Jobs with a high mortality rate or drastically shortened life expectancy in places without an alternative.
A migrant in a foreign land, alone, with hostile racist imbeciles everywhere around them, working like a slave.
Thousands died building Qatar’s infrastructure in preparation for the World Cup.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/11/30/qatar-world-cup-chief-publicly-admits-high-migrant-death-tolls
They surrender their passport on arriving.
They’re housed in a state so poor, that their keepers honestly said “they don’t need a shower as they can wash themselves from the bowl of a clean toilet” as if that was okay.
They work in stifling heat without water, break, or humanitarian oversight.
They die.
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Content reviewer for big tech companies. It’s your job to watch live video of all the things that are against all the rules. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know the language; screams are universal. You have to push a button if it’s bad enough. They’re trying as hard as they can to replace you with AI, by the way. If we’re lucky, the AI is somehow good at this job without actually suffering.
A coworker once said he was a content reviewer for YouTube for some time. He received in dollar in a 3rd world country and said it was a pretty easy job to do, aside from being full WFH. Certainly not the worst job out there.
Maybe YouTube gets less of the bad stuff than some other sites; or maybe they’re better at detecting it with AI. Facebook content moderators seem to have a pretty bad time.
This really just depends on how desensitized the person reviewing the content is. I imagine most of us that grew up exposed to the internet in the late 90s and early 2000s are pretty desensitized to violence and grossness.
Stuff involving kids is hard to get desensitized to for most people, though. That’s the truly hard job. The ones who have to review things like child abuse materials.
If we’re lucky, the AI is somehow good at this job without actually suffering.
You know we ain’t that lucky. The AI is gonna be great that job, but it’s also gonna suffer.
There are people who have to dive into septic tanks and sewage ponds to fix stuff. Pretty sure that is objectively the shittiest job in the world.
Globally
Probably being one of those exploited slaves in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the hand dug tunnels to mine cobalt. Or indebted slaves in Pakistan who spend their whole lives making bricks for taking out predatory loans.
But where I live any manual labor as I am very accident prone, or DMV and Postoffice.
I saw a recent video about the debt slaves in Pakistan, the families making those bricks literally do nothing but make bricks all day every day. They sleep In a hut 10 meters away from where the work, wake up, and make clay bricks by hand all day until the sun goes down. They take short breaks to eat and they stop to sleep but other than that it’s just bricks all day every day. Whole families do it, husband, wife, grandmother, grandfather, kids (no school, just bricks). They work until their debt is paid off but the owners of their debt are purposely obscure about how much they owe and just keep them working as long as they can. It’s really sad.
You could not pay me enough to be a daycare provider. I’m a father of two and feel overwhelmed sometimes…I can’t imagine taking care of 10-20 all day everyday.
I think daycare is different than parenting in that your job as a parent is raising a productive, compassionate, and loving human, while a daycare provider’s mandate is “dont let them die before 5 pm.” Both are important jobs!
At least in germany, Kindergarten is an institution of education and knowledge where kids are supposed to learn things and develop skills
And chronically underpaid and underfunded. Where I live there are over (or near, can’t quite remember) a thousand children waiting for spots. These are children (mostly from poorer families) that are missing out on important education and socialization.
This really just depends on how desensitized the person reviewing the content is. I imagine most of us that grew up exposed to the internet in the late 90s and early 200s are pretty desensitized to violence and grossness.
Stuff involving kids is hard to get desensitized to for most people, though. That’s the truly hard job, are the ones who have to review things like child abuse materials.
