Human Lab Rats vs. Orangutan Pee Collectors

Popular Science has a piece in its current issue on the top ten worst jobs in science. While it plumps for “human lab rats” as worst, I would have gone for their number ten, “orangutan pee collector”. Mind you, I know a few physics post-docs who I bet think that “pee collector” pretty much describes their job, so maybe physics post-doc should have been number one.

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Comments

  1. Kara says:

    Hm… I put #3 at the top, personally.
    “Kansas Biology Teacher”
    You could pay me to do any of the other ones, but I’m pretty sure I’d end up burned at the stake if I took #3 on….