Marilyn's Photos - Oct 25 2026 - Best Jobs Worst Jobs
The best jobs of 1925 were supposely in finance, banking and corporate management. That was followed by automobile and electrical engineering. Medicine and Law have always been prestigious positions, and then the civil service. At the bottom of the heap were unskilled agricultural and migrant labour, textile and factory, and coal mining. Of course radium dial painting must be the all-time worst - they all got radium poisoning and jawbone decay.
That's just 100 years ago. Think long ago and there were "gong farmers" who manually shovelled human excrement and waste out of cesspits, privies and sewers at night. Too many excrement-related activities way back then. There's one that picked up dog excrement from the streets by hand to be used in the tanning industry.
What do we think today's best and worst jobs are? One site says that telemarketers are the worst, followed by cleaners, truckers, construction workers, soldiers, social workers, customer service advisors, slaughterhouse workers. Some of these seem tame, don't you think? OK here's a few: pet food taster. crime scene cleaner, and...wait for it: Pain dry watcher. Checking how the colour of matt and emulsion changes over time...this one is a novelty job that is thrown in to entertain us.
It seems to me these don't rate like the worst jobs of 100 years ago. And what do they claim the best jobs are? There's no list. It's all about what's in demand and what's stable. We can know that medicine is still in the top ranks, and today includes speech-language pathologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists and so on. Of course corporate executives and lawyers are still tops. I expect information security is a great area now. And there are lots of engineering specialties now.
So many neat and clean jobs now. Think and be paid.
Oops I missed the Hamilton Chrysanthemum Show - it closed yesterday. Here's a picture from a previous year. So many beautiful shapes, colours, and textures in Chrysanthemums.
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