64 Of The Worst Jobs Ever, As Shared By People On The Internet

ajstrange1 wrote:
"Picking Mangoes in Australia, many people are unaware that if you snap off the stalk on a Mango, poisonous sap flys out which makes you blister quite dramatically. Also the best job because of the beautiful scenery."

dezradeath replied:
"Australia: where even the fruit can kill you."

"EMT/Paramedics: Often the first ones to terrible scenes, to scenes that are out of control. One place might have them fending off someone with a knife, another might have them trying to resuscitate a dead baby.

I knew a guy, EMT. He said the stuff with babies is the hardest. He had one where he went to a car accident and they were trying so hard to keep the baby alive but it was just too badly injured. He said the entire crew got back to station and just collapsed into their chairs and started sobbing."

"Worst job: Military.

Why: The people. I know I'll get some hate for this, but I'm convinced that the average IQ of the military is about 15 points below that of the general population. Keeerist, being surrounded by idiots was a miserable existence. Not to say there aren't some sharp dudes in the military. There are. But OMG, the per capita number of idiots is through the roof."

"Hotel housekeeping. If it comes out of the human body, I've cleaned it up. I started in a by-the-hour motel when I was 14, owned by a woman who didn't bother with hazardous waste procedure and cleaned up what looked like a murder scene with nothing but bleach and kitchen gloves. I walked into that room, and was absolutely positive that when I pulled the shower curtain open there was going to be a body in the bathtub. Thankfully there wasn't, just blood everywhere. Owner refused to let me report it, made me clean it, and I didn't want to get in sh*t for bleaching a murder scene at 14 so I never did call the cops."

MrHowardQuinn wrote:
"Can't believe roofing isn't on here."

krumplestiltskin replied:
"Pretty much like being a human egg on a griddle all day with a side order of humping shingles around and trying not to fall and break your neck."

"My first job after living in Eastern Europe, I didn’t know the labour laws in Canada when I was 15 and signed up for $25/day to work at a summer camp. I lived there for 2 months, up at 6am to help with breakfast and working until 10pm to clean up after everybody had gone to bed, and was given 3 meals a day. They gave me a day off every two weeks, and by a day I mean 24 hours. I was off at noon one day and had to be back at noon the next. We were too far in the boonies to go anywhere in that short a time.

At the end of the summer, they told me they wanted to give half my paycheck to one of the volunteers because it was the ‘Christian thing to do’. I was cornered 20 minutes before I left and pressured into agreeing. When I finally caved, they’d given me the cheque that was already made out for the lesser amount. Somehow the cheque they gave me was only for $450 dollars, they said they were deducting the food expenses.

This was a Christian summer camp for the severely mentally and physically disabled. I was bathing and changing the diapers of fully grown, severely disabled adults. On some days they told me to give medicine and food to a guy who was tube fed, and change catheters for another guy. I don’t think you can even do that before you’re 18 and have some sort of certification.

They never gave me a copy of the contract so I had nothing to pursue them with. That camp should be shut down, IMO."

binder673 wrote:
"Pyramid Scheme selling Kirby vacuums for in house demonstrations. Got out of that within couple weeks."

Hua_Xiong replied:
"Well I'm sure that sucked."

ItStillIsntLupus wrote:
"Those poor dudes that have to empty septic tanks."

"Edit: TIL that a lot of those dudes love their jobs and make BANK $$$, so honestly that makes me very happy for each of them. The more you know."

starbies32 replied:
"Had a guy come and pump ours once. I was standing several feet away and commented on how badly it smelled. This dude STUCK HIS WHOLE head in the tank, inhaled and said “Smells like money to me!”"

Szyszek13 wrote:
"I think suicide line... You just can't save everybody."

kkay3 replied:
"I volunteer for a suicide line. People call in because on some level they want to survive. Only 1% of our cases hit the point of active rescue."

"I used to clean public washrooms in a busy area. It is amazing how little respect some people have for public toilets, or lack any ability to clean up after themselves if they make a mess. Ever come across a toilet stall you were about to go into but then stopped because it's covered in poop? Some poor worker has to try and wipe all that away and get it back to normal."

"Lifeguard. It was hours upon hours of boredom intermingled with seconds of sheer terror."

"I was a furnace helper in steel factory. We made bumper mounts and hinges for trucks hoods and other heavy steel parts. I unloaded red hot parts from the furnace with a pair of tongs, I used to catch fire two or three times a day. I hated that."

"Cutting fancy glass for use in mosaics.

A glass cutter is basically a pen, with a small metal wheel on one end, and a metal ball on the other.

Fancy glass is thick, heavy expensive and sharp. The weight, thickness and texture changes drastically. One may be a 3 centimeter smooth green glass sheet, the next may be a textured 5 centimeter piece of orange.

There is NO training.

Glass dust is a thing.

My finger tips were swollen with tiny, shards of glass and I broke much more glass that I was worth.

It was a short gig."

"The sulfur carriers in Ijen, Indonesia. They climb down into an active volcano and hack out big stones of sulfur, load up 160 lbs onto their backs, then haul a thousand feet up out of the caldera. For about $10/day, depending on how much they manage to carry."

"I sprinkled mud onto potatoes that had already been washed so that they would look freshly dug when they hit the supermarket. Most depressing holiday job I've had."

"Probably working for a moving company. Everybody dreads moving day, for me that was every day."

celticsoldier566 wrote:
"Currently in retail sales and it is soul sucking. If I didn't know I was leaving soon I don't think I'd even be able to get out of bed in the morning."

elmostaco replied:
"This is one of the reasons I left my retail job as well. I found myself dreading the thought of waking up on bank holidays and weekends as well as being verbally abused by customers with a "know-it-all" complex."

"I was a cashew flicker at a candy factory. Literally. I flicked the bad cashews off a conveyor belt."

"Student teaching. Put me right out of the business. I see why so many new teachers break so quickly. Parents, kids, endless paperwork, worthless administration and never any respite."

"I was the Fat Man in a ham processing plant. My job was to take the fat that the de- boners and trimmers had cut off the pig hind quarters. I took the buckets to the front of the room and emptied them into boxes, which I then weighed and sealed up. When I was needed again the supervisor would yell "Fat Man" and I would do it over again. I was a little overweight at the time."