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10 Additional Jobs That are Worse than Being a Journalist

April 25, 2012 By 9 Comments

Journalists everywhere were insulted when earlier this month CareerCast.com ranked journalism as the fifth-worst job in America. Yeah, sure, the pay sucks, the hours are long, and the public trusts prostitutes more than they trust journalists but journalists love what they do. In fact, it’s hard to believe that only four jobs (oil rig worker, enlisted military soldier, dairy farmer, and lumberjack) are worse than reporting the news.

So we found 10 additional jobs that are worse than being a journalist.

10. Microsoft Security Response Center Engineer
9. medical waste biohazard cooker
8. shark repellent tester
7. Indian toilet cleaner
6. nurse who does the physicals at the prison
5. cow artificial inseminator  
4. cloth diaper cleaner
3. Newt Gingrich’s press secretary
2. anything in public relations
1. the guy who mops up the semen at the porn shop (on second thought, he probably gets a pretty good deal on merchandise)


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  1. mccxxiii says:
    April 25, 2012 at 10:34 am

    As a (former) journalist, I am pedantic about the grammar … shouldn’t #5 be “cow artificial inseminator”?

    I presume that the cows themselves are natural.

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  2. slp527 says:
    April 25, 2012 at 10:39 am

    Pretty sure that should say “dairy” farmer, not “diary” farmer.

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  3. Trevor says:
    April 25, 2012 at 10:40 am

    I lol’d at 8 and 10 especially

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  4. Mitch says:
    May 3, 2012 at 4:37 am

    Oddly enough, I wouldn’t have minded being a dairy farmer – an industry which in Australia relies heavily on artificial insemination – but I became a journalist instead. I’m not sure what that says about me, and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know.

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  5. Ben Ingram says:
    May 3, 2012 at 3:18 pm

    How is it better to be Newt Gingrich’s press secretary than “anything (else) in public relations”? Perhaps writing releases about moon bases would be fun…

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