One Terrible Job: IT Manager

editingwhiz writes "I suppose we've always suspected this to be true, but IT Manager's Journal reports that a recent email survey by the authors of a new book called 'Crap Jobs' says that IT managers have the U.K's third-worst job -- ranking just below phone sex operator (No. 1) and ferry cabin cleaner (No. 2). Hmmm. Do you agree?" (ITMJ, like Slashdot, is part of OSTG.) Maybe it's better in the U.S.?

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Worse Job

[SkiddyRowe]

Theme designer for the IT section of /.

Ugh...horrible...

Re:Worse Job

[Anonymous Coward]

You misspelled "misspell".

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Worst job?

[joke-boy]

Reminds me of the Norm MacDonald SNL news piece:

Finally, according to the U.S. News & World Report 1997 Career Guide, the bet job in the United States, for the second year in a row, is Interactive Business System Analyst. However, last year's worst job, Assistant Crack Whore, has been replaced by a new worst job: Crack Whore Trainee.

I can think of a few worse jobs

[digitalgimpus]

• Slave
• Enron Paper Recycling Coordinator
• Human Proctologist
• Animal Proctologist (human beats it because you might get a nice one every so often)
• Medical Lab Urine Analysis Expert
• Medical Lab Fecal Analysis Expert
• Police Investigator looking into a male prostitution ring
• Goat Fertility Clinic Employee
• Bull Nipple Piercing
• Phone Support for Durex Condoms (imagine the calls they get)
• Toll Booth Operator for NJ Turnpike (yea, I'm from Jersey... so F*** you)
• Hospital Janitor
• Abortion Clinic Janitor
• Any job at the Dept. of Justice
• Sperm Collector/Cataloger for firtility clinic... waiting for dudes to hand you jars of mangoo all day.... mmm great job
• AIDS Clinic... perhaps see a hot chick every so often, but you know you can't/don't want to bang her
• Herpies Researcher... document peoples gential growths
• Sausage Factory Worker... if you know how it's made, you wouldn't eat it
• Sex Toy Tester for Consumer Advocacy Group
• Janitor for prostitution ranch
• Microsoft Engineer

Oh there's tons of others, but I'm lazy, perhaps if I'm bored I'll come back later and document them all.

Re:I don't agree

[Dr. Dew]

or smelling people's armpits as deordorant testers

Why on earth would anyone take a job as a deodorant taster? What possible good could tasting deodorant do? And why would it be tasted in the armpit? Why not from the dispenser? That's just an appalling career, and it sickens me. That's even worse than my career as an IT Manager.

Hmmm?

Oh.

Never mind!

BOFH

[techsoldaten]

The results are a BOFH trick. You see, it is in the interests of U.K. IT managers to make everyone believe no one is interested in their jobs.

By keeping up this illusion, their vast network of power and influence can be maintained and competition can be eliminated.

M