Do you remember when you were in the second grade? Your teacher would always ask you what you wanted to be when you grow up. Well, it probably didn’t turn out quite the way you expected.

 

Chances are you are sitting right now in the office doing loads and loads of paper work; by the time you’re finished, your boss will call you to attend an important meeting. You go home late and your annoying officemate spilled coffee on your new shirt! Great. Just great!

 

Another bad day at the office!

 

Well the next time you feel like locking yourself in the bathroom because of work, just think that things could get worse. How? You could end up doing the worst job in the world! You could get a literally stinking job with high health risks, not to mention a bad pay check!

 

Read on and find out the top ten worst jobs:

 

10. Librarian

 

This work may not be the worst but for some it could be just plain boring. If you are the sociable or talkative type of person, then the library is certainly not the place for you! You don’t get to chat much, plus you must prevent people from talking too loud by “shssh-ing” them all the time.

 

Unless you love books, you probably wouldn’t be able to stand a place surrounded by dusty papers. Imagine arranging shelf after shelf of musty and dusty books, only to get a small figure on that monthly pay slip.

 

9. Supermarket Baggers

 

If you think their work is easy, then try standing on your feet for eight straight hours while constantly lifting grocery loads as heavy as 80 pounds!

 

These employees are in real danger of a musculoskeletal disorder. Carrying heavy loads almost every day while standing for hours could cause some serious back problems.

 

Apart from the physical strain, a grocery store bagger earns only $300 per week, compared to office workers who sit comfortably with $550 dollars. Talk about unfair earnings!

 

8. Portable Toilet Cleaner

 

What could be worse than having diarrhea? Having to clean a portable toilet of course!

 

Portable toilets are nasty! There are papers everywhere, the flooring is wet, the door knob is sticky, plus it stinks! Now, imagine yourself cleaning this EVERY DAY! Now that’s pure hell!

 

Portable toilet cleaners clean these smelly boxes again and again. You couldn’t pay someone enough to do that.

 

So the next time you use these toilets, remember to be considerate to the people who clean them!

 

7. Forensic Entomologist

 

Unlike the first three jobs, this position doesn’t sound too bad. Well, you’ve been fooled!

 

Forensic entomology is not for the faint hearted. This work entails you to bask in the morgue while analyzing the bugs that feed on dead bodies! They study larvae, maggots as well as blowflies that live in the decaying bodies of humans!

 

This study helps the police to identify the interval between a person’s death and the body’s discovery. Although it may sound like CSI, it isn’t as glamorous as Gil Grissom looking at bugs through a magnifying glass!

 

6. Garbologist

 

Garbology is the anthropological as well as the archaeological study of, you guessed it — garbage!

 

The things that you throw in that waste bin are exactly what these people are occupied with, only they have to dig in deep mountains of trash. This means landfills, where they check out tons of refuse. Garbologists then analyze such garbage, relating it to the pattern of human consumption.

 

Garbology can be quite a tough profession. Digging into piles of trash could pose very serious dangers to your health.

 

5. Coursework Carcass Preparer

 

Frog dissection in the ninth grade isn’t exactly evryone’s cup of tea. In fact, the thought of it reminds you of the icky smell of formaldehyde! But if you land a job as a carcass preparer, that formaldehyde will be your perfume for the eight hours you have to spend in the office!

 

Coursework carcass preparers do this for a living. They bottle everything from cats, dogs, turtles, frogs and even sharks. These are the people behind every frog dissected by ninth graders.

 

Aside from being a not so glamorous job, carcass preparers spend their career inhaling those formaldehyde fumes!

 

4. Industrial Laundry Cleaners and Garbage Collectors

 

Garbage collectors are known for doing all the messy jobs. But hospital garbage collectors and laundry workers take the cake when it comes to perilous waste. This includes bio-hazardous items and stuff from the hospital such as needles, blood, body parts and bodily fluids.

 

These workers are exposed to these toxins that can put their own health at risk of infection. These people can unknowingly catch diseases because they deal with toxic garbage every day!

 

3. Elevator operator

 

What could be more boring than being an elevator operator?

 

You can’t blame these people if they doze off to lala land! For one, their office is confined within the four small walls of the elevator! You have about 20 to 30 buttons for your computer and you are (well your fingers are) literally always on the move!

 

People never even bother to talk to you or to even say please! The worst part is when someone rips smelly gas inside of your office while the doors are closed.

 

2. Whale Feces Researcher

 

If the title sounds stinky, wait until you hear what these people do!

 

A whale feces researcher spends the day scooping up and studying whale excrement!

 

These researchers are responsible for studying the bio-toxin systems of rare whale species. Apart from this, they analyze the whale’s genetic makeup and lineage through their waste.

 

1. Gravity Research Subject

 

Every kid knows that sleeping with your head lower than your feet causes one nasty headache in the morning! Did you know that there are people who do this for a living! They are paid to spend at least three to four weeks lying very still at a six degree angle!

 

Similar to a guinea, a gravity researcher does this to stimulate the effects of being weightless on the body. Apart from being in that position for weeks, these individuals are also immersed in a centrifugal test which means they are spun around every day!

 

There you have it! The worst jobs ever! So, are you still thinking of that career shift?