Worst US Jobs
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PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
Chairman of the DNC......
Sammy Jankis
Was it me?
Pelosi's OB/GYN?
clearly the writer of this article has never seen that show dirty jobs. Besides I know a guy whos a welder and as hes 55years old and retired with 80% pay for rest of his life and is now inspecting bridge welds for like 100K a year. He makes more money then I do and I have a Finance and Economics degree and an MBA.
Topspin
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LOL it's a poll.
You know a welder, are you serious.
Thousands of CEO's are accountants making millions, are you really comparing a welder to that. Or are you locked into a box thinking a 33yr old finance guy making 89,000 is the top of the ladder?
I will never make millions as a CEO. I honestly don't have any desire for it either. Im just saying dont underestimate the power of union. From last I checked I get no pension, no healthcare when i retire. Menwhile my friends 55yo welder dad is getting 60K a year for rest of his life with free healthcare and is aloud to go inspect bridges for big paychecks.
Topspin
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I'll take a union too.
I have a pension that is worth about 3x salary lump sum today and a 401K about the same.
thats sweet. no pension for me.
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yeah, today a lot of comanies have ditched the pension for the 401K. Mine goes up about 3K per month on the lump sum.
Mott the Hoople
Sweet Jane
I know a Fabricator who runs his own contracting business and he's a multi-millionare. It's amazing what the man can do with a torch and welder. I watched him draw the plans for a smoker/BBQ rig on a napkin, cut the steel, welded it together and gave it to my friend as a wedding gift. It's amazing what this guy can build. Granted, a Farbricator is no ordinary welder.
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Democratic Senate Majority Leader.
And I'm not kidding or being partisan, either. I could not imagine a worse job. It's a masochistic job description.
His (or Her) Duties Generally Include:
1) Holding together the fractitious alliance of interest groups that make up the Democratic Party. (No easy task in itself).
2) Presenting a nationally-palatable liberal platform in a predominantly conservative country, while placating even more liberal wing of the party that ultimately controls a great deal of the fundraising via PACs.
3) Attempting to craft policies that simultaneously balance the desires of liberal activists and interest groups while ensuring that the Leader gets re-elected by his own local constituency who are doubltess more conservative than the national party he is also representing.
4) Another institutional problem is the tradition of where Senate Democratic Majority Leaders are drawn from. To avoid the appearance of a party utterly controlled by the more extreme left, the Majority Leader is generally drawn from a moderate or even slightly conservative state. While this may appear good to have such diverse leadership, it is a recipe for conflict between the Leader's interest in representing the liberal national party and his interest in representing his more conservative constituency. If one bows too far to the national party and too little to the constituency, he and the party will suffer the embarassment of a party leader being unseated, ala Tom Daschle. If he bows too far to his constituency and refuses to take the bold action desired by elements of the national party, he will be attacked by the activists as timid and ineffective, ala Harry Reid.
I genuinely have a deep sympathy for those men who have served in this precarious position. It is a thankless and perhaps futile job. It pays little and causes you to be demonized either nationally or locally. I could not imagine a more constraining job description. An intern has more freedom of decision in his work than the Democratic Senate Majority Leader does.
And I'm not kidding or being partisan, either. I could not imagine a worse job. It's a masochistic job description.
His (or Her) Duties Generally Include:
1) Holding together the fractitious alliance of interest groups that make up the Democratic Party. (No easy task in itself).
2) Presenting a nationally-palatable liberal platform in a predominantly conservative country, while placating even more liberal wing of the party that ultimately controls a great deal of the fundraising via PACs.
3) Attempting to craft policies that simultaneously balance the desires of liberal activists and interest groups while ensuring that the Leader gets re-elected by his own local constituency who are doubltess more conservative than the national party he is also representing.
4) Another institutional problem is the tradition of where Senate Democratic Majority Leaders are drawn from. To avoid the appearance of a party utterly controlled by the more extreme left, the Majority Leader is generally drawn from a moderate or even slightly conservative state. While this may appear good to have such diverse leadership, it is a recipe for conflict between the Leader's interest in representing the liberal national party and his interest in representing his more conservative constituency. If one bows too far to the national party and too little to the constituency, he and the party will suffer the embarassment of a party leader being unseated, ala Tom Daschle. If he bows too far to his constituency and refuses to take the bold action desired by elements of the national party, he will be attacked by the activists as timid and ineffective, ala Harry Reid.
I genuinely have a deep sympathy for those men who have served in this precarious position. It is a thankless and perhaps futile job. It pays little and causes you to be demonized either nationally or locally. I could not imagine a more constraining job description. An intern has more freedom of decision in his work than the Democratic Senate Majority Leader does.
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Billy the Great Khan
Uwaa OmO
Sweet, fewer people trying to take my job.
No doubt about it. I was fortunate enough to be exposed to two awesome fabricators. I raced downhill for one guy and his custom racing bike company so I got to spend countless hours at the machine shop learning the ins and outs of CNC milling and all the prep work in creating a bike frame from aluminum.
I never got to weld though, so I need to learn.
The other fabricator was a good friend of mine from the race scene. He was a genius fabricator who didn't even need to have plans to work from. We built my custom chopper bicycle in 6 hours after we created a custom jig to hold the rear dropouts, the bottom bracket, and the head tube. With those three tubes secured, we were able to create and weld the frame from all sides. No flipping the frame over to weld the ohter side. we made a 3d jig so you could weld it all at once.
Then we got it painted by Justin Barnes.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
Coakley's campaign manager....
Bogus! No doubt I wouldn’t want any of those jobs, but man, this is obviously a list put together by the lily-white cast of wall street vultures at CNBC. Shouldn’t that Kramer dude, and half those cigar smoking, blue blood elitists be in jail by now, for being liars, frauds, and robber barrons? Yeah, I can totally see these dude laughing down their noses at welders and dairymen. Personally, I thought the lumberjacks were pretty groovy back in my US Forest Service day. They cranked Dead and smoked out. And the forests on the north coast are prime real estate for having a ganja crop, if you want to supplement your income. They’re way cooler than those hyper, assholish banker and finance goons, topper.
I’ll tell you what a real crap job is, literally as well as figuratively. I had a septic crew out here last week. I don’t think I could live with myself if my job was septic tank pumper. That would be simply shameful!
Topper, I’d probably rather be a lumberjack or a dairyman, than some soulless wall street finance goon. Don’t you have to sell your soul to the devil, and become an asshole just to be an investment banker or whatever? And what’s the deal with those goons who stand on the stock market floor yelling and stressing out all day long? What the f is that job? Hat’s off to you topper for digging all that finance stuff. Personally, I think I’d have to commit hari-kiri if I had to screw around with accounting and f*cking around with stocks and other people’s money. But, that’s just me – party on if you dig being a robber baron!
Billy the Great Khan
Uwaa OmO
Funny thing is, the 10 worst jobs can survive without the 10 best, but the opposite isn't true. Except for the mathematician one, it's pretty hard to do without math.
Which is why "Atlas Shrugged" is one of the great comedies of our times.
The premise that Thurston Howell, the third and Paris Hilton are going to run off and be self sufficient while the rest of us poor schmucks starve is pure comedy gold.
Billy the Great Khan
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Which is why "Atlas Shrugged" is one of the great comedies of our times.
The premise that Thurston Howell, the third and Paris Hilton are going to run off and be self sufficient while the rest of us poor schmucks starve is pure comedy gold.
I never read it.