#UnpopularOpinion: π€ Have you ever wondered which profession is far less enjoyable than most people realize? Maybe it’s one that seems glamorous on the outside, but actually involves grueling hours and thankless tasks. πΌ
As I was scrolling through social media, I stumbled upon a post that got me thinking. It painted a picture of a job that many folks may not fully appreciate the challenges of. π¨ It made me curious to learn more about other professions that may not be as glamorous as they seem.
So, I decided to reach out and ask you all: which profession do you think fits this description? The one that may look all shiny and exciting, but in reality, it’s a whole different story. π€
Is it the life of a social media influencer with all the pressure to constantly curate a perfect image? Or perhaps the world of investment banking with its long hours and stressful deals? π
Let’s delve deeper into this topic together and share our thoughts and experiences. Vote in the poll below with your opinion and let’s see where the consensus lies! π
#JoinTheConversation: Which profession is far less enjoyable than most people realize?
– Social media influencer
– Investment banker
– Other (please specify)
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Line cook at a fancy restaurant
Veterinarian. Itβs not all cuddling kittens and puppies. You get bit and scratched a lot, and you have to euthanize animals pretty much every day. Itβs hard.
Anything with animals
Paramedic
Porn actor.
All of them
Nursing
Baking. Itβs not just frosting Instagram-worthy cakes, itβs waking up at 2 AM for a 12 hour shift six days a week on your feet in a very hot room and endless repetition.
350 pumpkin pies. 84 cinnamon rolls every morning. 330 cookies each day. All expected to be Uniform. Itβs very boring and very challenging at the same time, the kind of job where you really gotta love it to do it.
I’d say being an actual full time QA tester on videogames.
A lot of people just think all you do is get paid to play the game all day and then basically review it mentioning the occasional bug.
But no, if you’re actually wanting to be kept around and paid decently, you might spend all day turning the game on, loading into it, then VERY precisely repeating the same set of actions trying to reproduce some very specific bug/crash that the game absolutely cannot ship with for compliance reasons. You need to constantly stay on top of the list of bugs that the other QA testers and us engineers are posting, because if you spend half a day doing what I just described, only to find out that’s been a known bug for five weeks, well, that’s not really a good use of your time.
Good QA people are worth their weight in gold, but the task you have is generally not something anyone really considers “fun”.
Being a teacher. It’s basically babysitting bratty kids and working 10 hours a day for crap pay
Of all the jobs Iβve worked Iβd have to say trucking. People imagine you out on the open road listening to audiobooks, friends give winks about the supposed lovely ladies knocking on windows, but the reality is 70% of time is spent in congested city traffic, unpaid in docks, constant sleep deprivation, and the only ladies that knock on the windows are heroin addicts covered in bruises from their pimps, you want no part of it.
I can imagine being the oil-boy for the Swedish Bikini Team would at first seem great, but then it would just be an endless cycle of frustration.
Bartending. Everyone thinks itβs just joking with customers, shaking cocktails, drinking at work & making great money. They donβt see the late night sloppy assholes who need to be kicked out, puke-covered bathrooms, dead day shifts where youβre squeezing hundreds of lemons & limes by hand for entitled night bartenders who will make 10x what you made & leave the place a mess for you in the morningβ¦ the sexual harassment, rampant drug abuse, no breaks, no paid time off, no vacations, no 401k, no health insuranceβ¦ so glamorousβ¦
Therapist. People think with a clipboard and taking notes. We deal with some terrible stuff that gives us nightmares all the time
Teaching. It’s so much worse than you can imagine.
Daytrading… it kill your soul…
Lawyer.
Everyone imagines something like they’d be in the courtroom on Law & Order or other shows. First of all, relatively few lawyers actually go to court on a regular basis. Second, court is far more boring than it looks on tv.
All the lawyers portrayed in entertainment are very well off, financially, but the truth is that most lawyers work in firms of ten or fewer lawyers, and most solo practitioners sometimes go months where there’s not enough income to pay their bills (not to say they don’t pay them, they just have to depend on reserves in those months).
IIRC, the profession with the second highest amount of suicides was attorneys. Dentists were first.
Academia
Film.
Extremely long hours, inconsistent everything, the constant threat of your job being automated away because of AI…it’s a lot of work, yes even for the actors. I’ve seen people working over 24 straight hours.
When advertising is good, it’s fun and exciting. When it’s bad, it’s really, really soul-sucking awful.
I was a QA games tester. People got pretty excited when I used to say that. I never worked on a game that I would have willingly played outside of work. Pretty much everyone who worked there in all development departments thought the game designs were all terrible and begrudgingly did their jobs because they need to keep them. And then eventually all of the games failed to make a profit and the whole thing shut down.
Army Helicopter pilot. At least when you’re starting out.
Exhilarating flying. Miserable additional duties, rotations, and non-flying related work
Iβd imagine content creator has to be in there
Researcher at a university. You are under pressure constantly and the older and more experience you become, the more work and responsibility you will get. The stress does not get less, only more. The people that remain in that career are usually the types of people that make others around them miserable. The nice ones jump ship and go into the private sector, so you are left with a bunch of miserable, overworked cunts.
Iβve heard that acting can be pretty bad. It looks fun on film but imagine having to re-record scenes for days on end, working at all hours of the night, having the director tell you that what youβre doing isnβt quite what he/she is looking for, and dealing with coworkers that come in high, drunk, etc. which delays recording scenes. On top of that, the job security is close to none so youβre always chasing new opportunities and canβt ever feel settled down until you have a few major movie under your belt.
Any hobby you’ve turned into a profession. After a few years of being forced to do it to someone else’s specifications, on someone else’s deadline – only to have it critiqued into oblivion or expected for free – you’ll despise everything about it.
Game Development. We aren’t usually making our own ideas, we’re making some VC’s idea. We are often asked to do 500% of the work in 20% of the time, while also having our expertise and experience ignored. We then somehow manage to ship the game without dying, only to have gamers attack US for shit we did not have control over, and then we get laid off and have to move AGAIN. It fucking sucks, but apparently we can’t say that to people because they do not grok that the job isn’t just playing games all day and coming up with cool ideas. (Neither of those are tasks game devs do.)
Teaching.
Dealing with parents whose children βwould never do such a thingβ or the parents who βknow better about education than the teacherβ and Kids that simply do not care nor want to learn drains a teachers soul. Mix that with traditional office politics and battles with school administration and youβll go gray by your eighth year.
Game developer. When we get into the software industry we’re warned not to even try. It’s an extremely competitive niche where people are often expected to work 80-100 hour weeks back to back to make sure games get released on time. I’ve heard game devs say you can either play games or make them, because if you make them you will never have free time again. A lot of people burn out after 2-5 years so bad they stop writing code entirely.
Comments summary.. *all* jobs are less enjoyable than people realise.
flight attendant! itβs the best job but hard on your body, mental health and sustaining relationships. also the general public is so rude to us π
Anything IT related. I’ve had a lot of coworkers say things, “must be nice to play with computers all day”. No, majority of the IT coworkers that I’ve worked with are pretty depressed, especially when you work helpdesk or desktop roles as you’re climbing up. When you’re help desk, everyone is mad at your always and takes their computer issues out on you. I’ve had laptops thrown at me multiple times in my life over multiple jobs. Usually it’s for reasons that were outside of my control, like they dropped their laptop and their trackpad stopped working, I had another where their bluetooth mouse ran out of battery and they threw their laptop and told me to throw it in the dumpster. I had another user throw a development laptop at me cause it was slow ( we didn’t haver budget to buy new). You really typically only see people at their lowest and angriest and as a result, it skews your perception of how regular people act and it makes you feel alone and depressed. This was decades ago, but I think it shaped me into who I am today.
Dentistry is a whole lot of customer service and dealing with people with unreasonable expectations.
βI want my smile to look like it did 30 years ago and I want it to cost less than $1,000.β – yeahβ¦ no.
Pro athlete. Only really the top performers are paid insane amounts of money, most professional athletes are forgettable and have to get real jobs.
However, the grind of a pro athlete. The intensity you put your body through. I donβt even think most people understand how incredibly physically tolling playing professional baseball is. 162 games is a ridiculous amount of baseball games. I implore anybody to join a serious softball league, and play as hard as you can 3 times a week. Not even to mention the injuries and the rehab that goes with that.
Photographer
you spend too much time chasing new gigs and payments. Nobody hires you for your creative ideas, you get paid gigs if you deliver what the client had in mind and nobody believes that an hour of shooting results in three to six hours of post-production. Traveling to and from the location not even counted in. They just see the moment you go “click” and don’t realize the hours you spent on setting the right light
There’s a lot of craftsmanship and only an infinitesimal amount of creativity, although everybody gets into the job dreaming about realizing his creative visions.
Doctor β 400k medical school debt, minimum wage pay for 3 years of residency training (some residencies + fellowships are 10+ years), work hours 80+/wk, abuse from patients, abuse from admin, corporate overlords, many think weβre some evil, pill-pushing, money grubbing assholes who donβt listen to patients. Itβs just so not true. Yesterday, I spent 3 hours talking with a family about transitioning to comfort care followed by delivering news to clinic patient that their biopsies suggest aggressive cancer. Got home, canβt even afford to buy groceries. Oh, and nurses, NPs/PAs at my place of work especially dislike us resident doctors; they bully and belittle us. Itβs not sunshine and rainbows. Itβs mostly thankless, back-breaking work.
I did not go into medicine for money, respect. I did it for my now patients, who humble and teach me things everyday. Also those special patient encounters where you see chronic medical issues dissipate, and patient regain function, go down on medicines?β¦now thatβs the beautiful part that makes it worth it.
Just donβt even for a moment think my life is like Merideth Grey. Itβs more like Liz Lemon.
Probably anything related to art
First of all itβs hard as shit to carve out a living doing it but then it becomes a job you lose the joy in it.
I work in the animation industry…..if I don’t a get a “rolls eyes, so you’re a child” look, then I definitely get a “oh my god, you don’t even have to be serious it must be so nice not having a real job !” attitude.
Sorry normie …the product may be colorful and fun….the road to get there is low wages, massive hours, no benefits and a cutthroat competition pit of artists trying to make rent.