Construction Worker

Being a construction worker is physically and mentally draining. The tasks carried out by these individuals are extremely labor intensive and often involves working for long hours facing the elements. Sometimes these professionals have to work at extreme heights with little or no safety, which makes this job extremely traumatic and incorporates a high degree of risk.

Waiter/Waitress

The job security and pay packages of these professionals have always been bad. Once these professionals reach a certain pay level, their employers don’t necessarily want to keep giving them raises and rather tend to hire fresher’s for a lower wage.

Add to it the direct hit took by the food-service industry during the financial meltdown when many people opted to cut back on going out to eat, plus the competition levels, the physical demands, lower pay and pathetic outlook, you have a profession that will walk into the list of hardest jobs in the world.

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