Worst Paying Jobs

Think your job sucks? Well, if you’re working at the low end of the food industry in this day and age, then you’re probably right.

Yesterday, someone from the Huffington Post was apparently cruising around the Bureau of Labor Statistics website (‘cuz that’s how they roll) and stumbled across a a 6-month-old report on “Occupational Employment and Wages” which found that the fastest route to selling your blood for rent money in the United States of America is to work with food. And we’re not just talking fast food here (though fast food is certainly a big part of the Top 10), but at all kinds of restaurants.

Of the 10 lowest paying jobs in the country, 7 of them were food-related. If you don’t count farming, then 6 of them were specifically restaurant-related. And that just blows–especially in an industry where being at the top of the food chain (figuratively speaking) has a good chance of buying you a nice summer house in Martha’s Vineyard, and maybe a vineyard to go with it.

Here’s how the list of shitty ways to make a buck shook out.

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