Let \(\mathcal {B(H)}\) be the algebra of all bounded linear operators on an infinite dimensional complex separable Hilbert space \(\mathcal {H}\) . We prove that all operators T in \(\mathcal {B(H)}\) satisfying the following two conditions constitute a co-meager subset of \(\mathcal {B(H)}\) : (i) For every \(n\in \{\pm 1,\pm 2,\pm 3,\cdots ,\pm \infty \}\) , there exists a complex number \(\lambda \) such that \(T-\lambda \) is semi-Fredholm with index n. (ii) The Wolf spectrum of T has an empty interior. As an application, we show that a typical operator on \(\mathcal {H}\) has a thick point spectrum, a thick residual spectrum and a rare continuous spectrum. This solves a problem raised by T. Eisner and T. Mátrai in the affirmative, and complements a recent result of M. Scherer. Also the spectra of typical operators in certain special classes of operators are studied.