15 Jobs That Are Worse Than Yours

1. Underarm Odour Assessor 

a.k.a stickyeth thy nose in strangers armyeth pityeth person.

This is actually a thing. Right now I have ‘mental smells’ I guess you could call it, running through my mind think teenage boy after school in summer, the co-worker who ‘forgot’ to indulge in deodorant for the morning or even the whole week. Now imagine sticking your nose in their armpit. Bluurrgh!

Underarm sniffers test for odors to measure how good their employer’s products are.

Your job is looking a little better already, isn’t it?

2. Mosquito Bite Tester

Summer long afternoons outside enjoying the weather and a chilled drink or two. Life is perfect. Slowly they find you. First one ouch! Then apparently an SOS was somehow sent from the first (now deceased) mosquito and the entire population of the metropolis of Mosquitoes has arrived to avenge its death.

Could you imagine then willingly let multitudes of mosquitoes feed on your blood for the sake of research?!

You’ve probably seen them those clear boxes with swarms of blood suckers ready for the all you can eat buffet that awaits. The tester sticks their arms in and it is on. I couldn’t tell you much more than that by this stage of the presentation I’m (a) passed out, (b) burying my head in the cushion sobbing why why?! Or (c) left the room completely and lathering myself in insect repellent, just in case.

3. Pet Food Taster

While most of us are dry reaching with the first whiff of fluffies food choices, there are actually people who are chowing down on it. Ok so it may not be the whole sit down at the dinner table and crack open a can of Whiskas or my dog, but there are people who are employed to test the palatability of the food. The optimum texture for tinned food (apparently!) is to be similar to paté. Nice I’ll keep that in mind.

4. Sewer Diver

In some countries where the sewerage system just isn’t that flash, there can be major blockages (pun intended) which need to be well, unclogged. This is a job for your local sewer diver! They will suit up though some don’t, and get down and dirty finding out what the hold up is. They fix the problem all whilst having very limited visibility. No amount of perfumed spray would be able to hide the stench of work at the end of the day.

Imagine being their wife “Oh hi honey, how was your day?” Sewer Diver: “Shit just shit!”