Jobs you wouldn't want to have to do

[Reverend Conehead]

There are some jobs that you’re just not right for and would never do. Here are mine:
1. That sewage treatment person who has to dress in a hazmat suit and actually submerge into the sewer to fix something. I guess it’s obvious why I wouldn’t want to do this. I would do it if they would pay me 10 million bucks. It pays well, but not THAT well.
2. Paparazzi. I actually used to do professional photography, but always with the person’s consent. I used to photograph musical performers, sometimes in concert, and other times in poses (for an album cover or a brochure or whatever). The key is I was always photographing people who wanted the photos and were glad I was taking them. I can say I would NEVER want my job to be following celebs around, trying to get unwanted, awkward, or ugly pictures of them to sell. Yuck. I would do the sewage treatment job before I would do this one.
3. Janitor. They see really gross stuff, and I mean REALLY gross. I’m glad someone does this job because I wouldn’t want to do it. I've got mad respect, and appreciation, for anyone who does this job. If no one did it, we would notice really quickly.

 

[Tabascocat]

Blublood’s publisher

 

[John813]

Cold calls/sales.

Had to do that in college for a summer. That sucked.

Anything to do with heights. Linemen I don't envy due to the long hours/away from home oh and the extreme risk that come with fixing power lines.

 

[Mikexike]

I would not want to be a

1. CHP (california highway patrol)
2. EMT
3. Air traffic controller
4. Firefighter

 

[gtb1943]

clean out the Elephant cage at a zoo

 

[jsb357]

sales person
politician
recovery team diver
mall cop
teacher

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Cesspool Assessor

 

[VaqueroTD]

• A cop in a large metro: They get #*$ on constantly. People recording everything they do. People with entitled attitudes. See the worse of the worse in those ghetto housing projects everyone wants to drive by quickly. Total respect for what they do and should be better paid and better supported by health services.
• Russian Infantry: Stalingrad to Ukraine, the grunts of the tundra. Cold, no food, and a government that thinks it's okay not to give you working rifles.
• Anyone in a high government position caught in the politics right now. Lose your job, have to resign, career over, or someone asks you to do something unethical. Can't win. Vipers everywhere.

 

[nobody]

One of those deep sea diver workers that spend days at a time in the depths. Noooo thanks.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

One of those deep sea diver workers that spend days at a time in the depths. Noooo thanks.

Oh, yeah, that job would be rough. It would be scary and lonely. They'd better be well paid.
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I did look up the average salary for the sewage specialist who has to submerge in the sewer in a hazmat suit. It was just 45K. Are you bleepin' kidding me! I would think you would have to pay at least 100K to get someone to do that.

 

[Runwildboys]

Oh, yeah, that job would be rough. It would be scary and lonely. They'd better be well paid.
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I did look up the average salary for the sewage specialist who has to submerge in the sewer in a hazmat suit. It was just 45K. Are you bleepin' kidding me! I would think you would have to pay at least 100K to get someone to do that.

It should be 45K for each submersion.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

It should be 45K for each submersion.

That would make it more tempting. Do about 12 of those a year and earn 540K. Not too shabby.

 

[CyberB0b]

I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to install/service this stuff on radio towers.

 

[Flamma]

Fish squeezer.

Seriously now. One of the worst jobs out there has to be an Amazon delivery driver. Close to 200 stops and over 300 packages in one shift. I don't even see how that's possible. To be a pack mule for 20 something bucks an hour. Last night I collected tolls from 64 vehicles in an 8 hour shift. My biggest concern was what to watch on Netflix. At least the UPS drivers get better compensated. I still think it's too much work.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

CNA, some used to call men Orderlies.

While I was a senior in High School.

I worked from 6am to noon at a nursing home as a CNA.
Then I would go to school for the after lunch portion of the day.
When done with that I would come back and work a couple of hours for the dinner portion.

So I basically had a full time CNA job while doing a part day of school each day except for one Friday a month.

Even though I would change clothes to go to school. I was always paranoid that I would smell like...well you can guess.

Rough job and at that time it was just minimum wage or a tad over it.

Right now they make a good deal more because it is so hard to keep good CNAs. Most nursing homes are so understaffed. They are lacking Nurses and the number of CNAs they need to run well.

But...would not want that job again.

 

[csirl]

One of those deep sea diver workers that spend days at a time in the depths. Noooo thanks.

I know someone who did this for c.20 years. Did maintenance on deep water off shore oil/gas rigs. He enjoyed diving. Made a bit of money from it and bought a bar when he "retired" in his 40s.

 

[Runwildboys]

I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to install/service this stuff on radio towers.

When I was 18, I started working with my brother in law, doing electrical work. One day we passed by a tower like that, about 1300 feet tall. He said, one day that light's gonna need to be changed. You're the new guy.

The heights I wouldn't mind, but the climb...

 

[nobody]

When I was 18, I started working with my brother in law, doing electrical work. One day we passed by a tower like that, about 1300 feet tall. He said, one day that light's gonna need to be changed. You're the new guy.

The heights I wouldn't mind, but the climb...

Imagine how the legs would feel like jelly after climbing all the way up knowing you'll have to climb all the way down after changing the bulb.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

When I was 18, I started working with my brother in law, doing electrical work. One day we passed by a tower like that, about 1300 feet tall. He said, one day that light's gonna need to be changed. You're the new guy.

The heights I wouldn't mind, but the climb...

You would need to stay in really good shape. I would also hope that they have some kind of safeguard in case you slip. I wonder if there's some kind of strap that you would be fastened to that could prevent you from falling. You also had better have an accurate weather report before climbing up there.
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This is one I might do, but only if the pay were really, really good.