Worst Jobs: 7 Professions That Seem Too Awful To Be Real

By John Kuroski | Edited By Savannah Cox

Published April 11, 2017

Updated November 9, 2023

Worst Jobs: Roadkill Collector

JOSE NAVARRO/AFP/Getty ImagesThe body of Franska the Slovenian bear after she was killed in a road accident in Southern France.

It’s sad, but somebody has to clean up the roadkill that the person driving in front of you just nailed with their pickup truck. While Franska the Slovenian bear is a special example, it is seriously hard work to clean animal guts off the road every day.

And you’ll never know what you’ll find — some days it could be a weasel, some days a deer and others just a cute little bear.

After this look at the world’s worst jobs, read up on the robot jobs that will soon take away two-thirds of the employment opportunities for people in the developing world, before finding out all about the world’s most dangerous jobs.

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John Kuroski is the editorial director of All That's Interesting. He graduated from New York University with a degree in history, earning a place in the Phi Alpha Theta honor society for history students. An editor at All That's Interesting since 2015, his areas of interest include modern history and true crime.

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Savannah Cox holds a Master's in International Affairs from The New School as well as a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and now serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Sheffield. Her work as a writer has also appeared on DNAinfo.

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Kuroski, John. "The 7 Worst Jobs In The Entire World." AllThatsInteresting.com, April 11, 2017, https://allthatsinteresting.com/worlds-worst-jobs. Accessed February 1, 2025.