- Very few people actually like their jobs
but these take the cake for the worst.
- It's funny they can't do nothing.
- A lot of people have jobs that they just dislike,
often complaining about their nine to five,
but if you think your job is a nightmare,
wait until you hear about these career paths
that actually exist, that were ranked
as the most depressing jobs out there, keep watching,
it might just make you appreciate what you have.
These are the 10 worst jobs in the world.
Number one is fertilizer inspector.
Don't you just hate dealing with all the crap at your job?
Well, if you're employed as a fertilizer inspector,
you definitely do, you know, unless you're
into poop or something and that's just weird.
Fertilizer inspectors do exactly what their name suggests,
they analyze and report on the quality
and safeness of different poop.
Good quality manure speeds up crop development
and ensures farmers are growing healthy produce,
that is unless the manure used
is full of disease, bacteria, or fungus.
This is where a trusty inspector comes in,
they literally sift through manure
making sure it's clean and of high quality.
Fertilizer inspectors earn around $35,000 a year
but that number can actually be a lot higher in some places
especially if they're employed in the lab
determining the impact of animal treatment
and feeding on manure excellence, in other words,
treat the animals nicely, you get good poop.
Number two is a sewer cleaner.
Speaking of having crappy days,
have you ever thought about becoming a sewer cleaner?
Just think of the benefits, I'm sure they exist.
Sewage cleaners are a necessity, obviously,
so be thankful that there are brave, and I do mean brave,
individuals out there willing to wade through ones
and twos to make sure everything finds its way
down the right pipes and away from your house.
And an even bigger thank you should go
to the cleaners in India who, for five bucks a day,
and a bottle of liquor, because, I'm sure they need it,
brave the sewers that are so dangerous
over 1,000 people have lost their lives doing it.
In Mexico City, there's one heroic sewer worker,
Julio Cu Camara, who literally dives
into the sewage to unblock drains.
He claims he's found car parts,
furniture, guns, pigs, horses,
and even a refrigerator down in the tunnel
with no idea how they even got there.
Number three is Buckingham Palace guard.
Stepping away from poop for a moment,
we may think palace guards just standing around,
looking funny, with their big furry hats is easy work
but, it's widely considered
one of the absolute worst jobs in the British Army.
The tough part of the job may be just how boring it is,
as even top military personnel
call it ominous and repetitive.
Guards must stand motionless for hours upon hours,
while tourists snap photos and try to make them smile
or move by making faces, telling jokes,
trying to touch them and overall just being dumb
and if they get a cramp or itch,
all that they can do is march away
from their post temporarily,
hoping that the wind or movement can take care of it
and to add to the ridiculously long days of utter torment,
Buckingham Palace guards must have their uniforms
immaculate, clean and wrinkle-free,
anything less than perfection
and the guards are punished with more guard duty.
I want to end my life.
Number four is mosquito researcher.
One of the most annoying things
about the warmer months of the year,
is dealing with mosquitoes.
Those little jerks steal your blood
and leave you with itchy bumps for days.
So who in their right mind would ever
willingly put themselves on the menu?
The answer is the mosquito researcher.
This brave soul actually allows his or herself
to become an all-you-can-drink buffet
for these tiny insects, holding their bare arms
inside a mosquito habit as they receive hundreds
or even thousands of bites and all in the name of science.
Millions of people are infected with illnesses
or conditions like malaria or the Zika virus,
that are contracted from insect bites every year,
and having a better understanding
of how these creatures spread those diseases,
is a big first step in combating them
but still, letting insects drink your insides is icky.
Number five is a road kill handler.
What's for dinner grandma?
Oh, well, you know, whatever I scrape off the freeway, boy.
Collecting road kill is a 24 hour on call job
because you never know when an animal
is going to make its way into oncoming traffic.
Whether it's 5pm or two in the morning,
these hard-working people have to go out there
and collect often mutilated, rotting bodies
of dead creatures and many are not small.
Over 1.5 million deer are struck
by motor vehicles every year
and they're not easy to pick up and just carry away,
and then there's the benefit of having to deal
with the overwhelming odor a dead carcass gives off
as it lies on the hot pavement in the middle of the summer
and sometimes that job involves literally
scraping the remains off of the ground.
On top of that, it can be really dangerous,
road kill handlers have to stay alert
since they're usually operating on the road
and if they're not careful, they could end up
like their raccoon brethren.
Number six is pet food taster.
When it comes to food, there are more critics out there
than anyone could even count.
A brand could make or break based on opinions
of only a few testers, so it's important to make sure
that only the best quality ingredients are used.
But, what about our pets?
It's not like we can ask Princess Whiskers McFancyBottom
if her fancy feast tastes fresh
and meaty enough, so who can we ask?
Why, a pet food taster of course.
These iron stomached individuals
make a career chowing down on what normally
would only be for dogs and cats, that is, pet food.
From kibble to dog cookies to cat treats,
pet food tasters make their living inspecting,
feeling, smelling and of course tasting products
for different companies, rating them for their flavor,
quality of ingredients, and appearance
amongst several other factors.
The food is perfectly safe to eat
but I don't think I could get past the smell
or texture of wet cat food.
Number seven is crime scene cleaner.
After the police have cleared a crime scene
and all the important physical and forensic evidence
has been collected, it's time to turn that house,
apartment, office or hotel room into a place that,
well, people can live and work in again.
Enter the crime scene cleaners.
These gutsy people are practically armored
in protective gear to go to work,
cleaning anything from blood to brain matter off the walls,
ceilings, and floors of a place
that have seen some nasty stuff.
A crime scene cleaner has to have a helluva stomach,
the bodies may have already been taken away
but there's something that's always left behind,
like, you know, a corpse that isn't found for a few days,
or weeks, and they have to get rid of all the grisly things
like biological and chemical stuff
and that can make a place very hazardous
but it's not always murder
that brings out the cleaners, either,
sometimes they find themselves wiping down a drug lab
or sex trade operators private den of horror.
Rawr, Jean come check this out,
there's a whole lot of semen on this wall.
Number eight is outhouse cleaner.
Back to poop!
When it comes to cleaning Johnny on the spot,
things can get really gross.
That's because outhouses don't have any plumbing,
so there's nowhere for the waste to go,
that is, until the outhouse cleaner arrives to take it away.
These courageous individuals are tasked
with vacuuming out the portable toilets,
removing any toilet paper that's escaped the tank
and cleaning the walls and ceilings thoroughly.
Now, I know what you're thinking, Matt,
why would they need to clean the walls and ceiling?
Well curious viewer, it turns out
that in the process of moving them,
or if mischievous characters feel like making trouble,
the outhouses can tip over, which they often do,
spilling their contents all over the inside.
Even the $50,000 a year average salary
couldn't get me to take a position like this.
Oh I've been to the fair, those things are nasty.
Number nine is professional fart smeller.
Yep, odor testing might seem
like a silly way to earn a living,
but these individuals serve an important purpose.
Whether it's working for a mouthwash brand
and smelling breath before and after use,
or for a deodorant company to see how well
it can hide the worst body odor, this job literally stinks.
But none is worse than the flatus odor judge,
these people have to take sniffs
of the foulest smells a body can produce.
Plastic collection tubes are, (coughs)
inserted, and the passing of wind is collected
in containers for these employees to smell.
In September 2003, Popular Science magazine
published a list of the worst jobs in science
and the flatus odor judge topped it.
Specifically, those employed by a Minneapolis
gastroenterologist, who spent their days
opening containers of farts and breathing deep
as they searched with their noses for symptoms
that could point out serious medical conditions.
I'm sorry, I can't barely even talk
during that, it makes me want to gag.
And number 10 is animal sperm collector.
Okay, here's one.
See, when it comes to reproduction, even in animals,
sometimes Mother Nature just can't get the job done.
That's where we, as the dominant species on the planet,
comes in and makes it weird.
We take the seed of the male of the species
and fertilize the females eggs with them
to make cute little baby animals,
but how do we, you know, get the seed?
Enter the animal sperm collector.
Their job is to, quite literally,
masturbate a horse, cow, dog, elephant,
or other mammal and collect the happy ending result.
An elephant? Really?
You know what, never mind.
Yep, time to update the old resume.
The semen collected is used
not just for reproduction, but for study as well,
you can actually tell a lot about an animal
by what's, you know, floating around in them
but sometimes the manual way isn't enough,
and electricity is used by inserting
an electric probe into the mammal's rectum
and stimulating its prostrate gland, fun!
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