10 Most Hated Jobs

I got a kick out of this when it hit the web last week and of course forwarded it to all of my dev buddies so we could all laugh. But seriously, who the heck wrote this?

I've had some shitty jobs in my life when I was much younger (including being a sanitation worker) and this reads like someone who never had to work a real crap job.

This article is horrible. It is one of those "X Most _blank_" lists that are only meant to grab attention and bring in the ad clickers. Relevant/accurate content was clearly an afterthought.

Apparently people working in the tech sector don't use CareerBliss (the source of this article). I'm guessing Web Developers that the article don't want to be programmers but learned stuff as they went along.

Ex. My hometown's local newspaper has a website, has to be maintained by someone, maybe he doesn't like programming?

I wonder if this guy would rather have any of those jobs

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/photogalleri...

...I sometimes think journalists make deliberately awful "top x" lists in order to get more views. Rolling Stone magazine does it all the time.

"A senior developer is expected to be fluent in client-side and server-side contexts, and know his or her way around Python, Ruby, or whatever other arcane technology requires taming."

Being fluent in client-side and server-side contexts are a perk, otherwise I'm doing the same thing every day.

"A senior developer is expected to be fluent in client-side and server-side contexts, and know his or her way around Python, Ruby, or whatever other arcane technology requires taming."

There are definitely arcane technologies that developers have deal with, but Python and Ruby? Really?

This is what I found in common: people want to "make an impact", but are stymied by other people who don't care about their ideas and don't appreciate their effort.

I guess when you know how to design efficient processes better the aggravation from dealing with irrational people and inefficiencies is magnified.

My worst on-call pager duty IT lackey job still beat the hell out of convenience store clerk and buffet-steakhouse dishwasher.