latter happens here but the scale of this is astronomical in other countries.

So many deadly jobs we couldn't, wouldn't do but some have no choice to do them to simply survive. So many have to leave their families and children for years on end.

We can choose not to do a job because we don't like heights, can't see animals suffering, can't touch other peoples body parts, can't touch dead people, but others don't mind and elect to do jobs such as abbatoir workers, doctors, nurses, under takers, paint the forth bridge, coal miner etc. How lucky a nation are we!

Aww Bikergran, temping probs. Filing away a 12 month backlog of paperwork that no one else could be bothered to do, that's what you usually end up with when temping. Been there, done that, feel your pain.

Sewage works can be whiffy at times, depending on how the biological process is working. More so that sewers I believe.
The first time I visited one i was walking down the drive and hunky man in overalls coming the other way smiled and said "It's not true what they say, You never get used to it."
Think they do though. The also use humour to get by. Oncologist would be a tough call when you have to tell people there is nothing more you can do for them.

I would rather face danger in the fresh air than stench and rats underground.

Although I have faced a few nauseous smells in my time!

I watched a TV prog recently where three unemployed teenagers from the UK were sent out to Australia to work on a cattle ranch. It was hair raising! Their job was to herd thousands of scary, fierce, galloping cattle (not at all like our relatively quiet English cows) into pens and then through runs until finally they were loaded on to lorry trains to be taken to market. All this is 40 deg heat! That would be my worst job. Incidentally, all three of the teens pretty much succeeded and the boy (a bit of an upper class twit but nice with it) was offered a permanent job although he turned it down and went back to university.

danger to health.

Fishing, farming and construction always seem to be the top 3 professions in terms of fatalities and danger.

Deep sea fisherman(woman?). I think that job has the highest mortality rate of any. Cold, wet, surrounded by thousands of square miles of sea. The sewers would at least be warmer.

Anything that involves disgusting smells and rats.
So going into the sewers would be my nightmare job.

Coolgran85 not many are kind enough to do that.

My dss works for a Water Company contracted to the Roads Department. If there is a problem with your water supply he will come and take a look, decide where the problem might be and call in a crew. He doesn't have to... but often he will give the crew a hand in clearing whatever the problem might be. Baby wipes, baby nappies..... backed up solidified fats, dead animals. He says the camaraderie is wonderful.... and even does on-call Sunday emergencies..... and they are very caring when it comes to the vulnerable. A problem may lie just inside the house owner personal property boundary and thus be responsibility of the house owner to get it sorted, or they - the crew- will sort it at a price........ Often if it is an older vulnerable person, and the job isn't too major, the crew has done the job and put the paperwork through as being within the Roads Department responsibility. Yes, I know us taxpayers are ultimately paying for it.......

Many years ago I returned to the UK having been working in Belgium. As I was pregnant I took temporary work via an agency to 'get the time in' until I could go off on maternity allowance.
One job was in an estate agency, office at the back, no windows and no work. Boss out all day, I asked for work and was told to just amuse myself. Girls working out front but I didn't know them and they weren't interested in wasting time on a temp. I read a book a day and at the end of the first week told the agency to find me anything at all, just somewhere else !
Although there is much worse than just boring.

Many years ago, when I was a drama student, we had an improvisation class. We were asked to come up with, guess what, the worst jobs in the world. I always remember one bright spark who suggested a notional NHS Nose picking service! I don't remember any of the other ideas after that!

Cos I'm sure it will be sat waiting for me!

I'll let you know when I am summoned to the Jobcentre in June!!

Just about everything mentioned on here. Discussing this with friends once I said I could put up with the horrors of dentistry because of the high salary. A former dental nurse in the group then described how they once had to chip someone's false teeth out because they'd never removed them or cleaned them since having them fitted and they'd set solid. Pus was involved. (for nausea rather than envy!).

My dad as a coalface miner used to have to crawl through seams little over 12 inches high. It was so hot and space so tight the miners wore just a loin cloth.

In comparison, any job I ever did was a doddle. Boredom can be a killer though. I was a temp in a deserted university office over the Summer holidays. I took one phone message and watered the plants. I was climbing the walls by the end of a fortnight and had to beg to be released. Of course these days I'd have been happy, browsing Amazon and posting on Gransnet.

Just could never be a soldier.

Toss-up between a deep sea fisherman or a miner.
For me, it would be the worst nightmare to be taken 1km below ground and have to crawl through tunnels, hacking at the earth.

Anything to do with the killing and storage of dead animals- an abbattoir would freak me out. Dentistry is fairly high on the list of no- no's, I also would have loathed to have been a hairdresser. Anywhere, eg London Underground or a sewer that had rats I could not tolerate. A podiatrist would have been one of my dream jobs because I love feet.

Anything to do with blood and bodily functions!

However, I would hate to be an articulated lorry driver, whi has to negotiate town centres and narrow streets!

BTW I love driving. x

I just couldn't be a dentist / dental nurse or anything to do with gums - it's not the teeth just the gums.

Something that requires high amounts of energy - like a dance teacher.

Lovers of Bridget Jones will remember what job she said she would prefer to her own job in publishing PR!

I think I would have liked your job Grannyknot but no work would have been done as I would have been reading the books all the time.

I would hate to be a hairdresser in a fashionable salon. All that smiling and pretending that what I I was doing was an art and being 'interested' all the time. Glad my hairdresser is pleasant and just does the job!

I'm another one who couldn't do feet or teeth but I would be happy to clean up for people who needed help as long as I could refuse to do it for those who were just plain idle. .

When we retired to this lovely place I suggested to DH that we run a B&B and he said I was totally unsuitable as I would not stand any nonsense. Too used to being in charge!

Think I'd rather muse about what job I would like, maybe chocolate taster?