Was reading a story in this morning's Chicago Tribune - Think you've got a lousy job? Try tick dragging. It's about a study by William Speed Weed, contributing editor at Popular Science magazine about what scientists think are the world's lousiest jobs.
That's when I saw it - #11 is actually something I've done and can attest that it truely is a sucky job - Computer help-desk tech
Popular Science list of worst jobs
1. Anal-wart researcher
2. Worm parasitologist
3. Lab-animal veterinarian
4. Tampon squeezer (STD researcher)
5. Landfill monitor
6. K-25 (Oak Ridge lab) demolition
7. St. John's Harbor (sewage) ecologist
8. Iraqi archaeologist
9. Tick dragger
10. Nurse
11. Computer help-desk tech
12. Congressional science fellow
13. Public school science teacher
14. Nosologist (disease statistician)
15. Root sorter
16. Crank (maverick theorist)
17. TV meteorologist
2008
2006- You know... just like Jack on "Lost"...
2005- Bandwidth
2003- Whatsa purl?