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I always feel sorry for street cleaners. I mean they have such a dirty job and they have to work such long hours for little pay.
If you are talking about foreigners I think the worst job is a performer at places like Shenzhen's window of the world. They just sing and dance the same crap over and over again everyday. They must be bored.
Personally I always feel sorry for waiters...
they get yelled at all day for this and that, work long hours, receive no tips and have crappy salaries...
why i think chinese peasant is the worst job in the world.
The people cleaning bathroom offices. Just stand around all day and wait for people to come in, do what they must and then have to clean after them.
OH! actually, i recently saw something unbelievable. Elevator operator! You'd get into the tiny elevator of some apartment complex (15 floors) and some bored-out-of-her-mind woman had a small chair and her job was literally to press on whichever floor people were going. The elevator was tiny and the air terrible.
Anyone else seen this?
GuilinRaf:
I have seen this in Beijing! Old people usually, men and women. On the other hand, during the winter they are indoors...
Construction worker. DANGEROUS AS ALL HELL in this country, low pay if you even receive it, have to sleep in a minivan with ten other guys who are all trying to nail you cause they are sexually frustrated.
Let's face it - by virtue of being in China, 95% of jobs are terrible.
I've seen the elevator operator ayi and that has to rank as the most boring, but there are plenty of jobs which jeopardize people's health, and some that even put their lives in danger.
As far as foreigners go, unless you own your own (successful) company, no other job is worth bothering with.
Isn't that a big extreme Ludovico? Owning a company is the ONLY good job for expats in China...seems a bit excessive to me!
who has the job to clean up the plat plat that kids do on store floors? or does it just get tracked out on shoes? that wood be a terrible job,,even here in Great White North Cdn we go plat plat outside igloo. lose more GF that way ,can't find way back in snow storm 
work in a factory. in a workshop. you have to repeat the same action all day long. and the working environment is terrible. the worst is the pay is little.
some kind of cleaning job, most likely a toilet clearer...these people obviously dont get paid much as they do such a bad job...also some of the toilets here smell so bad my nose burns, I could not work in those conditions....
Factory worker is boring and low pay but its easy, no need to think... construction worker is a little dangerous and hard work but a nice work out and the holidays are great (from the ones ive spoken to)...street cleaner, very easy most of the time when I see them they are lazing around only half the day need to work...
other than being the CEO....
Xpat.John:
Been a CEO. Trust me, its not the brainless cake walk you might think it is.
Ship dismantlers. Saw a ship dismantling site once. No safety precautions at all. Just guys hanging by ropes off the sides of huge ships with blow torches.
Second choice, the poor slob who has to tell a woman her feet are too big for the shoe size she imagines she has.
Farmers. Not only do they work from before dawn, but even at night. Sometimes they have to stand guard when it is thier fields turn at irrigation. If they dont, someone will steal their water, so not even at night do thay have rest!
Plus they work with little to no tools and those are not always convenient.
Working in a candy shop having to stand at the door and clap your hands all day.
It's gotta be those guy's and girl's who separate the recyclable garbage, plastic bottles, metals, etc. I've seen them doing it with bare hands. I've also seen people spitting, vomiting, urinating and having bowel movements on the streets. So can you imagine the grime they are coming into contact with. You'd have to clothe me in a biolgical chemical warfare suit to do shit like that!
Any job that requires you to work under Chinese management....
Don't question me!
I am never wrong!
We can never have too many meetings and they can never be too long!
Don't like it? Too bad, I can replace you!
Foreigners don't know what they are talking about.
I only got this job because of my father (guanxi).
Stop using paper, heating, electricity, air! Costs money, makes me look bad.
You want a direct answer? How about another confusing, perflexing, evasive one instead?
Logic? What is this logic?
If you have run into three of more of these situations... chances are you are working under Chinese management.
Standing out in the cold waving buses down!
HugAPanda:
Is that what you do? You mean your fantastic english skills haven't scored you a job as a bathroom cleaner? Strive... you'll get there one day :)
A taxi driver I don't think those guys ever get breaks. Plus, they have to drive through one of the worst places you can imagine to drive considering the amount of drivers that don't follow the rules.
