If you’re tempted to complain about your job, consider that it could be worse.  Popular Science has released its latest list of worst jobs in science.  So what’s the worst job in science this year?  Anal wart researcher.

“I see about 15 butts a day, and a third of them have warts,” says nurse practitioner Naomi Jay of the University of California at San Francisco. Jay and infectious-disease doc Joel Palefsky were the first to run extensive clinical studies on the sexually transmitted diseases that afflict the anus. “He’s the tushie king, and I’m the tushie queen,” Jay boasts.
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And the only way to detect this rare but deadly disease is to ask a highly trained nurse like Jay to scrutinize your derrière. “A giant anal wart can be a couple inches large and blocking the anal opening,” Jay says with her customary vigor. The bright side? “In 13 years I’ve only been pooped on twice, and that’s not bad.”

When I hear about this (or the tampon squeezers), it makes me glad to have a job that doesn’t involve nasty bodily emissions.