For years we've use this painting as an example:
I Do Not Want to Hear How Tough Your Job Is, Ever
I used to use this painting to illustrate a lousy job:
That's Barge Haulers on the Volga by Ilya Repin. You really have to look at the zoomed view to understand just how awful work can be.Here's another bad job, from The Register:
Bad as that depiction is, I have a new example of what some people have to do to earn their daily bread.....
Aw, bad day at your air-conditioned, somewhat clean desk? Try shifting a 40-tonne fatberg
With your hands
Workers at Thames Water have shifted a 40-tonne fatberg – slightly more than three double-decker buses – from a sewer in south London.And another lousy-way-to-make-a-living story, from 2012.
For the uninitiated, fatbergs are the glossy miracles that occur when fat, grease and oil meet wet wipes and nappies to congeal into an impenetrable lump of sewer-based deliciousness.
Thames Water said the 'berg was broken up using high-pressure water jets but many of the resulting globules had to be removed by hand. At some points the fatty orb was occupying 80 per cent of the sewer. If left, it would have continued to grow until the sewer was completely blocked.
Matt Rimmer (yes, really), Thames Water's head of waste networks, said: "This was a massive and disgusting blockage that took a great deal of effort and teamwork to clear and get the sewer working well again.
"We'd urge everyone to help fight the fatberg by only flushing the 3Ps – pee, poo and paper – as well as disposing of fat and oils in the bin, not the sink."...MORE
