In every profession, every business there are jobs nobody wants. In IT, I would really hate working at a helpdesk, and I never have.
Apparently, working at Microsoft's Security Center is one of thos jobs too. Popular Science has compiled a list of worst jobs in science, and this one ranked high in the list.
The MSRC ranked near the middle as the sixth-worst job in this year's list, published in the July issue of the magazine. "We did rate the Microsoft security researcher as less-bad than the people who prepare the carcasses for dissection in biology laboratories," Moyer (Popular Science editor) said.(Computerworld)
Apparently it isn't su much the job that is so bad, but the overwhelming amount of work that makes this job rank so high in the list :
Do you flinch when your inbox dings? The people manning secure@microsoft .com receive approximately 100,000 dings a year, each one a message that something in the Microsoft empire may have gone terribly wrong.(Popular Science)