What are the scariest jobs?

Are you losing sleep because you can't locate a qualified individual to fill a position in sales or marketing? Then take a moment to spare a thought for the recruiter who has the daunting task of finding someone willing to accept one of the twelve most terrifying and downright creepy occupations in the world and persuading them to do so. These tasks are unsuitable for anyone who are easily frightened; the hazards range from dead corpses to sickness to dangerous heights to bugs.

So take a deep breath, (attempt to) relax, and peruse some of the most awful employment possibilities currently available:

12. Police Diver

Do you feel like braving the icy currents and murky water of a contaminated body of water? Not in my opinion at all! Regrettably, Police Divers do not have a choice in the matter. In order to carry out underwater searches for human remains, animal remains, murder weapons, wrecks, stolen property, and explosives, it is part of their job description to submerge themselves in various bodies of water such as lakes, rivers, canals, sewers, and cesspits. This is done so that they can look for these things.

11. Steeplejack

Church spires, cathedral domes, industrial chimneys, and towering skyscrapers are all incredible marvels of human engineering, and all of these structures, at some point in their lifetimes, will need maintenance or repair. The role of the Steeplejack comes into play here. Because they must construct and maintain towering buildings, they must often spend their days climbing, hanging to, and hovering over some fairly horrific fall in order to do their jobs. I believe it's safe to assume that having "a head for heights" would be advantageous in this line of work!

10. Window Cleaner for High-Rise Buildings

You, too, can have the pleasure of cleaning the windows of the nation's high-rise buildings while earning an annual salary of $28,000 on average and facing the imminent possibility of a gruesome death. In exchange, you will have the opportunity to zip from window pane to window pane as quickly as possible. However, hey! If you don't end up dead on the job, you'll find out everything that goes on behind the scenes at the workplace. Good luck!

Before they are authorized to work at heights, utilize power-operated access equipment, scaffolding, or abseiling methods, high-rise window washers are required to undergo training (and often get a certificate). Despite the fact that it is a highly regulated business (washers are required to evaluate each job before they begin it and devise an emergency rescue plan), accidents that are severe and even deadly do nevertheless occur from time to time.

9. Miner

Mining is one of the oldest businesses in the world, and it has a long and troubled history to prove it. This is not a job for the faint of heart, and those who have claustrophobia should not even bother applying! Miners put in long hours working in conditions that are often uncomfortable and poorly lit. However, despite the fact that it is possible to make a decent living doing it, the profession carries a high degree of danger.

We all remember the mining accident in Chile in 2010 that ended with a joyful conclusion, but good results like this one are very uncommon. Each year, about 12,000 fatalities are reported in the mining industry, and it is believed that many more deaths occur but are not reported. Cave-ins, gas explosions, vehicle or equipment crushings, chemical spills, and electrocution are just some of the many mining risks that may occur in mines that can go as deep as 3.9 kilometers. Oh, and because of their lengthy exposure to industrial air pollution, miners also have much lower life expectancies than the general population...

8. Clown from a Rodeo

They may have the appearance of clowns, but their position is everything from funny! Rodeo clowns are not just there to make the crowd laugh as they fill their cheeks with hot dogs and popcorn; their primary responsibility is to divert the attention of the bull after he has emerged from the bucking chute. Rodeo clowns are responsible for ensuring the safety of fallen bull riders by working in teams to yell, taunt, and throw hats at the animals. Rodeo clowns are basically bullfighters who perform with their faces painted. Depending on experience and skill level, rodeo clowns may earn anything from $100 to $500 each gig. However, the most professional and experienced clowns can make six figures annually. It's not horrible, as long as you don't mind being thrown into an open pit with a rampaging bull...

7. Alaskan Crab Fisherman

The most hazardous employment in the United States was found to be crab fishing in Alaska, as determined by a recent study conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in the United States. Mortality rates in this profession are 26 times greater (80 percent) than those that are experienced by the typical worker. This is because to the harsh climate and the fishing tactics that are used. The occupation of crab fishing in Alaska is frequently ranked among the most hazardous jobs in the world, despite the fact that this may seem counterintuitive.

Even when they are successful, fishing expeditions are not pleasant for these fishermen because they are forced to live in confined quarters for weeks at a time, go days without taking a shower, and frequently work for 48 consecutive hours in subfreezing temperatures while dragging nets or cages that weigh several hundred pounds. When you add in elements like pelting rain, rogue waves, and slippery decks, the labor becomes very dangerous. These fishermen are at the mercy of the unpredictability of the weather and the conditions of the ocean. Furthermore, due to the location of the state, the seas of Alaska are much colder and less forgiving than the waters of most other fishing locations.

A somber statistic reveals that on average, one fisherman is killed on the job each and every week.

6. Clinical Trial Subject

It's possible to get good money by volunteering to try out new medications. You are given a few tablets to consume, then they insert a few needles into you before paying you and sending you home. However, despite the fact that the vast majority of test participants get through the process without any problems, clinical trials are still a kind of Russian roulette. An spectator during a trial in 2006 that ended in a miscarriage of justice made the following observation: "The guys fell down like dominoes." They started ripping their clothes off and shouting that they had a fever, and then some of them started screaming that their heads were going to blow off. After that, they immediately began passing out, throwing up, and writhing about in their beds.

Full-time test The participants have to take pharmaceuticals that are not yet available for purchase, put up with an unending series of blood tests, and run the danger of experiencing major adverse health effects. However, after the study is over and the pill container is emptied, the participants will get substantial pay checks.

According to what Lee had to say, "It's terrifying in the sense that you're putting your body to things when you have no clue what they are." Not only are pharmaceutical corporations unclear of the effects their therapy would have on persons with certain uncommon blood types and diseases, but trial patients don't always know whether they are allergic to the medication too.

5. Field Epidemiologists

Field epidemiologists have another dangerous task that demands them to play a kind of "Russian roulette" with their health. A Field Epidemiologist is an employee of an epidemiology ward who works in areas where an epidemic of a new illness has arisen in order to investigate the progression of the disease in real time. This is done in order to prevent the disease from spreading further.

Field epidemiologists are often engaged by organizations like as the CDC in order to travel into "Hot Zones" and prevent outbreaks from developing into full-fledged pandemics. It is then their duty to get up up and personal with pathogens, blood, needles, and dead corpses on a regular basis, and they do it while wearing nothing more than a hazmat suit for protection. This is in addition to the danger that they run of getting a fatal illness themselves.

4. Bomb Squad Technician

Even though police departments are increasingly using robots to dispose of bombs, there are still plenty of situations in which human Bomb Squad Technicians are required to establish whether the red wire or the blue wire is attached to the device. It is the responsibility of a Bomb Squad Technician to make potentially lethal explosive devices harmless, either by defusing them or carrying out a controlled explosion on them. Surprisingly, however, Technicians do their duties on a voluntary basis despite the glaringly evident dangers that are inherent to their line of work. The Kelvar and steel-plated costumes that they wear are not invincible, despite the fact that there is a decent chance of making a lot of money.

3. a person who works in cryonics

If you have any of the following phobias, I'm afraid a job as a Cryonics Technician is unsuitable for you: necrophobia (the fear of dead corpses), thanatophobia (the fear of death), hemophobia (the fear of blood), or trypanophobia (the fear of parasites) (needles). Why? Cryonics, on the other hand, is the practice of trying to preserve persons who are considered to be dead by the law by subjecting them to very low temperatures in the hopes that they will be brought back to life in the future when advances in medicine make it possible to bring life back.

Since the purpose of cryonics preservation is to conserve the patient's brain for the possibility of future resuscitation, cryonics technicians normally only preserve the patient's head. Cryonics is a contentious topic among scientists; however, regardless of how you feel about the practice, it is impossible to deny that any line of work that requires cutting off the heads of people who have recently passed away and freezing them at temperatures below -200 degrees Celsius is at least a little bit unsettling.

People who desire to be cryogenically frozen after death make up a distinct subset of the population, yet there is a market for their services. Andrew Strieber asserts that there are still those who choose to keep their heads. Do you really want to deal with cutting people's heads and placing them in cryonics chambers? That's the question.

2. Technician of the CTS Decon

Even while shows like CSI allow viewers to see graphic crime scenes on television, they often omit one crucial detail: the people who are responsible for cleaning up the mess after the police have finished their investigation. After the police officers and the detectives have finished their investigation of a crime scene, it is the responsibility of the Crime and Trauma Location Decontamination (CTS Decon) team to arrive at the scene and clean it up completely. This obscure sector was the focus of the film "Sunshine Cleaning," which was released in 2009.

A typical day for a CTS Decon Technician include getting their hands filthy with biohazards such as splattered blood and human remains such as brain tissue, as well as hazardous substances originating from locations such as meth laboratories. This job requires them to get their hands dirty. Decontamination specialists from CTS are often sent to the sites of horrific accidents, violent crimes, and other distressing occurrences that are anything from sterile.

1. A specialist in forensic entomology

What precisely does an entomologist accomplish in a forensic setting? If you have seen the movie "The Silence of the Lambs," you may have a good idea of what exactly the job entails, but for those of you who haven't seen it, a forensic entomologist uses insect knowledge in crime-related legal cases, such as analyzing bug activity in a cadaver to determine a person's time of death or if the body has been moved from its original location. For those of you who haven't seen the movie,

That's right, the job of a forensic entomologist is to dissect dead bodies in the search for evidence from a crime scene, and then to examine the insects that have made their homes inside of those bodies in order to determine the time and location of a crime based on the species of beetles, flies, or maggots that have made their homes there...