Hardest Job?

[fallen_milkman]

Darn! Someone brought up Alaskan fishing boats before I did! That was my choice. They pay really well though, all things considered. You work for 6 months a year, and are paid somewhere around $40,000 for it (I forget the exact figure). You just have to get around that whole "most dangerous occupation in the world" thing...

[Menjo]

Darn! Someone brought up Alaskan fishing boats before I did! That was my choice. They pay really well though, all things considered. You work for 6 months a year, and are paid somewhere around $40,000 for it (I forget the exact figure). You just have to get around that whole "most dangerous occupation in the world" thing...

lol yea there was a show on that.........

[Drgnslyer]

*resurects the thread from the bowels of the beast*

air traffic controller takes the cake for stress *in high volume airports, not dinky little airstrips*

I read *i'm sure it was Time Mag.* that high volume line cook was #2 on the list for stressful jobs, behind air traffic controller....which I can see, I spent a few years in the industry...left it for that reason..discovered I can sell...and decided to make more money, in a controlled environment, and not burn myself on a daily basis while getting yelled at by the chef for minimum wage

[IronWarrior]

On a daily basis probably a police officer, then a firefighter, a soldier 'when they go to war' and anything in the heavy industrial field 'ironworkers' e.t.c..

[orion82698]

Window cleaners for sky scrapers

[TAZ]

How about a fulltime mom of 3 homeschooled children. Never gets a break. Always being hounded and followed around all day. And for no pay! A mother's love is amazing.

[niel0092]

Try out these "worst jobs in Science" from Popular science magazine:

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/41190b4511b84010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html

I tend to agree with #10 having worked with many Post Docs over the years and would like to give a personal nod to my job, Assistant Scientist, because I get to try and make life easier for these folks.

[abacus]

i tink that being a large scale chicken farmer would be hard, because i am a small time chicken farmer, but most large scalers hire lots of ppl to do it for them....

[marie curie]

Yeh,

Air traffic controllers take it for stress

Alaskan Fisherman for danger....

but I'd rather be responsible for others' lives and risk my own than something really really horrible like.....Data Entry!!!

*Shout out to fellow adrenaline addicts for whom this kind of work would be tourture*

[Sohan]

I know this is old, but I'm surprised nobody said inner-city middle school teacher.

My ex's mother worked at one of the toughest schools around. She quit the day a child urinated on her desk to protest a poor homework grade.

Respectfully,

Sohan