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

7. Robot Factory Worker

Okay, let's bring things back down to Earth. Sort of, anyway. Right now factory work is on the down swing, with the menial labour often being taken care of by those robot arms and automated systems you seen on car production lines and the like. We see that changing, however, in both real life and because the movies tell us so - because, as we become more dependant on these android buddies to not only carry our weight more within the working world, we'll also have them as friends, butlers, lovers, and a lot more besides. And who's gonna build and maintain those robots? Other robots? How can you make sure they know what they're doing? Nah, you need people mate. It'd be sucky enough if you somehow ended up back in a factory or production line job, one of the most mind-numbing forms of employment we can think of - repetitive, barely stimulating, yet if you let your attention drift you could muck things up in an instant for everyone - but then consider what sort of things you'd be making, too. If it's not robots it's probably some form of future weapon, in which case there's considerably more risk than working in a chocolate factory or something. And there's always the chance that, like Matt Damon's character in last year's Elysium, that you could fall foul of futuristic techniques like using radiation, accidentally getting locked into a sealed vault and given a lethal dose of the stuff. Doubt your health plan's gonna cover that.