10 Crappy Jobs Of The Future (According To The Movies)

9. Flying Taxi Driver

Driving a taxi in the current day doesn't sound like all that much fun as it is. If you're a London cabbie you first have the hurdle of obtaining The Knowledge, ie having a complete and total understanding of the capital's layout off the top of your head. And that's before you have to contend with douchey fares, people refusing to pay, or drunkards throwing up all over the back seat. You know who has to clean that? You do, friend. Suppose you could go all Travis Bickle because of it, or you could just be glad that you only have to drive along one plane and shepherd just human passengers. That's not a luxury afforded to Bruce Willis's character from The Fifth Element, or the cat-faced cab driver from that one episode of Doctor Who. Remember? He was Dougal from Father Ted! That was fun. In both cases the taxi drivers aren't just expected to know their way around a city's streets, oh no. These are flying cars, which mean they need to be able to navigate themselves in the horizontal and vertical planes, whilst also making sure they don't crash into the countless other flying cars that make up the future motorways. Or, skyways. We don't know if there's an agreed term yet. There's also the chance, as happens to Willis in that film, that some alien being will come crashing through the roof of your car and cause some trouble for you. If you think that cleaning up a pile of warm vomit on a Saturday night doesn't sound fun, imagine if it was the acidic droppings of an extraterrestrial strewn all over your cab...