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 of the absolute worst jobs in science.
Microsoft's Security Response Center made the grade this year <A HREF="http://www.cio.com/article/121318/Microsoft_Security_One_of_the_Worst_Jobs_in_Science">because the job is just so hard and thankless.</A> "It's one of those classic jobs, which isn't gross or dangerous in any way, but the overwhelmingness of the task at hand makes it so daunting that only the most intrepid would venture there," said Michael Moyer, the magazine's executive editor.
The MSRC ranked near the middle as the sixth-worst job in this year's list, published in the July issue of the magazine. "We did rate the Microsoft security researcher as less bad than the people who prepare the carcasses for dissection in biology laboratories," Moyer said.
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