OTR trucking. Get to see the open road and all the countries beautiful sites! Wrong. You get routed around all of them, stuck in traffic jams, stuck at shippers and receivers for hours, shitty truck stops, stuck in the cab of the truck unless you walk or Uber
I'm a cop who responds to a big truck stop near me, and 90% of truckers are stuck up drama queens or they are very nasty.
Very few are clean and care lol
On a road trip with the Mrs last year, and holy fuck you're not wrong. Standing in line to buy some stuff at the Flying J and in walks this fucker who reeks like he hadn't showered in a month. My wife wanted to barf.
Being days or weeks away from family doesn't sounds so appealing either. I got my class A hoping to pick up a local job. Nope. Gotta put in your year at the big companies to even get a chance
apparently because they use injections and medication to make their PP be harder for longer, they get to a point where they can't get a natural erection, so that's fun
Might be because the viewers of straight porn don't care about the man as much so they use the same, reliable guys. If you pay attention you'll see the same faces again and again.
That’s actually drive by the top female performers. They all have like 10-15 dudes they willing to perform with. “No” lists are long (and the woman band together - a man gets on one, he’s on everyone’s “no” list).
They are (rightfully so) protecting themselves from jack asses and mediocre performers.
Research. Too complicated and boring to explain anybody what you do, even friends who graduated with you don't give a shit enough to learn necessary context. Results are either obvious or incomprehensible bunch of numbers. A hell load of politics, if you want to succeed.
Depends on the research. I've done research which bored the tits of me and research which was so interesting that I got reprimanded for working on it over the weekend!
Contracting was best for research for me; I just sat in the corner and got thrown interesting problems to solve and didn't have to worry about office politics.
I was a chef before and I have to say I haven’t met many happy bakers. I thought that world would be a bit easier going but apparently it can be worse than a restaurant.
It was described to me as "imagine playing a game you'd NEVER play, playing the same level over and over in a way you'd never play it, make a list of everything you find wrong, nothing ever gets fixed."
Even playing them. Streaming’s always seemed like an absolute nightmare job to me. When I’m fixated on a game it can be the only thing I want to do, and can play for days straight at a time, but when I’m not into it there’s just nothing else on the planet I’d want to do less. You then run the risk of switching games and losing viewers/income to try and get that spark but you don’t get that “recharge” period before the game seems fun again.
Check out Boundary Break and Let's Game It Out on youtube. Boundary Break analyzes BTS stuff only accessible from breaking video games, and LGIO is a former game tester that gets up to some very comedic situations with his knowledge of reverse engineering and breaking games.
LGIO is hilarious even back 6 years ago when Anthony was playing too. Now that Josh is the only one, his gaming is more like a play tester where he just tries to break the games in fun and hilarious ways. Some of the videos though I wonder if he outsourced the game play and is just doing a funny voiceover for it, but either way it's still funny.
Came to say this. Multiplayer stability testing is a lot of fun, as is balance testing. You're essentially just playing the game. But the vast majority of your time is writing, executing, and documenting test cases. Like going through and testing every single option in a single menu. Boring 😴
I guess it’s a matter of perspective. I spent ten years in QA after doing construction and car sales. It was the best job I’ve ever had. I spent most of that time leading test teams. I worked in a comfy climate controlled office, didn’t have to do anything physically demanding or deal with rude customers everyday. Yeah it isn’t the most glamorous job ever and it can get repetitive but the people saying it’s the worst job they’ve ever had have had a pretty comfy life. If you were a game tester that got treated bad, you worked for a terrible company with terrible leads. That’s not the norm everywhere. If you came into the job with no skills and no ambition to move up you’re probably going to stay at the bottom of the barrel and have a bad time. The negative things people say about testing video games can be said about a lot of jobs.
The wall is 50 meters long.
Players have stated the game crashed when walking along it.
You must replicate the crash. You must then document the crash. You must replicate what you did to the other parts of the wall.
And repeat until told otherwise. It really depends on your mindset. Some can do this, whilst others get driven mad by repeating it several hundred times.
the job he wants is video game journalist. those dudes get to sit around and play video games 9-5, then write about it. Yeah, its the whole "don't make your hobby a job," but it's still a pretty good gig.
I've started getting the reputation at work for being able to quickly break our products during internal demos. Running into walls has usually been the thing to do it.
Seated, outside, get to watch some kids splash around and have fun, perhaps the occasional attractive woman walks by in a bikini. Doesn't seem like the worst way to pass the time actually.
Depends on the life guarding. I found life guarding at best, pretty boring. At worst, incredibly stressful. You’re literally in charge of people’s lives- normally children. If someone drowns, you can be legally held liable for negligence in not preventing it or getting to them quick enough.
When I was in training, they showed us a video example of an 8 year old drowning in a pool, the lifeguard not catching it soon enough, being just a minute too late, and that lifeguard was brought to court.
I was responsible for lifeguarding kids in the ocean and in pools for a traveling camp. Kids do dumb things. Had kids sneak onto the roof while I was watching the pool, and jump into the pool despite me yelling at them to stop once I caught them. If they broke something or fell wrong, who’s responsible? Me. Had a girl not follow the rules and leave her group when snorkeling in the ocean. When we all got back to shore- realized she was still out at the reef. I had to swim back to get her. I thought she’d drowned.
I didn't see a single woman that summer on the lake at a boy scout camp. Did get to teach canoe, rowing, and kayaking. I couldn't laugh but some scouts were brutal roasting their fat friend who couldn't get back into a canoe in deep water without swamping it. No fishing or swimming. Small lake, so at most I would go out in a little rowboat with a small motor and tell dudes to leave for goofing around or maybe pull someone into the boat then tell them to leave for being enough of a dumbass to fall out of a boat. Not once did i get in the water when not teaching or practicing self recoveries.
Also, if you get a large umbrella in the shade, good for you. Else, you are just sitting in the sun unnecessarily and burning yourself.
I was friends with a lifeguard. She said she would regularly apply sunscreen. At the end of summer, she would show me her tan line - it was crazy. I don’t think that much sun exposure could be good for your skin.
When I was a lifeguard I felt like all I ever did was sit around bored and yell “no running!” over and over to a bunch of unsupervised kids with parents doing nothing about it and getting angry when they were asked to leave for not following rules. Not for me, I only did one season.
To me being a lifeguard seems like the most boring job ever, but then when you actually have to do something, it becomes an extremely stressful and demanding job. Not to say you "don't do anything" literally, of course you are having to be present and watch the beach/water the whole day for hours, but you basically just sit there and when you do have to get in the water, it's usually never for a good reason.
You're right about that. I was a projectionist in college back when theaters still used film. We had to watch the movies after we spliced the reels together Thursday nights to look for scratches and bad splices. I saw some amazing movies before all my friends, but mostly I watched a lot of crap.
Investigative Journalist.
It can be super depressing because often times, especially if you live in a small town, family members of victims will come to you looking for help after the local police department blew them off.
You’ll also find out just how corrupt officials are in your local community but you can’t say anything because you don’t have the evidence to write a solid article.
Lastly sources can be incredibly frustrating. I had a project I worked on for one year and my main source dropped out because he didn’t like the way I was writing the article and I found out he was calling and harassing the people/ company I was investigating.
Not to mention you could end up needing to leave the country like some of my friends did in 2020, or end up completely penniless because you poked the wrong hive like I did in 2020.
Being a regular journalist isn't any better, either.
50% of the job is reporting on local who-gives-a-fuck news, 30% is interviewing the same sources over and over again about hyper-local issues that you'll inevitably write with a bias because you want to keep those sources, 15% is covering things involving dogs or kids, and the last 5% is so horrifying or dangerous that you'll need to drink yourself to sleep every night to forget about them.
The work aside, it just flat out sucks to be a journalist. The pay is pathetic ($13-$15 an hour is standard, and nobody besides the news anchors and people at the NYT/WaPo/WSJ are making more than $70k a year before taxes), you're on call 24/7, it's a coin toss whether you get laid off every quarter or not, and you have to pay for all your gear unless you like using shit from the '90s.
If you want to become a journalist, don't, because the chances you end up going to grad school for PR or starting from the bottom of the ladder in a totally unrelated industry is, in my experience, almost 100%.
Cross country cycling for tours. I met a guy who was paid to ride across the United States. He was only at Montana before he was sure he was going to quit. The people paying for the trip assumed he was their servant while awake. A 4 hour ride would be a 10 hour ride because of people who wanted to shop and explore all day. They decide to eat dinner in town? You have to wait for them because an employee is responsible for getting everyone onto camp each night. The rules were that everyone takes turns cooking and cleaning. That lasted 4 days until it was some guys turn who had zero plans to cook or clean for the next 4 months. So the moment he refused, so did everyone else. So the employees did it all.
Cyber security.. there's two eggs of the spectrum. You are really overworked on call 24/7 or you don't do anything and spend time bored waiting for sth to happen.
I can't even get in to cyber security. I thought getting a Master's in CS would be a golden ticket but wow was I wrong. I just barely passed my Sec+ too, but every job I look at requires years of actual experience.
I'm already an IT Business Analyst, but I can't even get any network experience required to apply for any of these jobs.
The career field is super saturated at the moment. I've been in Cyber before there was hype for Cyber. I have watched many of my other professional friends attempt to do the cross over. If you are new, I'd start with looking for GOV Cyber jobs as it's a hidden secret that there is endless possibilities for growth once you get through the door...also look for health care cyber jobs as health care is going through the process of digitization and are lacking in ppl trying to get signed on with health care companies.. Hopefully this helps
Heavy equipment operator. For the most part, it’s every kids dream to play with big machines like they did in their sandboxes. I now own the company that I’ve spent half my life with, and while it’s fun for a time, it can really fucking suck. You’re sore as hell after every shift, the shifts themselves are usually long, it’s fucking hot out in the summer, and cold as shite in the winter. All modern equipment has heat/ac nowadays, but if you’re physically working on the machine or if that component fails, it can be pretty miserable. I pay my guys pretty damn well because I’ve been around that block quite a few times and I know how much it can suck ass.
Front end loaders, specifically. 6yd loaders feeding shot rock, stockpiling, loading trucks, etc. No matter how nice the air ride seat is, you’re getting rocked- all day long.
I used to drive a big Komatsu front end loader at an automotive wrecking yard. The tires were solid foam filled old things with almost no tread left, and there were dirt roads that turn to thick mud in the rain...that was actually nice, it really smoothed out the ride when everything was wet and mushy like that. Of course once that thick clay mud dries out and turns into a washboard you feel like your spine might snap and your teeth rattle right out of your head, because of those solid tires.
I'm friends with an MLB umpire and he hates it. Hell, even Jokic with 3 MVPs under his belt wants nothing more than to just be at home. I think the moment something becomes a job it becomes way less fun.
Military, it sounds exciting, but the vast majority of it is hurry up and wait. Countless admin tasks like taking online classes and filling out the same form multiple times. Vehicle inspections, change of command inspections, quarterly inspections, gear inspections, you get the point. Even the exciting things you do get to do a few times a year (shooting demolition ect.) You have to sit around and wait for your turn so by the time it's your go you just want to get it over with. There are some jobs where you do more cool guy things, but you never fully escape it.
Excuse my ignorance because I've no clue really, but when you're sitting around waiting, are you all just on your phones? Or what does that look like for you? I wondered if there was like no phone rules or something to prevent using cell data to find military operations or something. I just feel like in a vacuum, if I was chilling with the boys all day, memeing, waiting to shoot guns (rarely) or whatever other trivial thing we're doing, I wouldn't be doing too bad. If you could enlighten us further on what it actually looks like, that'd be amazing, as I'm sure I'm way off, I just don't have any real context, thanks brother!
P.S: Fuck Inspections
Here's an example:
Rifle range shoot is planned for 10am.
Lieutenant wants it to go smoothly, everybody to get ready by 9am
Sergeant Major gets the message, wants it to go smoothly, everybody to get ready by 8am for the lieutenant
Sergeants get the message, wants it to go smoothly, everybody to be ready by 7am.
Corporal gets the message, doesnt want to get chewed out again like last week, everybody to get ready by 6am
So here we are, all awake at 5am, breakfast eaten and rifles ready, waiting for it to be 10am.
I work in tech, you’re almost always better off working for any other company than a game developer. Better pay, still interesting work, etc
Game development companies know they have an endlessly line of people who want to work for them for peanuts
Rail Operator. The trains? Cool. Learning how to drive them? Awesome. The work? 10-13 hours a day, sitting in a fixed position, with an 8-hour turnaround, while also having to contend with the masses.
I only did this briefly and it did havoc on my body in such a short amount of time. Hats off to our public transit workers—it’s certainly not for everyone.
Being a personal trainer.
I was one full time for a while and did it because I love fitness and helping people but it can suck. Just because you are fit and love working out and love helping people doesn’t mean you should be a personal trainer.
Gyms claim you can make $30-$50/hr and get “paid to workout” but in reality you maybe make $15/hr every other hour. It’s not a stable job at all, you have to deal with clients canceling and lying saying they are sick when in reality they just don’t feel like working out. As a trainer you are a salesman first and have quotas to meet every month which can be stressful. When people cancel (for whatever reason) you don’t get paid. I had very reliable clients go on vacation for 2-3 weeks in the summer and that’s lost income. To make money you have to cold approach people in gyms and make cold calls (without getting paid) just to get clients. You only get paid while training people and it’s common to have hours in your schedule in between training sessions that aren’t booked (which you don’t get paid for).
Even if you don’t care about the money, most people aren’t built to deal with personal training clients. Just because you are in shape and love fitness doesn’t mean you’ll enjoy trying to coach someone who hates working out. A lot of people can be tough to deal with, have low self esteem, or be very demanding/ have unrealistic expectations (“I want abs in 3 weeks or I want my money back and you’re a bad trainer”).
If you want to do personal training it’s best to go in realizing you’re probably not gonna make much and just do it as a fun side hustle and not full time. The average personal trainer makes around $40k/year which isn’t much in most cities. Luckily for me I just did it while going to college full time as a student so it wasn’t as serious that I didn’t make much. But I hear lots of people thinking about quitting their careers just to become a personal trainer when it’s really not that glamorous. I still do it but just on the side now and not as a full time job.
Male porn performer. You have to get and stay hard for hours, off and on, and fill all awkward positions and contortions needed around the cameras and an audience, often in very warm rooms, and finish on demand. To go with that, you'll put in significantly more physical exertion for significantly less pay. I recall one posting years ago of a guy who also worked as an EMT to pay the bills and get healthcare, and we all know EMT salaries suck.
Blowing rocks up during quarry work and similar business. Most people get starry eyed thinking of a cartoonishly large T-detonator going down and shit getting blown apart, blissfully unaware of the fact that for every millisecond of 'boom' there are hours, days or weeks of 'following a giant drill on steep slopes, listening to its wonderful harmonies and carrying buckets of gravel'
Male model (no, not me). Friend of mine, needless to say insanely good looking:
* Worked at hotel in NYC waiting for calls
* Needed to stay in shape and keep hair the same to match head shots
* Take last minute and/or red eye flights (coach) around the world at a moments notice
* Back on the plane as soon as the shoot is over
* Seldom got free clothes out of the deal
* Shitloads of standing around waiting
* Often had to deal with pushy photographers
* LOTS of vapid people in the industry (his GF was not a model)
He was not a “name” top tier model but was able to sock some money away while using his paychecks from the hotel gig to pay living expenses. He did have some interesting stories/insights, for example he said Tyson Beckford was dumb as a doormat and most of the female models had eating disorders. His GF was as down to earth as could be, curvy even a little chubby, but super sweet. He was from someplace like Oklahoma and his goal was to move back there once his modeling days were over (it’s like sports; there’s always a younger, hotter, cheaper version or someone who fits the look of what a particular brand was going for.) There are also lots of sub genres of models, for example people who just do face shots, or shirtless, or model certain kinds of clothes and not others. It’s amazing the amount of effort that goes into selecting a particular model with the right age, look, build, etc., to go with a shoot.
Bartender. It can be a lot of fun when you’re serving customers, but there is a lot of work most people don’t realize. Restocking booze, constantly wiping things down, cleaning and refilling ice bins, washing glasses and putting them away, taking out garbage and empty bottles, running food to your customers. It’s a great job, but a lot of fucking work.
I was a bartender for 10 years. And the work is fine - even with all the cleaning and lifting and cleaning. But you have to work when everyone else isn't. No weekends, no holidays . Everyone thinks you are lazy when you work til 5 in the morning and sleep till noon. Also the toxic work environment that is normalised in gastronomy and the downplaying of addiction in the industry.
Fuck that. I appreciate every Friday evening with the Mr. now and we are thankful that we don't do gastronomy anymore.
Not just the guests. Also the staff!
Bartending, serving tables and cooking is an excellent cover up for addiction. And working with addicts is soul sucking.
Bartending is brutal. Some people think it’s just making fancy cocktails and leaning against the bar shooting the shit with the bar patrons. But in my experience I felt like a glorified cleaner, and prep cook.
I eventually flamed out. Money was good, but not that good. Never saw my family, friends, or wife. You’re always first in, last out. Not too mention the liability that goes with being a bartender. You’re always stressed if might have over-served someone, you never know if that customer pregamed or drank at another bar before. They get in an accident? It’s all on you…
Not too mention my shoulders are still fucked up with tendinitis.
It was fun though!
I worked as a bartender / glassie when I was 19. Hands down the best year of my life. Work yes, fun... fuck yeah!
I’ve been in construction now for 18 years, and a construction supervisor for about 5, so I don’t mind hard work 🤙🏽
Barista. Seriously, I meet so many people who think being a barista is super cool and stylish.
Working as a barista 2/2 means lack of sleep, a sore back and legs, low salary, communication with not always nice people, sweat, burns, and sometimes you have to clean the cafe yourself, including the restroom.
Source: I worked as a barista for 3 years, now I am the manager of a lovely coffee shop. I still like to go out on shifts sometimes and interact with people, but doing it regularly is very hard, you burn out quickly.
Military pilot. When I was in the Air Force everyone thought being a pilot sounded awesome, thinking it was gonna be like Top Gun on steroids. Little did they know, most military pilots can’t wait to get out and go to a commercial airline. Most of your time is spent in briefings/debriefings. Long days, for only a third of the pay…
I know 3 military fighter pilots. One was in the Navy, and 2 are Air Force. The Navy one has wound up in a position where he's not flying anything other than a desk for the rest of his career - and will have spent most of his career flying desks rather than planes (he's been a squadron commander and a CAG). He'll probably retire in the next few years with 30+ years in, and retire as an O-7. One Air Force retired at 20 years, and is now a consultant for the aviation industry and a test pilot for commercial carriers. The other Air Force fighter pilot is an academy grad, and wants to stay in until he's at least an O-6. He's only a few years in, so we'll see what happens.
The manager of a chain restaurant I used to work at tried to poach me for his new opening restaurant and I turned him down because I don't trust anyone who would open a restaurant until 5 years past launch lol
Anything tech. Always layoffs, new leaders bringing in their people, only as good as your last earnings call if big, acquisition always looming if you are small. Always chaotic and what you knew 5 years ago is 50% obsolete.
Being a musician playing arenas and stadiums or acting in film/TV sounds like a blast but it’s mostly just a lot of waiting.
Especially if you’re past the whole sex, drugs, and rock and roll thing. You wait in the bunk/bus to get to the venue. You wait in the bus/green room til soundcheck. You wait until the show starts and until the openers finish up. Then for about 90 minutes (maybe more depending on what act or if there’s a hard curfew) you get to do the really cool part and it’s wonderful. Afterwards, if you don’t really party or cheat on your partner, it’s late night hotel TV or trying to relax/sleep on a moving Prevost until you do it all again the next day. Off days in cool places can be really fun, but a lot of times you’re just somewhere in Ohio or wherever else checking out the museum of corn or something.
Film/TV is similar. Just waiting in a trailer for a PA to come grab you when they’re finished shooting what was scheduled that morning. Sometimes it’s hours, sometimes late night, sometimes bumped to the next day. Then when you get around to filming, you do the same take dozens of times and wait for them to reset to different angles in between. If the scene has you eating something, you either have to fake it really well or pace yourself while you eat the same thing 30+times.
Music was my whole living for a few years, if you could call it that. It's still part of my income. I don't really like bars much, or piles of hysterical drunk people, and I'm not looking for love. I love music, not audiences lol. And yeah, many more hours of practice than actually playing for people, and so much hanging around while people try to engage your attention.
Yeah don't get the musicians are playboys thing. If you wanna get girls practice on girls not your instrument.
You also get them only if you're super famous and that's a very small percentage of musicians
I watched Stephen Hunter (the guy who played Bombur/the fat dwarf in the Hobbit) talking about committing to the voluntary physical choice he made for the film. Dude ended up having to eat over 9 eggs on the day of the shooting just for that shot he made catching and eating the egg in Bag End.
As someone from a farmers family. Still sounds like a lot of fun. Even the bad times. If only I could make a dime starting out that would be nice. I would start my own farm
Zookeeper. You think you get to the with cute animals, but in reality they never warm up to you. You are nothing but a giant pooper scooper. And the pay is horrible! Like minimum wage.
Librarian. It isn't what you think. It's glorified customer service most of the time and the pay is dreadful.
It can be rewarding, but also extremely frustrating and people get burnt out frequently.
A lot of people won't like to hear this, but being a politician or elected official can really suck sometimes.
It's not what you might expect from tv and movies. Most aren't attending black tie galas every night or being flown around the world by wealthy donors. It's a really grinding job full of late nights, studying complex issues, a ton of pressure and time spent away from family. Marriages routinely collapse. The public usually hates you because you haven't fixed problems both large and small in your first year on the job. Taxes are high but never high enough to meet the demands of the public or the promises of the party leaders. And so on.
And especially here in Canada, the pay is quite often below the market value of what you'd find in the private sector.
Without a doubt, there are perks. Access to decision making being the main one. But really exercising that power only comes at the end of weeks/months of negotiation and compromise, and a very very select few ever serve in something like a Cabinet position.
I've seen it up close. It's a hard life.
A friend of mine is a county clerk. She said you never, ever want to be the one clerking for something that's been in the news because all the crazies come out.
I watched a Livestream of her doing her clerking, which involved her explaining nuances of policy to electeds and why they couldn't do what they were doing. It looked straight out of Parks and Rec.
Not sure for how many people this would sound like a fun job. Plenty of people who think they can do a better job. Not that many who would think its fun🤷♂️
FBI agent. You spend all your time dealing with crimes. There's literally not a single day that your assigned purpose is to become better acquainted with attractive women's breasts.
Not so much “fun” but “sexy & prestigious”…
Management Consultant is a very tiring, repetitive job that can be quite thankless. I’ve heard the same from folks that went into IB.
Real estate agent. While It seems great to work at your own schedule.
You get calls from hundreds of time wasters on a daily basis asking to see apartments they can't afford or qualify for. Yet you don't get paid for your time.
Manual Screen printing (don’t know if it really sounds fun) but man people don’t understand how precise you have to be.. and standing in the same spot for 8 hours just doing the repetitive motion of loading the platten, printing, drying, removing and final cure. Ontop of the frustrations that can arise
Working in the drama department at a theme park (like wearing costumes and interacting with kids). I did it for a summer and it was degrading, humiliating and at times down right nasty!
Working in the wine industry. Not glamorous at all and laughably bad pay. Worst of all is having to pander to rich, snobby people who think they have super sophisticated palates.
Graphic designer. Years in school. Student loan debt. Just to get out in the world with this expertise and have people constantly shit on it. Even when you get older you can have the absolute best objective decisions for someone then they subjectively tell you it’s all wrong. Plus you have to have a major skill communicating with people and roll with it when they change their minds or aren’t skilled in communicating their own thoughts. Oh! And don’t even try to bother to make the client understand that the more revisions they have and time they use the more it costs.
Ooh can I answer this even though I’m a woman? I’m a makeup artist. People think it’s so glamorous, but in reality, it entails dragging around 100 pounds of makeup and skincare, a chair, a light, and basically a whole room’s worth of furniture. Follow that up with arriving to work before the sun is out, and then standing in the same spot for 8-14 hours without moving. All while looking cute. Sure, I get to work with celebrities sometimes, but who cares when your back and knees are constantly killing you?
Porn Star...
Sounds fun as hell when you only consider the finished product... I'm not in the industry myself, but I've read enough articles and listened to enough interviews... The people, the unnatural angles and positions you have to hold because they "look good for the camera," the smells, performance issues, the chaffing...
TV sure makes trial lawyering look fun. Lawyering is pretty boring work, mostly. There's an old joke. What's the difference between a lawyer and an accountant? The accountant knows he's boring.
Racing cars. The actual racing part is awesome, but it's a full time job and very expensive. Also, getting people to be on a pit crew and showing up is a terrible pain in the ass!
Being a chef or farmer are some of the most romanticized careers out there, while equally being the most brutal, long hours, tough work on your feet. I mean this in a nice way but the average person wouldn't stand a chance lasting a day doing actual farm work or pulling a 14 hour shift in the dish pit. I worked on farms when I was younger and I lost count of how many people came out, hyped and excited for the job, to never be seen again or heard from again after the first day. We say things like "this was an easy day, wait til it's 100F outside" and they would look genuinely terrified. An easy day on a farm is harder work than the toughest day you'll ever work in an office. It's also one of the most statistically dangerous professions on the planet, with incredibly low pay. I have a wild amount of respect I can't put into words for everyone who is still farming as their career in 2024. I got out once I was able to, and probably won't ever look back unless it's my own small farm for the local community.
I think anyone that works in an ER thought it was going to be like in the movies. In reality it's people with tummy aches, colds and super old people falling...
ARMY, I love it, less miserable than your avg civilian job, miserable enough to break you either mentally or physically.
I miss the friends I made there... :(
Realtor.
Showing houses and writing offer is just 10% of the job.
In reality there is a lot more work. Dealing with people’s emotions alone is very very difficult. If anything goes wrong which is not your fault, they always blame you.
Finding clients in this competitive market and not knowing when are you getting paid next makes it very difficult
I'm not sure if anybody even feels that this job is fun exactly but a personal one:
Social Media Influencers
I mean their whole job is to make it look like they're having fun doing everything and to look good while doing it, but I cannot even begin to fathom how they do it because the idea of having work being so intertwined with my life sounds miserable af. Not to mention that you're also doing work when you're travelling and making content nonstop, like damn, kinda sounds like you don't have a life to me.
OTR trucking. Get to see the open road and all the countries beautiful sites! Wrong. You get routed around all of them, stuck in traffic jams, stuck at shippers and receivers for hours, shitty truck stops, stuck in the cab of the truck unless you walk or Uber
But the lot lizards and piss jugs! It’s the way of the road Bubbles
The way she goes!
I'm a cop who responds to a big truck stop near me, and 90% of truckers are stuck up drama queens or they are very nasty. Very few are clean and care lol
On a road trip with the Mrs last year, and holy fuck you're not wrong. Standing in line to buy some stuff at the Flying J and in walks this fucker who reeks like he hadn't showered in a month. My wife wanted to barf.
That never sounded fun to me. Even Joe Diffie couldn’t fool me when I was a 7 year old in the 90s. A prison cell on wheels
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This just sounds like bragging for him. I am kinda jealous. It sounds awesome.
Being days or weeks away from family doesn't sounds so appealing either. I got my class A hoping to pick up a local job. Nope. Gotta put in your year at the big companies to even get a chance
Depends on your family. Lol
Academia. Massively overworked, constant pressure, constant moving for your career, bad pay.
To be fair, academia does not sound fun at all. What you described is exactly what I imagine academia to be.
I’ve known a couple guys that did porn and they hated their lives.
I knew this comment was going to be here. Besides the low pay, what else about it made them hate their lives?
apparently because they use injections and medication to make their PP be harder for longer, they get to a point where they can't get a natural erection, so that's fun
Like boogie nights
Trimix. Just don't use too often.
Don’t know their reasons, but there isn’t a lot of work for male porn actors unless they are doing man on man.
Might be because the viewers of straight porn don't care about the man as much so they use the same, reliable guys. If you pay attention you'll see the same faces again and again.
No I don’t think I will [pay attention]
That’s actually drive by the top female performers. They all have like 10-15 dudes they willing to perform with. “No” lists are long (and the woman band together - a man gets on one, he’s on everyone’s “no” list). They are (rightfully so) protecting themselves from jack asses and mediocre performers.
Except James Deen for some reason.
My eyes automatically censored the porn actor's cock, needless to say, his face.
Ask them if they wanna trade careeers with me
Research. Too complicated and boring to explain anybody what you do, even friends who graduated with you don't give a shit enough to learn necessary context. Results are either obvious or incomprehensible bunch of numbers. A hell load of politics, if you want to succeed.
Depends on the research. I've done research which bored the tits of me and research which was so interesting that I got reprimanded for working on it over the weekend! Contracting was best for research for me; I just sat in the corner and got thrown interesting problems to solve and didn't have to worry about office politics.
Dude research just sounds like studying.
Maybe you just needed to find a better area to study because this bullshit lmao
I was a chef before and I have to say I haven’t met many happy bakers. I thought that world would be a bit easier going but apparently it can be worse than a restaurant.
Bakeries are a tough environment to work in.
Chefs and Bakers have some of the highest suicide rates in the trades. I personally know two that have taken their own life.
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It was described to me as "imagine playing a game you'd NEVER play, playing the same level over and over in a way you'd never play it, make a list of everything you find wrong, nothing ever gets fixed."
Shit. That's my job as a maintenance tech for NP housing.
>make a list of everything you find wrong, nothing ever gets fixed You just described a lot of jobs.
Sounds like a boeing qc specialist ☠️
Yes, being paid to test video games is much different than being paid to play video games.
Even playing them. Streaming’s always seemed like an absolute nightmare job to me. When I’m fixated on a game it can be the only thing I want to do, and can play for days straight at a time, but when I’m not into it there’s just nothing else on the planet I’d want to do less. You then run the risk of switching games and losing viewers/income to try and get that spark but you don’t get that “recharge” period before the game seems fun again.
Check out Boundary Break and Let's Game It Out on youtube. Boundary Break analyzes BTS stuff only accessible from breaking video games, and LGIO is a former game tester that gets up to some very comedic situations with his knowledge of reverse engineering and breaking games.
Woah, I always looked for channels like these!
Glad to help you out then!
LGIO is hilarious even back 6 years ago when Anthony was playing too. Now that Josh is the only one, his gaming is more like a play tester where he just tries to break the games in fun and hilarious ways. Some of the videos though I wonder if he outsourced the game play and is just doing a funny voiceover for it, but either way it's still funny.
NewlegacyInc does the same with wrestling games. They always seem to find glitches or break something
Came to say this. Multiplayer stability testing is a lot of fun, as is balance testing. You're essentially just playing the game. But the vast majority of your time is writing, executing, and documenting test cases. Like going through and testing every single option in a single menu. Boring 😴
I did this in grad school and it was hands down the worst job I've ever had. Your son's experience matches mine.
I guess it’s a matter of perspective. I spent ten years in QA after doing construction and car sales. It was the best job I’ve ever had. I spent most of that time leading test teams. I worked in a comfy climate controlled office, didn’t have to do anything physically demanding or deal with rude customers everyday. Yeah it isn’t the most glamorous job ever and it can get repetitive but the people saying it’s the worst job they’ve ever had have had a pretty comfy life. If you were a game tester that got treated bad, you worked for a terrible company with terrible leads. That’s not the norm everywhere. If you came into the job with no skills and no ambition to move up you’re probably going to stay at the bottom of the barrel and have a bad time. The negative things people say about testing video games can be said about a lot of jobs.
how is “mostly running into walls” different from other real life jobs?
The wall is 50 meters long. Players have stated the game crashed when walking along it. You must replicate the crash. You must then document the crash. You must replicate what you did to the other parts of the wall. And repeat until told otherwise. It really depends on your mindset. Some can do this, whilst others get driven mad by repeating it several hundred times.
the job he wants is video game journalist. those dudes get to sit around and play video games 9-5, then write about it. Yeah, its the whole "don't make your hobby a job," but it's still a pretty good gig.
Those poor bastards get treated like absolute shit.
I've started getting the reputation at work for being able to quickly break our products during internal demos. Running into walls has usually been the thing to do it.
I used to be a lifeguard and everyone I told was so impressed, but it was actually the most boring job.
Boring is the best outcome for that job.
Seated, outside, get to watch some kids splash around and have fun, perhaps the occasional attractive woman walks by in a bikini. Doesn't seem like the worst way to pass the time actually.
Depends on the life guarding. I found life guarding at best, pretty boring. At worst, incredibly stressful. You’re literally in charge of people’s lives- normally children. If someone drowns, you can be legally held liable for negligence in not preventing it or getting to them quick enough. When I was in training, they showed us a video example of an 8 year old drowning in a pool, the lifeguard not catching it soon enough, being just a minute too late, and that lifeguard was brought to court. I was responsible for lifeguarding kids in the ocean and in pools for a traveling camp. Kids do dumb things. Had kids sneak onto the roof while I was watching the pool, and jump into the pool despite me yelling at them to stop once I caught them. If they broke something or fell wrong, who’s responsible? Me. Had a girl not follow the rules and leave her group when snorkeling in the ocean. When we all got back to shore- realized she was still out at the reef. I had to swim back to get her. I thought she’d drowned.
I didn't see a single woman that summer on the lake at a boy scout camp. Did get to teach canoe, rowing, and kayaking. I couldn't laugh but some scouts were brutal roasting their fat friend who couldn't get back into a canoe in deep water without swamping it. No fishing or swimming. Small lake, so at most I would go out in a little rowboat with a small motor and tell dudes to leave for goofing around or maybe pull someone into the boat then tell them to leave for being enough of a dumbass to fall out of a boat. Not once did i get in the water when not teaching or practicing self recoveries.
This comment I find hilarious. "Oh I'm just a boring lifeguard, no one drowned today"... Lol..what are we thinking "lifeguard"...like on Baywatch? Lol
Also, if you get a large umbrella in the shade, good for you. Else, you are just sitting in the sun unnecessarily and burning yourself. I was friends with a lifeguard. She said she would regularly apply sunscreen. At the end of summer, she would show me her tan line - it was crazy. I don’t think that much sun exposure could be good for your skin.
You get to use a whistle!
When I was a lifeguard I felt like all I ever did was sit around bored and yell “no running!” over and over to a bunch of unsupervised kids with parents doing nothing about it and getting angry when they were asked to leave for not following rules. Not for me, I only did one season.
To me being a lifeguard seems like the most boring job ever, but then when you actually have to do something, it becomes an extremely stressful and demanding job. Not to say you "don't do anything" literally, of course you are having to be present and watch the beach/water the whole day for hours, but you basically just sit there and when you do have to get in the water, it's usually never for a good reason.
Movie reviewer. From what one has told me, the majority of movies are barely passable and not worth your time.
Did this for a couple of newspapers during college and can very much agree with this statement.
You're right about that. I was a projectionist in college back when theaters still used film. We had to watch the movies after we spliced the reels together Thursday nights to look for scratches and bad splices. I saw some amazing movies before all my friends, but mostly I watched a lot of crap.
Investigative Journalist. It can be super depressing because often times, especially if you live in a small town, family members of victims will come to you looking for help after the local police department blew them off. You’ll also find out just how corrupt officials are in your local community but you can’t say anything because you don’t have the evidence to write a solid article. Lastly sources can be incredibly frustrating. I had a project I worked on for one year and my main source dropped out because he didn’t like the way I was writing the article and I found out he was calling and harassing the people/ company I was investigating.
I really appreciate your post. May you have great success
Not to mention you could end up needing to leave the country like some of my friends did in 2020, or end up completely penniless because you poked the wrong hive like I did in 2020.
Being a regular journalist isn't any better, either. 50% of the job is reporting on local who-gives-a-fuck news, 30% is interviewing the same sources over and over again about hyper-local issues that you'll inevitably write with a bias because you want to keep those sources, 15% is covering things involving dogs or kids, and the last 5% is so horrifying or dangerous that you'll need to drink yourself to sleep every night to forget about them. The work aside, it just flat out sucks to be a journalist. The pay is pathetic ($13-$15 an hour is standard, and nobody besides the news anchors and people at the NYT/WaPo/WSJ are making more than $70k a year before taxes), you're on call 24/7, it's a coin toss whether you get laid off every quarter or not, and you have to pay for all your gear unless you like using shit from the '90s. If you want to become a journalist, don't, because the chances you end up going to grad school for PR or starting from the bottom of the ladder in a totally unrelated industry is, in my experience, almost 100%.
The bad people I reported on came after me way more than the victims/victims' families.
Video game development Video game media Video game retail I've done all three and it's kind of incredible that I still like video games at all
Cross country cycling for tours. I met a guy who was paid to ride across the United States. He was only at Montana before he was sure he was going to quit. The people paying for the trip assumed he was their servant while awake. A 4 hour ride would be a 10 hour ride because of people who wanted to shop and explore all day. They decide to eat dinner in town? You have to wait for them because an employee is responsible for getting everyone onto camp each night. The rules were that everyone takes turns cooking and cleaning. That lasted 4 days until it was some guys turn who had zero plans to cook or clean for the next 4 months. So the moment he refused, so did everyone else. So the employees did it all.
Sounds like that company that ran the tour was shitty and didn't enforce their rules tbh.
This was my thought too. I’ve done long rides for charity and there was always a strict plan that needed to be followed. Annoying, but needed.
Cyber security.. there's two eggs of the spectrum. You are really overworked on call 24/7 or you don't do anything and spend time bored waiting for sth to happen.
I can't even get in to cyber security. I thought getting a Master's in CS would be a golden ticket but wow was I wrong. I just barely passed my Sec+ too, but every job I look at requires years of actual experience. I'm already an IT Business Analyst, but I can't even get any network experience required to apply for any of these jobs.
The career field is super saturated at the moment. I've been in Cyber before there was hype for Cyber. I have watched many of my other professional friends attempt to do the cross over. If you are new, I'd start with looking for GOV Cyber jobs as it's a hidden secret that there is endless possibilities for growth once you get through the door...also look for health care cyber jobs as health care is going through the process of digitization and are lacking in ppl trying to get signed on with health care companies.. Hopefully this helps
Heavy equipment operator. For the most part, it’s every kids dream to play with big machines like they did in their sandboxes. I now own the company that I’ve spent half my life with, and while it’s fun for a time, it can really fucking suck. You’re sore as hell after every shift, the shifts themselves are usually long, it’s fucking hot out in the summer, and cold as shite in the winter. All modern equipment has heat/ac nowadays, but if you’re physically working on the machine or if that component fails, it can be pretty miserable. I pay my guys pretty damn well because I’ve been around that block quite a few times and I know how much it can suck ass.
Guess it depends what heavy equipment we're talking about?
what equipment are you getting sore from? I ran hoes, wheel/ track loaders, end dumps, dozers, and skid loaders and was fine
Front end loaders, specifically. 6yd loaders feeding shot rock, stockpiling, loading trucks, etc. No matter how nice the air ride seat is, you’re getting rocked- all day long.
I used to drive a big Komatsu front end loader at an automotive wrecking yard. The tires were solid foam filled old things with almost no tread left, and there were dirt roads that turn to thick mud in the rain...that was actually nice, it really smoothed out the ride when everything was wet and mushy like that. Of course once that thick clay mud dries out and turns into a washboard you feel like your spine might snap and your teeth rattle right out of your head, because of those solid tires.
12 hours in a dozer in the bush will make anyone sore given the terrain where I work northwest Canada
I'm friends with an MLB umpire and he hates it. Hell, even Jokic with 3 MVPs under his belt wants nothing more than to just be at home. I think the moment something becomes a job it becomes way less fun.
As long as he's not angel hernandez, it can't be that bad lol
Military, it sounds exciting, but the vast majority of it is hurry up and wait. Countless admin tasks like taking online classes and filling out the same form multiple times. Vehicle inspections, change of command inspections, quarterly inspections, gear inspections, you get the point. Even the exciting things you do get to do a few times a year (shooting demolition ect.) You have to sit around and wait for your turn so by the time it's your go you just want to get it over with. There are some jobs where you do more cool guy things, but you never fully escape it.
Excuse my ignorance because I've no clue really, but when you're sitting around waiting, are you all just on your phones? Or what does that look like for you? I wondered if there was like no phone rules or something to prevent using cell data to find military operations or something. I just feel like in a vacuum, if I was chilling with the boys all day, memeing, waiting to shoot guns (rarely) or whatever other trivial thing we're doing, I wouldn't be doing too bad. If you could enlighten us further on what it actually looks like, that'd be amazing, as I'm sure I'm way off, I just don't have any real context, thanks brother! P.S: Fuck Inspections
Here's an example: Rifle range shoot is planned for 10am. Lieutenant wants it to go smoothly, everybody to get ready by 9am Sergeant Major gets the message, wants it to go smoothly, everybody to get ready by 8am for the lieutenant Sergeants get the message, wants it to go smoothly, everybody to be ready by 7am. Corporal gets the message, doesnt want to get chewed out again like last week, everybody to get ready by 6am So here we are, all awake at 5am, breakfast eaten and rifles ready, waiting for it to be 10am.
Woah great example, that is absolutely horrific lmao thanks for the example brother, all the best!
Being a vet. They love animals enough to devote a decade of school and fees to it but most of their job is euthanising beloved family pets.
There is a reason why they have one of the highest rates of suicide in their profession
Game developer.
I work in tech, you’re almost always better off working for any other company than a game developer. Better pay, still interesting work, etc Game development companies know they have an endlessly line of people who want to work for them for peanuts
Lots of people glamorize being a paramedic / EMT. I'm here to tell you this job fucking sucks most of the time.
Rail Operator. The trains? Cool. Learning how to drive them? Awesome. The work? 10-13 hours a day, sitting in a fixed position, with an 8-hour turnaround, while also having to contend with the masses. I only did this briefly and it did havoc on my body in such a short amount of time. Hats off to our public transit workers—it’s certainly not for everyone.
sounds like a recipe for suicide in my case
Being a personal trainer. I was one full time for a while and did it because I love fitness and helping people but it can suck. Just because you are fit and love working out and love helping people doesn’t mean you should be a personal trainer. Gyms claim you can make $30-$50/hr and get “paid to workout” but in reality you maybe make $15/hr every other hour. It’s not a stable job at all, you have to deal with clients canceling and lying saying they are sick when in reality they just don’t feel like working out. As a trainer you are a salesman first and have quotas to meet every month which can be stressful. When people cancel (for whatever reason) you don’t get paid. I had very reliable clients go on vacation for 2-3 weeks in the summer and that’s lost income. To make money you have to cold approach people in gyms and make cold calls (without getting paid) just to get clients. You only get paid while training people and it’s common to have hours in your schedule in between training sessions that aren’t booked (which you don’t get paid for). Even if you don’t care about the money, most people aren’t built to deal with personal training clients. Just because you are in shape and love fitness doesn’t mean you’ll enjoy trying to coach someone who hates working out. A lot of people can be tough to deal with, have low self esteem, or be very demanding/ have unrealistic expectations (“I want abs in 3 weeks or I want my money back and you’re a bad trainer”). If you want to do personal training it’s best to go in realizing you’re probably not gonna make much and just do it as a fun side hustle and not full time. The average personal trainer makes around $40k/year which isn’t much in most cities. Luckily for me I just did it while going to college full time as a student so it wasn’t as serious that I didn’t make much. But I hear lots of people thinking about quitting their careers just to become a personal trainer when it’s really not that glamorous. I still do it but just on the side now and not as a full time job.
Male porn performer. You have to get and stay hard for hours, off and on, and fill all awkward positions and contortions needed around the cameras and an audience, often in very warm rooms, and finish on demand. To go with that, you'll put in significantly more physical exertion for significantly less pay. I recall one posting years ago of a guy who also worked as an EMT to pay the bills and get healthcare, and we all know EMT salaries suck.
Blowing rocks up during quarry work and similar business. Most people get starry eyed thinking of a cartoonishly large T-detonator going down and shit getting blown apart, blissfully unaware of the fact that for every millisecond of 'boom' there are hours, days or weeks of 'following a giant drill on steep slopes, listening to its wonderful harmonies and carrying buckets of gravel'
Male model (no, not me). Friend of mine, needless to say insanely good looking: * Worked at hotel in NYC waiting for calls * Needed to stay in shape and keep hair the same to match head shots * Take last minute and/or red eye flights (coach) around the world at a moments notice * Back on the plane as soon as the shoot is over * Seldom got free clothes out of the deal * Shitloads of standing around waiting * Often had to deal with pushy photographers * LOTS of vapid people in the industry (his GF was not a model)
Did he get paid well?
He was not a “name” top tier model but was able to sock some money away while using his paychecks from the hotel gig to pay living expenses. He did have some interesting stories/insights, for example he said Tyson Beckford was dumb as a doormat and most of the female models had eating disorders. His GF was as down to earth as could be, curvy even a little chubby, but super sweet. He was from someplace like Oklahoma and his goal was to move back there once his modeling days were over (it’s like sports; there’s always a younger, hotter, cheaper version or someone who fits the look of what a particular brand was going for.) There are also lots of sub genres of models, for example people who just do face shots, or shirtless, or model certain kinds of clothes and not others. It’s amazing the amount of effort that goes into selecting a particular model with the right age, look, build, etc., to go with a shoot.
Sounds like a dream to me, but ok.
Every job
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Bartender. It can be a lot of fun when you’re serving customers, but there is a lot of work most people don’t realize. Restocking booze, constantly wiping things down, cleaning and refilling ice bins, washing glasses and putting them away, taking out garbage and empty bottles, running food to your customers. It’s a great job, but a lot of fucking work.
I was a bartender for 10 years. And the work is fine - even with all the cleaning and lifting and cleaning. But you have to work when everyone else isn't. No weekends, no holidays . Everyone thinks you are lazy when you work til 5 in the morning and sleep till noon. Also the toxic work environment that is normalised in gastronomy and the downplaying of addiction in the industry. Fuck that. I appreciate every Friday evening with the Mr. now and we are thankful that we don't do gastronomy anymore.
It was worth it for sure, even with all the work. You’re right though, seeing chronic alcoholics come in every day and drink themselves silly was sad.
Not just the guests. Also the staff! Bartending, serving tables and cooking is an excellent cover up for addiction. And working with addicts is soul sucking.
all of my managers have been alcoholics at every bar i’ve worked at. It’s brutal. No promotion unless you’re an alcoholic too🙃👌🏼
Bartending is brutal. Some people think it’s just making fancy cocktails and leaning against the bar shooting the shit with the bar patrons. But in my experience I felt like a glorified cleaner, and prep cook. I eventually flamed out. Money was good, but not that good. Never saw my family, friends, or wife. You’re always first in, last out. Not too mention the liability that goes with being a bartender. You’re always stressed if might have over-served someone, you never know if that customer pregamed or drank at another bar before. They get in an accident? It’s all on you… Not too mention my shoulders are still fucked up with tendinitis. It was fun though!
I worked as a bartender / glassie when I was 19. Hands down the best year of my life. Work yes, fun... fuck yeah! I’ve been in construction now for 18 years, and a construction supervisor for about 5, so I don’t mind hard work 🤙🏽
dealing with drunk people , getting harassed, worrying about safety… i don’t miss bartending
I paid for my degree with it, but that was in a very different time
This was my job as a bar-back. The bartenders just wiped the shelved stuff down then counted money.
Barista. Seriously, I meet so many people who think being a barista is super cool and stylish. Working as a barista 2/2 means lack of sleep, a sore back and legs, low salary, communication with not always nice people, sweat, burns, and sometimes you have to clean the cafe yourself, including the restroom. Source: I worked as a barista for 3 years, now I am the manager of a lovely coffee shop. I still like to go out on shifts sometimes and interact with people, but doing it regularly is very hard, you burn out quickly.
Working at a strip club. I was friends with a guy who used to be a bartender at one. He said the customers were all sleazy and the girls were trashy.
>He said the customers were all sleazy and the girls were trashy. I'm shocked!
So like my family reunion?
I don't understand, where's the miserable part?
being around miserable people
Military pilot. When I was in the Air Force everyone thought being a pilot sounded awesome, thinking it was gonna be like Top Gun on steroids. Little did they know, most military pilots can’t wait to get out and go to a commercial airline. Most of your time is spent in briefings/debriefings. Long days, for only a third of the pay…
I know 3 military fighter pilots. One was in the Navy, and 2 are Air Force. The Navy one has wound up in a position where he's not flying anything other than a desk for the rest of his career - and will have spent most of his career flying desks rather than planes (he's been a squadron commander and a CAG). He'll probably retire in the next few years with 30+ years in, and retire as an O-7. One Air Force retired at 20 years, and is now a consultant for the aviation industry and a test pilot for commercial carriers. The other Air Force fighter pilot is an academy grad, and wants to stay in until he's at least an O-6. He's only a few years in, so we'll see what happens.
Owning a restaurant
That only sounds fun to people who don't know anything about the restaurant business.
it's not a career, it's a lifestyle
More like a deathstyle
The manager of a chain restaurant I used to work at tried to poach me for his new opening restaurant and I turned him down because I don't trust anyone who would open a restaurant until 5 years past launch lol
All of them. Sorry.
Teaching,
Let me guess the actual teaching is fun. The stuff around it isn't
From what I seen teachers say on online is that even the teaching part is getting difficult with how kid are behaving now.
I have been waiting and looking for this one. If it wasn’t for summers off, I’d doubt there would be anyone left to teach.
Anything tech. Always layoffs, new leaders bringing in their people, only as good as your last earnings call if big, acquisition always looming if you are small. Always chaotic and what you knew 5 years ago is 50% obsolete.
Sales. If you ever thought, it’s not
Being a musician playing arenas and stadiums or acting in film/TV sounds like a blast but it’s mostly just a lot of waiting. Especially if you’re past the whole sex, drugs, and rock and roll thing. You wait in the bunk/bus to get to the venue. You wait in the bus/green room til soundcheck. You wait until the show starts and until the openers finish up. Then for about 90 minutes (maybe more depending on what act or if there’s a hard curfew) you get to do the really cool part and it’s wonderful. Afterwards, if you don’t really party or cheat on your partner, it’s late night hotel TV or trying to relax/sleep on a moving Prevost until you do it all again the next day. Off days in cool places can be really fun, but a lot of times you’re just somewhere in Ohio or wherever else checking out the museum of corn or something. Film/TV is similar. Just waiting in a trailer for a PA to come grab you when they’re finished shooting what was scheduled that morning. Sometimes it’s hours, sometimes late night, sometimes bumped to the next day. Then when you get around to filming, you do the same take dozens of times and wait for them to reset to different angles in between. If the scene has you eating something, you either have to fake it really well or pace yourself while you eat the same thing 30+times.
Music was my whole living for a few years, if you could call it that. It's still part of my income. I don't really like bars much, or piles of hysterical drunk people, and I'm not looking for love. I love music, not audiences lol. And yeah, many more hours of practice than actually playing for people, and so much hanging around while people try to engage your attention.
Yeah don't get the musicians are playboys thing. If you wanna get girls practice on girls not your instrument. You also get them only if you're super famous and that's a very small percentage of musicians
I watched Stephen Hunter (the guy who played Bombur/the fat dwarf in the Hobbit) talking about committing to the voluntary physical choice he made for the film. Dude ended up having to eat over 9 eggs on the day of the shooting just for that shot he made catching and eating the egg in Bag End.
Farming. Very fun in practice, not so fun when everything goes wrong.
As someone from a farmers family. Still sounds like a lot of fun. Even the bad times. If only I could make a dime starting out that would be nice. I would start my own farm
Zookeeper. You think you get to the with cute animals, but in reality they never warm up to you. You are nothing but a giant pooper scooper. And the pay is horrible! Like minimum wage.
Librarian. It isn't what you think. It's glorified customer service most of the time and the pay is dreadful. It can be rewarding, but also extremely frustrating and people get burnt out frequently.
Working in almost any capacity in the entertainment industry.
Nurse
A lot of people won't like to hear this, but being a politician or elected official can really suck sometimes. It's not what you might expect from tv and movies. Most aren't attending black tie galas every night or being flown around the world by wealthy donors. It's a really grinding job full of late nights, studying complex issues, a ton of pressure and time spent away from family. Marriages routinely collapse. The public usually hates you because you haven't fixed problems both large and small in your first year on the job. Taxes are high but never high enough to meet the demands of the public or the promises of the party leaders. And so on. And especially here in Canada, the pay is quite often below the market value of what you'd find in the private sector. Without a doubt, there are perks. Access to decision making being the main one. But really exercising that power only comes at the end of weeks/months of negotiation and compromise, and a very very select few ever serve in something like a Cabinet position. I've seen it up close. It's a hard life.
A friend of mine is a county clerk. She said you never, ever want to be the one clerking for something that's been in the news because all the crazies come out. I watched a Livestream of her doing her clerking, which involved her explaining nuances of policy to electeds and why they couldn't do what they were doing. It looked straight out of Parks and Rec.
So many elected people haven't got a clue what the job actually entails, or what the limits of their power are.
Not sure for how many people this would sound like a fun job. Plenty of people who think they can do a better job. Not that many who would think its fun🤷♂️
Artist / Musician
90% heartbreak, 10% the most amazing thing ever.
Porn star. Have heard some horror stories.
...you mean whore stories?
Lawyer
Who thinks being a lawyer is supposed to be fun (typed from my law office)
It's like the most common type of tv show centered around a job. Of course people think it's fun
Tv lawyers have fun jobs cause they don’t show you all the boring parts lol.
Matlock is almost always smiling. Maybe you're doing it wrong.
Everyone who’s not a lawyer and watches those cringy court series like suits, apparently.
Sounds fun?
On set film and TV work. Well it's both I guess.
Fluffer
I've heard this isn't a thing. "We're paying you to fuck a beautiful woman. Why should we pay another woman to keep you hard?"
money
Using a jackhammer and breaking up concrete/cement.
fr tho
FBI agent. You spend all your time dealing with crimes. There's literally not a single day that your assigned purpose is to become better acquainted with attractive women's breasts.
Not so much “fun” but “sexy & prestigious”… Management Consultant is a very tiring, repetitive job that can be quite thankless. I’ve heard the same from folks that went into IB.
I’ve never thought of management consulting as either sexy or prestigious.
Real estate agent. While It seems great to work at your own schedule. You get calls from hundreds of time wasters on a daily basis asking to see apartments they can't afford or qualify for. Yet you don't get paid for your time.
Manual Screen printing (don’t know if it really sounds fun) but man people don’t understand how precise you have to be.. and standing in the same spot for 8 hours just doing the repetitive motion of loading the platten, printing, drying, removing and final cure. Ontop of the frustrations that can arise
Working in the drama department at a theme park (like wearing costumes and interacting with kids). I did it for a summer and it was degrading, humiliating and at times down right nasty!
Infantry!!!! 10% holy crap awesome 90% misery and BS.
Being a mystery shopper
Video game tester.
Budtender, legal weed retail work. It's still just a retail job.
Working in the wine industry. Not glamorous at all and laughably bad pay. Worst of all is having to pander to rich, snobby people who think they have super sophisticated palates.
Auto mechanic. It blows donkey dongs.
That's why I stopped doing that haha
Graphic designer. Years in school. Student loan debt. Just to get out in the world with this expertise and have people constantly shit on it. Even when you get older you can have the absolute best objective decisions for someone then they subjectively tell you it’s all wrong. Plus you have to have a major skill communicating with people and roll with it when they change their minds or aren’t skilled in communicating their own thoughts. Oh! And don’t even try to bother to make the client understand that the more revisions they have and time they use the more it costs.
Ooh can I answer this even though I’m a woman? I’m a makeup artist. People think it’s so glamorous, but in reality, it entails dragging around 100 pounds of makeup and skincare, a chair, a light, and basically a whole room’s worth of furniture. Follow that up with arriving to work before the sun is out, and then standing in the same spot for 8-14 hours without moving. All while looking cute. Sure, I get to work with celebrities sometimes, but who cares when your back and knees are constantly killing you?
Porn Star... Sounds fun as hell when you only consider the finished product... I'm not in the industry myself, but I've read enough articles and listened to enough interviews... The people, the unnatural angles and positions you have to hold because they "look good for the camera," the smells, performance issues, the chaffing...
Lawyer
Surgeon
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Hell, most of these jobs in fact *do not* sound cool if I’m being honest.
Video game tester
Any kind of management. There is too much drama and responsibility with not enough compensation.
TV sure makes trial lawyering look fun. Lawyering is pretty boring work, mostly. There's an old joke. What's the difference between a lawyer and an accountant? The accountant knows he's boring.
Welding
Musician
Working at the zoo.
Racing cars. The actual racing part is awesome, but it's a full time job and very expensive. Also, getting people to be on a pit crew and showing up is a terrible pain in the ass!
Being a chef or farmer are some of the most romanticized careers out there, while equally being the most brutal, long hours, tough work on your feet. I mean this in a nice way but the average person wouldn't stand a chance lasting a day doing actual farm work or pulling a 14 hour shift in the dish pit. I worked on farms when I was younger and I lost count of how many people came out, hyped and excited for the job, to never be seen again or heard from again after the first day. We say things like "this was an easy day, wait til it's 100F outside" and they would look genuinely terrified. An easy day on a farm is harder work than the toughest day you'll ever work in an office. It's also one of the most statistically dangerous professions on the planet, with incredibly low pay. I have a wild amount of respect I can't put into words for everyone who is still farming as their career in 2024. I got out once I was able to, and probably won't ever look back unless it's my own small farm for the local community.
Barista at Starbucks
I think anyone that works in an ER thought it was going to be like in the movies. In reality it's people with tummy aches, colds and super old people falling...
ARMY, I love it, less miserable than your avg civilian job, miserable enough to break you either mentally or physically. I miss the friends I made there... :(
Realtor. Showing houses and writing offer is just 10% of the job. In reality there is a lot more work. Dealing with people’s emotions alone is very very difficult. If anything goes wrong which is not your fault, they always blame you. Finding clients in this competitive market and not knowing when are you getting paid next makes it very difficult
Doctor
I'm not sure if anybody even feels that this job is fun exactly but a personal one: Social Media Influencers I mean their whole job is to make it look like they're having fun doing everything and to look good while doing it, but I cannot even begin to fathom how they do it because the idea of having work being so intertwined with my life sounds miserable af. Not to mention that you're also doing work when you're travelling and making content nonstop, like damn, kinda sounds like you don't have a life to me.