I'm not asking about the worst job. I'm asking about the grimmest one. For me it was when in my teenage years I was making candles you would put on a grave. Most of the time is was just filling the form, burn the right shape and passing it forward. But sometimes I had to fill in for a person who was selling these things, and that is where it gets grim. It was decades ago but I still remember one lady who asked what would be the best candle to memorialize her late husband. And she gave me the whole life story of her and her husband. I shit you not, it was the most touching love story I have ever heard. I quit the next day.

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Does he wear a hazmat suit or something similar?

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Yeah he wears heavy biohazard protection, complete with the hood and the respirator and everything. He's better isolated than a cosmonaut on the job.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    cosmonaut

    Found the Russian. Do any other cultures use that word instead of astronaut?

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