*Source: ComputerWorld AU (
http://www.computerworld.com.au/inde...fp;16;fpid;0)*
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What do whale-feces researchers, hazmat divers and employees of Microsoft's Security Response Center have in common? They all made Popular Science magazine's 2007 list (
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science...cbccdrcrd.html) of the absolute worst jobs in science.
Popular Science has been compiling the list since 2003, as "a way to celebrate the crazy variety of jobs that there are in science," said Michael Moyer, the magazine's executive editor. Past entrants have included barnyard masturbator, Kansas biology teacher and U.S. Metric system advocate.
Moyer said Microsoft's Security Response Center (MSRC) made the grade this year because the job is just so hard and thankless.
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