Thinking of starting a business venture involved in science? Make sure you're not thinking of opening shop in one of these categories of what Popular Mechanics calls "the ten worst jobs in science".
Here they are...
10. Whale-feces researcher
9. Forensic entomologist ("solving murders by studying maggots")
8. Olympics drug tester
7. Gravity research subject (where subjects lie in bed for 15 to 21 days at a time so researchers can study the effects of "restricted muscle use and increased blood flow to the head experienced in space")
6. Microsoft security grunt (people who read e-mails and fix kinks in Microsoft products)
5. Coursework carcass preparer ("They kill, pickle, and bottle the critters that schoolkids cut up.")
4. Garbologist (someone who sifts through hundreds of thousands of pounds of refuse to analyze modern consumption patterns and how quickly waste breaks down)
3. Elephant vasectomist
2. Oceanographer (This one doesn't seem so bad, though.)
And the No. 1 worst job in science: Hazmat diver ("Outfitted with fully encapsulating drysuits, these Jacques Cousteaus of the sewers swim into clouds of waste, inside nuclear reactors, and through toxic spills on America's coasts and inland waterways.")
And you think YOUR job sucks!
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