Updated on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 12:22PM by Andrew G.R.

This weekend there will be about 20 people at Jobacle HQ watching the Super Bowl.  We'll all be chowing down on chicken wings and pulled pork sliders, shushing each other as the first commercials start to play.

At an average cost of $2.6M for 30 seconds, everyone from  Anheuser-Busch to Walt Disney will be jockeying for our attention.

We'll all muse over the cost of these ads, a figure, which quite honestly, is incomprehensible to me and my middle class friends.

The out-of-work construction worker will laugh; the unemployed teacher might chuckle.  And my friend's dad, who's worked in a union for 37 years, will be sipping beers for the first time as a member of the pink-slip brigade.

With 1 out of every 10 Americans unemployed, am I the only one sick over the Super Bowl ad orgy?

Let's do some quickie math.

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Our pals at CareerCast have released the following...

What do firefighters, surgeons and senior corporate executives have in common? More than you may think. They are among the nation’s most demanding jobs, according to a new CareerCast.com study.

While firefighter reigns supreme as the most all-around demanding job, surgeon and senior corporate executive rank second and third, followed by police officer. Considering that firefighters regularly work long hours in hazardous, life-threatening situations and have the most physical demands of any of our top jobs, their landslide first place finish is no surprise, but police officers often endure the same sort of demands yet they ranked fourth. What gives? While police officers ranked higher for the physical demands of their job, their average work week and stress scores were considerably lower than that of a surgeon or a senior corporate executive.

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