The 10 Worst Science Jobs
If you thought liberal-arts jobs were bad, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
Check this out, from Popular Science magazine:
The Worst Jobs in Science 2007
Number 10: Whale-Feces Researcher
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Number 9: Forensic Entomologist
“One day a local detective called me who knew I’d majored in
entomology in college and said, “Hey, Neal, we got a body at the
morgue with insects on it. You wanna give it a shot?” The corpse
turned out to be a guy I used to have breakfast with, and there were
maggots in his teeth. Then I found some in his eyes, and I thought,
“This is what I want to do. This is just way too cool.”…
Number 7: Gravity Research Subject
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Number 5: Coursework Carcass Preparer
They kill, pickle, and bottle the critters that schoolRemember that first whiff of formaldehyde when the teacher brought out
the frogs in ninth-grade biology? Now imagine inhaling those fumes
eight hours a day, five days a week.…
And I cannot even imagine, with all the endanagered species problems,
why this job exists:
Number 3: Elephant Vasectomist
November 19th, 2007 at 12:53 am
It’s amazing what gets funded.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:55 am
No kidding. Your tax dollars at work!
December 4th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
OMFG! I WOULD SO BE AN ELEPHANT VASECTOMIST IF I HAD THE MONEY AND EDUCATION! OMFG!
December 4th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I would sign up to be an elephant vasectomist if I had the education.