Enlisted jobs rank among worst in new career report

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Enlisted jobs rank among worst in new career report

Paratroopers assigned to Company C, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), conduct infantry training near Osoppo, Italy, April 8, 2014, as they prepare for an upcoming exercise in Slovenia.

(Photo: Markus Rauchenberger/Army)

By Jon R. Anderson, Staff writer 8:59 a.m. EDT April 18, 2015

If you're an enlisted service member, a new career report says you've got one of the very worst jobs on the planet. ... But at least you can say you're not a lumberjack or, worst of all, a newspaper reporter.

Those are bottom three, according to CareerCast.com in its latest rankings of best and worst professions.

Jobs involving number crunching, computers and several medical specialties took top spots among the best-rated gigs.

"To quantify the many facets of the 200 jobs included in our report," say the folks at CareerCast.com announcing the results, "we determined and reviewed various critical aspects of all of the jobs, categorizing them into four 'Core Criteria;' that is, the general categories that are inherent to every job: Environment, Income, Outlook, and Stress."

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1. I enjoyed my 24 years. I started out making nothing

And doing the crap work but you move up. The retirement check is well worth all those bilges I cleaned and urnals I scrubbed the first 4 years or so. I really think today workers want to start at the top. Life doesn't work that way.