scottydoesntknow: Warning: Extremely Slow Slideshow

10. Marketing Manager
9. CNC Machinist
8. Technical Support Analyst
7. Law Clerk
6. Electronics Technician
5. Technical Specialist
4. Senior Web Developer
3. Product Manager
2. Director of Sales and Marketing
1. Director of Information Technology

Thank you

Aar1012: I'm betting that anyone on that list wouldn't survive retail, food industry, etc....and probably look down on the people that do

As someone who is on that list, what the hell do you think I did in high school and college?

#6 on that list, moving on to #3

I was a male prostitute when I first moved to Hollywood. That job seriously blew.

A marketing piece where they complain about marketing jobs?

Really?

Can't read the stupid thing on mobile... Can someone please tell me why an electronics technician supposedly hates his job?

Crack Whore.. That's been the worst job a long time running.

9. CNC machinist
WTF, I love running the CNC at my shop. Then again, I do the full bit - boss hands me a drawing and I hand him a part; it's not the same damn thing day after day. Plus, he lets me use it to make my own projects. There's plenty of people you can borrow a $5 hammer or a lawnmower from; friends that'll lend you their $10,000 tools are harder to find.

Then don't do those jobs. They pay pretty well, and someone will be eager to take your place, primadonna.

I see IT is well represented. Not sure if that makes me feel better or worse.

//Would go back to fast food over IT if money weren't an issue.

And here I thought the guy who converts simple lists into slide shows for no reason on the web would be at number 1.

I think they left out Professional Slideshow Reader.

Here's the desli.de'd version.

I knew a guy whose job was cutting the assholes out of chicken carcasses. 8 hours a day. In a refrigerated warehouse. That would qualify as a horrible job. He actually lasted 8 months.

I knew another guy who worked for Motorola. His job was to count the legs on chips to make sure that they had all 8 legs. He lasted 6 months. This was about 1984. He then spent 3 months in the psych ward at the local hospital, decompressing. That was a pretty horrible job.

Oh, and both of these jobs paid minimum wage. Wheeeeee ;)

Are people honestly surprised that only cushy, white-collar jobs are being featured on any sort of best/worst jobs list from CNBC?

Directors?

I'm sure they can dry their tears with the massive bonuses they get at the end of the year. Bourgeois scum.

downstairs: Karac: 9. CNC machinist
WTF, I love running the CNC at my shop. Then again, I do the full bit - boss hands me a drawing and I hand him a part; it's not the same damn thing day after day. Plus, he lets me use it to make my own projects. There's plenty of people you can borrow a $5 hammer or a lawnmower from; friends that'll lend you their $10,000 tools are harder to find.
$10,000 tool? Are you selling them to the DoD?/i>

I May Be Crazy But...: I think they left out Professional Slideshow Reader Creator.

FIFY

Try this for a bad job - NBC decontamination specialist. The temperature in the shade was over 110 degrees, we were wearing rubber and charcoal suits and gas masks. Set up a giant decon tent, then double time a half mile away to where the 'injured' were being dropped off. Cart them back on stretchers, run them through the tent. Then break down the tent and do a mock decontamination of yourself, which includes rubbing powdered charcoal all over your body. Then clean everything up and do it again in a few days. I cold pour sweat out of my boots when we were done; about 15 pounds worth in three or four hours.

I believe this entire list was on Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe.

Stay strong cubical prisoners!

Temp accountant at a non-profit. I've spent the last month and a half going over check registers and spreadsheets making sure that they spent the correct money from the correct fund and coded it to the correct account. And the day I run out of stuff to check, I'm out the door. Worse than anything on that list of dream jobs. Seriously, being a CnC machinist would be cool.

I had a job right out of college making rubber playground mulch. The black bits of rubber were loaded into a bin, that fed it on a conveyer for painting (brown!) and drying. The job was to plant myself in front of the blower at the end of the conveyers (that sent the mulch to a giant bag) to make sure the damn thing didn't clog.

Oh how I miss it.

The problem with Manager type jobs is that it is your fault when things go wrong and CEO takes the credit when it goes right.

downstairs: $10,000 tool? Are you selling them to the DoD?

A lot of them cost a hell of a lot more than that.

I work in online marketing and I just love it. No one knows what I'm doing all day, so everyone leaves me alone. And, once in a while, I'll actually do some work and get the site ranked organically for some random, useless keyword that some executive mentioned in a meeting. I always get big kudos from management for that. I am also really good at manipulating the Web analytics reports so that I can take credit for all of the revenue and leads generated by the website.

The best part is that all the IT/Dev guys, who are 3x smarter than me on average, are too lazy to take the 2 hours it would require them to learn SEO and Analytics, so I'm the only one who knows it, and they can never fire me!

8, 5 and 4. Well, not senior web developer. I'm the guy who updates the content on the websites.
Harry, please upload this 6 meg pdf file to a drop down list. Label the file Security Measures 2012 and make it show on the drop down January 2012 - Security Measures and Countermeasures in a Challenging World.

Okay. Not a big deal. Just some copy, edit and save. But then they write back and want to know why the 325 page, 6 meg file takes so long to load in their browser.

Harry, it looks nice but it takes over 45 seconds to load in my browser. Can you fix this?

Yes, please upgrade your browser to Microsoft Firefox Chrome 12 (SeaMonkey) or newer. Be careful. There's a Mozilla and Google browsers with similar names. They try to steal customers from each others. Your operating system may not support this state of the art browser so you should probably upgrade your computer to Ubuntu 7 Snow Leopard. If your computer is outdated, you might as well upgrade it as well. Demand an HP Dell Gateway 2000 with a triple quad processor and at least 6 tb of ram.

downstairs: Karac: 9. CNC machinist
WTF, I love running the CNC at my shop. Then again, I do the full bit - boss hands me a drawing and I hand him a part; it's not the same damn thing day after day. Plus, he lets me use it to make my own projects. There's plenty of people you can borrow a $5 hammer or a lawnmower from; friends that'll lend you their $10,000 tools are harder to find.

$10,000 tool? Are you selling them to the DoD?

This kind of thing. Google shop the term 'CNC machine' and look at the prices. $10,000 is about how much my boss could get for his, used and as-is.