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Are these the world's worst jobs?

Nightmare roles
Pet food taster
Buckingham Palace guard
Professional pooper scooper
Portable toilet cleaner
Manual sewer cleaner
Tower maintenance engineer
Knife thrower's assistant
Paint watcher
Professional fart smeller
Stable cleaner
Chicken sexer
Alaskan crab fisher
Pimple doctor
Illegal coal miner
Crime scene cleaner
Vomit collector
Mosquito researcher
Handmade black pudding maker
Warzone security contractor
Roadkill collector
Podiatrist
Deodorant tester
Professional Line Stander
Snake milker
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Tower maintenance engineer

Vertigo sufferers look away now. This hair-raising role involves climbing up precarious-looking communications antennas to carry out essential maintenance work such as changing light bulbs or fixing broken cables. The average annual salary is $45,000 (£32.7k) per year, but experienced workers can reportedly earn much more lucrative sums. 

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lovemoney staff

28 January 2022

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