Korean Job Discussion Forums

[tanklor1]

Sure, a lot of us are English teachers but there must be jobs out there worse than ours. Garbage man for example. What's the worst job in the world?

[NYC_Gal]

Police officer. The trash fights back!

[tanklor1]

[Kurtz]

I think it was Discovery Channel that did a series on this called something like "Americas worst jobs". Funny viewing. Anything to do with cleaning large amounts of poo would be quite nasty, along with getting a jackhammer inside of an cement mixer and chipping away all the dried on cement, which has to be done at night.

[hapigokelli]

Either accountant or coal miner, obviously for very different reasons.

[Hotwire]

During the summer holidays at my 1st year of uni back home, I had a 3 day temp job as 'portable toilet cleaner' at a muslim festival. There were over 40,000 muslims there and the diet was lentil curries and nan bread for everyone, all cooked communaly at giant cooking areas.

Also about 1,000 were from very remote Africa and had never used a toilet before and thus there was faeces all over the walls, the floors, the sinks (a lot of them did it in the sinks) in the portaloos.

I thought 'bugger this' and walked round with a cloth in my hand and sneaked away and hid & smoked and read whenever I got the chance. I did clean a few nasty ones though.

Pay was eqvt of around 30,000 won an hour. Back in 1999.

[tanklor1]

[NYC_Gal]

[Italy37612]

Even though it pays well, I would think a proctologist would be a pretty s****y job.

[caniff]

A buddy of mine told me that some years back he got a job at a chicken farm. His job was to walk into a room where a bunch of chickens would be gathered and kill them with a hatchet.

He said after the first one was killed, the rest would be bugged out as they scrunched together in the corner being real quiet.

Can't remember how many days he said he managed to handle that illustrious position.

[sallymonster]

Maybe not the worst job ever, but the summer after my freshman year of college, I did street canvassing. In other words, I stood in the hot sun on a busy street corner or farmers' market harassing random people for money for "the environment". I only lasted 3 days before they fired me for not raising some ridiculous amount of money for the "cause". The other canvassers were eerily cult-like, too, their lives totally revolved around "the cause". Not to mention that we were listed as independent contractors so that they didn't have to pay us overtime that we had to work, or even the minimum wage for that matter. I ended up spending the rest of that summer working in a department store.

A year later I started working at a small amusement park. I ended up spending 3 summers there, and boy do I have a collection of stories from that place! I did a lot of what many English teachers in Korea do: baby-sitting. Parents would buy the unlimited rides passes and literally leave their young children to ride my ride over and over again while they ran off to drink beer in the picnic areas. I also argued with parents about how their child wasn't tall enough to ride my ride, and/or about the fact that they didn't have a ticket for the ride. Then I had to try to keep teenagers/crazy people from doing stupid and dangerous things on the rides. Then there was the body fluids; yes, people do puke on rides, and we carnies look forward to it so we can get a few minutes away from all those crazy and stupid customers while we clean it up. Sometimes on little kids rides a kid would p*ss or crap himself, but that never happened to me, just my co-workers. Did I mention I only made, at the most, about $9.50/hour for all this?

Speaking of co-workers, I did have some pretty interesting co-workers at the amusement park (think stereotypical "carnie" types). But many of my co-workers were other college students, which was one of the highlights of working there. In my third summer, we threw some pretty sweet parties. Good times.

[Globutron]

I would say psychiatrist, since it is the career with statistically the highest rate of suicide in health care.

[Tundra_Creature]

I used to work as a cashier at a grocery store. I know for me personally, I hated that job the most.

I also imagine that a sewage truck driver is also not the most favorable of jobs, but they also apparently pay well. I guess you'd have to when you're dealing with poop.

[misher]

accountant definitely. Worked for a big 4 firm for almost 3 years before bailing on my 3rd CA exam and calling it quits. The work is mind numbing and soul sucking and I don't care about money and useless glitz that much to torture myself.

WHomever is hacking the garbageman, cut it out. I wanted to be a garbage man when I was a kid. Riding around on the truck looked like fun. Those guys are unionized too and make 30+ bucks an hour!

[zenbone]

in high school i worked at a factory that sorted dirty hospital clothing on a conveyor belt to be cleaned. It was miserable and disgusting.