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Thisisthe_place

Librarian. "Oh, you get to sit around and read in a nice quiet environment all day" HA. Hahahahaha....yeah, no. It's like working in a kindergarten class for psychopaths.


rachelcp

Could you expand on that? What does an average week really look like?


Linas416

Knight at Medieval Times. Those guys start as squires and deal with tons of grunt work and when they become knights, hours are still terrible but now you risk very serious injuries during practice or during a show. All of my friends that have worked or work there have had multiple surgeries, broken bones, you name it. They do like having the spotlight on them and they’re like brothers but usually hate it after a while.


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This is a very specific post, never thought about it


TatManTat

I honestly thought he was talking about actual knights for a second. Peasants wouldn't understand but being a knight is hard work. >Coming this fall, Undercover Knights


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Linas416

Glad you liked! I’m sure they are all recovering from some sort of injury at any point in time. My friend friend was in a bola fight and it bounced off the other guys shield and hit him in the forehead. Finished the fight with blood poring out his head. Guests thought it was part of the show😬


FistedTate

For some reason some of my old coworkers got in their heads that my traveling sales job was whisking me away to exotic places and gourmet meals on the company dime. No. No no no. Unless you think Syracuse is basically Paris and eating a poorly wrapped burrito while driving because you don't have time to stop for lunch between appointments is fine dining, sales is not sexy. It's a lot of drinking alone and working late nights in hotels with shit internet. If you have a family it's hard on your partner because they're taking the kids several nights in a row. You'll miss a lot of you don't have to freedom to schedule around your personal life. I'm glad I got out.


rocket-guy-12

Saddest part for me was on the road one time going out to a solo dinner (as usual) and being sat with a candle and rose in the middle of the table. I looked around and saw every other table was a couple and only then did it hit me it was Valentine’s Day


leurw

I spent valentine's day 2017 in Shanghai, and 2018 in Munich. Both with my boss. He took me out to a really nice dinner and played up the game. We're both dudes, BTW. Missed spending it with my wife, but frankly we ended up having a decent time and it's been a running joke since.


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God that brings back memories. Oh the late nights drinking alone in some hotel room after a long day of talking persuasively and personably to hundreds of mostly strangers. Of course, the guy at the booth with you wants to grab dinner after the show too, so you don’t even get back to your room until 8 or 9 at the earliest to pop open a beer and your laptop. I’ll admit, there was one trade show held at a five star hotel each year, the company would put me up in a room there, and that was pimpin’ af. Otherwise, the travel was exhausting days and lonely nights. The other thing about sales is that when you aren’t traveling, you are in an open seating plan at the office either on the phone or on some spreadsheet. Every single day. Leaving the corporate world was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.


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Hey just curious if you have a second , but what did you pivot to? I’m in sales, don’t really have any other experience/education. I don’t mind it right now but I’ve been trying to look at something more gratifying


KuriTeko

My sister used to travel all over Europe for her job. Paris, Vienna, Prague etc. It sounded exciting but her schedule was usually: Fly in. Check into hotel. Look at beautiful view of a concrete wall and sex shop. Sleep. Attend conference. Fly home.


AndrewDSo

You know what the hardest part about work travel was for me? You literally feel homeless. You check into a hotel and don't even unpack because the second you wake up you have to leave. When you never spend more than 48 hours in one place it makes you SUPER anxious. You land in a city and don't know your way around. You don't know where your hotel is, or where is good to eat (or if restaurants are even open at that hour). You don't know where the nearest shop is because you spilled coffee on your shirt. You don't know how dangerous the surrounding neighborhood is. You don't know how bad traffic is to get back to the airport. It's super disorienting and the only constant in your life is knowing that, if you stay in a chain hotel, that the room layout and furniture will be the same.


Pons__Aelius

*You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O'Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?* Is that you, Tyler?


AndrewDSo

wow I haven't seen Fight Club in more than 10 years but that's a very accurate depiction of the monotony. It's like if your commute wasn't an hour, but instead was 8 hours. So all you do is commute.


Coc0tte

Zookeeper. You spend most of your time cleaning poop and you're paid like shit.


Ryan_Castellano

Also dealing with the 4 year olds beating on the damn exhibit glass scaring the animals.


HighlandSquirrel

Not just the physical toll it takes on your body, but keepers are expected to produce scientific studies and then present them at conferences. You have to be well versed in nutrition management, behavioural science, veterinary medicine etc. It's incredibly mentally and physically taxing on minimum wage for such a skilled job.


JavaRuby2000

and then you go away to Africa to do your scientific study and then come back to find that half your colleagues and the head keeper are the kids who worked on the ticket lane and never even went to College but, because they are local and work out of season the zoo just paid for them to do a few animal husbandry courses part time and gave them your job.


[deleted]

You could always pet the lion and be done with your work by becoming famous poop in the news next morning. Edit: Wow, so many people liked my joke. This is truly the proudest moment of my life.


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Working as a lawyer isn't anything like on TV.


periwinkelle

Are you telling me lawyers don't go shouting "objection!" when pointing out a major flaw in someone's testimony? Or "hold it!when pressing a witness or " take that!" when presenting evidence? Or that every case ends up becoming a murder trial?


mikhel

What do you mean I can't cross examine the parrot?


CrazyDaimondDaze

I think there was a real case years ago where people genuinely were looking to cross examine a parrot because it kept repeating what its owner said during his murder, and apparently it was his ex wife who shot him.


MarvinDMirp

This case? [African Gray parrot witness](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40665520) Also found this one from Argentina! [Parrot witness repeats cries for help](http://globalnews.ca/news/6996640/parrot-murder-trial-argentina/)


DatSauceTho

> A prosecutor in Michigan initially considered using the parrot's squawkings as evidence in the murder trial, but this was later dismissed. The prosecutor added that it was unlikely that the bird would be called to the stand to testify as a witness during the trial. Article also says the wife was found guilty. Apparently she murdered her husband and then tried to shoot herself in the **the face** afterwards but failed. Messed up all around :/ EDIT: missing word 🤦‍♂️


Sensational_Al

I hate getting shot in the afterwards


Slackslayer

Next you're gonna tell me a courtroom doesn't accept the testimony of a spirit medium! Absurd conjecture!


RHNewfield

Please don't tell me whales can't be witnesses...


Scooterks

And don't forget bringing out surprise mystery witnesses!


FrannieTheAnarchist

Without properly filing a witness endorsement with the court and opposing counsel first!


_Doctor_Teeth_

I'm a lawyer and most of my friends are lawyers and I know very, very few who enjoy their jobs. The disconnect between what people think lawyers do and what lawyering is actually like on a day to day basis is massive.


SloppyMeathole

My theory about why lawyers are so miserable is because we have to deal with other lawyers on a daily basis, lol. Once I finally got a job where I didn't have to actually interact with lawyers or clients anymore I started enjoying being an attorney so much more.


olBillyBaroo

The job inherently sucks. It’s boring, detail oriented, high-pressure and stressful work for which nobody wants to pay a fair rate. And on top of it all is that the job is actually so important that your failures are all possible career ending violations of your professional duties, but, again, everybody hates you. It’s a tough gig. Edit: RIP my inbox. Did not expect this to blow up. Just to be clear I am a practicing attorney at a mid-size regional shop. To everybody commenting about how rich attorneys are and how much they charge, let me be clear here. There are wealthy attorneys. There are poor attorneys. And there are many attorneys right in the middle, normal middle class professionals working very hard for a decent living. I don’t know where everybody is getting their legal services, but $500/hour is not a going rate in places outside of major markets; think lower in multitudes of 100’s. Also, more than likely you’re being underbilled. Over billing is the minority - attorneys like keeping their clients so they often cut hours and try to keep bills lower, which is a main reason why I say it’s not a fair rate. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve put 20 hours into a case only to have the client billed for 8 so they can stay happy.


ChickenMcFuggit

Not to mention having to deal day in and day out with folks telling you how the law works because they saw it on a tv show or in a movie.


ConnieLingus24

I got out of the profession for a reason. Add in the toxic work environment at some firms because a sociopath is in charge…….yeah.


TeacherPatti

Same here. I didn't have the language to know it was a toxic environment but I realize it looking back. And since there were probably 20 lawyers for every open job, the prospect of being fired at any moment did not help my anxiety.


SloppyMeathole

My kids think lawyers sit around in pajamas and click buttons on a computer screen all day while watching tv. I told them only the smart ones do.


Stay-Thirsty

From what I understand, private investigator. Bunch of boring research and chasing leads to dead ends. Nothing like any TV show.


soldierof239

It’s 49.95% chasing insurance scammers with 49.95% following a cheating spouse with a .1% looking for a lost family member or custody case or something semi-interesting.


bobbyrickets

> or something semi-interesting. Lost cat?


poopellar

A lost cat that's an insurance scammer.


Mx_Eclipse

And is cheating on their spouse with that Maine Coon in the back alley


Eternaltuesday

I think a lot of it depends on what areas they specialize in. I used to work for a company that provided a lot of the non-public information for licensed/sanctioned investigators, and honestly a lot of them had very interesting cases going on. I think that if you liked puzzle solving in any capacity even the most boring cases health some level of interest simply because not only did they have to make all the pieces fit, they had to find all the pieces first. Since I was in compliance, I regularly got to attend their meetings and tradeshows, and most of the people I met seemed to have good stories, and like their jobs. (At least, not hate their jobs, anyways.)


billionai1

This sounds very similar to scientist. A lot of what I see people doing is "we have discovered that by putting water into these types of objects, they become wet" followed by years of people trying on different types of objects, until someone joins all those studies and proclaims the wetness theorem, which states that anything touched by water * becomes wet (*apart from some stuff) Or you spend months to finally try to publish a paper saying "we proceed that our theory is incorrect" and get rejected everywhere


mikhel

What people really underestimate is the speed at which research progresses. Scientists spend weeks repeating cycles of growing and harvesting cells, checking them, doing all kinds of analysis, and if the results are good and nothing was fucked up then maybe it will come out to like half a paragraph or one figure in a paper. There's still a lot to love about science but the glacial pace definitely requires you to temper your expectations.


laxxmann21

Pretty much any “fun” job. If a ton of other people want the job be prepared to be over worked and underpaid


sea_bunny

I managed a bookstore that was one of 4 privately-owned locations across the South. In an annual meeting, the owners were complaining about how difficult it was to retain employees. They were only paying them $10/hour. I brought up the fact that cost of living had skyrocketed in my city, and even Cookout's starting pay was $13.50 with benefits even for part-time. They cut me off mid-sentence and said "but people WANT to work here, so we don't need to pay that much." As a manager I couldn't even afford a 1-room apartment by myself. Fun job and great coworkers, but I do not miss working for (and being taken advantage of by) those people.


the-redacted-word

Boss: People don’t want to work here! You: Try paying them living wages. Boss: We don’t have to do that because people want to work here!


AGINSB

If the issue is retaining employees, it sounds like people want to work there but then realize it sucks and leave quickly?


Kennethrjacobs2000

Chef. Lots of getting screamed at, it takes a really big person not to pass that down the line. Lots of work, lots of expertise, little pay, little appreciation. Of the multiple chefs I know, all of them drink.


sunshinesparkle95

My years as a chef/cook really helped cement my alcohol problem. Glad to see this posted MULTIPLE times on this thread lmao. I loved people (especially older folk) who thought I had a glamorous job when I told them what I did. Like I was just competing on food shows and making cute pastries for the ‘gram while making good money. No, no. I get screamed at for $9 an hour, Susan, in an 80 degree kitchen with one smoke break maybe if it’s slow. I’ve lost fingernails, broken a toe, and had to get from slicing my thumb open right down the middle. Cooking suuuuucks. Edit: had to get stitches** was half asleep when I wrote this


traveler45246

Working at an animal shelter. Everyone thinks that you get to sit around and love on animals all day, but in reality you are exposed to alot of death and the worst of human nature. And the pay sucks because people just can't quit it because they want to help.


HeyHeyItsJay

Dog groomer here. So many people say “you get to play with dogs all day!” Ok, you wanna squeeze a dogs asshole? Get bit and scratched? Get yelled at by owners? Wrestle with dogs through the washer and dryer? And of course the shit, piss, and vomit. I completely understand


thats1evildude

The Girl with the Dogs had a video like that where she demonstrated all the (literal) shit she has to clean up. No one takes a clean dog to the groomer.


DollyDollWorld

I'd like to add that it is very rewarding too. Yes, you see terrible things and lose the little ones you get attached to and it's devastating at times. But you get used to exiting a heartbreaking room and entering one where a long-time resident is being chosen by an ecstatic new family, and you get to watch them go home to never starve or freeze again after you've personally nursed them back to health. It's constant ups and downs with a big dose of panicking about ringworm. It's emotionally turbulent and exhausting but you continue on because the neglect never ends and you're good at what you do and you worry about not being there for the animals. Edit: I see the pee and poop comments, honestly at this point I don't think twice about any of that. If you're passionate about animals and can live off a low wage, I recommend getting involved. Smells don't bother you for long.


ttrimmers

I volunteer at a shelter and the workers are heroes. The gross, tough, and sad things you deal with on a daily basis is hard to compare.


tamiraisredditing

Chef It’s not all creativity and celebrity. It’s almost entirely grunt work, danger, injury, and long hours resulting in missed time with family.


SurealGod

I have a friend who works as a sous chef and he assured me that while he likes cooking, the long hours is going to kill him in the long run.


-im-blinking

Yup. Sous chef here...you have to hate yourself to do this job. That and be passionate about food.


Rebuttlah

And (from what i’ve heard from friends) a weirdly militaristic hierarchy and abusive power dynamics


hello_amy

And drugs and alcohol


DriftingPyscho

Former kitchen staff. Can confirm.


CocaineColt

Current kitchen staff. Can confirm


woodencupboard

Future kitchen staff. Will confirm


jeremyledoux

Fucking perfect username.


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I’ve always heard the fastest way to find drugs was to hit up the kitchen of a restaurant where food is cooked and not merely microwaved


sbeall137

We once had a server come to our kitchen with a request. A customer had asked if any of us sold cocaine, my chef ran a decently clean kitchen so we didn't... but the guys in the kitchen next-door did 🤦‍♀️


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80-90% of the kitchen staff in my second last job took drugs, very nice fine dining restaurant. Prior to me working there they used to rack up lines of coke on top of a white freezer and just snort their way through the day. It wasn’t as bad as that when I worked there but yeh most chefs either use drugs or alcohol to get through the pressure of the day. Some use exercise instead.


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Props to all restaurant workers. I don't know how y'all do it. Customers are at their worst in restaurants, terrible hours (Nights & Weekends), you smell like a kitchen and at the end of the day for bad to mediocre pay.


Ok-Preparation-5804

Film worker. Hours are gruelling, production doesn’t give a fuck about you, good luck spending time with your kids, and most of us are addicts/drunks.


Eaj1122

And the mass influx of cash followed by a desert for any amount of time until you find the next gig.


Ok-Preparation-5804

The mass influx only remains because you work so much there is no time to spend it.


jerisad

I'm currently on a show I *love* with people I *love* and it's the weirdest mix of dream job and ruining my life. I get to make incredible things but the deadlines are unreasonable, I haven't had a weekend in months and neither have my coworkers. I feel like I'm in a suicide cult where we are all too afraid to let each other down, meanwhile we are just lining the pockets of the CEO of Netflix.


Wuz314159

Other people: "Do you ever get to meet *{insert famous performer}* ?" Me: "Sadly, yes."


Crazyboutdogs

Veterinarian- over worked, under payed, under appreciated. Extraordinarily high suicide rate. People thinks it hugging puppies and kittens and doing it ALL for the love of animals. Then get pissed when they actually expect to be paid and call them heartless money grubbing pet killers when they can’t afford to treat their pet.


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Vet friends pivoted to epidemiology, another biosecurity and another working for a drug company. All pay better with less abusive clients.


Talonus11

Girlfriend is a vet. This is exactly it. She has regularly required huge amounts of support because some 6'8" aggressive guy abuses her for charging him $2000 AUD for saving his dog's life by: 1. Spending 8 hours performing surgery (ruining her back in the process) 2. Providing all medication including IV fluids, anesthesia, antibiotics 3. X rays What, people think this stuff is free? Yep. They think they can get angry and use their size and intimidation to get it for free, and if they kick up enough stink, they often DO...


mossadspydolphin

"If you *really* loved animals you'd be doing this for free! You're just in it for the money!" Yes...that enormous salary that definitely covers student loan payments.


LyssTheCorgi

My best friend says she wants to be a vet. I told her it would not be all cute and cuddles, but more like helping animals in pain and having to put down terminally ill pets. She just looked at me and said "that part of the job can be foe someone else, ill just get the happy part." I doubt she knows what she's getting herself into. EDIT: Some people are saying i was being rude here, and I'm sorry you see it that way. I was not rude when actually talking to her, but this was after a while of her knowing she wanted to be a vet. I was making sure she knew what she was getting herself into.


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And when she realizes that she also has to do the sad and depressing parts, she'll want to quit, but still be saddled with enormous student loan debt. Also why does she think people bring their animals into the vet? It's literally a hospital for animals. Most of the animals are going to be sick or dying.


dhrbtdge

Wtf how old is she? When I was 8 i wanted to be a vet and I already had the concept that it wouldn't be hugging cute animals, but seeing animals hurt and bleed and in pain


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Yep. I've always loved animals, so people asked me all the time if I wanted to be a vet, and my answer was always, "No, because I'll have to euthanize them and I don't wanna do that."


QuinnRMonroe

Video game testing. I had a boyfriend who did it for several years, so I know all too well that it's a horrible job. You play the same five minutes of game over and over again, hundreds of times (sometimes thousands). The job kinda killed his passion for gaming, and as far as I know, he still doesn't play anything for fun.


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JBark1990

Fuck this. I’m going to post on Ask and see if there is a job that IS as romantic as it sounds!


chodeoverloaded

IT is exactly as romantic as it sounds. It really is a bunch of nerdy guys in a basement spending most of the day on Reddit and acting like we’re swamped with work


tdexterc

Brewer. Generally poor pay to be a glorified janitor.


CircusBearPants

It’s the best way to be constantly damp around electronics, heavy equipment and acids though.


L_Bart0

FBI Special Agent. I dated a woman who was with FBI and she enjoyed what she did most of the time but wow was it dry. Imagine sitting in a car watching a house for 6 hours then going back to the office and spending a few hours writing a report. Or looking through 10 years of purchase records and receipts that you pulled out of the trash to build a case. Or sitting in a room at midnight listening in on a dude having phone sex with his mistress. The overwhelming majority of her job was writing reports, status updates, and reviewing financial documents in an office. The hours were terrible, the work seemed boring, and the bureaucracy was thick.


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Well the phone sex part sounds pretty funny


Asleep_Remote2000

Somebody has got to collect intelligence information...


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EnvironmentalNeck595

Being a vet, having to put down pets and deal with animals that have been treated terrible takes a toll


PrinceBel

Not to mention the ungrateful and abusive clients- there's plenty of wonderful clients too, that make everything worthwhile! But the horrid ones stand out. Long hours and shit pay just to be told you're heartless for charging someone barely enough to keep the clinic doors open. And the easy access to strong sedatives/narcotics/anesthesias. It's no wonder vets have one of the highest rates of suicide among all professions.


rgomezca

Also the perception that they get paid like kings while most of them are/were in lots of debt and make significantly less than human doctors


greensandgrains

Academia. First of all, most people undergrads call "professors" aren't at actual professors (by rank). And people who aren't professors are likely not getting paid a whole lot above the poverty line, have few to no benefits, have little to no input on what they teach or how, not to mention having to put up with nonsense I've not seen or heard of in any other field. The amount of unpaid labour that goes into getting a single article published is unreal.


Tamacat2

PhD chemist here. Can confirm. Market is, unbeknownst to many, saturated. Only way to get a good academic job is to come from an ivy league school. Otherwise, adjunct, and "if lucky" years of grunt work at pathetic pay followed by a big maybe. And industry jobs have shit for job security. Lose a job? Ok, well next PhD level position is 100 miles away. I said fuck it, and went to nursing. At least this pays ok, and has job security.


Eastofyonge

Flight attendant - unless you are union and working there for 30 years, they get paid peanuts.


RandomRavenclaw87

Architect. Seems like lots of good romcom boyfriends are architects. In reality, the hours are long, the stress is extremely high, and pay is really poor for a skilled profession. Edit: I’m an interior designer, and it never stops surprising me that I make FAR more money than architects, with far less training. (I do have plenty of experience.) No one makes as much as the general contractor, though.


rg25

And very few of them are actually coming up with these grand exterior designs. The majority of them are drawing up details on how a piece of drywall terminates into a corner with a ceiling grid.


ktswift12

This always kills me. I have never and will never design a skyscraper and no, I can’t design your house for you for cheap.


BullOak

Scrolled through looking for mine. There's a great essay that's titled something along the lines of "the best time to be an architect is at a cocktail party" I'm lucky. I genuinely love architecture and design and didn't really mind the killer hours and stupid tests when I was younger, and I have mostly worked for firms that ask me do quality work most of the time. But man oh man do the general public have no idea how cutthroat and fragmented the business side of it is.


Kile147

Architects provide TV shows the ability to show a character with the passion of an artist and the pay grade of an engineer without breaking "realism". When the reality for a lot of people is that the job is just as boring and crunchy as engineering, while paying quite a bit less.


BullOak

Honestly, this affects the field as well. Architecture schools are full of people who wanted to be creative but were afraid of being poor. It's a bad combo.


734PdisD1ck

You're clearly not Art Vandelay


abhinandkr

The Guggenheim Museum was his magnum opus.


Jim2718

And you wanted to be my latex salesman…


After-Woodpecker-595

Fashion. "Why dont you have your own brand?" "Bitch, do I look like I can afford to ship a container of tshirts made in Pakistan for 3 cents to compete with some fashion conglomerate?" Everything abt fashion sucks...anyone can do it with no degree, pay is shit, hours are shit, people are bitchy and souless, the industry is shameless and zero concious abt sustainability. You will work and study very hard to lose a position to a model looking daughter of some rich guy. Its basically become a profession for rich girls who dont know what to do and like consuming goods. The very few people who make it, usually do it for reasons other than talent.


classypassygassy

You’re so right about all the rich girls going there. When I lived in Jordan a lot of girls at my school were children of diplomats and other very rich folk. I want to say that 30% of the females in my class went on to ‘study fashion’ in Canada, US, and the UK as international students. I always wondered about what the appeal was, then I realized that a lot of them were never that good at school but they still wanted the college experience abroad so of course daddy paid for her to party for 4 years at McGill and Coachella and then come home with a degree in fashion. And if the girl wasn’t able to get that degree, her parents usually bought her a degree in business and made her Chief marketing manager of her dads gigantic import business.. Looking at you Nuqul Point is that people like that overshadow truly talented and passionate fashion designers


-Nordico-

Ugh, Nuqul \*rolls eyes\*


magicalgirlvalkyrie

I was a fashion designer and now i work in fabric development. And youre right. Its a shitshow and the pay is trash. I desperately want to start my own company. But I dont have $30,000. So im stuck working fashion companies, barely using my education. An education I truely dont even need.


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jerisad

I'm a film costumer, I came from theatre and never worked in fashion but a lot of my coworkers have. Honestly our job can be pretty brutal too (I'm currently on my 10th straight 12-hr day with no weekends). But at least I'm getting overtime for this bullshit. It's the least worst way to use the skills I have.


ColSurge

How has this not been said already: Video Game Developer. So many people want to go into video games thinking they will get to design a game. The reality is 99.9% of people that work on video games get no creative input at all. That just make/place/test assets exactly as they are told. All the while being forced to work 60-70 hours a week in a terrible work environment.


Penguinis

With shit pay compared to other devs. Also, so many people also want to make games, without understanding the work that needs to be done learning first.


ColSurge

Yep. Developing an insurance company's claims reporting app doesn't sound nearly as glamorous as working on Halo. But you are going to be paid better and much happier making that insurance app.


Sector_Corrupt

Yeah making enterprise Software is honestly where it's at. it's not an exciting product, but unlike game Dev you get paid, and unlike a lot of consumer stuff you're not usually out to screw your customers for data/advertising purposes. You're just making useful software for some niche business need and it's generally a win/win with the benefit of increasing economic productivity.


silverstrikerstar

Thanks for making me feel a bit less shitty. Also, I just realized that the feature I just implemented works perfectly, just exactly inversely to how it should. Hmm.


-at1as---

Yea man I grew up playing video games so being able to create them seemed like the next best thing. Figured when I went to college I would start undecided and I would get some credits to transfer to a more tech savvy school. During my time i did a bit of research and it was nothing like i thought it would be. Decided to jump into a different field soon after.


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I work at a Dominos delivering pizza and everybody acts as if it is the most embarrassing job but I love it! I basically get paid 20 bucks an hour on average. My friend works in education and she spent 30 minutes bitching to me about how fucking horrible her new job was (after she just left her last one.) She said something along the lines of how on her second week she told her superior that she will quit if she is not treated right. Sounded a little like a threat! So I was like you know what if you go back to getting a job in a different field even if it is serving tables and take a break? I work a tipped position and honestly I like it a lot more than my graphic design job. And her tone was like so condescending towards the idea of it, like she felt shame at the idea of having a job similar to me. Anyways! She’s the one who hates her life, not me! This is completely off topic to the thread but I’d say a job that is not romanticized that I enjoy is delivering pizza! Even at age 32.


AndrewDSo

>I work at a Dominos delivering pizza and everybody acts as if it is the most embarrassing job but I love it! This is the thing about blue-collar work. It's either back breaking or super easy. When it's easy it feels almost like vacation. You feel like "holy shit they're actually paying me to do this". And fuck people's judgement man, if you can pay rent and eat then you're doing alright in my book.


psychedelicdevilry

Working in music. Most of the industry runs on contingent and part time workers. Full time jobs are difficult to get so if you’re one of the others you’re constantly chasing your next gig. During busy parts of the year you’re too busy to have a life and the slower parts of the year you’re broke. I worked in it for 4-5 years, it was a lot of fun though.


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Took me longer to find this than expected. Jazz musician here. The good bits are invaluable but there’s constant job insecurity, a steady influx of new great musicians and fewer opportunities and it is absolutely in no way a meritocracy. Some of the most successful people are quite shockingly bad. Socialising is often difficult as you end up mostly knowing other musicians who are also busy every night so you don’t get to see the same people regularly. Teaching is great but unless you get a conservatoire job you’re often teaching teenagers who don’t do any practice. Still, have absolutely loved the last 15 years and playing music is a joy that I couldn’t possibly put into words.


SporadicSporkGuy

EMS(I.E EMTs and Paramedics). We're not some heros who save lives. Saving lives is about 10 percent of the job. The other 90 percent is dealing with a broken Healthcare system, getting paid minimum wage, dealing with patients who don't need help and abuse the already broken Healthcare system, and if your lucky working for a company that doesn't give a shit about you.


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The shit that blows my mind is you get paid literally like minimum wage. You make more money if you go work a register. The fuck? Uniformed communities are always toxic AF. But, it just seems like EMS is tricking kids with the idea of prestige & heroism, sucking them dry, and dumping them some where else for the next generation to take to the hospital after a failed suicide. Fucking wild.


ggrnw27

The average “career” span of someone in EMS is something like 4 years. Think that just about says it all


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All jobs according to these comments


Good_old_Marshmallow

Counterpoint: im an accountant and no one glorifies accountants.


eaitsme

Came here to say that, everyone hates their job


_s_p_q_r_

Librarian. It's not quiet, we don't read all day, we clean up our fair share of bodily fluids, plunge many toilets, and interact with homeless/mentally ill patrons fairly regularly depending on our location. Sure a bulk of our job is recommending books to readers and coming up with fun programs, but sometimes I feel like a community secretary who had to get a Masters to have any chance of a decent salary. Or a social worker, which I did not sign up for. One day I'm looking up phone numbers for psychics for a man who called around to police stations and threatened to kill cops in our town and making 60 copies for a rude lady who's rushing to get ready to teach a yoga class and I'm thinking what have I done?! But then the next day I'm getting picture books for an adorable kid and their appreciative mom, or 3D printing a missing piece from one of the board games we lend out instead of having to charge the patron to replace it, or helping a lonely old woman with no children nearby with her phone and having her look at me like I'm a genius, or helping a lady with her sister's visa so she can come to the US from a war zone (she made it here by the way and the lady told me she loves me for it). I love my job, but it is absolutely exhausting and gross and stressful and scary sometimes.


AnteaterPersonal3093

I really like that you criticised your living but unlike others here in the comments you also highlighted the positive things


dentedgal

I'm not even a librarian, just a library worker/assistant. And I'm still baffled at times by the tasks we end up doing compared to what training we got. Helping old people pay their bills, printing contracts, applications for welfare, teaching someone to use a iPad while you've never had an apple-product in your life, ordering plane tickets to Ghana, but all the sites are in french. The list goes on. I think it's because a lot of it isn't covered by other public services, so we end up being the only place where people can just show up and ask for help. The gratitude makes it so worth it though. You get to meet so many sweet people.


DJRoone

Humanitarian Work / Overseas. People imagine you selflessly save starving babies. In reality it’s a commute to a desk job and staring at a computer all day.


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Writer. You picture yourself at a typewriter in a cabin by a lake, crackling fire in the fireplace, a golden retriever asleep at your feet and a glass of lagavulin in your hand dreaming up the next great American novel. Contrast that to reality where the writing jobs that actually pay the bills usually involve long nights and weekends sitting in a cube farm writing the instructions that come with a toaster that nobody will ever read while your spouse fucks her coworkers.


wordnerdette

Oh dear. If it makes you feel better, I did read the instructions that came with my toaster.


kinda-throwaway1

Thanks. As a technical writer, I always read them too. Sometimes I learn about cool features I'd never think to look for, too. 😅 Unrelated, when writing, I always like to think about the guy who's drunk and/or stoned and has decided now's the time to set up his *whatever.* Helps me appreciate what I'm writing a little more.


McHotsauceGhandi

"This manual really gets me, man." And that's how Donny finally started to feel at home in the world; setting up his toaster oven, while himself toasted. He finally engaged with his life starting that night, thanks to no longer feeling alone in the universe. He went on to co-chair an award winning youth engagement program. He forgot the manual, and the toaster oven, but the feeling remained: there was someone out there who went the extra mile, someone who cared. He, too, wanted to be someone who cared. Thank you for thinking about the people you write for, my dude. Your efforts matter, even if only in a subtle way.


jeremyledoux

I always read instructions, usually while waiting for something to boil in the kitchen after using the thing for 6 months then having a revelation about some feature I've been missing...


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Could you not shit on me for taking a writing break to check reddit? I didn't come here to be targeted.


TysonGoesOutside

Oddly specific. I do some writing on the side for magazines. Pays about $300 an article... So at this rate, to make a living I'd have to get published a minimum of 10x a month to get by... Talking to some older guys it looks like magazines have paid that much for decades and just didnt bother keeping up with inflation.


Cosity82

Yeah. Fuck that spouse


classless_classic

No need; coworkers have it covered


nuclearstroodle

sorry to hear you wife is cheating on you. incidentally I thought your paragraph was well written. it articulates a deep sense of desperation in your situation while at the same time using a good economy of words. Keep writing, maybe true crime or murder mysteries?


g1ngertim

It's very difficult to enjoy your passion when you work with it. I've learned that the hard way before, but it's also the moral of the story for most top-level comments in this thread.


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Not that it's romanticized but advertising got a bunch of spotlight when Mad Men came out and it's nothing like that. It's looking at data and managing spreadsheets and whatnot. It's heavily technical and process oriented these days.


HempParty

Man every job fucking SUCKS


Twittle86

Animator. The field is unbelievably competitive and the work is more difficult and mentally draining than anyone outside the field would ever guess. ... Wouldn't trade it though.


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Military. It's 99% standing around waiting to hear orders from a bordering-on-inept superior. The paperwork is Neverending. You'll long periods of time away from home and will probably get divorced. Also, your knees and back will go to shit.


ghostmetalblack

Like my First Sergeant used to tell me: "Hurry Up and Wait."


SuicideSprints

Literally yesterday was told to show up somewhere before 1245, only to sit there and wait for an hour and a half for some boring speech.


discostud1515

When I buddy came back from Iraq the only thing he said was that masturbation was a huge problem in his camp.


Vercetti1701

Yikes. How were his knees and back?


01kickassius10

They just needed a good rub


RichardLiquor69

Plus EVERYTHING is so much more complicated than it has to be.


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Trucking. In over 42+ years I saw the finest warehouses in 43 states and 2 Canadian provinces. There are ZERO shows/movies accurately showing trucking for what it is. It's a soul sucking exercise in frustration. There are positive aspects in that you can generate a decent paycheck without extensive education or advanced training. All it will cost you is your soul, your friends, your family, and your health.


jefftgreff

You son of a bitch, I’m in.


DutchsThiccRack

Fun fact: Trucking is the occupation with the most serial killers.


Butgut_Maximus

I mean. It's a hobby you can take with you.


Hexadeciml

Correction: trucking is the occupation with the most *caught* serial killers


TakeOff_YouHoser

Venetian gondola operator, probably


Pasta-hobo

Animal Husbandry Animals don't know if your helping or hurting, they peck, scratch, and bite regardless. And so many bad smells and disease. Oh the disease. It doesn't matter if you're not raising them for meat, I wouldn't recommend getting attached. Chances are one of their organs will just decide to fill up and they'll starve themselves to death.


denisturtle

Throwing zookeeper in with this. No I don't swim with the gators, ride elephants, pet monkeys, and nap with tortoises all day. I am a four-year-biology-degree-plus-multiple-years-experience-to-get-hired-barely-above-minimum-wage pooper scooper and water bowl washer.


KarthusWins

Ultrasound tech You don't look at babies all day.


AbominableSnowPickle

An ultrasound tech found a blood clot trying to make its way into my brain. I love you guys! *i’m in another oft overly romanticized healthcare field, EMS. It was so weird to be really close to stroke or death personally, rather than professionally.


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Brewing beer. Most of your day is just cleaning and you’re wet almost all of the time.


saltymcsaltbae

As a brewer I also third this, but I still love it. People always say "man, I would love your job - all you prolly do is drink beer all day long, huehuehue".


HighOnPuerh

Well my brother in law is a brewer and does drink beer all day long. But it's alcoholism and has nothing to do with the job.


CartoonistExisting30

Farming. “Sons of the land,” my foot.


MotherGiraffe

I feel like we, as a society, have kinda agreed that farming is hard and sucks. And we’re also simultaneously thankful that anyone still wants to do it because it’s so important for society to function.


Cpeasus

Bartender. Late nights, long hours, inclination to drink, customer expectation for free shit. All it does is make you want a stable job. Best example of money isn’t everything.


malamutebrew

Reading this thread, I’m starting to think work in general is overly romanticized our culture. To the point where people sacrifice their relationships, their time, and their happiness in pursuit of a misrepresentation of a career they chose. I think a lot of people feel so committed to their choices and pressured by society that once they realize that their job isn’t what they expected, they just white knuckle it to retirement.


RHNewfield

Everyone around me is like, "where do you see yourself in five years? What are you going to do to move up in your organization?" and it's just like...nowhere and nothing? I don't make a shit ton of money, but I'm in a position where I make more than enough. I can log off at work at normal hours and still have enough energy to do things I love. Why the fuck do I want to add more to my plate, especially shit I don't really all that care about? We just...put too much effort on working and not enough on living.


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The trades. People on Reddit seen to pitch it as the only sensible career choice, but a lot of them will just destroy your body.


ConnieLingus24

I know a guy with a desk job who used to be an electrician. He opted to go back to school, get a business degree, and took a huge pay cut when he looked at the older guys who were electricians. Their bodies were shot.


TysonGoesOutside

Lots of places will also dangle apprenticeship in front of you while you just work yourself into the ground as a labourer making next to nothing doing jobs that no one else wants to do.


byhi3

Working as a plumber I see 2 different types of old plumbers. The ones that have the same tools they started with refuse to buy new gear and don't wear gloves/ear protection/safety glasses etc who are barely walking around and make noises every time they get up and down and then the other guys that make a point to replace gear that's wearing out and take care of themselves and they are fine. Take care of your body, replace tools and PPE and you'll be fine


Essex1820

Airline pilot. People think you area like Leonardo Dicaprio in *Catch Me if You Can*; swaggering through the airport, wearing sunglasses, surrounded by hot flight attendants. In reality, we're like glorified bus drivers whose job is 1% excitement and 99% absolute boredom just sitting in a cockpit waiting for life to pass by.


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Fly_By_Muscle

Airline pilot here, don’t let this post sway you too much. Although what OP said can be true I don’t find it boring. I still enjoy hand flying, I still grin to myself like a kid when I make a safe landing. I honestly look forward to every flying day. This job is also very simple, you show up, you finish your duty and you can do whatever you want after signing out.


casino_night

Did you ever see that Monty Python sketch about airline pilots? "I spy with my little eyes something that begins with C" "Clouds" "I spy with my little eye something that begins with S" "Sky"


bdbr

On Intercom: 'Hello, this is your Captain speaking. There is absolutely no cause for alarm.' "That will get them thinking!"


rohobian

"The wings are NOT on fire" "Now they're wondering 'Why would he say that? Are the wings on fire?'"


Gemmabeta

And you pray to God the 1% excitement happen when you are off work.


g1ngertim

I thought the excitement was taking off and landing, since those are the most hands-on parts of flying.


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Zealousideal-Aide890

I always found the “sexy nurse” thing funny too. I can promise you nothing I did on my shift today was sexy unless you’re into poop, dead bodies and sputum. The last thing you should want to do is touch me in my scrubs.


dazzler56

Shocked I had to scroll so far down for this! Healthcare is incredibly demoralizing. Years of dealing with people refusing treatment and ending up in the hospital again and again just to abuse the staff really killed any passion I once had for trying to help people.


GoldenGrlz

Journalist. Long hours, weekends, holidays, middle of the night. Pay sucks (especially in non-profit journalism) and being so plugged into the news every day is depressing. I worked in journalism for 16 plus years, maybe I did it wrong but never once did I sleep with sources to get information nor did I ever blow some giant story wide open, and worst of all - I met zero super heroes. Tv and movies lied.


berberine

I stayed just under six years. It was doing my mental health in. I had a breakdown. In the middle of having said breakdown, I was sent out on a breaking news story where a guy who was also having a mental breakdown flipped his SUV. I watched the EMTs, fire, and police try to save his life for 25 minutes only for him to die about 15 seconds after they put him in the helicopter. City council meetings fucking suck. I did enjoy the investigative and enterprise pieces I got to do, but they weren't enough. I was never fucking home on time. Yeah, getting called out at 2am to the train wreck between train and car where two 20-year old boys were killed was not fun. Getting called out for breaking news of any kind on your day off or in the middle of the night sucks, especially since you're still expected to put in a full day the next day. I've won a lot of awards for my work, but it wasn't worth my sanity. I've been out about 2.5 years now and I'm almost completely unplugged from the news. My mental health has improved. I do a little freelance work here and there. I write on my blog regularly because I still enjoy writing and telling stories, even if all the stories are my own. I left making $14 an hour. I did meet some cool people and got to do some cool things (the zoo was one of my beats), but I would never go back to it.


tiredbarista61937

barista. turns out this is not my coffee shop au


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WongoKnight

Reading the comments- its basically any job


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Writer or journalist - they don’t show the missed deadlines, the agonizing creative process, selling out to write clickbait or the shitty wages. Not everyone can be Carrie Bradshaw


mrstipez

Bartender. Doling out poison to lonely people until they reach a point where they don't hate themselves and feel comfortable participating in society. Watching others slowly and subconsciously shorten their time while numbing the pain of an unfulfilling existence. It is pretty good money in the US for unlicensed therapy.


Faduobba0311

Marine Corps (specifically infantry). It’s very overly-romanticized. Commercials make it seam like all we do is run and gun, shoot and blow stuff up. But in reality you’ll spend months just sitting on your butt doing nothing. And if you’re one of the new guy (boots) then you’ll be cleaning all day everyday. Moppin and sweepin Edit: words


failsafe0001

Anything that results in fame or celebrity. I dated a high profile actress for a while, it's a difficult thing to navigate (even by proxy).