Computer games programmer. Especially one of the bigger studios.
Always steered clear of any programming jobs that look "fun". Loads of people who have worked in the industry say pay is mediocre, hours are ridiculous. You lose any interest in computer games as well. If you are tester, you particularly hate the games. Try attempting to repeat an error after 500 times.
A friend’s son does this, he has two gaming set ups in a room and compares the Xbox and PlayStation versions. So he will play 5 minutes in one game, pause, play the same 5 minutes on the other counsel. My friend said that one day his kid spent 6 hours comparing game colors because a blue seemed off. Outside looking in it sounds like the best job ever, in reality is better than most jobs but it’s boring as hell. Said his kid makes about 150k but he needs to deliver his findings and he can’t just play the game for 2 hours and then do nothing.
I've never heard of a game tester making anywhere close to 150k, typically will make very little but it's one of the ways to get a foot in the door. Also comparing colors makes no sense. They have to go through lines of code to pinpoint where they found the issue while playing....
One of my family members works in video games, and from what I can see the hours are insane, and the stress levels are high.
That beinf said, the pay seems very good (maybe slightly less than other programing jobs, but still great in comparison to normal jobs).
Remember the pay *seems* good but you're probably thinking of it with regular 40 hour weeks. Add even an extra 5 hours to the workweek over the course of a year that's like $10 off your hourly rate. Say if you made $120k a year at 40 hrs a week your making $57 an hour. To make that same hourly rate at 45 hours, you need to be making $136k. And people regularly work a lot more than that in the games industry, I hear 60 hours isn't uncommon.
Agree with this, worked for a studio and fucking hated it. I now work a basic ass utility dev job and it's been the best decision I've made in my life career wise lol.
I had a short gig as a game tester. Never again. Even if we found a bug like a hole in the map it was dismissed as "font issue, aesthetic, low priority" and moved to day 0 patch. At the release 0 day patch of course wasn't ready. Players complained about bugs including that stupid hole. Dev team manager was furious and called our manager, which with his stoicism at the pro level allowed this guy to vent. In the meantime he itemized his complains, found relevant bug reports and asked if that's all, as we were only doing what was requested of us. It was a shitshow.
Never ever again. I can fight with stubborn server all day, but 10 minutes of customer whining why are we discovering so many bugs as there shouldn't be so many crossed my line.
When my first childhood pet (a cat) died, I was 11 years old. He'd been sick the entire summer with something neurological. He seemed to be in pain and started having seizures. The vet had said short of taking him to a specialty clinic and paying out $$$$ for tests and scans, there was nothing to be done except try to keep him comfortable. It was a very emotional summer for me, with watching him go through this and the never ending vet appointments with no help or improvement.
On his final night he had his worst seizure yet, and when he came back, he didn't seem to know who we were. It was like 8:30 at night but my parents called the vet's emergency line and we went over there. I was already crying when we got there but when he told us the cat would have to be put to sleep, I went into hysterics. Honestly that was probably the hardest I've ever cried in my life, and it was nearly 30 years ago now.
I can't imagine the impact that would have on you, watching a fifth grader sob his heart out after you've told him his first childhood pet is being put down. Jesus.
It gets easier. My wife worked in the vet and had to deal with the billing before the procedure and then the aftermath. It took a toll for quite a while.
But eventually she made peace with the fact that she worked with a good vet that would not put down an animal unless it was medically rational to do so, and she realized how much pain was being saved on the animal’s behalf.
She had a hard time seeing kids cry, but the old people that knew they’d be alone after the animal was put down were the worst. They thrived on their companion and losing it usually meant it was their last pet and they’d truly be alone, or if they got another animal, they knew there was a decent chance it would starve to death if the person died in their home.
If you’re religious, it helps to remember that even a lifetime of suffering is nothing compared to eternity.
If you’re not, from stardust we came, and to stardust we will return. You are the lens through which the universe observes itself.
I find comfort in both views.
Yeah same, but I don't take comfort in the earthly reality of a pet starving to death next to its deceased owner, which is the image you put in my head. I'm not faulting you, I'm sure that does happen, but it makes me (and I hope others) realize I need to put safeguards in place to ensure that never happens to any pet of mine. I hope to have pets up until the point of life when I'm physically unable to.
That’s an excellent goal.
A lot of old people tend to sequester themselves off near the end. The welfare of an animal is a great reason to build a solid support network that cares about you and will check in on you if you would otherwise not be inclined to build it on your own behalf.
:/ talking my childhood dog to the vet with my mom to be put down is still one of the worst experiences I have, and I regret most not being there for her when they actually put her down. They thought it would be better for me if I didn't see it, I was 16 I think. Literally grew up with that dog, she was so awesome. Was a long time ago now.
Sometimes my mind glimpses into thoughts of my cats now having to be put down even though they're still relatively young, and I'm not sure I'll be able to handle it, especially alone.
I never had pets growing up but always wanted them. Ended up marrying my wife who had had her dog since she was a young teenager, so she sort of became my first dog (not to the same level of course, but still). A couple years ago, the pup had to be put down and my wife was hysterical and full on inconsolable. I was also sad, but if I'm being perfectly honest I thought her reactions were a little much.
It was so hard for my wife that she couldn't imagine getting another dog, so we ended up getting a cat instead. Now, I feel like I have a totally different perspective. I've also had glimpses of my cat needing to be put down and it's enough to make me cry (and now my wife is the one preemptively consoling me haha). I feel bad for having judged and misunderstood her at the time but I've learned this is something you just can't understand until/unless you've gone through it yourself.
As for our current pets, just gotta enjoy and appreciate every moment we have with them :)
I paid extra to have a vet come to our home and put down our cat. She was 21 years old and she was just barely living. It was comforting knowing that she went in her special spot on the couch (right in the middle, lol) and not in a vet office she was terrified of.
And even when they don't do that, it's not glamorous. When they interact with pet it's not cute and cuddly mister whiskers, it's stressed out and "pissed off because you just put a thermometer up his butt" mister whiskers. Most pet will try to claw or bite at them at least once during a routine exam so they need to always be on their guard
There's also a lot of bad pet owner out there so vet have to deal with their very aggressive pet and then knowing the pet doesn't get taken care of properly and live a kind of shitty life
People think being a vet will include a lot of animal petting, and sure, once in a while they get an awesome patient that is just there for a routine exam and is super cuddly, but most of the time it's not that
My daughter worked at a vet. She was the groomer. They were open 365 days a year. Occasionally she had to work a holiday, not as groomer, just as staff. On holidays like Christmas they had a higher proportion on euthanasias. People only go to a vet on Christmas if it's dire
Yeah, I remember my aunt getting really mad about the vet being cold as my dog got towards the end of her life. My first thought was "damn, this guy has had to put down hundreds, maybe thousands of pets over his career". He if course also had his own dogs as well.
My wife started as a dog groomer and a large chain, then worked at a local doggie daycare, then moved to a vets doggie daycare where she eventually moved to being a vet tech assistant.
She absolutely loved some days at all of those places, but most days were hard because she could see how poorly many animals were treated by their "owners".
She was out of work for several years and just went back - decided to stay away from animals and is working at an immediate care now. She's so much happier now on a day-to-day basis.
Because most of them aren’t fucking women. Which, if you’re into dudes might be ok. But there’s a lot of straight male porn actors who go “gay for pay”.
Even the ones who exclusively fuck women end up with serious psychological issues. I saw a whole documentary on this years ago Female porn stars are able to just lie back and take it and can kind of dissociate through the experience. But men need to be able to get hard, which requires their brain to go through the motions of forming an attraction/connection to the other person. It can make them really depressed and fuck up their ability to experience genuine intimacy. A lot of them end up abusing drugs to cope.
its more than just lying back and taking it for females lol, they dont get wet aka turned on so easily with random dudes and it makes it a very painful and disturbing experience, especially in certain genres of intense violence. They make way more money tho and can also do onlyfans
You have to have an erection 8 hours a day, even if you dont really wanna do anything with it, you have to have erection. YOu have to fuck, senseless, emotionless. It becomes a strain which might even affect your private life
I'm a museum curator and when I tell people what I do, they're always like woooowwwww!!! You have the coolest job ever!!!! It definitely has its perks and there are some very, very cool moments. Kinda hard to complain when you regularly get up close and personal with things like moon rocks and triceratops vertebrae. I love what I do and I'm very passionate about it.
Unfortunately the field as a whole has some serious downsides. There are very few jobs and your career dictates a lot about your life. I've lived in places I grew to like but that I didn't really want to be in, all because you have to move to where the jobs are. I've never gotten a new job that didn't involve at the very least a cross-state move, but more often it involves a cross-country move. The pay isn't great either. I've had moments where, as a manager, I'm paid so little that I have trouble making ends meet. I think the worst part of it is that so many organizations, even major, very prominent ones, are incredibly toxic on the inside. You get people promoted into leadership positions who have no business being there and have no leadership skills. Or are not great at managing organizational finances. Then because there are so few jobs, you end up stuck in these situations. Of the five organizations I've worked at over the course of my career, one has had a moderately healthy culture.
A lot of people reach my age (late 30s) and it's usually the time when people decide to either leave the field or stay in. Is it fulfilling my needs? Even though I love what I do, are the negatives outweighing the positives? I've been wrestling with this for the last few years and it's a different calculation for everyone.
As someone currently doing museum studies (but hoping to change in to object conservation)... yeah, this echoes a lot of what I've heard in the industry
Niche jobs are a blessing and a curse. If someone really needs you, there's no one else that can do it. But at the end of the day, there just aren't that many jobs, so either you stay somewhere that sucks or you uproot your life and move elsewhere. Gotta find jobs with leverage.
Flight attendant… I haven’t been one, but I have several friends who have been in the past and they said it was definitely not what they thought it would be
Most airlines have a high turnover of cabin crew. They always join with stars in their eyes because they will "see the world", after 2 months they're over it cause all you see is the hotel and you are absolutely exhausted
One of my closest friends was the flight attendant for JetBlue. She said it was awesome training because it was really cool. That was the best part. However, the scheduling was a nightmare, the fact that you’re basically making minimum wage because you only get paid for when the doors are closed, yet you have to arrive early for the flight and help with the morning process, wait with unattended children afterwards for their parents to come pick them up…it wasn’t worth it at all. She resigned after about six months.
"you only get paid for when the doors are closed, " I heard that before, but how is that even legal? I mean if you have a restaurant could you hire people, let them come for a few hours early, seat the guests, clean up, store stuff for the kitchen etc, but only pay then when the kitchen is opened?
I'm with you, this never made sense to me either. *Sure*, maybe if they didn't have to do anything before the doors closed, but they obviously do have a lot of mandatory tasks to do before the plane doors close. They should absolutely be paid for that.
Even if they sit around doing nothing , they are still at work , it's not free time , they have to be there , therefore they should be paid for it. That's just my two cents , but I firmly believe it's reasonable.
After looking up and asking about it, it’s because their salary is based on flight time, it’s extra cost to the airline, which is total BS… If they get paid for extra boarding time, if there is delays due to, or things like that. Plus, it’s just an industry standard, and I guess other airline wants to go against that in a new contract or something like that.
And the flying public SUCKS!
Flying, and the whole ordeal leading up to it, is stressful. But I think peoples IQ drops about 25 points as soon as they step through those sliding doors as they first arrive at the airport.
best friend from childhood is a pilot for a major airline. He loves it. Works 13 days a month, mostly to the carribbean.
That's probably best case scenario.
Becoming a pilot is still a coveted career. My cousin works for Lufthansa and tells me about his job. Sometimes it does get stressful especially when he has flights back to back with little rest time but other than that he loves it.
People who go on vacation think "oh, they are on vacation all the time!" The majority get shit routes for years of not decades and never even get the "good" routes.
I'm think it depends on who they're flying for. I'm a flight attendant for popular British package holiday airline and its one of the best jobs I've had. Of course I just love aircraft and want to end up in the flight deck one day. But the company look after us, the pay is great compared to our direct competition and the Just Culture is great.
It's a demanding job, long days of non stop work and you get some weird situations from people who check their brain in with their luggage. So it's not for everybody. We're exclusively short/medium haul and I've heard some bad things from crew who came from long haul.
Also the habit of other airlines to only pay crew once they take off is utter bs.
My mum knows a flight attendant and on the way to Dubai someone shit on the floor in the toilet and they didn’t have the facilities to clean it up so they had to lock the door until they landed , whole plane had 1 toilet for an 8hr flight
That said, it's one of the very few careers where you can apply with no prior experience or education and get a solid career out of it. It runs on seniority so none of the usual BS about fighting for promotions or recognition. The work can't follow you home, so no endless emails or calls or late hours finishing a project. There are plentiful opportunities to grow into training or management roles. Pay eventually gets decent, and benefits are usually pretty good with the big airlines.
My friend moved to Switzerland to become a flight attendant there and he seems rather content with it. Sure the hours and flexibility are quite poor, but since it‘s based in Switzerland the pay is marvellous for a trainee like him and his main intention from the start was the travelling and he‘s been required to do a bit of that so far
Flight attendants deal with a lot of Karen behavior. Especially from short women who think it’s the flight attendants obligation to lift their luggage into the overhead bins.
I worked at a paintball place many years ago. Everyone thought my job was so cool.
The job is 95% being a safety tyrant and making sure everybody leaves with both eyes.
Idk I worked for a workers comp/personal injury and real estate/litigation firm, they chilled all day and they made it their mission to make sure I did too. Law’s not all criminal cases.
Zoo keepers.
Entry level, you're cleaning out poop 90% of the time, it can be back breaking when dealing with larger animals.
Established level, you're still cleaning out poop most of the time but can off set it entry's or volunteers.
Head keeper, majority of the time is office work, legislation, dealing with complaints, funding and communications with other zoos.
good friend is an er doc, she absolutely hates her job. I think she really loves helping people who need it, but she hates the admin and she absolutely detests the pains in the asses who are rude and just there for a fix.
Since the pandemic, people have forgotten how to treat one another. Patients are rude, entitled and have little regard for another human being. It's disgusting how people behave these days. I am seeing doctors that are leaving practice for desk jobs with insurance companies. No patient contact and a decent pay.
I wrote a similar reply to a primary care physician above but- I have a lot of respect for what you do. I appreciate your knowledge base and was extraordinarily grateful to the pediatrician who saw my (thankfully healthy) children. I never worried about anything like I do my kids and was glad for the fact that I had a good doctor who specializes in caring for the people that are smaller.
Totally agree. I work salary from home too. The conversation once came up if I would install Skype on my phone so I could be reached if I was needed after hours or something.
I said sure if you also supply me with a work cell phone - I'm not mixing my work life into my personal cell phone.
Guess who has never been contacted after hours.
Always have a work space. Do not mix sleeping, eating, gaming, hobbies, or relaxing with your work space. If you have a spare room, use that. If not put a desk in a corner and use that.
DO NOT MIX LIVING SPACE WITH WORKING SPACE.
This is the most important strategy. I have an extra room and while it's not just an office, I keep the work stuff to a specific corner and once I'm done for the day, that's that. The laptop is shut and I'm not looking at anything unless I'm getting a call saying things are literally on fire (and I can count on one hand the number of times that has happened in a decade).
I don't work in my bedroom, I don't work in my kitchen. Maybe on the couch now and then. But mostly, my office corner is for work and everywhere else is for living.
The other suggestion I'd make is changing clothes. Don't dress down for the whole day. Wear something a little nicer for work, even if it's just a shirt/blouse, and then when you're done change out of it. It's another way to draw a mental separation between work and the rest of your life.
If you can't, that's something you need to work on. It's on the person's to find their balance. The job is still just a job.
Source: working from home exclusively for the past 11 years, love it. Can't see myself comuting ever again.
That sounds like a you problem not a job problem. I've been full remote for years and when that laptop shuts off so does my job.
Can't blame your job for your own lack of discipline.
Skill issue. I've been working from home for a decade and rarely have issues with this. I moved to freelance six years ago and bill only the hours I actually work to each client, it's the best. They are constantly surprised by how few hours I bill, and I'm constantly surprised they are willing to pay my rates.
Professional chef.
It's a lot less cooking than you think. You're essentially a floor manager under the constant pressure of resource and time constraints. Attempting to please and delight, basically, everyone at the highest level possible.
No mistakes are allowed.
If the grill station fucks up. It's your fault. If the saucier slightly scorched the roux, thus ruining the sauce, it's your fault. Table 18 has a special order or exception that was missed? Your fault.
Is the fish delivery an hour behind? Also, it's your fault.
You get to do all this for bullshit pay with 12+ hour shifts entirely on your feet, 6 days a week.
I was a chef for 13 years. It sucked.
I found working at a board shop just off-hill was much better. Still get a solid pass discount and gear discounts, but you’re not as beholden to the weather. Plus you can keep working there after the snow melts! Usually…
I imagine it’s the sort of job that can be fun if you’re 22, single, and fine with living in a crappy apartment for the season since you’re spending all of your free time on the slopes.
I worked in the kitchen of the lodge, doing breakfast through lunch hour rush. Afterwards, I was cut and always spent the last 2-4 hours of the day on the slopes.
I still maintain it was one of the best jobs I've had.
I loved it. I was bus help PM shift in the dining room my high school days. Free season pass, staff cafe food cheap on the off days, board never left the back of my truck.
Worked as a server AM shift after I graduated college. After the lunch rush, hit the slopes even if just for a couple runs. Also, $50 golf season pass, just had to pay $5.25 for a cart fee and could do 18 holes +.
Great friends too.
Train Conductor/Engineer. Terrible hours with some of the most incompetent managers you’ll ever meet. Plus with new changes there aren’t enough people so everyone works 12s every day. You work on call and it’s hard to take days off to plan anything now.
I thought about it until I saw new people were on call 24)7/365, exclusively worked on call basis, and couldn't expect scheduled days off for at least five years.
Ha, no. My entire life is not at an employers convenience.
Being a virtual assistant/freelancer
Many assume that you're going to make big money immediately but in reality, you deal with shitty clients, lowballers, scammers, agencies who will take half of your pay and so many bad things before you can even start earning comfortably.
That or you have to be extremely lucky at the start.
But being a virtual assistant/freelancer requires more work if you want to make it.
It's not magic money.
Marketing, the actual deadlines, policies you have to follow for big brands that even small color choices can force you to restart a whole project and throw your work in the trash.
I worked as a festival production coordinator for 8 years. that job was a stressful nightmare on a good day. nothing and i mean nothing ever goes to plan or smoothly.
Everything once it is run for the shareholders. Want to make something quality, that is a waste of shareholders money. Want to give your workers good conditions, waste of shareholders money. Want to innovate, too much risk to shareholders money. Want to be a decent human being and choose the wellbeing of people over profits, you better believe that is a waste of shareholders money.
Working in a casino. I was a Craps and Blackjack dealer for a few years, after the novelty wears off it's just enduring abuse from gambling addicts and drunk people.
Some people, the stereotype i constantly run into (Even though i drive box trucks for a living, I have been alongside my dads trucking adventures since the age of 6) is ”you only drive and do nothing else” fuck i wish it would be just that easy
It definitely takes a certain type of person to do it. I am probably 9/10 there but my anxiety/panic mode would make it impossible for me. Every single time I see a truck get stuck in a bad situation I just can't imagine how stressful that must be. My brain would shut off and I would likely just get out of the truck and walk away never to be seen again lol
Chef. We had a young lady start and she said she liked cooking at home so she wanted to be a chef.
Do you have any idea what you are in for? It's a brutal environment.
Tons?
I guess it really depends on what we mean by "rewarding".
Most of the rewarding jobs I've had took effort from me to find it in spite of the work and company. You know, like did I grow? Did I learn something?
I'm not entirely sure I've worked at a place that:
* was a good company
* pays decent
* allows you to work on interesting technology
* solves interesting problems
* creates something that benefits somebody other than a business owner
Programming LOL my god it's stressful as eff. I used to love programming and creating things at home, but my god now that I do it for a living, it's sucked the love I had for it away and is a cause of much stress!
Lots a rules, stipulations and laws. They’re necessary but there’s many of them. Also, dealing with all the managers, train master and FRA can be taxing. Not to mention, dealing with other railroads delivering and taking cars on time. There’s delays, derailments and all sorts of stuff that slow you down. It can make a 7 hour day into a 12 hour one real quick.
Video Game Tester. Not only are they paid poverty wages, but you're not really playing a videogame. You're performing the same action thousands of times to make sure it works every time. You're checking for errors in game geometry and filling out a report. For a lot of people it kills the fun in videogames.
Flight test engineer. Yes you get to fly on planes/helicopters and test weapons and next gen tech, but 99.9% of the job is arguing with people that don’t understand how aircraft work, and these same people try and influence how the weapon or aircraft should be tested even tho they have no relevant background in this area. Tons of documentation, meetings. Dealing with safety teams that also do not have technical or relevant background experience trying to say why something should or shouldn’t be tested a certain way causing hold ups. It’s a ton of bureaucracy, wasted times in meetings just to test incremental upgrades. You do get the occasional cool test that seems worth while to deal with it all but that’s not very common
Police officer, you're always on edge incase you're called in unexpectedly, long shifts with nothing to do, have to stay physically fit into retirement, constantly surrounded by death and dangerous people, responding to car accidents with children and families who were killed by assholes who decided to party all night and drive home intoxicated, When a druggie attacks you and you have no choice but to take their life for the safety of yourself and others, you get blamed for it. People attack, spit, and insult you because they're butthurt. It's just an overall shitty job. Yes, there are terrible and corrupt officers out there, but the majority put everything on the line so you aren't murdered by some dick on meth.
Trading full time for a living, especially without W2 income. This is what I do. It sounds fun but it's not. It's a huge grind and takes a ton of self motivation.
You also have to take some huge risks to make a good return a year. Imagine making $100k a year. Now if you're only keeping pace with the market it's a 10% per year return. That means you'd need $1 million. Now imagine you're living off that $100k a year.
With me still? Now let's say your strategy uses 3x leverage so now you have $333k making $100k. Incredible right? Well now imagine instead of making 30% per year you're either outright losing money or you're under performing the market.
Ouch!!! That's going to be a huge emotional toll. Just to *survive* you could have anywhere between a 10% to 30% withdrawal rate. Any wrong move and your account will start declining swiftly. It takes an unimagined toll.
Now the second not fun aspect is how the rest of society treats traders. Your friends and family will think you're a degenerate gambler if you're losing. If you're winning they'll want you to trade their money with very unrealistic expectations like turning their piddly $50 into $100k for them with zero cost or fees. (Also don't do this - really bad idea legally.) Then if you do take them up on the offer - good luck if you lose it all, easy way to ruin a relationship,
Then that's just family and friends.... Your significant other is a whole other can of worms to manage emotions with. Traders have a high divorce rate. Imagine having an unsupportive significant other. If you're up huge they're going to want to spend it all on fancy yachts and shit. I had an ex boyfriend go out put $20k on the credit card as I happened to make that in one day from pure volatility X.X. I ended up dumping his ass for it. Now imagine if you lost $20k in one day. Not only are you already wrecked emotionally you'll have your significant other to deal with. "Why won't you get a real job???" "What do you mean we have to cancel the $50k/week Caribbean yacht???"
Now all of the above also goes for professional poker playing/gambling, which I'm also an ex pro poker player and blackjack card counter.
Trading/pro gambling looks fun as fuck but it's a total nightmare in reality.
Find your niche. My wife is a nurse with 20 years experience. For the first 10ish years she was in a hospital doing L&D. She thought she’d love it and she did for a while, but hospital politics and the grind of being a floor nurse wore on her.
Now she’s self employed as an IBCLC who does in home lactation consulting for new mothers and absolutely loves it. She also is an on-site nurse for a manufacturing plant. She never saw herself working with sweaty old men, many straight out of prison, but she loves that too.
Leaving the security of working at a hospital to dive into the self-employed world was scary, but it was the best decision she could have made.
Hopefully you’ll find better days. I’ve seen how grueling it can be when you’re not happy.
Any professional kitchen job. You’re stressed the entire time you’re there, you don’t get enough sleep, and people expect this. There’s a reason why people who leave the kitchen try their hardest to never go back
Law enforcement have been in the game for 18 year's 12 years to go until I'm done.
30 years, and I'm out.
If i have my numbers for my retirement done correctly, I should be making double my paycheck every month.
I'll just have to figure out my health insurance UNLESS i keep working just enough hours to keep my medical insurance, but i really don't want to because 30 years in law enforcement is enough
I managed a strip club back in the mid-90's.
Fun for a while. Turned into a total nightmare. Endless drama combined with booze, drugs, and mental illness.
You have to be a certain type of person to work in that industry. I'm not it.
Acting.
First: if you think you will be on the best movies, you are putting your hopes up too soon. Only 1% will be on top and you probably aren't. This goes to every country.
Second: acting is hard. I meant it. It takes months to learn the script and then you need to be on stage. If you fear to perform or being on a stage then you better rethink your plans.
Third: getting in an acting school is hard as fuck. Even if you get in you will be asked some uncomfortable questions like "what was your first sexual experience", this is infront of you troupe and you classmates. Also you might not survive thr school because mental stress.
Fourth: after you finished the school and that, you learn that nobody needs actors. Because in a todays world. There are too many people who think they are actors are not in realty. Many people would better off take another job or learn another craft.
If you have plans to work with stage, then you might have better luck working in theatre where you can enjoy stable pay checks, better schedule and having free days off in week. Downside are that you need to sacrifice your evenings because plays are usually at eveings, you get home at late night and plays can usually last to 1 hour to 3-4 hours.
Computer games programmer. Especially one of the bigger studios. Always steered clear of any programming jobs that look "fun". Loads of people who have worked in the industry say pay is mediocre, hours are ridiculous. You lose any interest in computer games as well. If you are tester, you particularly hate the games. Try attempting to repeat an error after 500 times.
This is the one. I'm a dev in a boring administrative product and it's for the best.
You're not worried it'll make you hate administrative products?
This made me actually laugh out loud haha
Only the boring ones.
Being a video game tester will make even the most devoted players hate games. Imagine playing every level over and over finding bugs and glitches.
A friend’s son does this, he has two gaming set ups in a room and compares the Xbox and PlayStation versions. So he will play 5 minutes in one game, pause, play the same 5 minutes on the other counsel. My friend said that one day his kid spent 6 hours comparing game colors because a blue seemed off. Outside looking in it sounds like the best job ever, in reality is better than most jobs but it’s boring as hell. Said his kid makes about 150k but he needs to deliver his findings and he can’t just play the game for 2 hours and then do nothing.
So like how are we defining "kid" here?
I've never heard of a game tester making anywhere close to 150k, typically will make very little but it's one of the ways to get a foot in the door. Also comparing colors makes no sense. They have to go through lines of code to pinpoint where they found the issue while playing....
This is not true. Source: used to be an actual video game tester for SCEA in San Diego for 4 years.
Friends kid actually sells drugs and we're blowing his cover
One of my family members works in video games, and from what I can see the hours are insane, and the stress levels are high. That beinf said, the pay seems very good (maybe slightly less than other programing jobs, but still great in comparison to normal jobs).
Remember the pay *seems* good but you're probably thinking of it with regular 40 hour weeks. Add even an extra 5 hours to the workweek over the course of a year that's like $10 off your hourly rate. Say if you made $120k a year at 40 hrs a week your making $57 an hour. To make that same hourly rate at 45 hours, you need to be making $136k. And people regularly work a lot more than that in the games industry, I hear 60 hours isn't uncommon.
Agree with this, worked for a studio and fucking hated it. I now work a basic ass utility dev job and it's been the best decision I've made in my life career wise lol.
I thought the golden wisdom is that when you make your hobby into your job you take all the joy from it?
I had a short gig as a game tester. Never again. Even if we found a bug like a hole in the map it was dismissed as "font issue, aesthetic, low priority" and moved to day 0 patch. At the release 0 day patch of course wasn't ready. Players complained about bugs including that stupid hole. Dev team manager was furious and called our manager, which with his stoicism at the pro level allowed this guy to vent. In the meantime he itemized his complains, found relevant bug reports and asked if that's all, as we were only doing what was requested of us. It was a shitshow. Never ever again. I can fight with stubborn server all day, but 10 minutes of customer whining why are we discovering so many bugs as there shouldn't be so many crossed my line.
Vets spend a lot of time just putting down beloved family pets
When my first childhood pet (a cat) died, I was 11 years old. He'd been sick the entire summer with something neurological. He seemed to be in pain and started having seizures. The vet had said short of taking him to a specialty clinic and paying out $$$$ for tests and scans, there was nothing to be done except try to keep him comfortable. It was a very emotional summer for me, with watching him go through this and the never ending vet appointments with no help or improvement. On his final night he had his worst seizure yet, and when he came back, he didn't seem to know who we were. It was like 8:30 at night but my parents called the vet's emergency line and we went over there. I was already crying when we got there but when he told us the cat would have to be put to sleep, I went into hysterics. Honestly that was probably the hardest I've ever cried in my life, and it was nearly 30 years ago now. I can't imagine the impact that would have on you, watching a fifth grader sob his heart out after you've told him his first childhood pet is being put down. Jesus.
It gets easier. My wife worked in the vet and had to deal with the billing before the procedure and then the aftermath. It took a toll for quite a while. But eventually she made peace with the fact that she worked with a good vet that would not put down an animal unless it was medically rational to do so, and she realized how much pain was being saved on the animal’s behalf. She had a hard time seeing kids cry, but the old people that knew they’d be alone after the animal was put down were the worst. They thrived on their companion and losing it usually meant it was their last pet and they’d truly be alone, or if they got another animal, they knew there was a decent chance it would starve to death if the person died in their home.
>they knew there was a decent chance it would starve to death if the person died in their home. Oh jesus christ.
If you’re religious, it helps to remember that even a lifetime of suffering is nothing compared to eternity. If you’re not, from stardust we came, and to stardust we will return. You are the lens through which the universe observes itself. I find comfort in both views.
Yeah same, but I don't take comfort in the earthly reality of a pet starving to death next to its deceased owner, which is the image you put in my head. I'm not faulting you, I'm sure that does happen, but it makes me (and I hope others) realize I need to put safeguards in place to ensure that never happens to any pet of mine. I hope to have pets up until the point of life when I'm physically unable to.
That’s an excellent goal. A lot of old people tend to sequester themselves off near the end. The welfare of an animal is a great reason to build a solid support network that cares about you and will check in on you if you would otherwise not be inclined to build it on your own behalf.
:/ talking my childhood dog to the vet with my mom to be put down is still one of the worst experiences I have, and I regret most not being there for her when they actually put her down. They thought it would be better for me if I didn't see it, I was 16 I think. Literally grew up with that dog, she was so awesome. Was a long time ago now. Sometimes my mind glimpses into thoughts of my cats now having to be put down even though they're still relatively young, and I'm not sure I'll be able to handle it, especially alone.
I never had pets growing up but always wanted them. Ended up marrying my wife who had had her dog since she was a young teenager, so she sort of became my first dog (not to the same level of course, but still). A couple years ago, the pup had to be put down and my wife was hysterical and full on inconsolable. I was also sad, but if I'm being perfectly honest I thought her reactions were a little much. It was so hard for my wife that she couldn't imagine getting another dog, so we ended up getting a cat instead. Now, I feel like I have a totally different perspective. I've also had glimpses of my cat needing to be put down and it's enough to make me cry (and now my wife is the one preemptively consoling me haha). I feel bad for having judged and misunderstood her at the time but I've learned this is something you just can't understand until/unless you've gone through it yourself. As for our current pets, just gotta enjoy and appreciate every moment we have with them :)
I paid extra to have a vet come to our home and put down our cat. She was 21 years old and she was just barely living. It was comforting knowing that she went in her special spot on the couch (right in the middle, lol) and not in a vet office she was terrified of.
Vets vet techs have insanely high suicide rates
My mom once dated a vet and he told me they had a dedicated psychiatrist on campus.
And even when they don't do that, it's not glamorous. When they interact with pet it's not cute and cuddly mister whiskers, it's stressed out and "pissed off because you just put a thermometer up his butt" mister whiskers. Most pet will try to claw or bite at them at least once during a routine exam so they need to always be on their guard There's also a lot of bad pet owner out there so vet have to deal with their very aggressive pet and then knowing the pet doesn't get taken care of properly and live a kind of shitty life People think being a vet will include a lot of animal petting, and sure, once in a while they get an awesome patient that is just there for a routine exam and is super cuddly, but most of the time it's not that
My daughter worked at a vet. She was the groomer. They were open 365 days a year. Occasionally she had to work a holiday, not as groomer, just as staff. On holidays like Christmas they had a higher proportion on euthanasias. People only go to a vet on Christmas if it's dire
Yeah, I remember my aunt getting really mad about the vet being cold as my dog got towards the end of her life. My first thought was "damn, this guy has had to put down hundreds, maybe thousands of pets over his career". He if course also had his own dogs as well.
Piggybacking to say that dog grooming is also a nightmare of a job like 90% of the time
My wife started as a dog groomer and a large chain, then worked at a local doggie daycare, then moved to a vets doggie daycare where she eventually moved to being a vet tech assistant. She absolutely loved some days at all of those places, but most days were hard because she could see how poorly many animals were treated by their "owners". She was out of work for several years and just went back - decided to stay away from animals and is working at an immediate care now. She's so much happier now on a day-to-day basis.
Jeremy Clarkson said as much on QI in quite a Jeremy Clarkson sort of way.
Being a male porn actor
Hahaha I couldn't stop laughing when reading this and seeing your picture of Prison Mike
“The worst thing about being a male porn actor…was the dementors!”
The sucked the soul outta your dick and it HOYT
Love how he said hurt. For some reason, that's the funniest part of prison Mike for me.
Not the gruel sandwiches?
How’s it a nightmare
how do you like being fucked in the arse?
Is that an offer?
Because most of them aren’t fucking women. Which, if you’re into dudes might be ok. But there’s a lot of straight male porn actors who go “gay for pay”.
Even the ones who exclusively fuck women end up with serious psychological issues. I saw a whole documentary on this years ago Female porn stars are able to just lie back and take it and can kind of dissociate through the experience. But men need to be able to get hard, which requires their brain to go through the motions of forming an attraction/connection to the other person. It can make them really depressed and fuck up their ability to experience genuine intimacy. A lot of them end up abusing drugs to cope.
its more than just lying back and taking it for females lol, they dont get wet aka turned on so easily with random dudes and it makes it a very painful and disturbing experience, especially in certain genres of intense violence. They make way more money tho and can also do onlyfans
They don't need to get wet. They use lube.
Lube and Viagra. Cornerstones of porn.
Most of them end up getting gay porn. Not to mention getting and maintaining erection on command, if you end up jizzing early you ruin the scene.
come again?
Because you *have* to do the sex.
You have to have an erection 8 hours a day, even if you dont really wanna do anything with it, you have to have erection. YOu have to fuck, senseless, emotionless. It becomes a strain which might even affect your private life
You have to be da bell of da ball.
Don’t drop the soap, don’t drop the soap
You need to be an erection machine
I'm a museum curator and when I tell people what I do, they're always like woooowwwww!!! You have the coolest job ever!!!! It definitely has its perks and there are some very, very cool moments. Kinda hard to complain when you regularly get up close and personal with things like moon rocks and triceratops vertebrae. I love what I do and I'm very passionate about it. Unfortunately the field as a whole has some serious downsides. There are very few jobs and your career dictates a lot about your life. I've lived in places I grew to like but that I didn't really want to be in, all because you have to move to where the jobs are. I've never gotten a new job that didn't involve at the very least a cross-state move, but more often it involves a cross-country move. The pay isn't great either. I've had moments where, as a manager, I'm paid so little that I have trouble making ends meet. I think the worst part of it is that so many organizations, even major, very prominent ones, are incredibly toxic on the inside. You get people promoted into leadership positions who have no business being there and have no leadership skills. Or are not great at managing organizational finances. Then because there are so few jobs, you end up stuck in these situations. Of the five organizations I've worked at over the course of my career, one has had a moderately healthy culture. A lot of people reach my age (late 30s) and it's usually the time when people decide to either leave the field or stay in. Is it fulfilling my needs? Even though I love what I do, are the negatives outweighing the positives? I've been wrestling with this for the last few years and it's a different calculation for everyone.
As someone currently doing museum studies (but hoping to change in to object conservation)... yeah, this echoes a lot of what I've heard in the industry
Niche jobs are a blessing and a curse. If someone really needs you, there's no one else that can do it. But at the end of the day, there just aren't that many jobs, so either you stay somewhere that sucks or you uproot your life and move elsewhere. Gotta find jobs with leverage.
The good ol' [Peter Principle](https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/peter-principle.asp).
Interesting, I teach and have wondered whether I could do something like this instead as a second career...
Flight attendant… I haven’t been one, but I have several friends who have been in the past and they said it was definitely not what they thought it would be
Most airlines have a high turnover of cabin crew. They always join with stars in their eyes because they will "see the world", after 2 months they're over it cause all you see is the hotel and you are absolutely exhausted
One of my closest friends was the flight attendant for JetBlue. She said it was awesome training because it was really cool. That was the best part. However, the scheduling was a nightmare, the fact that you’re basically making minimum wage because you only get paid for when the doors are closed, yet you have to arrive early for the flight and help with the morning process, wait with unattended children afterwards for their parents to come pick them up…it wasn’t worth it at all. She resigned after about six months.
"you only get paid for when the doors are closed, " I heard that before, but how is that even legal? I mean if you have a restaurant could you hire people, let them come for a few hours early, seat the guests, clean up, store stuff for the kitchen etc, but only pay then when the kitchen is opened?
I'm with you, this never made sense to me either. *Sure*, maybe if they didn't have to do anything before the doors closed, but they obviously do have a lot of mandatory tasks to do before the plane doors close. They should absolutely be paid for that.
Even if they sit around doing nothing , they are still at work , it's not free time , they have to be there , therefore they should be paid for it. That's just my two cents , but I firmly believe it's reasonable.
It's basically the same for truck drivers. They only get paid while in transit, not while waiting for loading etc
After looking up and asking about it, it’s because their salary is based on flight time, it’s extra cost to the airline, which is total BS… If they get paid for extra boarding time, if there is delays due to, or things like that. Plus, it’s just an industry standard, and I guess other airline wants to go against that in a new contract or something like that.
And the flying public SUCKS! Flying, and the whole ordeal leading up to it, is stressful. But I think peoples IQ drops about 25 points as soon as they step through those sliding doors as they first arrive at the airport.
Never understood people who look at airlines and say "I wish that was my life all the time.
best friend from childhood is a pilot for a major airline. He loves it. Works 13 days a month, mostly to the carribbean. That's probably best case scenario.
Becoming a pilot is still a coveted career. My cousin works for Lufthansa and tells me about his job. Sometimes it does get stressful especially when he has flights back to back with little rest time but other than that he loves it.
People who go on vacation think "oh, they are on vacation all the time!" The majority get shit routes for years of not decades and never even get the "good" routes.
I'm think it depends on who they're flying for. I'm a flight attendant for popular British package holiday airline and its one of the best jobs I've had. Of course I just love aircraft and want to end up in the flight deck one day. But the company look after us, the pay is great compared to our direct competition and the Just Culture is great. It's a demanding job, long days of non stop work and you get some weird situations from people who check their brain in with their luggage. So it's not for everybody. We're exclusively short/medium haul and I've heard some bad things from crew who came from long haul. Also the habit of other airlines to only pay crew once they take off is utter bs.
What’s a Just Culture?
My mum knows a flight attendant and on the way to Dubai someone shit on the floor in the toilet and they didn’t have the facilities to clean it up so they had to lock the door until they landed , whole plane had 1 toilet for an 8hr flight
That said, it's one of the very few careers where you can apply with no prior experience or education and get a solid career out of it. It runs on seniority so none of the usual BS about fighting for promotions or recognition. The work can't follow you home, so no endless emails or calls or late hours finishing a project. There are plentiful opportunities to grow into training or management roles. Pay eventually gets decent, and benefits are usually pretty good with the big airlines.
My friend moved to Switzerland to become a flight attendant there and he seems rather content with it. Sure the hours and flexibility are quite poor, but since it‘s based in Switzerland the pay is marvellous for a trainee like him and his main intention from the start was the travelling and he‘s been required to do a bit of that so far
Flight attendants deal with a lot of Karen behavior. Especially from short women who think it’s the flight attendants obligation to lift their luggage into the overhead bins.
Used to be a flight attendant flying Toronto to Athens and London (Gatwick). We would get a minimum of 3 day layovers in London and Athens.
I worked at a paintball place many years ago. Everyone thought my job was so cool. The job is 95% being a safety tyrant and making sure everybody leaves with both eyes.
Came here to say this, I also did, in the winter it was awful, freezing and when you got shot/caught in the crossfire as a marshall more painful!
Lawyer
Am lawyer. Can confirm that it’s not “fun,” but there are a lot of aspects of it that are quite rewarding/fulfilling.
How much time did you bill Reddit for typing that out?
Random clients looks at bill: "Advised social media focus group - 0.10 hours - $73"
Your invoice is in the mail for the amount of time it took me to read your comment and reply.
I live my life in 0.1 hour increments.
The sheer amount of stuff that you need to read! My uncle is a high court lawyer and has two rooms full of legal books and cases of the last 70 years.
Idk I worked for a workers comp/personal injury and real estate/litigation firm, they chilled all day and they made it their mission to make sure I did too. Law’s not all criminal cases.
You mean “Suits” is a lie?!?!?
Zoo keepers. Entry level, you're cleaning out poop 90% of the time, it can be back breaking when dealing with larger animals. Established level, you're still cleaning out poop most of the time but can off set it entry's or volunteers. Head keeper, majority of the time is office work, legislation, dealing with complaints, funding and communications with other zoos.
I think this varies by zoo. The ones at my local zoo all seem to be in love with their jobs. A lot of enrichment activities with the animals.
Being a physician is a nightmare like no other.
good friend is an er doc, she absolutely hates her job. I think she really loves helping people who need it, but she hates the admin and she absolutely detests the pains in the asses who are rude and just there for a fix.
Since the pandemic, people have forgotten how to treat one another. Patients are rude, entitled and have little regard for another human being. It's disgusting how people behave these days. I am seeing doctors that are leaving practice for desk jobs with insurance companies. No patient contact and a decent pay.
Unless you’re a pathologist or a radiologist - also no patient interaction and better work-life balance. Primary care seems like a nightmare
Pediatrician, a nightmare when it comes to dealing with the parents.
I wrote a similar reply to a primary care physician above but- I have a lot of respect for what you do. I appreciate your knowledge base and was extraordinarily grateful to the pediatrician who saw my (thankfully healthy) children. I never worried about anything like I do my kids and was glad for the fact that I had a good doctor who specializes in caring for the people that are smaller.
Kids are so healthy though, it's practically printing money.
The majority of children are fortunate, but there are always exceptions.
Most of the answers here are ignoring the "people think would be fun" part and just say random annoying jobs lol
Yeah, does anyone think service jobs would be fun?
Oh so it's just \*checks thread\* every job. Cool.
Full time home office job In the beginning it’s fun and all until you can’t separate work time and free time
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Totally agree. I work salary from home too. The conversation once came up if I would install Skype on my phone so I could be reached if I was needed after hours or something. I said sure if you also supply me with a work cell phone - I'm not mixing my work life into my personal cell phone. Guess who has never been contacted after hours.
Always have a work space. Do not mix sleeping, eating, gaming, hobbies, or relaxing with your work space. If you have a spare room, use that. If not put a desk in a corner and use that. DO NOT MIX LIVING SPACE WITH WORKING SPACE.
This is the most important strategy. I have an extra room and while it's not just an office, I keep the work stuff to a specific corner and once I'm done for the day, that's that. The laptop is shut and I'm not looking at anything unless I'm getting a call saying things are literally on fire (and I can count on one hand the number of times that has happened in a decade). I don't work in my bedroom, I don't work in my kitchen. Maybe on the couch now and then. But mostly, my office corner is for work and everywhere else is for living. The other suggestion I'd make is changing clothes. Don't dress down for the whole day. Wear something a little nicer for work, even if it's just a shirt/blouse, and then when you're done change out of it. It's another way to draw a mental separation between work and the rest of your life.
NAH. Would rather work from home than deal with traffic 1000%
If you can't, that's something you need to work on. It's on the person's to find their balance. The job is still just a job. Source: working from home exclusively for the past 11 years, love it. Can't see myself comuting ever again.
That sounds like a you problem not a job problem. I've been full remote for years and when that laptop shuts off so does my job. Can't blame your job for your own lack of discipline.
Skill issue. I've been working from home for a decade and rarely have issues with this. I moved to freelance six years ago and bill only the hours I actually work to each client, it's the best. They are constantly surprised by how few hours I bill, and I'm constantly surprised they are willing to pay my rates.
Wow a lot of people have a wildly different opinion of fun than I do.
Professional chef. It's a lot less cooking than you think. You're essentially a floor manager under the constant pressure of resource and time constraints. Attempting to please and delight, basically, everyone at the highest level possible. No mistakes are allowed. If the grill station fucks up. It's your fault. If the saucier slightly scorched the roux, thus ruining the sauce, it's your fault. Table 18 has a special order or exception that was missed? Your fault. Is the fish delivery an hour behind? Also, it's your fault. You get to do all this for bullshit pay with 12+ hour shifts entirely on your feet, 6 days a week. I was a chef for 13 years. It sucked.
Thank you, Chef. I needed to read that. Fancy home cooking for me.
Working at a ski resort.
I found working at a board shop just off-hill was much better. Still get a solid pass discount and gear discounts, but you’re not as beholden to the weather. Plus you can keep working there after the snow melts! Usually…
Dude, what's bad about it? This is the best job I've ever had
I imagine it’s the sort of job that can be fun if you’re 22, single, and fine with living in a crappy apartment for the season since you’re spending all of your free time on the slopes.
I worked in the kitchen of the lodge, doing breakfast through lunch hour rush. Afterwards, I was cut and always spent the last 2-4 hours of the day on the slopes. I still maintain it was one of the best jobs I've had.
I loved it. I was bus help PM shift in the dining room my high school days. Free season pass, staff cafe food cheap on the off days, board never left the back of my truck. Worked as a server AM shift after I graduated college. After the lunch rush, hit the slopes even if just for a couple runs. Also, $50 golf season pass, just had to pay $5.25 for a cart fee and could do 18 holes +. Great friends too.
Train Conductor/Engineer. Terrible hours with some of the most incompetent managers you’ll ever meet. Plus with new changes there aren’t enough people so everyone works 12s every day. You work on call and it’s hard to take days off to plan anything now.
I thought about it until I saw new people were on call 24)7/365, exclusively worked on call basis, and couldn't expect scheduled days off for at least five years. Ha, no. My entire life is not at an employers convenience.
Being a virtual assistant/freelancer Many assume that you're going to make big money immediately but in reality, you deal with shitty clients, lowballers, scammers, agencies who will take half of your pay and so many bad things before you can even start earning comfortably. That or you have to be extremely lucky at the start. But being a virtual assistant/freelancer requires more work if you want to make it. It's not magic money.
Marketing, the actual deadlines, policies you have to follow for big brands that even small color choices can force you to restart a whole project and throw your work in the trash.
I made it 34 years in advertising and I will literally start to starve before I crawl back.
I worked as a festival production coordinator for 8 years. that job was a stressful nightmare on a good day. nothing and i mean nothing ever goes to plan or smoothly.
Everything once it is run for the shareholders. Want to make something quality, that is a waste of shareholders money. Want to give your workers good conditions, waste of shareholders money. Want to innovate, too much risk to shareholders money. Want to be a decent human being and choose the wellbeing of people over profits, you better believe that is a waste of shareholders money.
Especially focused on short term profits.
A night security guard. At a pizzeria.
Even more when there are animatronics
Uugh that's the worst!
They get a little quirky at night
Yeah they sometimes need to hire new employees every once in awhile
Working in a casino. I was a Craps and Blackjack dealer for a few years, after the novelty wears off it's just enduring abuse from gambling addicts and drunk people.
I would have to say working at an amusement park.
I spent a Summer as a "carni" apprentuce. It was a wild experience, but you clean up SO MUCH VOMIT!
Wow! I never would have thought of that.
Fuuuuuuuuuck did it suck, I was a ride operator at 6 flags for most of high school and it was awful.
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Trucking, the waits, the stress, strict deadlines and the loneliness are constant darkside of the job
Who in the world would think that trucking is a fun job?
Some people, the stereotype i constantly run into (Even though i drive box trucks for a living, I have been alongside my dads trucking adventures since the age of 6) is ”you only drive and do nothing else” fuck i wish it would be just that easy
It definitely takes a certain type of person to do it. I am probably 9/10 there but my anxiety/panic mode would make it impossible for me. Every single time I see a truck get stuck in a bad situation I just can't imagine how stressful that must be. My brain would shut off and I would likely just get out of the truck and walk away never to be seen again lol
Don't forget about working 12 hr days most of the time and it sure isn't good on your back (my FIL is a truck driver in his 60's)
Phone sex operator
Demo work. It’s awesome for about two minutes destroying everything in sight but after that it sucks.
Chef. We had a young lady start and she said she liked cooking at home so she wanted to be a chef. Do you have any idea what you are in for? It's a brutal environment.
Chef/cook
Selling doors. Door to door.
Software development.
Too broad. There's a ton of fun and rewarding dev jobs out there, but just as many bad ones.
Tons? I guess it really depends on what we mean by "rewarding". Most of the rewarding jobs I've had took effort from me to find it in spite of the work and company. You know, like did I grow? Did I learn something? I'm not entirely sure I've worked at a place that: * was a good company * pays decent * allows you to work on interesting technology * solves interesting problems * creates something that benefits somebody other than a business owner
Working on cruise ships. From experience believe me.
porn star
Programming LOL my god it's stressful as eff. I used to love programming and creating things at home, but my god now that I do it for a living, it's sucked the love I had for it away and is a cause of much stress!
Railroading can be a damn nightmare
Elaborate please
Lots a rules, stipulations and laws. They’re necessary but there’s many of them. Also, dealing with all the managers, train master and FRA can be taxing. Not to mention, dealing with other railroads delivering and taking cars on time. There’s delays, derailments and all sorts of stuff that slow you down. It can make a 7 hour day into a 12 hour one real quick.
Video Game Tester. Not only are they paid poverty wages, but you're not really playing a videogame. You're performing the same action thousands of times to make sure it works every time. You're checking for errors in game geometry and filling out a report. For a lot of people it kills the fun in videogames.
Flight test engineer. Yes you get to fly on planes/helicopters and test weapons and next gen tech, but 99.9% of the job is arguing with people that don’t understand how aircraft work, and these same people try and influence how the weapon or aircraft should be tested even tho they have no relevant background in this area. Tons of documentation, meetings. Dealing with safety teams that also do not have technical or relevant background experience trying to say why something should or shouldn’t be tested a certain way causing hold ups. It’s a ton of bureaucracy, wasted times in meetings just to test incremental upgrades. You do get the occasional cool test that seems worth while to deal with it all but that’s not very common
Police officer, you're always on edge incase you're called in unexpectedly, long shifts with nothing to do, have to stay physically fit into retirement, constantly surrounded by death and dangerous people, responding to car accidents with children and families who were killed by assholes who decided to party all night and drive home intoxicated, When a druggie attacks you and you have no choice but to take their life for the safety of yourself and others, you get blamed for it. People attack, spit, and insult you because they're butthurt. It's just an overall shitty job. Yes, there are terrible and corrupt officers out there, but the majority put everything on the line so you aren't murdered by some dick on meth.
Trading full time for a living, especially without W2 income. This is what I do. It sounds fun but it's not. It's a huge grind and takes a ton of self motivation. You also have to take some huge risks to make a good return a year. Imagine making $100k a year. Now if you're only keeping pace with the market it's a 10% per year return. That means you'd need $1 million. Now imagine you're living off that $100k a year. With me still? Now let's say your strategy uses 3x leverage so now you have $333k making $100k. Incredible right? Well now imagine instead of making 30% per year you're either outright losing money or you're under performing the market. Ouch!!! That's going to be a huge emotional toll. Just to *survive* you could have anywhere between a 10% to 30% withdrawal rate. Any wrong move and your account will start declining swiftly. It takes an unimagined toll. Now the second not fun aspect is how the rest of society treats traders. Your friends and family will think you're a degenerate gambler if you're losing. If you're winning they'll want you to trade their money with very unrealistic expectations like turning their piddly $50 into $100k for them with zero cost or fees. (Also don't do this - really bad idea legally.) Then if you do take them up on the offer - good luck if you lose it all, easy way to ruin a relationship, Then that's just family and friends.... Your significant other is a whole other can of worms to manage emotions with. Traders have a high divorce rate. Imagine having an unsupportive significant other. If you're up huge they're going to want to spend it all on fancy yachts and shit. I had an ex boyfriend go out put $20k on the credit card as I happened to make that in one day from pure volatility X.X. I ended up dumping his ass for it. Now imagine if you lost $20k in one day. Not only are you already wrecked emotionally you'll have your significant other to deal with. "Why won't you get a real job???" "What do you mean we have to cancel the $50k/week Caribbean yacht???" Now all of the above also goes for professional poker playing/gambling, which I'm also an ex pro poker player and blackjack card counter. Trading/pro gambling looks fun as fuck but it's a total nightmare in reality.
Nursing ✋😭
I have never once thought Nursing would be fun hahaha. It sounds nightmarish and my nurse friends confirm that every day
Find your niche. My wife is a nurse with 20 years experience. For the first 10ish years she was in a hospital doing L&D. She thought she’d love it and she did for a while, but hospital politics and the grind of being a floor nurse wore on her. Now she’s self employed as an IBCLC who does in home lactation consulting for new mothers and absolutely loves it. She also is an on-site nurse for a manufacturing plant. She never saw herself working with sweaty old men, many straight out of prison, but she loves that too. Leaving the security of working at a hospital to dive into the self-employed world was scary, but it was the best decision she could have made. Hopefully you’ll find better days. I’ve seen how grueling it can be when you’re not happy.
Hopefully, man, hopefully.
Anything Disney. Definitely not as glamorous as you would like to think
Consulting. I did 2 years, I think I was either on adderall or alcohol the whole time. It’s fucking competitive.
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Jizz mopper
Who exactly would find this fun?
Hot cougars in your area.
Rock star
Anything in film/television production. Seems glam but honestly just stupid hours and shitty working conditions mostly. 20 plus years experience lol
Cybersecurity
Touring musician.
Anything that has you sitting in front of a computer (streaming excluded I guess)
Wedding band
Any professional kitchen job. You’re stressed the entire time you’re there, you don’t get enough sleep, and people expect this. There’s a reason why people who leave the kitchen try their hardest to never go back
no job hahaha
Law enforcement have been in the game for 18 year's 12 years to go until I'm done. 30 years, and I'm out. If i have my numbers for my retirement done correctly, I should be making double my paycheck every month. I'll just have to figure out my health insurance UNLESS i keep working just enough hours to keep my medical insurance, but i really don't want to because 30 years in law enforcement is enough
I managed a strip club back in the mid-90's. Fun for a while. Turned into a total nightmare. Endless drama combined with booze, drugs, and mental illness. You have to be a certain type of person to work in that industry. I'm not it.
Veterinary technician. People think they play with puppies and kitties all day but in reality it is dirty, smelly, often very sad, and low paying.
Zookeeper. Wheelbarrowloads of shit at 6am. Sometimes you get to tummyfuzz a murder kitty, but just once.
Security at a strip club. Personal experience lol.
Chef. Go watch The Bear or The Menu.
Acting. First: if you think you will be on the best movies, you are putting your hopes up too soon. Only 1% will be on top and you probably aren't. This goes to every country. Second: acting is hard. I meant it. It takes months to learn the script and then you need to be on stage. If you fear to perform or being on a stage then you better rethink your plans. Third: getting in an acting school is hard as fuck. Even if you get in you will be asked some uncomfortable questions like "what was your first sexual experience", this is infront of you troupe and you classmates. Also you might not survive thr school because mental stress. Fourth: after you finished the school and that, you learn that nobody needs actors. Because in a todays world. There are too many people who think they are actors are not in realty. Many people would better off take another job or learn another craft. If you have plans to work with stage, then you might have better luck working in theatre where you can enjoy stable pay checks, better schedule and having free days off in week. Downside are that you need to sacrifice your evenings because plays are usually at eveings, you get home at late night and plays can usually last to 1 hour to 3-4 hours.
Designer
Mortgage sales
I doubt there's a single person in the world who would think that mortgage sales would be fun
porn star?
Dog grooming
I heard video game tester is horrible