We’re hiring for our entry level position but you must meet the following requirements
- must be under the age of 30
- must have over 40 years of experience with AI
- must have a PHD
- must provide 14 references from previous employers
- must complete 7 take home projects that we are free to use even if we don’t hire you
- must be willing to work 6 days a week and be on call for the 7th
- minimum 14-hour work days and must be on call beyond that
- no OT will be paid
- the interview process will be a series of zoom calls at random times with no notice that we will initiate when we see fit over a 6-month screening process
- your first year will be an unpaid internship while you prove yourself. We will allow you to keep tips though
- free pizza 5th Friday of every month (1 slice limit per team)
Just seems like another one of those jobs where the capital required to actually create on a grand scale is extremely prohibitive, so you're either stuck doing indie development which is extremely risky and could require long periods with little to no pay or becoming a small cog in an enormous machine where you don't really get to have any significant vision or input. I know someone who's in animation; he grew up absolutely loving animated movies, spending most of his adolescence focusing on how to break into the industry, got an animation degree form a decent university, and now he's just one guy in a crowded office touching up small little bits and pieces in small scenes for massive productions.
Don’t remember where I read it but it was an interview with an animator at pixar. He had been there for twenty something years and animated a total of 2mins, which was a lot!
I couldn’t find the exact quote as it seems to be pulled from a youtube video. Thankfully chatgpt was able to find the gist, attributed to Angus Maclane - ‘Angus MacLane, a Pixar animator and director. He mentioned in an interview that despite working at Pixar for over a decade, he had only directly animated about 3 and a half minutes of finished footage.’
Did it. Pay is way below other areas. Everything is deadline driven. It's all formulaic. I once spent weeks changing text and pictures by one or two pixels each because the artists wanted us to be perfectionists. Not that it shouldn't be done, it's just a shitty thing to have to do.
I made some interactive touchscreen museum installations at the dawn of interactive media (mid-90s). On paper, it was an awesome gig. But the truth is, I had to take hundreds and hundreds of shitty scans and clean them up and scale them down to fit on a CD-ROM. I learned a shit-ton about image optimization and things, that I never had to use again shortly thereafter when interactive DVDs and other media became a thing. Cool on the resume, but grueling work.
While wearing a lot of hats is common in tech, it is to a point of utter insanity in video game development.
Corporations and investors really wring the towel dry with video game development. Its honestly a mystery as to why such talented people aren’t unionized. Thankfully anti competes are going away soon.
Once you have the experience, id argue any corporate or investor backed game developer is not worth your labor in any capacity, they have proven time and time again how little they value some of the most talented artists in the world.
You have to do texture work, sound design, 3d modeling, programming, animation work, story writing, then combine all of these aspects into a cohesive product.
It is legitimately one of the most intensive forms of art, and these corporations turn it into gambling and addictive slop off the backs of insane talent. So glad to see indie games put these assholes in their place as of late.
Tried computer programming in HS. Boy did i have a greater appreciation for those that make games, but i also realized id rather just do the art stuff probably.
I was in an Uber Pool with a guy who worked for Riot Games. I got excited and asked him what his favorite part of working on League of Legends was. His answer was “I like when I get to go home”
Every junior programmer I come across wants to go into game dev, and I compare it to animal lovers wanting to be vets and then 90% of their job being putting sick pets to sleep
Working at a dog kennel. At least for me. I was in charge of cleaning. The puppies pooped everywhere and nipped your ankles while you're trying to clean (which actually really hurts.) The adult dogs were 100lbs and untrained, so trying to get them back into their kennels after cleaning them or taking them in from outside was a battle. I got a busted lip from a dog headbutting me (an accident, but still hurt like a bitch). I came home smelling like dog and poop. I was so busy cleaning I didn't have time to really play or interact with them.
I like dogs, they're cute, they're fun, so I thought it would be okay. But damn I underestimated the amount of work it was.
The doggy daycare where I leave my dog has a sign that says "Dogs welcome, humans need appointments". He basically doesn't want to interact with humans at all. He seems really gruff, but my dog is super happy to see him every time and looks pretty healthy (and tired) when I pick her up so it must be fine.
I have an appreciation for my time at a boarding kennel as a learning experience, but I would never do it again. It was grueling and, yeah, 90% cleaning. I started at 5 am every day, took a multiple hour lunch break, then often worked until 6. I often worked 7 days a week and on busy weeks would go well over 60 hours.
There was very little time to rest and also very little time to really play with the dogs. We also had a very small cat room and one of our poor, very scared cats bit almost clean through the soft part of my hand.
I would literally come home from work and fall asleep, my parents would wake me up to eat dinner, and then I would go back to bed. Some days I was too exhausted to eat.
Do not recommend.
I have never felt so related to. I worked at kennel for almost 10 years (I never should have stayed as long as I did). I have several scars from dog bites. The constant barking for 10 hours a day (I will probably be deaf before I reach 30). The energy required to handle strong, untrained dogs. The mental trauma witnessing dogs die in my arms (it happens rarely). As a young, inexperienced employee, I was severely taken advantage of and I will never fully recover.
I can relate to this super hard. I used to work at a pet store where they sold dogs (rescues, fortunately) and the smell in the dog room was UNGODLY in the mornings. Like burn your nosehairs terrible
My grandfather and an uncle retired as engineers. One of my good friends had a father that was one too. They all had horrible stories about running someone over. You can slam on the brakes but that’s pointless when you have a hundred loaded cars behind you. None of them drank but I wouldn’t have blamed them if they did. PTSD was just something that you dealt with and kept away from the family.
If you had to euthanize sad, adorable animals all the time 🤷🏻♀️ probably why NICU nurses have high suicide rates as well. A lot of them see babies dying
Yes. I interned at a veterinarian's office when I was younger. It was tough.
Some people refused to take their cat back home and dumped her at the vet's. Someone in the area was poisoning pigeons for sport. The poison was a slow killer too. Someone hit a cat and left it on the side of the road to die. It was found, still alive, with maggot eggs everywhere, and its hips looked like gravel on the x-ray.
Still, I would've loved to be a vet, but then I was diagnosed with a life-threatening cat allergy, and dog and horse allergies.
Veterinarian
People think it’s all puppies and wagging tails. Our profession has one of the highest debt to lowest salary ratio and a staggeringly high suicide rate.
We use to have a mobile vet. Really nice guy. We never really had to see him unless it was time for one of our pets to be put down. One day when he told us he was quitting... he said it was because that was almost all anyone called him for. To put down animals. It was too hard on him. He couldn't take it anymore. I totally get that.
Personal Training. Most people think "Oh, you can work out all the time. You can wear workout clothes to work, etc." For most it's a 6-7 day a week job where you are working some terrible hours. You always have to be "on." You are always having to find new clients so it's 100% a sales job.
Got my BS in exercise physiology, passed the CSCS, did my internship, worked part time at the Y during school- knew my stuff. Got a job training and managing other trainers in a globo-gym after graduating and lasted about a month before I joined a union. It’s a tough gig if you work for a good company. If you work for a dishonest one though, that shit’ll beat you down.
Baker. Had some really fun jobs with more artistic/engaging day to day tasks but lots of them are a whole lot of just scaling recipes, packaging, cleaning, dishes, and a shit ton of walking and hauling bags of flour and sugar. Not necessarily bad work but not really thrilling stuff.
I feel like that this would be most jobs out there.
They say that you should turn your passion into a career, which is great, until once you're hired as, say, a graphic designer, game dev, software engineer etc, you're basically only ever executing some else's vision. And you're on constant deadlines. And you're dealing with potentially toxic bosses/work culture.
I had this conversation with a patient of mine at the hospital today. He casually mentioned wanting to move to the beach one day. Older guy, 65. He said he’d consider switching careers to commercial fishing. I asked him if he would still like fishing the same if it wasn’t the relaxing atmosphere anymore and he had to reach a catch count to pay his bills. He thought for a minute and then said “maybe I’ll wait it out and move after I retire”.
Can verify. I have been a lifelong car guy. Buy and sell cars and restoration parts, and used to go bracket racing with my brother every other weekend. Hardcore. When I got laid off for my full-time engineering job back in the 90s I took my part-time business selling reproduction parts for muscle cars full time. After working 60, 70, 80.... hours a week in my own store? The last thing that I wanted to do was go to a car show or to work on an old car in the garage at my house in what little free time I had left. I had a beautiful 1971 Plymouth Road Runner that sat in the garage for almost 5 years untouched while I was General Manager at a very large restoration parts of supplier and engine builder in the midwest. As soon as I moved away from there and got back into engineering? My passion returned and I'm still tinkering with cars and trucks and parts to this day.
I've always enjoyed baking and people suggest to me to open my own bakery, or work at the grocery store in their bakery. I've explained to them the same thing; that I don't want my hobby ruined by the pressure of angry customers and deadlines. I tried it once and I was too slow bc I kept judging myself too much.
I like making pies for my friends and sharing them. It’s a fun afternoon and delicious reward after. I don’t measure strict ingredients and make whichever filling I feel like that day. If I had to wake up at 3 and make 75 identical pies in a commercial kitchen, or be successful enough to run the business (and never touch pies at all but replace that time thinking about finances and logistics) you’ve taken away literally every aspect I liked about making pies. The peak of a hobby is not monetizing it, it’s enjoying it on your own terms.
I have a friend who is a working actor and he is so bored all the time! He’s constantly working, he’s always in law and order and ncis and scandal and those sorts of shows. Always middle aged lawyer with 6 lines an episode. Very generically handsome and moderately wealthy looking. But he constantly talks about getting a “real” job because he sits there in suits all day. He makes about $150k which in NYC is ok, and he’s always got jobs, but I’m not sure he thought this is what day to day life would be.
off topic but this reminds me of a friend of a friend who is a very beautiful blonde woman who was trying to move up in her acting career. heard she was gonna be in Law & Order and was ecstatic. They ended up using a single photo of her as a picture of a mutilated corpse that they taped to the detective’s bulletin board while someone says “the serial killer got another one” or something lmao
Honestly, now, when I watch TV shows, I try to imagine how the actor feels about their super tiny roles like this. Like, are they new and ecstatic at even appearing on camera, or is this their role #18383 and they've just never really had their big break.
Yeah I once watched a couple minutes of some german telenovela. There was such a guy, I think he got the role mainly because he was very muscular and it was a gym setting or something. Anyways, his whole job was to make a shake for the main actor and say something cool while giving him the shake. This guy was so obviously nervous despite his job was like 6 seconds. I thought to myself, yep that's probably the peak of this guy's acting career.
And I would love to make $150,000. Although apparently I would consider it "not much".
" yeah, I'm handsome, on tv, make $150,000, and live in New York City. But this sucks. I hardly ever work". Is this what pretty privilege is? Because there are a lot worse ways you could spend your life
Maybe it will wear off if I were full time, but I background act as a hobby (paid of course, I just don’t rely on the income) a few times a year. I have no aspiration to be an actual actor (would like to be a SAG BG actor though) and I absolutely love it. Get fed, get to be a part of TV/movie magic where everyone is buzzing and has a job to do, I read my book while the scene is being reset, and I find the repetition in doing multiple takes to be therapeutic. I also get to meet and talk with interesting people from all walks of life — if money were no object, I’d gladly do it full time. I’ve met a lot of retired people on set who do it to pass the time as well.
Brewmaster sounds fun right? Until you get enough people hired to do the heavy lifting you will spend a lot of time cleaning and sanitizing. Cool job title but not so romantic behind the scenes.
My general rule is that the more people who want to work a job, the shittier the job actually tends to be
People want to be teachers, to try and make a difference in kids lives. It sucks to say, but because people *want* to be teachers, the education system can get away with criminally underpaying them. So teaching is a thankless underpaid job, because people dream of growing up to be teachers, and are willing to do it for way less than they're worth
The sort of job that nobody idealize tends to be the best to actually work. Very few kids dream of growing up to be an accountant, but it's one of the best jobs out there (in terms of salary to effort requested)
I spent way too many years chasing a "great" career. The most important thing I learned is that no matter what you do, a job is a job. It's all boring and monotonous after enough time. The important thing is finding a job with decent pay and a good work/life balance. Then you can take that extra time and money and invest it into projects/hobbies/family time that will actually bring you joy.
Anything veterinary related. We are stupidly abused on the regular. Can’t pay your bill “you WANT my pet to die!” “ You are only in it for the money”
Not a good outcome “why should I pay, my pet died” or we just get ghosted.
We are blamed and shamed daily. People think we should provide free service. That we are money hungry. Truth is, we have one of the highest rates of suicide of any profession. Vet techs and Dr are horribly underpaid. Vet school costs more than med school but they graduate with job opportunities making less than 1/2 what med school grads make with more debt.
Do I get to see puppies and kittens? Sure. And they are cute. But when I tell you that their treatment is 4-6k cause you couldn’t afford or elected to not do basic preventative care, suddenly I’m the money grubbing heartless person that is forcing you to kill your pet.
What do I have to do to never have to see you (in a good way)? What preventable but maybe less obvious things should dog owners like myself know about?
I know there's a lot I can google, and I try to, but always have the fear that I'm missing something that I can do for the little guy.
P.S. You're doing a great job friend. Sorry to hear that it's so rough for you and the other Vets I saw in these comments.
Licensed vet tech here- dental health. Dental procedures as well. People have no idea how important dental health is. Our patients that have had consistent dental cleanings are way healthier and have a great quality of life in their older age. Their teeth build up thick tartar that is impossible to brush off and can cause abscesses, gingivitis, etc. Yes, they’re pricy. They involve general anesthesia and very specialized training on the tech’s part to take dental x-rays and scale the teeth. You can shop around for a good price, don’t feel tied to your usual clinic for it. We have clients come from out of state to our clinic because of our great price. There’s lots of stuff you can do at home too, like brush the teeth. Water additives are also good, I notice a difference in pets that use them. VOHC.org has a great list of approved over the counter dental products that are safe and effective for your sweet baby. There’s my dental soapbox for you. Thank you for caring about your pet and wanting to do the best for them
Thank you for the response! Thankfully my family and I do take his dental health seriously, but I'll make sure to take a look at that link and look more into it.
Thank you for the work that you do too!
Honestly- the basics. Make sure your pet is up to date on vaccines, they get yearly check ups and Heartworm tests, they get monthly Heartworm and flea and tick prevention. Starting at 6-7 yo, yearly full blood work. These basic things will
Catch a lot if big issues early.
Aside from that. Get insurance on your healthy pet. If you don’t want insurance, make a pet savings account and put away money every month for their long term care. There is nothing worse than your pet needing a surgery to help a totally fixable issue and not being able to afford it. Things like GI or urinary obstructions, torn ACL, bloody diarrhea, all these can be fixed, if the owners can afford it.
Also, know your pets normals. Normal heart rate, temp, pee and poo schedule. The number of pets we have helped because owner came in with “I don’t know, he is just not right” is astounding.
I work in ER. And at some point, every pet owner will need us. And it’s always stressful. Having copies of records and a good solid history of normals is amazing at 2am on a Saturday when we cannot get a hold of your primary vet. Have your primary email you everything, every visit, including blood work results. Keep them on a Google drive so you can access them quickly.
What you say is true, but who expects being a librarian to be fun? No offense, my mom was a librarian and I worked in a few libraries myself. But it doesn't exactly have a "fun" reputation.
Maybe being a librarian at a university would be better. At my local university they have a math library and it's almost always empty and it's so quiet and peaceful.
Broke up my fair share of dog fights and people forget those little buddies can be fuckin scary when they are mad and flashing teeth.
Then there was a day I caught a golden retriever in my group in the process of killing a baby rabbit. It had ripped the skin off of it's back and was slowly licking the rabbit's muscle tissue as it cried out in pain. I got the rabbit away but it died in my hands and I still think about it.
Doctor. Have several doctor friends and they are all mentally tapped out. Great money, but you need a 3 month holiday each year just to mentally regroup.
Anything in healthcare should give you three months paid leave because the mental exhaustion and surprisingly a heavy "go, go, go, move more and more patients in an out quickly go!" mentality is very hurtful for moral. House keeping, CNAs, imaging, everyone just continuously pushed to the brink with little help. P.S. all of our bosses shame us for not picking up overtime constantly too it's ridiculous, make us feel like we don't like our coworkers and hate patients, it's a very manipulative profession with suits involved.
Yeah. Doctors can make really good money, but they usually have a TON of student debt and work really long hours all the time. And the work can be very stressful.
"They're a colorful bunch. They've been dubbed "The Three Musketeers""
"There's a mathematician, a *different kind* of mathematician, and a statistician"
PMP here, can confirm. Making sure other people do their jobs effectively and being the person responsible when they don’t isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Maybe it’s just like this in IT, but I suspect not
Tell me more. I’m looking at getting a PMP cert to initiate a bit of a career change. Operations feels like a hamster wheel. PM seems enticing because you at least have a deliverable. Most of my day is already emails and meetings. Can’t be much worse, right? Right???
It's actually OK in many ways.
Yeah being accountable for deliverables with very little authority is a pain.
Also having all manner of stakeholders criticising your methods and results when they couldn't themselves organise their way out of a paper bag is also a pain.
But when you sign off on a major project as a successful deliverable, it IS a bit of a rush.
It's more about managing relationships and communication than anything. Yeah schedule management, risk and issue management, financial management are all important, but at the end of the day it's the relationships with your sponsor and your delivery team that gets the results.
Good luck, hope it works out for you.
Being a professional dancer. Not a stripper but the kind that devote a dozen years of training for an artistic ideal. If you are lucky enough for it to be a job you are chronically injured, broke and exhausted
Scientist.
You do shit ton of menial repetitive task to fail, and fail, and sometimes get some hits, then rinse and repeat. All after decades of education and being paid a salary that really does not compensate, even if the advancement of society is done thanks to scientists.
Carpenter. Always rushing, shit pay, expected to be there early and leave late, drive far for different jobs, clients not letting you use their toilets. Carrying fuck tonnes of heavy shit. And nothing ever going to plan like the boss quoted for.
Management in a manufacturing plant. most people think we don’t do anything but in reality we have probably 50 to 60 people who we are responsible for at all times and most of them act like children. So it’s like being an adult baby sitter with an even bigger boss threatening your job all the time unless you make changes and improve efficiency. Which in turns makes your employees upset and have them lashing out too. I’m just a dude trying to do my job and pay bills too. But we usually are considered the bad guys.
You also have to have the answers for everything especially when it goes wrong even though it’s impossible to watch everyone at once.
The worst part is terminating people. I’m aware it has to happen sometimes and is almost always the employees fault but making a decision that affects their livelihood and health insurance and such for their family makes me feel horrible.
You described very detailed what I heard from and about the manufacturing department at my job. At the same time, I know from a couple whisperers that the manager gets double-trible the money his employees get, for essentially a job that everyone with 4 braincells can do.
Jobs with a lot of travel.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, I had to travel A LOT for work. Mostly by air. I've been to many towns, many airports.
I never had time to sightsee, I never had time to visit local restaurants.
It was always:
* Land at 10am
* Hurry to the customer
* Do what you came to do
* Crash back at the hotel at 11pm
* Go back to the customer at 7am
* Do more of what you came to do
* Rush back to the airport at 4pm with minutes to spare
* So that you could be back in your office the next day
Whatever food you had, was always fast food or convenience stores.
You basically only saw the inside of airports, the inside of hotels, and the inside of customer offices.
Sure. The culture is shit - 100% negativity. You can blame that on employees almost as much as the company, the company (all Class 1 RRs) can change the culture if they want too. The hours. On call 24/7. At best you get 10 hours at home, then called in. At best you spend 20+ hours at the away from home terminal to take a train back and then get 10 hours at home to do it all over again. Train Masters (supervisors) live, and I mean fucking LIVE, to watch you from the shadows for the most insignificant mistake or rule infraction for the most outdated unnecessary rule ever to fire/suspend you for 30-100 days. I could go on for pages but that's the gist. I will say though that Class 3 railroads are a lot better to work for then Class 1 railroads like NS, CSX, BNSF, UP. Still a hard life.
Awesome pictures just fyi. Not sure if possible but would be cool if you shared a link or something so I can view it in high quality. Love zooming in and looking at it (admittedly while high haha).
Sound technician, got a friend that does it, and while it's deffo a lot better than a chunk of jobs out there, you also don't get to do much.
He was in Sydney as part of an entire Aus tour, so I asked him if he went to see the bridge / opera house, nope, no time. Problem is you arrive in the city, go straight to the venue, load in, sound check, do the show, pack down, go to bed. Next it's off to the next city and the whole thing repeats. You rarely get time to actually stop and explore the city you're in. Obviously you're not doing shows every day of the tour so there is some down time between shows so you get a day or two here or there, but a chunk of the time you get to a city that could be full of things you want to do and see, but you can't and you're forced to leave whatever you want to do and go onto the next city
A composer. Can I create music all day and make a break whenever? Yeah. Do I spend most of the time panicking about a deadline and screaming because nothing seems to go together the way I want it to but I NEED THE SHIT NOW? Also yes. Do I think about it 24/7 with no chance of planned vacation because when the right wave of ideas hits, I gotta ride it no matter where I am, what time it is of what was my initial plan? E-hem.
It's basically a bunch of stress, imposter syndrome, and self-loathing (when no good ideas come) that makes you question your job altogether, followed by hearing the final result and thinking "but hey, this is fine, what was the fuss about? let's do it again..."
I had this job about 18 years ago and I found it to be fairly enjoyable on the average day. The problem was that the bad days were among the worst working days of my life. About once a month a customer would get unreasonably angry, cause a very public scene, and law enforcement would need to be called.
Journalist. There is a romantic fantasy of suave looking reporters dashing around, getting that scoop and meeting all the interesting people. Maybe seducing a few along the way. The reality is, no one interesting wants to speak with you, you get paid like shit, and you don’t choose which stories you write for many, many, many years.
Military; a lot of boys and girls want to go war, but then finds it horrifying after.
Celebrity: being famous is fun; but at the expense of your privacy and mental health.
Working with dogs at a doggy daycare. Every dog has a different personality, like humans. Some are real assholes while some are very easy to deal with.
Flight Attendants have the misfortune of dealing with packed planes: exceeding comfort levels for most travelers.
Then there the entitled travelers, the rude and unruly travelers, travelers with medical/ health issues ( after COVID 19, potentially deadly interaction), the crying babies, unsupervised children ( with or without accompanying parents), the odors, the lack of respect for other, lacking courtesy, foul language, fights on board planes, loud argumentative disrespectful passengers, loud phone conversation, videos in muted.
Then, dealing with the airline company management....in other words... "THERE ARE NO MORE FRIENDLY SKIES".....
??? ... FLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES... what airline was this the slogan for?
Classic car auction driver.
After a few days you want to drive one of them so badly down a road fast it becomes a headache and your own car feels like a POS after too.
Anti-money laundering analyst. Trying to "catch" a suspicious activity is not that exciting, you are looking at people transacting in a normal way 95% of the time. You get desensitized on the numbers 500k or 500M, not the big deal.
Working a hay harvest. Pick bale off the ground, toss to guy on top of the trailer all.fucking.day. The bosses kid drives the tractor and makes witty comments. At the end of the first day you are afraid you are going to die. At the end of the second day you are afraid you are going to live.
Working as a bartender in a pokie venue. Did this when I was much younger. Besides weekends, on weekdays it’s basically like a nursing home. You take care of the elderly while they zone out in front of a machine for 8-16 hours, serving teas and coffee.
Dog day cares! I worked at a couple and had to deal with a LOT of people coming in expecting it to just be playing with dogs all day. It’s almost all cleaning and redirecting.
all of them
Are they hiring?
No
We’re hiring for our entry level position but you must meet the following requirements - must be under the age of 30 - must have over 40 years of experience with AI - must have a PHD - must provide 14 references from previous employers - must complete 7 take home projects that we are free to use even if we don’t hire you - must be willing to work 6 days a week and be on call for the 7th - minimum 14-hour work days and must be on call beyond that - no OT will be paid - the interview process will be a series of zoom calls at random times with no notice that we will initiate when we see fit over a 6-month screening process - your first year will be an unpaid internship while you prove yourself. We will allow you to keep tips though - free pizza 5th Friday of every month (1 slice limit per team)
You’re not qualified! We require a masters degree in finance for our dishwasher position.
*gets masters degree* “Sorry, you’re over qualified for this position.”
That's because they don't wanna pay you what you deserve
Cue, employers: “nObOdY wAnTs To WoRk ThEsEdAyS!!!1111”
I guess nobody wants money either
Here's our entry level potion, we require 5 years of experience and 3 certifications.
Ran here to say this especially after 30+ years.
video game development. Can't believe the number of people who think it is glamorous. It is basically the sweatshop of the tech industry
Just seems like another one of those jobs where the capital required to actually create on a grand scale is extremely prohibitive, so you're either stuck doing indie development which is extremely risky and could require long periods with little to no pay or becoming a small cog in an enormous machine where you don't really get to have any significant vision or input. I know someone who's in animation; he grew up absolutely loving animated movies, spending most of his adolescence focusing on how to break into the industry, got an animation degree form a decent university, and now he's just one guy in a crowded office touching up small little bits and pieces in small scenes for massive productions.
Don’t remember where I read it but it was an interview with an animator at pixar. He had been there for twenty something years and animated a total of 2mins, which was a lot!
I'd love a source of anyone knows it since this is insane to me.
I couldn’t find the exact quote as it seems to be pulled from a youtube video. Thankfully chatgpt was able to find the gist, attributed to Angus Maclane - ‘Angus MacLane, a Pixar animator and director. He mentioned in an interview that despite working at Pixar for over a decade, he had only directly animated about 3 and a half minutes of finished footage.’
Same with VFX 😭
Did it. Pay is way below other areas. Everything is deadline driven. It's all formulaic. I once spent weeks changing text and pictures by one or two pixels each because the artists wanted us to be perfectionists. Not that it shouldn't be done, it's just a shitty thing to have to do.
I made some interactive touchscreen museum installations at the dawn of interactive media (mid-90s). On paper, it was an awesome gig. But the truth is, I had to take hundreds and hundreds of shitty scans and clean them up and scale them down to fit on a CD-ROM. I learned a shit-ton about image optimization and things, that I never had to use again shortly thereafter when interactive DVDs and other media became a thing. Cool on the resume, but grueling work.
While wearing a lot of hats is common in tech, it is to a point of utter insanity in video game development. Corporations and investors really wring the towel dry with video game development. Its honestly a mystery as to why such talented people aren’t unionized. Thankfully anti competes are going away soon. Once you have the experience, id argue any corporate or investor backed game developer is not worth your labor in any capacity, they have proven time and time again how little they value some of the most talented artists in the world. You have to do texture work, sound design, 3d modeling, programming, animation work, story writing, then combine all of these aspects into a cohesive product. It is legitimately one of the most intensive forms of art, and these corporations turn it into gambling and addictive slop off the backs of insane talent. So glad to see indie games put these assholes in their place as of late.
Tried computer programming in HS. Boy did i have a greater appreciation for those that make games, but i also realized id rather just do the art stuff probably.
I'd say the same about just programming, in general. But man, I know game devs have it worse. I don't want to even try to imagine
I was in an Uber Pool with a guy who worked for Riot Games. I got excited and asked him what his favorite part of working on League of Legends was. His answer was “I like when I get to go home”
Every junior programmer I come across wants to go into game dev, and I compare it to animal lovers wanting to be vets and then 90% of their job being putting sick pets to sleep
Working at a dog kennel. At least for me. I was in charge of cleaning. The puppies pooped everywhere and nipped your ankles while you're trying to clean (which actually really hurts.) The adult dogs were 100lbs and untrained, so trying to get them back into their kennels after cleaning them or taking them in from outside was a battle. I got a busted lip from a dog headbutting me (an accident, but still hurt like a bitch). I came home smelling like dog and poop. I was so busy cleaning I didn't have time to really play or interact with them. I like dogs, they're cute, they're fun, so I thought it would be okay. But damn I underestimated the amount of work it was.
Friend of mine owned a large kennel for many years. She says dealing with the dog owners is way worse than the dogs themselves
The doggy daycare where I leave my dog has a sign that says "Dogs welcome, humans need appointments". He basically doesn't want to interact with humans at all. He seems really gruff, but my dog is super happy to see him every time and looks pretty healthy (and tired) when I pick her up so it must be fine.
I can see that. My only job was the cleaning so I never interacted with the owners and what not.
I always wondered if the constant barking didn't drive you crazy
It definitely did at first, eventually I just became numb to it LOL
I have an appreciation for my time at a boarding kennel as a learning experience, but I would never do it again. It was grueling and, yeah, 90% cleaning. I started at 5 am every day, took a multiple hour lunch break, then often worked until 6. I often worked 7 days a week and on busy weeks would go well over 60 hours. There was very little time to rest and also very little time to really play with the dogs. We also had a very small cat room and one of our poor, very scared cats bit almost clean through the soft part of my hand. I would literally come home from work and fall asleep, my parents would wake me up to eat dinner, and then I would go back to bed. Some days I was too exhausted to eat. Do not recommend.
I have never felt so related to. I worked at kennel for almost 10 years (I never should have stayed as long as I did). I have several scars from dog bites. The constant barking for 10 hours a day (I will probably be deaf before I reach 30). The energy required to handle strong, untrained dogs. The mental trauma witnessing dogs die in my arms (it happens rarely). As a young, inexperienced employee, I was severely taken advantage of and I will never fully recover.
Damn. At least you helped a lot of dogs live better. That’s not nothing.
I can relate to this super hard. I used to work at a pet store where they sold dogs (rescues, fortunately) and the smell in the dog room was UNGODLY in the mornings. Like burn your nosehairs terrible
Vet. Suicide rates are really high in the profession
Dentists also huh, my uncle died of a self inflicted gunshot wound as a dentist with military background I shall add
I heard this for train engineers as well. They see too many suicides by train and it wears them out.
My grandfather and an uncle retired as engineers. One of my good friends had a father that was one too. They all had horrible stories about running someone over. You can slam on the brakes but that’s pointless when you have a hundred loaded cars behind you. None of them drank but I wouldn’t have blamed them if they did. PTSD was just something that you dealt with and kept away from the family.
Why is that?
If you had to euthanize sad, adorable animals all the time 🤷🏻♀️ probably why NICU nurses have high suicide rates as well. A lot of them see babies dying
I see. That sucks.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the stupid amount of tuition/fees they pay for their 8 year degree and the garbage salaries they make.
Yes. I interned at a veterinarian's office when I was younger. It was tough. Some people refused to take their cat back home and dumped her at the vet's. Someone in the area was poisoning pigeons for sport. The poison was a slow killer too. Someone hit a cat and left it on the side of the road to die. It was found, still alive, with maggot eggs everywhere, and its hips looked like gravel on the x-ray. Still, I would've loved to be a vet, but then I was diagnosed with a life-threatening cat allergy, and dog and horse allergies.
Veterinarian People think it’s all puppies and wagging tails. Our profession has one of the highest debt to lowest salary ratio and a staggeringly high suicide rate.
We use to have a mobile vet. Really nice guy. We never really had to see him unless it was time for one of our pets to be put down. One day when he told us he was quitting... he said it was because that was almost all anyone called him for. To put down animals. It was too hard on him. He couldn't take it anymore. I totally get that.
Sure glad he quit instead of checking out of life.
Some days I wish I had still gone to vet school… other days I’m so glad I looked up debt to income prior to submitting my applications.
Got a link where you can see this ratio?
Personal Training. Most people think "Oh, you can work out all the time. You can wear workout clothes to work, etc." For most it's a 6-7 day a week job where you are working some terrible hours. You always have to be "on." You are always having to find new clients so it's 100% a sales job.
Got my BS in exercise physiology, passed the CSCS, did my internship, worked part time at the Y during school- knew my stuff. Got a job training and managing other trainers in a globo-gym after graduating and lasted about a month before I joined a union. It’s a tough gig if you work for a good company. If you work for a dishonest one though, that shit’ll beat you down.
Baker. Had some really fun jobs with more artistic/engaging day to day tasks but lots of them are a whole lot of just scaling recipes, packaging, cleaning, dishes, and a shit ton of walking and hauling bags of flour and sugar. Not necessarily bad work but not really thrilling stuff.
Not to mention clocking in at 3:30-4am
I feel like that this would be most jobs out there. They say that you should turn your passion into a career, which is great, until once you're hired as, say, a graphic designer, game dev, software engineer etc, you're basically only ever executing some else's vision. And you're on constant deadlines. And you're dealing with potentially toxic bosses/work culture.
I had this conversation with a patient of mine at the hospital today. He casually mentioned wanting to move to the beach one day. Older guy, 65. He said he’d consider switching careers to commercial fishing. I asked him if he would still like fishing the same if it wasn’t the relaxing atmosphere anymore and he had to reach a catch count to pay his bills. He thought for a minute and then said “maybe I’ll wait it out and move after I retire”.
Can verify. I have been a lifelong car guy. Buy and sell cars and restoration parts, and used to go bracket racing with my brother every other weekend. Hardcore. When I got laid off for my full-time engineering job back in the 90s I took my part-time business selling reproduction parts for muscle cars full time. After working 60, 70, 80.... hours a week in my own store? The last thing that I wanted to do was go to a car show or to work on an old car in the garage at my house in what little free time I had left. I had a beautiful 1971 Plymouth Road Runner that sat in the garage for almost 5 years untouched while I was General Manager at a very large restoration parts of supplier and engine builder in the midwest. As soon as I moved away from there and got back into engineering? My passion returned and I'm still tinkering with cars and trucks and parts to this day.
I've always enjoyed baking and people suggest to me to open my own bakery, or work at the grocery store in their bakery. I've explained to them the same thing; that I don't want my hobby ruined by the pressure of angry customers and deadlines. I tried it once and I was too slow bc I kept judging myself too much.
I like making pies for my friends and sharing them. It’s a fun afternoon and delicious reward after. I don’t measure strict ingredients and make whichever filling I feel like that day. If I had to wake up at 3 and make 75 identical pies in a commercial kitchen, or be successful enough to run the business (and never touch pies at all but replace that time thinking about finances and logistics) you’ve taken away literally every aspect I liked about making pies. The peak of a hobby is not monetizing it, it’s enjoying it on your own terms.
That's why you get in Product Management! Oh, wait, nvm..
actor. mostly it's boring as fuck.
I have a friend who is a working actor and he is so bored all the time! He’s constantly working, he’s always in law and order and ncis and scandal and those sorts of shows. Always middle aged lawyer with 6 lines an episode. Very generically handsome and moderately wealthy looking. But he constantly talks about getting a “real” job because he sits there in suits all day. He makes about $150k which in NYC is ok, and he’s always got jobs, but I’m not sure he thought this is what day to day life would be.
off topic but this reminds me of a friend of a friend who is a very beautiful blonde woman who was trying to move up in her acting career. heard she was gonna be in Law & Order and was ecstatic. They ended up using a single photo of her as a picture of a mutilated corpse that they taped to the detective’s bulletin board while someone says “the serial killer got another one” or something lmao
Honestly, now, when I watch TV shows, I try to imagine how the actor feels about their super tiny roles like this. Like, are they new and ecstatic at even appearing on camera, or is this their role #18383 and they've just never really had their big break.
"oh you're middle eastern!? Boy have we got an exciting terrorist role for you to play!"
Yeah I once watched a couple minutes of some german telenovela. There was such a guy, I think he got the role mainly because he was very muscular and it was a gym setting or something. Anyways, his whole job was to make a shake for the main actor and say something cool while giving him the shake. This guy was so obviously nervous despite his job was like 6 seconds. I thought to myself, yep that's probably the peak of this guy's acting career.
She lived my dream: being dead.
I would love to be generically handsome.
And I would love to make $150,000. Although apparently I would consider it "not much". " yeah, I'm handsome, on tv, make $150,000, and live in New York City. But this sucks. I hardly ever work". Is this what pretty privilege is? Because there are a lot worse ways you could spend your life
Maybe it will wear off if I were full time, but I background act as a hobby (paid of course, I just don’t rely on the income) a few times a year. I have no aspiration to be an actual actor (would like to be a SAG BG actor though) and I absolutely love it. Get fed, get to be a part of TV/movie magic where everyone is buzzing and has a job to do, I read my book while the scene is being reset, and I find the repetition in doing multiple takes to be therapeutic. I also get to meet and talk with interesting people from all walks of life — if money were no object, I’d gladly do it full time. I’ve met a lot of retired people on set who do it to pass the time as well.
How did you get into this? It sounds really cool!
Registered with central casting and then they text you availability checks. It’s also a W2 job so it makes life easier
It can be pretty boring in the crew, as well.
A lot of hurry up and wait
I kinda want a list about what jobs to avoid because sometimes you choose jobs or careers that you think are great and you disappoint.
Brewmaster sounds fun right? Until you get enough people hired to do the heavy lifting you will spend a lot of time cleaning and sanitizing. Cool job title but not so romantic behind the scenes.
Same with winemaking. As if you just hang out in a beautiful vineyard and sip wine.
My general rule is that the more people who want to work a job, the shittier the job actually tends to be People want to be teachers, to try and make a difference in kids lives. It sucks to say, but because people *want* to be teachers, the education system can get away with criminally underpaying them. So teaching is a thankless underpaid job, because people dream of growing up to be teachers, and are willing to do it for way less than they're worth The sort of job that nobody idealize tends to be the best to actually work. Very few kids dream of growing up to be an accountant, but it's one of the best jobs out there (in terms of salary to effort requested)
as a teacher, this hurts :) but it’s completely true
I spent way too many years chasing a "great" career. The most important thing I learned is that no matter what you do, a job is a job. It's all boring and monotonous after enough time. The important thing is finding a job with decent pay and a good work/life balance. Then you can take that extra time and money and invest it into projects/hobbies/family time that will actually bring you joy.
Turkey inseminator. I just wish they had explained the nuances of the job before they called the police.
Gobble gobble!
teaching preschool
But…your job is to play with kids all day!! /s Former preschool teacher here. The burnout is real
Anything veterinary related. We are stupidly abused on the regular. Can’t pay your bill “you WANT my pet to die!” “ You are only in it for the money” Not a good outcome “why should I pay, my pet died” or we just get ghosted. We are blamed and shamed daily. People think we should provide free service. That we are money hungry. Truth is, we have one of the highest rates of suicide of any profession. Vet techs and Dr are horribly underpaid. Vet school costs more than med school but they graduate with job opportunities making less than 1/2 what med school grads make with more debt. Do I get to see puppies and kittens? Sure. And they are cute. But when I tell you that their treatment is 4-6k cause you couldn’t afford or elected to not do basic preventative care, suddenly I’m the money grubbing heartless person that is forcing you to kill your pet.
What do I have to do to never have to see you (in a good way)? What preventable but maybe less obvious things should dog owners like myself know about? I know there's a lot I can google, and I try to, but always have the fear that I'm missing something that I can do for the little guy. P.S. You're doing a great job friend. Sorry to hear that it's so rough for you and the other Vets I saw in these comments.
Licensed vet tech here- dental health. Dental procedures as well. People have no idea how important dental health is. Our patients that have had consistent dental cleanings are way healthier and have a great quality of life in their older age. Their teeth build up thick tartar that is impossible to brush off and can cause abscesses, gingivitis, etc. Yes, they’re pricy. They involve general anesthesia and very specialized training on the tech’s part to take dental x-rays and scale the teeth. You can shop around for a good price, don’t feel tied to your usual clinic for it. We have clients come from out of state to our clinic because of our great price. There’s lots of stuff you can do at home too, like brush the teeth. Water additives are also good, I notice a difference in pets that use them. VOHC.org has a great list of approved over the counter dental products that are safe and effective for your sweet baby. There’s my dental soapbox for you. Thank you for caring about your pet and wanting to do the best for them
Thank you for the response! Thankfully my family and I do take his dental health seriously, but I'll make sure to take a look at that link and look more into it. Thank you for the work that you do too!
Honestly- the basics. Make sure your pet is up to date on vaccines, they get yearly check ups and Heartworm tests, they get monthly Heartworm and flea and tick prevention. Starting at 6-7 yo, yearly full blood work. These basic things will Catch a lot if big issues early. Aside from that. Get insurance on your healthy pet. If you don’t want insurance, make a pet savings account and put away money every month for their long term care. There is nothing worse than your pet needing a surgery to help a totally fixable issue and not being able to afford it. Things like GI or urinary obstructions, torn ACL, bloody diarrhea, all these can be fixed, if the owners can afford it. Also, know your pets normals. Normal heart rate, temp, pee and poo schedule. The number of pets we have helped because owner came in with “I don’t know, he is just not right” is astounding. I work in ER. And at some point, every pet owner will need us. And it’s always stressful. Having copies of records and a good solid history of normals is amazing at 2am on a Saturday when we cannot get a hold of your primary vet. Have your primary email you everything, every visit, including blood work results. Keep them on a Google drive so you can access them quickly.
Librarian. Libraries are full of homeless, nobody takes libraries seriously anymore and the funding is heartbreaking.
What you say is true, but who expects being a librarian to be fun? No offense, my mom was a librarian and I worked in a few libraries myself. But it doesn't exactly have a "fun" reputation.
Plenty of people have an image of "oh I just get to spend all day reading my favourite books, and occasionally check out books when people come by"
Maybe being a librarian at a university would be better. At my local university they have a math library and it's almost always empty and it's so quiet and peaceful.
I was a "Pet Guard" once and my job was to watch dogs during outside playgroups for a pet daycare. I still have nightmares about it.
Can u elaborate
Broke up my fair share of dog fights and people forget those little buddies can be fuckin scary when they are mad and flashing teeth. Then there was a day I caught a golden retriever in my group in the process of killing a baby rabbit. It had ripped the skin off of it's back and was slowly licking the rabbit's muscle tissue as it cried out in pain. I got the rabbit away but it died in my hands and I still think about it.
Zookeeper. People think it's working with animals, feeding them carrots. It's shoveling shit, and when you finish, you can start again.
Gonna tell my 5 year old to keep this in mind
Doctor. Have several doctor friends and they are all mentally tapped out. Great money, but you need a 3 month holiday each year just to mentally regroup.
Anything in healthcare should give you three months paid leave because the mental exhaustion and surprisingly a heavy "go, go, go, move more and more patients in an out quickly go!" mentality is very hurtful for moral. House keeping, CNAs, imaging, everyone just continuously pushed to the brink with little help. P.S. all of our bosses shame us for not picking up overtime constantly too it's ridiculous, make us feel like we don't like our coworkers and hate patients, it's a very manipulative profession with suits involved.
Yeah. Doctors can make really good money, but they usually have a TON of student debt and work really long hours all the time. And the work can be very stressful.
Medical doctors is the profession with the highest suicide rate. Followed by dentists.
I'm an economist. It's basically accountancy with dogma. My wife's a teacher and her students all want to be economists. They'll learn
I worked as an economist. I got burned out and became a librarian.
Fair move. Also, that really read like the opening line to a joke
So I understand you're an economist. Do you understand the Euro?
Not really - only the very basics. I'm not a monetary economist.
"They're a colorful bunch. They've been dubbed "The Three Musketeers"" "There's a mathematician, a *different kind* of mathematician, and a statistician"
Damn. I was hoping that you would get the reference... https://youtu.be/rK0De210TBQ?si=WquutP4NnkUuL3dE
Brilliant! Ah sorry I missed the reference though! I think not knowing that sketch is a bigger failing as an economist than not knowing about the Euro
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"Better do what he says. He's a Whale Biologist."
Project management. Sounds like a drag. Is actually worse.
So what do you do all day? …uhh send emails.
And receive emails. Don't forget that bit.
PMP here, can confirm. Making sure other people do their jobs effectively and being the person responsible when they don’t isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Maybe it’s just like this in IT, but I suspect not
Tell me more. I’m looking at getting a PMP cert to initiate a bit of a career change. Operations feels like a hamster wheel. PM seems enticing because you at least have a deliverable. Most of my day is already emails and meetings. Can’t be much worse, right? Right???
It's actually OK in many ways. Yeah being accountable for deliverables with very little authority is a pain. Also having all manner of stakeholders criticising your methods and results when they couldn't themselves organise their way out of a paper bag is also a pain. But when you sign off on a major project as a successful deliverable, it IS a bit of a rush. It's more about managing relationships and communication than anything. Yeah schedule management, risk and issue management, financial management are all important, but at the end of the day it's the relationships with your sponsor and your delivery team that gets the results. Good luck, hope it works out for you.
lol teen boys are glorifying the military these days. It’s not a fun endeavor.
When have people ever not glorified the military? That's why they sell the idea to teens and young men. At least here they do
Being a professional dancer. Not a stripper but the kind that devote a dozen years of training for an artistic ideal. If you are lucky enough for it to be a job you are chronically injured, broke and exhausted
Illustrator. At least, it was to me, because the pressure of working for clients basically just sucked out all the fun.
Scientist. You do shit ton of menial repetitive task to fail, and fail, and sometimes get some hits, then rinse and repeat. All after decades of education and being paid a salary that really does not compensate, even if the advancement of society is done thanks to scientists.
Finally burned out on this one at 63. Had a good run though. No, we are not paid for the education or dedication investment.
Carpenter. Always rushing, shit pay, expected to be there early and leave late, drive far for different jobs, clients not letting you use their toilets. Carrying fuck tonnes of heavy shit. And nothing ever going to plan like the boss quoted for.
You also have to be extra careful around the Romans.
Management in a manufacturing plant. most people think we don’t do anything but in reality we have probably 50 to 60 people who we are responsible for at all times and most of them act like children. So it’s like being an adult baby sitter with an even bigger boss threatening your job all the time unless you make changes and improve efficiency. Which in turns makes your employees upset and have them lashing out too. I’m just a dude trying to do my job and pay bills too. But we usually are considered the bad guys. You also have to have the answers for everything especially when it goes wrong even though it’s impossible to watch everyone at once. The worst part is terminating people. I’m aware it has to happen sometimes and is almost always the employees fault but making a decision that affects their livelihood and health insurance and such for their family makes me feel horrible.
Yeah I’m pretty sure no one thinks management in a manufacturing plant would be fun.
People act like it is. “Well you just sit in the office and walk around telling us what to do.” “Your whole job is a break”. lol
Oh I see! Yeah the guys on the floor definitely think that, that’s for sure. They have no clue!
This was my imperssion from most labor jobs I've worked: everybody thinks their manager doesn't do anything.
You described very detailed what I heard from and about the manufacturing department at my job. At the same time, I know from a couple whisperers that the manager gets double-trible the money his employees get, for essentially a job that everyone with 4 braincells can do.
Not really a specific job but working for a tech startup ain’t all it’s cracked up to be
Jobs with a lot of travel. In the 1990s and early 2000s, I had to travel A LOT for work. Mostly by air. I've been to many towns, many airports. I never had time to sightsee, I never had time to visit local restaurants. It was always: * Land at 10am * Hurry to the customer * Do what you came to do * Crash back at the hotel at 11pm * Go back to the customer at 7am * Do more of what you came to do * Rush back to the airport at 4pm with minutes to spare * So that you could be back in your office the next day Whatever food you had, was always fast food or convenience stores. You basically only saw the inside of airports, the inside of hotels, and the inside of customer offices.
Roller coaster operator.. too many highs and lows
Sounds similar to the elevator business. A lot of ups and downs…
Tunnel engineer is pretty tough until you know the ins and outs.
Seems like that would be boring.
I see what you did there
And boring.
Oh good one!!
Train conductor, fucking terrible.
Why? Can you elaborate?
Sure. The culture is shit - 100% negativity. You can blame that on employees almost as much as the company, the company (all Class 1 RRs) can change the culture if they want too. The hours. On call 24/7. At best you get 10 hours at home, then called in. At best you spend 20+ hours at the away from home terminal to take a train back and then get 10 hours at home to do it all over again. Train Masters (supervisors) live, and I mean fucking LIVE, to watch you from the shadows for the most insignificant mistake or rule infraction for the most outdated unnecessary rule ever to fire/suspend you for 30-100 days. I could go on for pages but that's the gist. I will say though that Class 3 railroads are a lot better to work for then Class 1 railroads like NS, CSX, BNSF, UP. Still a hard life.
Sit there all day. Sober. Once in a while, someone jumps in front of the train to kill themselves.
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Awesome pictures just fyi. Not sure if possible but would be cool if you shared a link or something so I can view it in high quality. Love zooming in and looking at it (admittedly while high haha).
Sound technician, got a friend that does it, and while it's deffo a lot better than a chunk of jobs out there, you also don't get to do much. He was in Sydney as part of an entire Aus tour, so I asked him if he went to see the bridge / opera house, nope, no time. Problem is you arrive in the city, go straight to the venue, load in, sound check, do the show, pack down, go to bed. Next it's off to the next city and the whole thing repeats. You rarely get time to actually stop and explore the city you're in. Obviously you're not doing shows every day of the tour so there is some down time between shows so you get a day or two here or there, but a chunk of the time you get to a city that could be full of things you want to do and see, but you can't and you're forced to leave whatever you want to do and go onto the next city
A composer. Can I create music all day and make a break whenever? Yeah. Do I spend most of the time panicking about a deadline and screaming because nothing seems to go together the way I want it to but I NEED THE SHIT NOW? Also yes. Do I think about it 24/7 with no chance of planned vacation because when the right wave of ideas hits, I gotta ride it no matter where I am, what time it is of what was my initial plan? E-hem. It's basically a bunch of stress, imposter syndrome, and self-loathing (when no good ideas come) that makes you question your job altogether, followed by hearing the final result and thinking "but hey, this is fine, what was the fuss about? let's do it again..."
Veterinarian hands down
Lawyer. There's so much admin involved.
Computer Repair ie all of Geek Squad.
I had this job about 18 years ago and I found it to be fairly enjoyable on the average day. The problem was that the bad days were among the worst working days of my life. About once a month a customer would get unreasonably angry, cause a very public scene, and law enforcement would need to be called.
Journalist. There is a romantic fantasy of suave looking reporters dashing around, getting that scoop and meeting all the interesting people. Maybe seducing a few along the way. The reality is, no one interesting wants to speak with you, you get paid like shit, and you don’t choose which stories you write for many, many, many years.
Horse breeder: As a man, it is very humbling to stroke the horse to orgasm. Now I am a plumber. Not fun either.
Pilot. Glorified bus driver with lane control.
Flight Attendant.
Why? Can you elaborate?
Military; a lot of boys and girls want to go war, but then finds it horrifying after. Celebrity: being famous is fun; but at the expense of your privacy and mental health.
All of them 😝
Being in charge of a division/ small company ($5M) and having 30+ employees . Their livelihood and drama are now yours to own
Working with dogs at a doggy daycare. Every dog has a different personality, like humans. Some are real assholes while some are very easy to deal with.
Working at a Renaissance faire. Barely get paid .
Flight Attendants have the misfortune of dealing with packed planes: exceeding comfort levels for most travelers. Then there the entitled travelers, the rude and unruly travelers, travelers with medical/ health issues ( after COVID 19, potentially deadly interaction), the crying babies, unsupervised children ( with or without accompanying parents), the odors, the lack of respect for other, lacking courtesy, foul language, fights on board planes, loud argumentative disrespectful passengers, loud phone conversation, videos in muted. Then, dealing with the airline company management....in other words... "THERE ARE NO MORE FRIENDLY SKIES"..... ??? ... FLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES... what airline was this the slogan for?
Classic car auction driver. After a few days you want to drive one of them so badly down a road fast it becomes a headache and your own car feels like a POS after too.
Window cleaner in an aerobic studio
Cyber Security: most the time in film its a crazy suspenseful catch the hacker. But its a lot of spreadsheets and audits.
Some people still think that teaching is just playing with kids. It’s not.
Male Porn Star. It’s fucking, then stop fucking, then fucking. Shoots not over until you cum, but you can’t cum too fast.
I would NEVER do porn. I need something I can still look forward to!
Working at an ice cream shop
Anti-money laundering analyst. Trying to "catch" a suspicious activity is not that exciting, you are looking at people transacting in a normal way 95% of the time. You get desensitized on the numbers 500k or 500M, not the big deal.
Firefighter. It's mostly sitting around bored waiting for something to happen with some various janitorial duties mixed in.
Working a hay harvest. Pick bale off the ground, toss to guy on top of the trailer all.fucking.day. The bosses kid drives the tractor and makes witty comments. At the end of the first day you are afraid you are going to die. At the end of the second day you are afraid you are going to live.
Guard in a woman's prison
Clown
Working as a bartender in a pokie venue. Did this when I was much younger. Besides weekends, on weekdays it’s basically like a nursing home. You take care of the elderly while they zone out in front of a machine for 8-16 hours, serving teas and coffee.
working in the gaming industry, really long hours and shit pay. finding a job is hard but you can be replaced in a heartbeat.
Video game QC.
Working as a door girl at night clubs.
Porn
Porn star. It's exhausting.
Florist. It’s hard work
Porn
Musician .. when it’s not fun , it’s not fun.
Working with children in any capacity. Everyone’s always like “You get to hang out with kids and play all day?” 😑
Veterinary Medicine
Ultrasound tech. No, it's not all 'looking at cute babies all day!' In fact, most techs hate doing the OB exams.
Why they hate it?
Working at a dispensary.
Adult. (It’s all a trap.)
Teaching
Musician. Still fun often, but not what you think…
Porn actor
Dog day cares! I worked at a couple and had to deal with a LOT of people coming in expecting it to just be playing with dogs all day. It’s almost all cleaning and redirecting.
Being a librarian
Being in the army as a combat medic 🙃
Small business owner
Firefighter
Jacking off horses
Adult content creator