It finally happened: the newspaper business has fallen so lowthat the occupation of newspaper reporter has been rated theworst job in America.
|Worse than a lumber jack, last year’s #200 on CareerCast’sranking of 200 jobs. Worse than a Marine recruit, cook and taxidriver.
|Also read: 10 mostfeared jobs
|In fact, if you give this list any credence at all, you’ll keepyou and yours away from the traditional media business. This year’s10worst jobs include three media positions: Broadcaster andphotojournalist also fell into the bottom 10 this timearound.
|We’ve already ranked the 10 best jobs for 2015. So now let’s take a ganderat the numbers for CareerCast’s 10 worst jobs of 2015. If a jobranked in the bottom 10 last year, the ranking will be inparentheses. The lower the score, the “better” the job.
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191. Mail carrier
|Score: 626
|Income: $41,068
|Bad, but not horrible, work environment and stress. What killedthis score was its hiring outlook: -28.3
|192. Firefighter (#192)
|Score: 636
|Income: $45,264
|Off-the-charts horrible work environment, unless you lovefighting fires. Off-the-charts stress, unless you loveadrenaline rushes. Some job openings.
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193. Taxi driver (#197)
|Score: 638
|Income: $23,118
|You talkin to me? Yeah, your work environmentstinks and you have high stress. But at least thereare cabbie jobs available.
|194. Corrections officer (#191)
|Score: 642
|Income: $39,163
|Obviously, a terrible work environment, but not as stressful asother jobs in the Terrible 10.
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195. Photojournalist
|Score: 656
|Income: $29,267
|Couldn’t you make more shooting weddings and bar mitzvahs?Everyone with a phone is a photojournalist today.
|196. Broadcaster
|Score: 658
|Income: $29,374
|These folks used to make good dough. No more. High stress and anegative hiring outlook.
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197. Cook (#195)
|Score: 659
|Income: $42,208
|Work environment almost as bad as the military’s, with longhours, low pay, and little room for growth, according toCareerCast.
|198. Enlisted military personnel (#198)
|Score: 687
|Income: $44,283
|Terrible work environment and high stress. And there are liverounds.
|||199. Lumberjack (#200)
|Score: 716
|Income: $34,100
|Another negative hiring outlook — who’s looking for this workanyway? High stress (Timber!) and lousy work environment.
|200. Newspaper reporter (#199)
|Score: 737
|Income: $36,267
|This job is characterized by a terrible work environment, veryhigh stress and a negative hiring outlook — one of the few negativeoutlooks on the list of 200.
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