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The Worst Jobs in Science
unassimilatible writes "Popular Science is running a story on the most noxious jobs in science, including, fart-sniffer, barnyard masturbator, and prison-rape researcher, and my personal favorite, the pre-med student who ate, drank, and breathed the blood, urine and vomit of yellow-fever victims. So before you complain about your tech job, check out the list. Things could always be worse."
A first post about barnyard masterbators that is ON TOPIC!
Some are silly, some are sick, some make you angry, and some just flat-out suck, and some of them sound fun
So, it's actually a list of all the science jobs...
but having to answer phones at verisign tomorrow is gonna blow.
Barnyard masturbators, wow, perhaps the SCO execs DO have a future after all ! Thanks, I'll be here all night
2. SCO Unix Grep Boy
3. Microsoft DLL Librarian
4. Commander Taco's Perl Monkey
Feel free to add more...
"Eve of Destruction", it's not just for old hippies anymore...
I'm in my second year of college studying to become a stool-sample analyzer, but after reading the description of the job in this article, it certainly doesn't sound as exciting and glamorous as my high-school guidance counselor made it out to be...
Well, not me, but my old roommate was. He thought this type of job would help him get into med school (it didn't). His biggest complaint was people who turned in tightly-sealed (naturally) peanut-butter jars packed full of the stuff, which would (naturally) decompose producing gas, causing a literal shit-storm when opened. He only needed about a teaspoon-full to do the analysis.
Lab mice.
..but she quit today. It was clinical research on athelete's foot... 10 hour days taking scrapings from people's diseased feet. I guess the boss was a psycho too.
:)
And she's such a princess.. I've seen her freak out after getting a little cat food on her hand.
If it pays 80k or more a year, I'll sign up to crank the wank. Though, I'm not sure I would want to add that to my resume' in the future.
Life is not for the lazy.
I've done that AI thing too. When you get your arm in up to the elbow, first the cow decides to sit down. When you get past that, and stick the "french gun" (accidentally) into her bladder, she responds by hopping the back feet around, almost stepping on your feet, meanwhile she is pissing a few gallons of hot urine straight onto your body. If she settles down, and you get your hand onto the vagina, and the gun into the 7" long cervix. Then rectal tract starts squeezing it feels like that cow is standing on your forearm. Then the rectal muscles squeeze out a fountain of bright green.... Which of course fills both your sleeve, and the pockets of you cover-alls. And here in sunny CA, it's 90F and your arm is in 105F cow, and you've been pissed on, shit upon, probabally kick, butted, pinched into a bar of the squeeze, stabbed through the fingers with a syringe of cow vaccine, rope burned, struggled to get a downer back on her feet before she get paralysis. But it's still better than an IT job, even a UNIX sys-admin, I'd go back in a heart-beat. But it does not really pay the bills.
- High Tech workers, please say NO to Union Carpenters, their Union sees fit to control our compensation.
I think the worst job has to be the poor webmaster that has to keep track of reposts of articles on his site. Not only boring, but apparently quite a challenge....
Job #4 on the list is "Slashdot Dupe Checker"
Was pulling lobsters out of Jane Mansfield's arse.
What are you listening to? (http://megamanic.blogetery.com/)
Once again, I will point out that the best thing about this article is the icons they use to denote the various levels of suckage.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Is slashdot dupe story checker on the list?
pre-med student who ate, drank, and breathed the blood, urine and vomit of yellow-fever victims
:)
Medical students used to be willing to submit to multiple medical studies to get a "leg up" in the research world. Today, medical students usually willingly submit purely for financial reasons... these drug companies are willing to pay a lot of medicine.
In medical school I tested a certain blood pressure medicine... and it gave me a certain "standing at attention" side effect. I always wondered if that drug was a pre-market version of viagra.
Anyway, I got wood and $50 bucks out of it.
Davak
You could never make money off of masturbating barn yard animals before.
But countless spammers seem to have discovered that you can make money telling people about sites featuring masturbating barn yard animals (more's the pity).
"'I pass the test,' she said. 'I will diminish, and go into the West, and remain Galadriel.'"
- JRR Tolkien.
If a beautiful girl calls me over to her house to repair her vibrator... I am not sure that would be a horrible job.
/pun mode off
She would probably be pretty excited to see me.
Davak
...I have to wholeheartedly agree with their icon choice for "psychological torture." There are some things you can learn to block out - Barney is not one of them.
I live in amsterdam and I reckon this guy should have got a mention...
Of course it's not a scientific job, but it still rates a mention.
"And check out the pictogram they chose to accompany the prison-rape researcher entry in this story. It's a picture of Barney."
I love you, you love me?
When will /. add an icon for dups? I suggest a pic of the olsen twins.
So before you complain about your tech job, check out the list. Things could always be worse.
I am the pre-med student who ate, drank, and breathed the blood, urine and vomit of yellow-fever victims, you insensitive clod!
Oh... wait... wrong section. :-)
I swear, there have been more posts about dupes in the past few months. Oh wait. There have been more dupes, and a dupe always results in at least 10-15 posts about dupes. And the obligatory post by me pointing out the posts about dupes.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
News for the amnesiac. Stuff that mattered.
There isn't anyone doing this job :(
Before I read the article, I thought this was Barney from Half-Life...you know, the guard. That made sense, because he doesn't seem like a very good guard, and he probably would just overlook prison rape.
Too bad they didn't use him, it would have made more sense for me at least.
No reason to lie.
Lab HR: "you jerk off animals all day"
Applicant: "oh God!"
Applicant: "erm, what's the money?"
Lab HR: "$10,000 a year"
Applicant: "Ok, I'll do it...
but you'll have to give me time to raise the $10,000"
-he who laughs last, is a bit slow.
journal
Thank God !
I thought I was beginning to loose my mind!
When I read the text, I said "Hasn't this been posted before ?"
And then I read:
And check out the pictogram they chose to accompany the prison-rape researcher entry in this story. It's a picture of Barney. I know they're using it as a way of depicting which of the jobs are associated with psychological torture, but, c'mon! Barney? Prison-rape? That's just soooo wrong.
" $#!t ! I knew they would say this ! "
Is this some kind of Deja-vu episodes I had a lot as a child ?
Or is this a sign of The Matrix realigning ?
(After all Neo just saved us all...)
Then I saw this post, and there it is the Barney comment
I swear. it scared me...
Man... I think this scare cost me a year or two of my life...
Yes, I am an asshole.
No no no.. The politically correct way of saying the same thing is, as follows:
Yes, I am a Republican.
... really wonder how much training they have to go through before the males respond.
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
I realize you didn't think about your sig when you added that last sentence. But now don't you wish you hadn't?
(It's a joke, laugh.)
how they've bread more orca than anybody
I have this mental image of a whale breaded and deep fried. Sorry. I'll get me coat
Nice job.