World's worst jobs

[Fred V]

In today's SL Trib:

Among the 15 "worst" actual jobs in science (from the October issue of Popular Science): (15) counting fish (one by one, for hours) that swim by dams in the Pacific Northwest; (11) the only two government bureaucrats whose job is to convince Americans of the merits of the metric system; (7) researchers who reach into a cow's rumen to pull out and analyze the stomach contents; (4) mosquito catchers who endure up to 15 bites a minute on three-hour shifts and hope not to get malaria; (3) researchers who extract sperm from animals for study or artificial insemination (and extracting from a pig is much preferable to extracting from a bull); and (1) "flatus odor judges" working for gastroenterologist Michael Levitt, who feeds subjects pinto beans, then gathers gases in plastic collection tubes direct from the source, and then has judges sniff as many as 100 samples, rating them for strength.
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I'm just curious how desparate you must be to send in a resume' for "Flatus Odor Judge." Did the ad say salary was dependent on experience? When you get home, does wifey ask "How was your day, honey?"

[KAN]

How does the guy counting fish stay awake?

one little fishy, two little fishy...shapheww....

[bushrick]

So where on the list is the guy responsible for scrapping roadkill up?

I mean they must need a count in-order to distinguish between natural and man made death causes in relation to animal populations?

[bogeysucks]

But I thought Court Reporter would be high on this list too.

[tazmo]

"So where on the list is the guy responsible for scrapping roadkill up?"

I did that job while working my way through college. Picked up extra cash collecting hub caps that fell off cars. Road kill and pot
holes on a hot summer day was not a great mix.

[rdc]

a lawyer that can't win a case.

rdc