Looks like CareerCast just doesn't get us

A friend of mine pointed me towards an article on the best and worst jobs in America on the Wall Street Journal's website. Here's the link: Doing the Math to Find the Good Jobs.

CareerCast.com apparently did a study to discover what the best and worst jobs are. Their criteria are environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands and stress.

And what did they determine the worst job in America to be? Lumberjack. (For the purpose of their paper, they call all timber cutters and loggers "lumberjacks".)

Certainly times are tough for loggers and the job can be quite dangerous at time, but I, for one, think that they just don't understand us. After all, they said our environment was a major negative factor. I don't know about you guys, but I don't know too many loggers who want to be behind a desk all day.

To the Wall Street Journal's credit, they did follow up with an actual logger:

But Eric Nellans, who has been cutting timber for the past 11 years for Pike Lumber, is passionate about his profession. "It's a very rewarding job, especially at the end of the day when you see the work you accomplished," he says. Mr. Nellans, 35, didn't become discouraged even after he accidentally knocked down a dead tree and broke his right leg in the process four years ago. "I was back in the woods cutting timber in five weeks," he says.

But, as far the report goes, loggers ranked below taxi driver and garbage collector. No disrespect to anyone in those fields, but I don't know too many loggers who would trade with them.