With the close of the school year, summer can be seen as a plateau of possibilities. One option is to enter the workforce.

Getting a job while still in high school is on the most part beneficial. Parents are content with the fact that the fruit of their loins are out learning how the real world is and usually pay is received.

Out of all the jobs available to a teenager, there are bound to be some choices that one regrets immediately and can be a miserable time.

After, one atrocious night of scraping off food from plates and pans and cleaning out giant tubs of silverware, a sparkling Pilot staff member and dishwasher pondered if any peers had a worse job. Could any job leave one as drained and dissatisfied with the lack of protection an apron gives?

On the Discovery Channel, Mike Rowe hosts Dirty Jobs w/ Mike Rowe. In this 60 minutes of television, Rowe performs formidable, unusual, and messy jobs with the professionals that execute them for a living.

A decision was made to survey as many as possible during first and second lunch to find the answer and expose terrible jobs like the TV show does. Out of 61 students, 58 said they would have a job this summer.

Students who despise cleaning bathrooms (especially men’s bathrooms), avoid restaurants and even clothing stores like TJ Max. Other ‘fun’ places like the St. Louis Zoo and Riverchase Rec. Center require cleaning up little children’s regurgitated funnel cakes and hot dogs.

"In the Schnucks meat dept., I have to take the trash out and all the blood and stuff falls on me," said Lauren Chitwood (11).

Dealing with food will also bring less than pleasant times.

"I worked at the Great Skate in Troy, Illinois. I had to listen to whiny 5th graders who only wanted to hear DMX and Eminem. One can only take a tiny child tugging on your polo requesting "Up in Here" so many times. The fabulous part is that I endured all of this for a measly $5.75 an hour. My advice is to find a job that doesn’t annoy you and pays more than minimum wage," said Sarah Rausch, French teacher.

With minimum wage increasing over time, students seem to deal with the fact that jobs can be boring, gross, and monotonous.