Friday, January 25, 2008

Worst jobs in science

This discussion followed a conversation about TV shows you can get on cable TV (like Dirtiest Jobs).
Again, from Mark:

Worst jobs in science… Going since 2003.
Latest (2007): http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2007-06/worst-jobs-science-2007#

Earliest (2003):
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2003-09/worst-jobs-science-2003


Some of the other years are missing, but there are Slashdot discussions about 2004:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/21/2051223&tid=14


Number 1 for 2007 is the Hazmat Diver, with the tagline "They swim in sewerage. Enough said". The start of the description includes this story:

...A guy had driven his truck into the waste lagoon and drowned. Not only was it full of urine and liquid pig feces, the farmer had dumped all the needles used to inject the pigs with antibiotics and hormones in there. Someone had to recover the body, and the task fell to commercial hazmat divers....

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