in your opinion , what is the toughest/easiest job?

Easiest, it used to be the Playboy picture editor. Does Playboy still exist now? If it doesn't then golf magazine equipment editor 😁

Hardest, the blokes who go down and clear the sewers in big cities.

Different but awful, social workers who deal with problem families, problem kids etc. Mentally challenging and draining.
 
No idea about easiest and would think most so called "easy" jobs have their own issues and drawbacks, probably unseen or unthought of to most people. As for hardest, too many to choose from. Miners, prison officers, all emergency services, soldiers deployed to war zones, trawlermen etc

Interesting thread though.
 
Easiest, TV football pundit, just talk generic rubbish for an hour and you're sorted...erm...he's a top top player innit...erm...

Hardest, steeplejack maybe, you wouldn't catch me up there in a million years.
 
Many, many years ago I did some work for an mp. Joking apart there is nothing easy about being an mp. Unless you are a London mp you are away from home for 4 days a week, everyone wants to moan to you, everyone wants a piece of you. You can rarely escape from your job. By no means an easy job.
 
Many, many years ago I did some work for an mp. Joking apart there is nothing easy about being an mp. Unless you are a London mp you are away from home for 4 days a week, everyone wants to moan to you, everyone wants a piece of you. You can rarely escape from your job. By no means an easy job.

try 4 weeks away 24hrs on call and people wanting a piece of you, MP's cushy number and I wouldn't say no their pension
 
Hardest job - Mr. Ben

One week he's a zookeeper, gladiator, pirate, spaceman.

No formalised training, minimal PPE, no HSE inductions, just thrown in at the deep end (frogman also).

Poor chap, no wonder he died in the 70's.

Easiest job - membership secretary at a top 20 golf club. Enough mono-grammed jumpers to shake a stick at, loads of golf days out.
 
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The worst job I ever had was with Jayne Mansfield. You know, she was a fantastic bird, you know ..... big tits, huge bum, and everything like that, but I had the terrible job of retrieving lobsters from her bum.

Really? Bloody hell, that must have been a task.

Well, it was quite a task 'cause she had a big bum ....... and they were big lobsters.


Thank you Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
 
Many, many years ago I did some work for an mp. Joking apart there is nothing easy about being an mp. Unless you are a London mp you are away from home for 4 days a week, everyone wants to moan to you, everyone wants a piece of you. You can rarely escape from your job. By no means an easy job.

No need to ruin folks rather skewed views of MPs. You'll be telling us next that some actually do care for their constituents and are not just lying cheats riding the gravy train.
 
Does boredom make a job easier or harder if the job entails doing nothing.

Tough job - cleaning out the mash tuns at a whisky distillery? Guys I once knew with that job seemed to be permanently pissed on the job.
 
No need to ruin folks rather skewed views of MPs. You'll be telling us next that some actually do care for their constituents and are not just lying cheats riding the gravy train.


Whisper it quietly. The guy I worked for told me that pretty much all people he had met entered parliament with the best intentions. Some stick to their guns but too many get caught up in the political machine. In the era of media training that has become worse. At heart most do want to do their best for their constituents but you are right, it does not fit the profile. I think it is interesting how many former MP's become perfectly decent once they have left parliament. Portillo was truly horrible as an MP, now speaks well, has become decent. Ed Balls is crossing over now, even Anne Widdecombe has. I think freed of the shackles of party control and drive for higher office their true and decent selves come out.
 
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