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Revisiting the Best and Worst Jobs of 2013

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Roughnecks working on a drilling rig in Greeley, Colorado in 2008.

For 25 years CareerCast.comhas ranked the best and worst jobs. Their rating is based on physical demands, work environment, income, stress, and hiring outlook. 

Host Ben Kieffer revisits conversations with a biomedical engineer and an audiologist, two jobs that made the best list.  He also speaks to an oil rig worker and a newspaper reporter, two jobs on the worst list.

Ben Kieffer is the host of IPR's River to River