Our list of the 10 worst Summer Jobs begins with....

#10 Business person - I realize this first one spans of a lot of professions. But any job that requires you to wear a suit in the Summer is terrible. Such is the life you choose, I just think wearing lots of layers plus a tie is far from Summer awesomeness.

9. Gas Station Attendant - The national average for gas is over $4 a gallon. And rising by the day. No one likes that at all. Mr. Gas Station Attendant prepare to be snarled and leered at all Summer long.

8. Ice Cream Truck Driver - The ideal Summer job is not driving around all day in a gas guzzling beast, at 5 mph, in the blaring hot sun. You get to serve people ice cream but you can't eat any or you cut into your profit. But the worst part of driving an ice cream truck is you're required to listen to "Pop Goes the Weasel" or some terrible bell-laden song over and over and over. Pure Summer torture.

7. Cause Marketing Pollster - They work in pairs, usually standing near a Starbucks, about 10-15 feet opposite each other. (Probably so they can watch each others back.) A street marketer or pollsters job is to ask you questions or raise concern about issues. The only time of year they can do it is when it's nice, but the Summer weather isn't the reason this job sucks. This job sucks cause it's about 3 things:
1. Interrupting people.
2. Getting rejected.
3. Asking opinionated questions.

I know it's for a good cause most times, but standing around all day asking people if they have "30 seconds to talk about XYZ" doesn't sound interesting at all. After getting rejected by 98.4% of the population, I wonder how long someone keeps this job. Or how quickly they decide to make up response answers so they can hit the beach instead. If you aren't accosted by these people in your daily life consider yourself lucky.

6. Mascot - Think the words hazy, hot and humid couldn't get worse? Imagine being stuffed inside a foam, plastic, polyester or whatever synthetic fabric mascot costumes are made of. That's a dirty sweaty mess I wouldn't care to step into. As a former roller hockey player I understand the stench of hockey-hands, I can't imagine that over the entire body. To me, the best part of being a mascot in Summer is taking the thing off and jumping in a bucket of ice. The worst part? Putting it on ever day after and smelling yourself for months to come.

5. Garbage Man - Hauling and picking up trash is a tough, thankless job. But PU does it stink, especially in Summer. I wonder if those guys still have a sense of smell when they retire?

4. Lifeguard - Some people see this as the ideal summer job. I've never known why. You have to spend hours sitting alone just watching. Regardless of whether you're guarding a beach, ocean, pool, lake, pond, or hot tub you are in charge of the lives of hundreds of people everyday. You must watch them, warn them, save them, rescue them, even give them CPR, in any kind of weather. And for that big task you get paid minimum wage or slightly above that. That's not worth the effort for the responsibility. No wonder we entrust life guarding to teenagers.

3. Detasseling Corn - This is a right of passage for many mid-westerners. Detasseling Corn - removing the pollen-producing top part of the plant so the corn can't pollinate itself - is a minimum-wage job that many people choose because the season only lasts a few weeks. With the long hours you can make a good amount of cash, assuming you don't mind blinding heat and plucking endless miles of corn.

Here's how one person described detasseling "like running a three-week, sleep-deprived, heatstroke-inducing, cross-country marathon while pulling the tops off of corn plants... I did not know you could sunburn your eyeballs, but it happened to me more than once!"
Wow, that's truly terrible.

2. Teaching - A few of my teacher friends call working in Summer the "dark side of teaching." If you're teaching during the Summer you either got tricked, screwed or were picked by your evil principle for Summer School. Since Summer's when teachers are supposed to be off, you obviously blew it and must enjoy life indoors with the rest of the year round workforce. I have no pity for you. In fact, shame on you. You give teaching a bad name.

1. Road Work - Some people give money or food to the homeless. I give bottles of water and Gatorade to the men and women paving and repaving our streets and roadways. It's hard work made infinitely worse by the rising temperature, blaring sun and excess humidity. My heart goes out to all you road workers. You keep up our roads and build our bridges no matter how fucking boiling it gets out there. Bless you.

Lastly, in a related note, finding a Summer job this year is apparently very tough as well.

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