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I was listening to talk radio today, and there was a caller who said "American's just won't do some of those jobs" and the truth is that a lot of us are just lazy (not me, but you know the type) so I was thinking "are there really any jobs that I wouldn't do?"

So, here is the deal, you are broke, your kids are hungry, there is no way to get money outside of working. what are 3 jobs you wouldn't do? (legal jobs, I don't want to hear "hit man" or "prostitute" )

1) stripper
2) plumber (did it before won't ever do it again)
3) colon cleansing tech at a spa


okay, not really the truth is I would do any of those jobs, they aren't my first choice, but if it came down to it, and it was do that and feed my kids, or watch them starve to death, I would do it.

I plumb for fun! Its a family thing I guess. :p

1) Sewer worker
2) The guy who cleans up after the animals at the zoo.
3) I have to agree with colon cleansing technician.

1) President
2) Supreme court justice
3) Teacher

One of which I'll most likely get stuck with doing in the future. (Hint: #1 :D )

I wouldn't have kids in the first place. If I did, I'd put them up for adoption. Then, instead of working, I'd go leech off of the homeless shelters and soup kitchens.

I wouldn't have kids in the first place. If I did, I'd put them up for adoption. Then I'd go leech off of the homeless shelters and soup kitchens.
:rolleyes:

if you can't follow the rules don't answer.

although your reply makes it much more clear to me why the caller would say that on the radio, not only will people not do certian jobs, some people won't work at all. :(

1) President
2) Supreme court justice
3) Teacher

One of which I'll most likely get stuck with doing in the future. (Hint: #1 :D )
Can I be the white house press secretary under your administration? I just want to see the looks on the reporter's faces when I, in my official capacity as white house spokesman, say some of the crazy shit that I sometimes post on this forum.

1) Secret Service (I'll take a bullet for Cheny or Bush? Lowl!)
2) Undercover Cop (I suck at lieing)
3) Spelling Bee Judge (I've seen how crazy parents can get...)

Can I be the white house press secretary under your administration? I just want to see the looks on the reporter's faces when I, in my official capacity as white house spokesman, say some of the crazy shit that I sometimes post on this forum.
lol, consider it done! :D You can also quote me on the crazy shit I say, then we can repeal the 22nd amendment and all elections and stay in power interminably. Hahahahahahah!!!!11!!!!1oneone!!!!!1!1!!!1111!!!!eleven!!!shiftoneshiftone!!!!1!111!!!

1. Cubicle Drone
2. Construction (Can't do it physically)
3. Photo Model (I do THIS out of principle)

Three jobs I can't do:

1) President. Unfortunately, there are certain compromising photos....

2) Brain surgeon. Tried it. Didn't like it. Very litte creative leeway.

3) Novelist. I don't drink enough alcohol.

1) President
2) Supreme court justice
3) Teacher

One of which I'll most likely get stuck with doing in the future. (Hint: #1 :D )
If only that attitude was true of folks that held the other two jobs, as well.

It isn't that Americans won't do certain jobs, it's that we won't do them for the money that's offered. I'll pick cotton or oranges, just make it worth my while. I'll clean up after the colonic treatments, too. But not for anything less than about $50 per hour.

My three are:
Public Office Holder
Lawyer
Lawyer

Just one: assistant crack whore.

:rolleyes:

if you can't follow the rules don't answer.

although your reply makes it much more clear to me why the caller would say that on the radio, not only will people not do certian jobs, some people won't work at all. :(

"So, here is the deal, you are broke, your kids are hungry, there is no way to get money outside of working."

I followed the rules. I chose not to earn money.

1) President
2) Supreme court justice
3) Teacher

One of which I'll most likely get stuck with doing in the future. (Hint: #1 :D )

I'll agree with you there. It's an honorable profession, but takes a special kind of crazy to work with crazy elementary school kids.

If my kids were hungry, there isnt a job I wouldnt do.


sorry if I broke the rules Smunk.

Couldn't I have my kids eat me?

"So, here is the deal, you are broke, your kids are hungry, there is no way to get money outside of working."

I followed the rules. I chose not to earn money.
okay, fine. :mad:

Couldn't I have my kids eat me?
sure, but then what are they going to do when you are all gone?

If my kids were hungry, there isnt a job I wouldnt do.


sorry if I broke the rules Smunk.
yeah, me too. ;) I broke my own rule, there isn't a job I wouldn't do to take care of my kids.

I'll agree with you there. It's an honorable profession, but takes a special kind of crazy to work with crazy elementary school kids.
Yeah, that's why I'll teach high school. AP. In the higher class part of town :p

sure, but then what are they going to do when you are all gone?

Sell my bones and inedible portions. That should put them through college, at least.

1. Gay protitute
2. Jizz mopper
2. Bull jacker-offer (In case some of you don't know, they don't mate bulls to cows. They make a frame that is about cow size, cover it in cow hide, spray it with cow-in-heat smell and a guy sits inside with a giant cow port-o-vagina and masturbates the bull when it mounts the frame.)

Off-topic, Smunkee I need your immediate help! I have soaked some pasta in water and food colouring...but I'm reading now all over the place that you are supposed to do it with rubbing alcohol...you said you could bake it? Please tell me how! I don't have rubbing alcohol, don't want to start over, and have little time!

Off-topic, Smunkee I need your immediate help! I have soaked some pasta in water and food colouring...but I'm reading now all over the place that you are supposed to do it with rubbing alcohol...you said you could bake it? Please tell me how! I don't have rubbing alcohol, don't want to start over, and have little time!
put them one layer thick on a cookie sheet and bake at a low temp until they dry out. It's not really all that scientific. sorry.

put them one layer thick on a cookie sheet and bake at a low temp until they dry out. It's not really all that scientific. sorry. Maybe not, but the way things are going right now, I was bound to screw it up. I just wanted to make sure you could actually do it that way:) THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

Hmm... I wouldn't really like to do any rural job. And seeing as I don't have any dependents that's not an issue.

If I get offered a job I do it. Whilst being a full time student with deadlines looming I have been desperately trying to learns my lines for a play I'm in with rehersals every 3 days. I've been on the elections committee for my student union (2-3hour meetings everyday, and the day before yesterday there were two meetings - damn candidates stirring up trouble). Manning polling stations for the election. I've been doing odd jobs for a media company as a techie. And I've trying to get a job at the union as a tech crew or an IT guy.

... oh and I just offered to collect a friends son from the train station and give him a tour of the university and take him for his interview.

I need sleep. (why am I still up?)

Off-topic, Smunkee I need your immediate help! I have soaked some pasta in water and food colouring...but I'm reading now all over the place that you are supposed to do it with rubbing alcohol...you said you could bake it? Please tell me how! I don't have rubbing alcohol, don't want to start over, and have little time!
What the hell? You're cooking with rubbing alcohol?

My three: Anal wart reasearcher. (Not kidding, this is a real job...and a real pain in the ass. [bad pun intended])

One of those scientists that spend their day analysing dirt, and separating them by size and density. I can' think of the name...

Nurse. If I ever wanted to have a family.....I wouldn't get to see 'em as much as I would like to with this job. And bedpans....ewwww.

Totally betrays the spirit of the question, but the jobs I wouldn't do if the kids where starving (who would have a lot of explaining to do as to why they exist, or at least their mothers would...) are ones that wouldn't feed the kids, which is basicly every job I've ever had since they barely feed me. I could do what I did way back and take four of them, but then this would depend on the age of the kids because that would mean pappa ain't around much at all.

Once other mouths are involved I'd have to give up my slacking ways. Which is why I don't even have pets.

In the spirit-
1. Construction laborer. Sweet mama-jama did that job suck. I was literally digging ditches...
2. Fast Food. I've dodged that bullet all my life.
3. Collection agent/impounder. I won't live off the misfortune of others.

No one but me has mentioned bull jacker-offer. I guess that means you'd all do it. ;)

No one but me has mentioned bull jacker-offer. I guess that means you'd all do it. ;)
Someone's gotta do it, bulls don't have thumbs or the internet. Some of us look out for a brother...

Some of you might love this story. I found it priceless.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/wgerm30.xml

Anyways, my three jobs would be:
a) builder/plumber/anything else where I spend the day in the sun carrying heavy things
b) Anything working with little children
c) Anything working with old people

Someone's gotta do it, bulls don't have thumbs or the internet. Some of us look out for a brother...
You guys are disgusting perverts. :mad: I just made that all up. :D


No, I didn't. That's how they do it, really.

I'm too much in a hurry right now to start thinking about jobs I wouldn't absolutely do, but if I can make a choice, then:


A retail store is the worst possible choice if you're in customer service. This I heard from a former employee. Whenever there aren't customers, there's always a hurry to unload the incoming shipments, etc. Janitoring and reception at some institution, sports hall, or some such is much more relaxed and the customers are less likely to be ass-holios.
School sucks. It isn't much different if you're a teacher. It's still the same teenager "jocks and nerds" bullshit.
If immigrants work there, it's probably an "entry to the local working life" job, i.e. no one would do it for more than a year. Avoid this, unless you *really* need work experience to put on your curriculum vitae.


Personally, I wouldn't work for the church, on principle. I'd also find it hard to be a doctor, especially if dealing with addicts, since there will be constant disappointments and intractable problems. Being a welfare official would grind your mind raw for the same reason.

And the counterpoint: Lifting heavy things constantly isn't hard and is strangely rewarding. Building would be a good job, if there wouldn't be this problem that it's always behind the schedule.

Cleaning the blood off the floor before it coagulates in an abbatoir.

Support Helpdesk (though you get some funny stuff sometimes I hear)

Working in a liquor store.

I'll agree with you there. It's an honorable profession, but takes a special kind of crazy to work with crazy elementary school kids.

Agreed on both points. I don't have the mind for teaching, but I love kids (which might seem kind of bizzarre as I'm 20, have an annoyingly frustrating 13-year-old brother and haven't had much experience with them).

Just seeing a kid's smile seems to make the day seem that little bit brighter. I don't know what it is about it, but it works.

2. Bull jacker-offer (In case some of you don't know, they don't mate bulls to cows. They make a frame that is about cow size, cover it in cow hide, spray it with cow-in-heat smell and a guy sits inside with a giant cow port-o-vagina and masturbates the bull when it mounts the frame.)
Actually what they do is put him in a squeeze shoot so he can't move. Then they put an electrode up his anal opening. Then they zap him while someone holds a little plastic bag (on a wire with a loop holding open the bag) over his member. He ejaculates into the bag.

1. Dairy Farmer---no vacations, or time off, two or three times per day, everyday, 365/366 never ends, sick or well you have to be there.

2. Proctologist--Why would anyone want to do this.

3. Gynocologist---How would you ever get turned on again?

1. Drive through window cashier. Actually, pretty much any fast food job I wouldn't do.

2. Fluffer. Look it up.

3. Before I read this thread I didn't have a third one, but that bull-masturbater job looks like something I don't think I could bring myself to do.

1 - Policeman
2 - Policeman
3 - Policeman

2. Fluffer. Look it up.

is it wrong that faced with the starvation of my children, if I had to choose between stripping and fluffing I would fluff?

maybe it's my anxiety disorder getting the best of me, nobody likes a stripper who is having a panic attack.

is it wrong that faced with the starvation of my children, if I had to choose between stripping and fluffing I would fluff?

maybe it's my anxiety disorder getting the best of me, nobody likes a stripper who is having a panic attack.

I'd rather strip, but I'm a guy so that wouldn't make me a whole lot of money. But the idea of having porn star cock in my mouth all day seems disgusting. The places those penises have been....

I'd rather strip, but I'm a guy so that wouldn't make me a whole lot of money. But the idea of having porn star cock in my mouth all day seems disgusting. The places those penises have been....
meh, I don't think I would be very good at stripping. I think strategy-wise I would have to go for the job I know I could do well at. ;) (TMI?)

1 - Policeman
2 - Policeman
3 - Policeman

Lol, you wouldn't envy my career path then. :p

Coroner
Collections Agency
Tow Truck Driver

Not necessarily in that order

Some of you might love this story. I found it priceless.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/wgerm30.xml


Forcing women on unemployment into prostitution. Like things aren’t bad enough in that business without the government getting involved in pimping.

Forcing women on unemployment into prostitution. Like things aren’t bad enough in that business without the government getting involved in pimping.
Well, it's one of those things that come about if you don't think things through.

"People should take jobs when there are any, instead of just staying on welfare!"
That's okay.

"Prostitution is a business like any other. It should get legal recognition, and workers should be protected by various laws just like in any other industry!"
That's okay as well.

But then:
"You are on welfare, and there is a job in prostitution. Take it!"

:D

Personally, I feel strongly about avoiding jobs where I play with dead bodies or embrace the weasel factor (collections agency). When a close friend told me he was thinking about becoming a lawyer, I told him that if he did I’d break both his arms. :) He’s since become a fireman and is much happier for it.

Fluffer
sewerage plant worker
miner in a Chinese mine

1. Any work in a retirement community.
2. Hospital orderly.
3. Geek Squad. (I'll dig ditches before I deal with people's home PCs.)

fluffer
corporate lawyer
soldier

Hitman (Hitwoman?)
Lawyer for some big evil company
Loan shark


Edited to replace collections agent with loan shark.

Geek Squad. (I'll dig ditches before I deal with people's home PCs.)
my husband worked for one of those companies once, it was called Computer Nerdz, man that job sucked, they didn't pay well at all, and he had to go over to people's houses, which was both creepy and gross, one lady had smoked so much that her computer smelled like cigarettes, he brought home the mother board to mess with it once and it just smelled up my whole house......disgusting.

I doubt he would want to do that again.

1. Mortician...dressing up dead people...ewwww.
2. Whatever the name is of whoever does autopsies...cutting dead people...ummm, pass.
3. Animal Rescue...I'd end up in prison on murder charges...my bum hurts just thinking about it.

in no particular order
- nurse - dealing with bodily fluids/solids, yuk!
- police - instantly labled as a power hungry prick (same goes for bouncers)
- artificial insemination technician - just yuk.