When you think of awful jobs, you tend to think of cleaning toilets or asking, “Would you like fries with that?” You think of the kinds of jobs you don’t have to do once you have an education — but sometimes an advanced degree leads to a more disgusting job than anything in fast food or facilities maintenance. From The Worst Jobs in Science: The Sequel:
- Anal-Wart Researcher
- Worm Parasitologist
- Lab-Animal Veterinarian
- Tampon Squeezer
- Landfill Monitor
- K-25 Demolition Worker
- Ecologist at St. John?s Harbor
- Iraqi Archaeologist
- Tick Dragger
- Nurse
- Computer Help-Desk Tech
- Congressional Science Fellow
- Public-School Science Teacher
- Nosologist
- Root Sorter
- Crank
- Television Meteorologist
(Hat tip to Mercola’s Health Blog.)