These Are The Worst Jobs In The Car World According To You

There are a lot of awesome jobs in the automotive world that you could be doing. Maybe it's designing your dream cars, racing your dream cars or maintaining your dream cars. However, for every good job out there I bet there's at least one awful job.

To find out, we turned to you and asked what you think are some of the worst automotive jobs you could be doing and you came back with some great suggestions. So from toilet cleaners to body shop workers, we've rounded up some of the hellish careers that you came up with.

So sit back, relax and flick through the following slides to see what kind of jobs you might be glad to have never heard of.

"The mechanic for that one car that requires taking the engine out to replace a $30 part."

You mean like replacing almost anything on a Mercedes SLR Mclaren? Yeah that doesn't sound fun.

Suggested by: octantis

"The children working at the Kia/Hyundai plants in Alabama have the worst automotive jobs."

At least four Hyundai and Kia suppliers have reportedly used child laborers as young as 12-years-old in their facilities.

Suggested by: aerosoul98

"Yes, as a young man I had a couple of jobs sanding and prepping. It was miserable. Trying to strip paint and then endless sanding with numb hands and long showers every night to try and get fiberglass flakes and filler dust out of my skin... I now have sensitivity to nearly every chemical in a garage or paint shop and always have to wear gloves when I work on machines."

I imagine that as soon as you'd cleaned the dust off from one shift it was time to get back to work.

Suggested by: Pete Fowler (Facebook)

"One I had in collage: the guy that cleans rental cars after they're returned. I was doing this back around 1990 and people were disgusting slobs back then; I can only imagine how much worse things are today."

I guess a lot of people aren't brought up following the rules "leave it as you found it."

Suggested by: downshiftedbutnotout

"The head of QC/QA at Fisker."

I guess it's hard as there are now no new cars on which to check the quality of?

Suggested by: king-ginger

"Working at a parts store was pretty bad dealing with people that have little to no info to help you. Asking for engine parts for a late 90s early 2000s Taurus for example. Both engines are 3.0 but ones OHV and the other is DOHC and share almost nothing in common."

Just tell anyone that's being awkward that they need to go to the shop in the net time to pick up a long weight.

Suggested by: Jason Petty (Facebook)

"Being a car stylist and his assignment is something 'fresh' for the BOW (box-on-wheels), uh, SUVs when they're all just utterly generic boxes on wheels:

"Think of the years spent at some college toiling getting your automotive design/automotive engineering degree and you're then stuck working on a box.

"Working at McDonald's...not looking so bad in comparison."

Are we getting boring mixed up with tough, or do we think this actually would be a hard job?

Suggested by: the1969dodgechargerfan

"Greyhound bus blackwater system repair engineer."

Oh yep, you're right, this would be pretty horrendous.

Suggested by: istillmissmyxj

"I think it would be hybrid title clerk office manager, anyone that has to deal with DMV employees, it's like they have the life sucked out of them and they just act like the worst people ever."

It's not what you do but who you do it with.

Suggested by: Josh Gardner (Facebook)

"Car enthusiast being a writer at Jalopnik.

"I mean, when you have one of your staffers publicly saying they hate cars and another who only ever seems to write about pushbikes are the way forward (I bet I can guess your nickname at school Bellwood, by the way), then it has to suck if you actually like cars. Sometimes it seems like a game of which anti-car message are we gonna push today."

It's pretty easy, actually.

Suggested by: plantsdaily

"The classic joke is the most futile job is installing BMW turn signals."

We asked for hardest, not most futile.

Suggested by: geoff-vader

"I wouldn't want to be the guy administering road tests. People just seem to get worse at driving instead of better...wtf."

I'm sure being a driving tester is pretty terrifying at times.

Suggested by: James Hash (Facebook)

"Gotta be Cybertruck PR person. Not only do you have worse job security than George Jetson, but also you have a worse boss that Evil-Lynn on the old He-Man show.

"Yeah, I'm making old cartoon references just to prove I'm old today."

If only Tesla had a PR department, then we might actually be able to get comment from them on why the Cybertruck is so dumb.

Suggested by: skeffles

"From a Jiffy Lube 'tech': $15 an hr no schedule. Felon friendly...Not a lot of time for lunches or breaks."

Are nice working conditions really that much to ask for?

Suggested by: vbinnv