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The search for the worlds worst job

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What is the worst you have encountered on your travels, or in your home country?
14 years ago, February 10th 2010 No: 1 Msg: #103176  


Wanted - Sulphur Collector

Dedicated and determined individual required to collect sulphur from the interior of an active volcano. Must be physically fit (at the moment) as you will be required to walk 16 km daily, ascending and descending a tricky slippery rocky sheer track of about 800m, whilst balancing up to 80kgs of rock sulphur on a bamboo pole. You must not be adverse to the physical disfigurement that this pole will cause to your shoulders, or the sores and lesions etc.

You will be responsible for supplying your own gas mask, without it you will develop a hacking rasping lung complaint due to the sulphuric acid that condenses in your throat.

Salary - commensurate with experience

On this performance based pay system you could earn up to $4 a day!

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Quote from Ijen - the search for the world's worst job, a current Front Page blog, by Ali


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14 years ago, February 10th 2010 No: 2 Msg: #103255  
I had a nasty job seperating frozen cows lips and tongues from plastic bags once. Just remember - it still makes it 100%!b(MISSING)eef in your burger 😉

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14 years ago, February 11th 2010 No: 3 Msg: #103335  
Is working in the UNs new headquarters now the worlds worst job?


For the next four years, the United Nations' nerve center, including Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's office, will be situated in a squat, three-story, corrugated steel building ...
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"The morale among the people in the secretary general's office has never been lower," a U.N. official who works in the new building told Turtle Bay. "Everybody is profoundly depressed and demoralized because they are put into windowless, airless cubicles that are completely inhumane."


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11 years ago, May 28th 2012 No: 4 Msg: #156885  
Would this be the worlds worse job?

A court has heard how a man was paid £80 for the 15 years he worked...
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The man said he was promised £50 a day but never received the promised daily rate and likened his living conditions to that of a "concentration camp".
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He said on about 10 occasions he was punched in the face and received black eyes.


From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-18163466

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11 years ago, May 29th 2012 No: 5 Msg: #156895  
in northern america if you are one of those guy in the street who is paid by commission each time you sail a year membership to a stranger rushing for work, I think you have one of the worse job. Even more if the campaign suck and you don't believe in it.

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