Being a paperboy seems simple enough. That i until you take into account all of the weird things that these busy neighborhoods had in store for you. Most of your time in this game was spent dodging people exercising on the sidewalks, crazy possessed lawn mowers that chop their way through random yards, and the occasional dog with an obvious chip on its shoulder. Sometimes even Death himself attempted to thwart your paper delivering agenda.

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The farmers in Destroy All Humans are often times prone to having their fields destroyed, anuses probed, heads exploded, livestock stolen, and occasionally forced to do the chicken dance [shudder]. All of this of course on top of having their farm houses blown to pieces on a daily basis. Alone out in the country, just out of earshot is never where you want to find yourself during an alien invasion.

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This football field has been accident free for: NEVER

The refs in Mutant League Football were gone through like a box of Kleenex. The football field in this game is quite possibly the most unsafe work environment anyone could ever find. Making matters worse, an occasional nudge into a mine from a player went unpenalized. The lone perk for this job was the occasional cash bribe to make favorable calls for a team. However, this was usually followed by the team on the other side of this call killing the referee and the game continuing with no ceremony and of course, a new ref. So much for sportsmanship, right?

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Yeah…shoveling “excrement” is never at the top of anyone’s great jobs list. Especially for a handful of bottle caps. All we can say is that it is better than the other FO2 job you will see later in this list.

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How would you like to wake up AT your job unaware of how you got there, where you are the only employee, your boss lies and harasses you, where you are constantly under laser fire, and you are sent like a lab rat through a series of puzzling tasks? The only thing that keeps Portal’s Chell going is the possibility of cake at the end of the day, but she is not even certain if the cake is anything more than a lie.

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The SCV in Blizzard Entertainment’s StarCraft are the backbone of the Terran Race. These guys are on the front lines building and gathering with little defense and no weapons. Still they always seem to find themselves at the top of the enemy hit list. The only time these mineral gathering, bunker builders really get to shine is during an SCV rush…and that is kinda sad.

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Do not let the happy music and beautiful landscape fool you. The life of a Kefling is not as great as it first appears. A giant dictator-like person comes along and forces the Keflings into work much like slaves. These tiny people are given back-breaking tasks like smashing rocks, cutting down, trees, and hauling lumber. If you are told to gather rocks, you gather rocks until the day you die. If you run out of rocks, you go looking for more. How is a gamer supposed to keep a healthy conscience?

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“I studied for 8 years at medical school for this?”

Doctor Barrows is the resident doctor in the Underworld, one of the many locations to be found in Fallout 3. This guy is in charge of medical treatment for necrotic post-humans that are decrepit, ragged, rotting, zombie-like mutants who were victims of massive radiation poisoning. Needless to say, there are not too many medical charts on the subject of mutant humans. Sure the pay is steady, but nobody is getting any better and is clearly stinks. Sounds like fun right?

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