roustabout

• “ROMANS: Look at the worst jobs, roustabout, which is for a worst job, it has the best name.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2010

• “A roustabout is a dangerous job that typically pays about US$31,000 a year, with high unemployment and a negative outlook for growth, the study said.”

  China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper

• “NEW YORK -- Being an actuary, calculating statistics to determine probability and risk, is the best job to have in 2010, while working on an oil rig as a roustabout is the worst, according to a study released on Tuesday.”

  China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper

• “But what I love the most: also included at the bottom of the list are the job titles "roustabout" and "stevedore," which I admit I had to Google.”

  Boing Boing

• “Redford served as a "roustabout," an unskilled laborer who did little jobs around the rigs, until he was discovered sleeping in an oil tank he'd been assigned to clean.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Eight Successful People Grateful That They Got Canned

• “In the same town there lived a Negro, named Henry Smith, a well-known character, a kind of roustabout, who was generally considered a harmless, weak-minded fellow, not capable of doing any important work, but sufficiently able to do chores and odd jobs around the houses of the white people who cared to employ him.”

  The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

• “Though, as always with a Decemberists album, you may want to have a lyric sheet and thesaurus handy just in case you get a word like "roustabout" thrown at you.”

  FIUSM.com

• “By the way, Knight wants a camp hand, a kind of roustabout, who can cook -- a handy man, you know. ”

  The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land

• “Of course, it must be remembered that along with such frivolous occupations I was trying to get work as wop, lumper, and roustabout.”

  Chapter 25

• “I did my time as a roustabout for three or four months but realized I was hopeless at farm work," laughs Clarke, who now calls Los Angeles home and is dating French actress Cécile Breccia.”

  Jason Clarke: Chicago's Finest

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