There are a lot of jobs out there that no one wants to do.

I was once offered a position at a rendering plant… except they called it ‘fats and proteins’. I don’t know how that was supposed to make it sound any better.

I didn’t have to visit the place to know I didn’t want to work there. You could smell it over half of Lancaster on a good day. A sort of sweet, decaying meat odour that really hit the back of your throat. No thanks.

Then there was the time, just out of university, when I applied to work in an ‘environmental laboratory’. Perhaps I was naive, but I didn’t consider that it was specialising in asbestos removal. In itself, that’s not so much of a problem, mostly because you wear protective gear and follow proceedures, but calling it a laboratory was a little misleading. and worse than that, the owner was not available to interview me because he was ill, and the man who did kept coughing all the way through it. No thanks.

So, the question I’m asking, is which jobs have you turned down, and why?