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2007 Worst Jobs in Science
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by ScienceDave | June 27, 2007 at 03:28 pm
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In descending order, they are:
- Hazmat Diver (pulling dead bodies out of...liquids)
- Oceanographer (the world is going to end...sometime)
- Elephant Vasectomist (YOU grab it...no YOU grab it!)
- Garbologist (the world's dumpsters are your oyster!)
- Coursework Carcass Preparer (pickling dead things for school kids)
- Microsoft Security Grunt (why isn't this number one?)
- Gravity Research Subject (serious amusement park enthusiasts need apply)
- Olympic Drug Tester (spending weeks handling pee....mostly losers' pee)
- Forensic Entomologist (sorry Grish', CSI isn't cool anymore)
- Whale-Feces Researcher (catch your shit before sifting through it)
Now, I belong to number two and justifiably so. We deal with depressing subject matter - pollution, climate change, mismanaged fish stocks. In effect, we are the global janitors, trying to figure out how to clean up the refuse modern society dumps down the drain and conventiently forgets about. When I talked to my fellow sea-faring friends, we all agreed on one thing - had they normalized these to wages, we'd undoubtedly be number one. If I could make a suggestion to PS - what about spending weeks and months at sea, throwing up everything you manage to get in your mouth (when it isn't falling off your plate that is)
Scientists estimate that overfishing will end wild- seafood harvests by 2048 and that Earth’s coral reefs will be rubble within decades. About 200 deoxygenated “dead zones” dot the world’s coasts, up from 149 in 2004. Meanwhile, a vortex of plastic the size of Texas clogs the North Pacific, choking fish and birds; construction is destroying coastal habitats; and countless key marine species are nearly extinct. To top it all off, if global warming goes the way scientists predict, the uptick of carbon dioxide levels in the seas will acidify the water until little more than jellyfish can live there. With so much going on, there’s plenty of work for oceangoing scientists—if they can stomach bad news.
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Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (6)
at 15:37 on June 27th, 2007
nouseforadave, you're wonderful. Simply wonderful. I LOLed. Great stuff.
at 18:04 on June 27th, 2007
I, for one, salute your work, nouseforadave!
at 03:43 on June 28th, 2007
Great stuff as usual, Dave -- thanks for this.
at 06:42 on June 28th, 2007
nouseforadave, excellent article, boy I would have loved for this group to spend a evening in my boots, having just come home at 3am from a Richmond BC Meth Bust, nothing like walking around in the dark water flooded 1,200 sq.ft lab in a restrictive Class A Hazmat suit, 20 minuutes of air, carrying my lab and cooler and wondering if I make a mistake will I will get blown up, get stuck with a needle or get contaminated or all three! To me that would make No# 11 on their list and No# 1 on mine.
at 07:07 on June 28th, 2007
nouseforadave, fantastic work. Again. Thanks for making science fun again, and for putting it in a real-life context.
at 07:08 on June 28th, 2007
nouseforadave, you always seem to amaze me with your creative articles. I think it'd be really cool to spend a day as a whale-feces researcher.