You could always join the Army Reserve, and get to travel to exotic countries and kill people in the wrong country that never attacked us in the first place before we manufactured an excuse to invade them.

Then you'd go up two levels.

I feel pretty bad about where the enlisted military are on that list. It would be a lot less galling if so many Americans didn't run around blowing smoke about how much they support the troops. Clearly that's a lie.

It's entirely possible to support the troops and think it's a shitty job at the same time.

Left the army and started going to school to be an actor. Technically a step up.

P.S. No wonder the country's in a bad state if there's only 200 jobs!

The WSJ didn't do this ranking, they just reported it.

You think you have it bad? Food service doesn't even register to them.

Eh, military has its downsides, but the benefits are superb.

One of two things is happening here: The survey is conflating "aspiring actor" with "actor", or actors truly are the softest people on earth.

I'm a lumberjack, and that's not okay.

@7 maybe here, but the fracking PM stole my dental. Dick.

What does this say about Bruce Willis and the movie Armageddon?

@8

Well, the problem is that there is a very fine line where "actor" and "aspiring actor" is concerning how much money we make.

I can't support myself on just my acting gigs but I work fairly regularly. That doesn't make me an "aspiring actor"--I work professional jobs regularly--but if I didn't keep a day job I would have a pretty shitty lifestyle.

@12 - Ok, point taken. My brain went straight to friends in Los Angeles who've maybe booked 3 jobs in a few years, who certainly aren't—or at least shouldn't be—referring to themselves as actors by profession, but might get globbed into this if asked about the career choice.

I've probably discounted theater folks entirely here too—

@3

I knew you'd be here to articulate the Republican worldview. Classic abuser: Yes, all I do is hurt you, but really, I love you. And that's what counts, right? Not the abuse you see every day, but the love that's so well hidden you wouldn't know it was there without me crowing about it.

In fact, "support" is as support does. If you sit back and allow serving to be a shitty job, you don't support them at all. You've just figured out that having everyone think you support them makes you look good. Republican politicians get away with this all the time. Probably because Republican voters get away with it themselves. They like the kind of "support" that won't cost them a dime in taxes.

How 'bout for starters throw away your phony yellow ribbons and flag t-shirts and get them a raise?

Chickenhawk.

I'm sorry you're so brain-damaged. It must be hard for you.