Working for Microsoft security one of the worst jobs in science
The magazine Popular Science and Popsci.com have released their annual list of The Worst Jobs in Science for 2007.
It is worth mentioning that working for Microsoft as a security team member is ranked sixth in the list, just slightly better than Whale-Feces Researcher or Forensic Entomologist.
The bottom-10:
Number 10: Whale-Feces Researcher
They scoop up whale dung, then dig through it for clues
Number 9: Forensic Entomologist
Solving murders by studying maggots
Number 8: Olympic Drug Tester
When your job is drug testing the world’s top athletes, there’s no way to win
Number 7: Gravity Research Subject
They’re strapped down so astronauts can blast off
Number 6: Microsoft Security Grunt
Like wearing a big sign that reads “Hack Me”
Number 5: Coursework Carcass Preparer
They kill, pickle, and bottle the critters that schoolkids cut up
Number 4: Garbologist
Think Indiana Jones— in a Dumpster
Number 3: Elephant Vasectomist
When your patient is Earth’s largest land animal, sterilization is a big job
Number 2: Oceanographer
Nothing but bad news, day in and day out
Number 1: Hazmat Diver
They swim in sewage. Enough said.