We all hate our jobs. Even those of us with cushy gigs like, say, writing dumb lists on the Internet, have reasons to complain about our J-O-Bs. Thankfully, video games are here to save the day-they take the mundane jobs that you and I are forced to do day in and day out and turn them into something awesome. If our jobs were anything like these, we'd probably work for free! Well, actually, no, we still wouldn't.

Food Service Industry
We pity people who work in the food service industry. They work long grueling hours and often wait on whiny, demanding bastards who think that just because they're paying for a meal, it entitles them to act like they're royalty. And then there are the hardworking parents who struggle night in and night out to provide a home-cooked meal for their lousy kids who won't just sit quietly and eat their damn vegetables.

It's too bad that working in the real food service industry isn't as awesome as it is in video games. Games like BurgerTime and Cooking Mama make preparing meals and serving it to others seem like fun. Standing in front of a hot griddle while you flip patties sucks; making giant hamburgers by stepping on the ingredients while avoiding contact with mutant food products, on the other hand, does not. And consider this: if you're a real chef and you mess up an order, you get an angry customer or a jerk of a lead chef yelling at you. But mess up an order in a video game and all you get is a cute cartoon cook offering you some light-hearted encouragement. If only Gordon Ramsay were so understanding.

Plumbers
Real life plumbing is about the worst job you can have. You're stuck in others people's bathrooms all day. And not the clean and fancy bathrooms you see on Cribs. We're talking the nastiest ones possible. When you're in there you don't even get to partake in the relaxing bowel release that usually accompanies a bathroom visit. Instead, in a cruel twist of fate, you're performing the very tense action of sticking your hands and arms in areas that have been visited (or may currently be occupied) by human waste.
Video game plumbers get transported to a fantasy world where they can grow to twice their size, shoot fireballs, ride dinosaurs, collect coins, and save beautiful princesses from utterly incompetent enemies. Which job would you rather have?