The Worst Jobs Ever. Even in a Recession.



I know we're stuck in a recession with many unable to find work.  But would you want to tackle these 10 Worst Jobs in Science, as deemed by Popular Science magazine?

1.  Armpit Detective.  Researchers in Philadelphia study human odors to try to "isolate the compounds that give us our unique aroma."

2.  Feces Piper.  Some hospitals do controversial "fecal transplants," that involve feeding fecal matter through a tube from a healthy person to fight bacteria in another person.

3.  Sneeze Modeler.  A University of California researcher studies where spit lands on a person's face when someone coughs.

4.  Dung Curator.  A man at Northern Arizona University hosts "the largest collection of excrement in the world."

5.  Doomsday Fact-Checker.  An archeologist at Colgate University responds to e-mails from "sleepless, apocalypse-obsessed teenagers" to let them know the end of the world isn't near.

6.  Oceanic-snot Diver.  Scientists go diving to collect "gelatinous masses of dead plankton."

7.  Tissue Reaper.  Tissue technologists basically recycle body parts of the dead at hospitals and funeral homes.

8.  Bad-dance Observer.  A man at the University of Hertfordshire in England watches people dancing and studies reactions to discover and social motivations.

9.  Bean Counter.  An agronomist and his team counted soybeans on soybean plants to study which months are best to plant.

10.  Whale Slasher.  A woman at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in California cuts open carcasses of whales and dolphins that wash up to study what's killing them.


 

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