The top 10 worst jobs in science:

[taotoon]

Since my soon to be hubby is a chemist I saw this and thought it was interesting/funny.

1. Human Lab Rat: Voluntarily expose yourself to dangerous chemicals.
2. Manure Inspector: Test methods of removing E.Coli and Salmonella from animal manure used to fertilize crops.
3. Kansas Biology Teacher: The evolution debate consumes everything. Instead of teaching biology and scientific method, they must teach intelligent design theory.
4. Extremophile Excavators: Hike in 125-degree weather in air filled with nauseous gases to search for a microbe the can remove arsenic from contaminated water.
5. Nuclear Weapons Scientist: Bad PR with recent FBI investigations and an intern's eye-burning laser accident have made this a rough job lately.
6. Volcanologists: They run extremely close to an erupting volcano carrying lots of heavy equipment so they can study it.
7. Semen Washer: Employed by sperm banks, their official job title is "cryobiologist."
8. Do-Gooder: You pay $3,000 for a "vacation" and you can help with scientific expeditions, such as slogging through peat bogs in Manitoba, ducking polar bears or fending off swarms of black flies and mosquitoes.
9. NASA Ballerina: NASA created a phallic-shaped robot and to officially introduce it, they hired a leotard-clad ballerina to dance with it.
10. Orangutan-Pee Collector: Just like it sounds, they collect urine from orangutans. And get peed on a lot.
Source: Popular Science

[WornOutTire]

Got a link to the NASA ballenina?

[Rissask]

I can't believe armpit sniffer or bad breath sniffer isn't on that list!

[PlayaGroom]

What about the scientists who studied/collected the amounts of "anal methane" coming from cows and reported on it's "greenhouse" effect?

[WornOutTire]

Originally Posted by PlayaGroom

What about the scientists who studied/collected the amounts of "anal methane" coming from cows and reported on it's "greenhouse" effect?

Enclosed, airtight stalls... measurement devices in the ventilation system. They could remain in safe office a thousand miles away while the "cowboys" rustled them in and out..

[PlayaGroom]

Originally Posted by WornOutTire

Enclosed, airtight stalls... measurement devices in the ventilation system. They could remain in safe office a thousand miles away while the "cowboys" rustled them in and out..

Either way, they're PhD's studying farts

[WornOutTire]

Originally Posted by PlayaGroom

Either way, they're PhD's studying farts

Granted... not real high on my priority list...