What's the worst job you've ever had?

Following a troop of monkeys around in a tropical rainforest in Ecuador. You had to get up before the monkeys woke up in the morning, so the workday usually started at about 6:00AM. Then you spent the whole day running after monkeys in the forest, with sweat bees crawling into your nose and mouth, sometimes into your underwear. The monkeys liked to shit on you, so most days you had shit stains on your clothes and hair. Parasites like leishmaniasis and bot flies ate away at your flesh. In order to find the monkeys again the next morning, you had to "put them to bed" and wait for them to stop moving and bed down for the night. Usually you weren't done until 6:00 pm or later. Evenings were spent doing laundry and drinking rum that one of your buddies smuggled in, in a container of contact lens solution. You worked for three months at a time. No days off, or you would lose the monkeys. It was incredibly difficult, far and away the hardest thing I have ever done, and it left me with several physical and psychological scars.

Having said that, I miss it terribly and can't wait to go back.

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