Truck Driving for me. It’ll feel cool for probably a half-hour for me, to be driving something big. Until my worry of having to meet things in timely manners start kicking in and my anxiety to make sure information going all directions are right enough for easy deliveries.
Not to mention, how stupid easy it probably is for a eighteen wheeler truck to topple over in bad weather.
Defense jobs
Law enforcement. Because I have ethics.
I never understood this
Yeah, law enforcement has it’s problems, especially in the US where pretty much every police officer is corrupt, but the US is rather an exception in the western world.
There ARE actual criminals out there that, of left unchecked, basically will grow to trump type mobsters who abuse the shit out of everyone and everything around them
You’re fine with that, then?
Strange that it’s not in this thread yet:
ICE
Any governmental position really. It all sounds incredibly unstable with all of the news with federal wages and benefits. Unless you’re an actual politician, life as federal worker must be incredibly stressful.
Not sure how anyone with two functional neurons to rub together would want to become a violent fascist goon. I mean, the hope is there that they will all be eventually swinging from gallows, but sometimes evil does get away.
Retail Security. I just don’t give a shit to protect monied interests from regular folks trying to save some $$.
Not to mention the boredom of standing around all day.
Medicine. I just don’t see myself being responsible for the health and lives of other people - but I’m grateful to the people who practice that.
Deep sea diving repairs.
You have to go into a pressure chamber as soon as humanly possible when you arrive from the deep void of nothingness or else you rupture and die. If anyone needs a union it is those guys. They should be paid 3x the ceo’s salary.
Also, sketch YouTube comedians like Smosh, Dropout, etc… I couldn’t be “on” doing comedy for 6-8 hours a day recording constantly.
I used to work at a payroll company and our highest workers’ comp rates were:
Underwater welders
Seawall builders
Race car drivers
In that order.
What injuries did underwater welders and seawall builders get?
Underwater welders, electrocution. You can imagine, all the risks of diving plus welding, plus combining electricity and water.
Seawall builders, the whole process is dangerous because of the water, they can drown or be hit by heavy construction materials.
I just always found it interesting that those were more risky than race car driving. Our highest individual claim actually was a landscaper hit by lightning, who died, but sadly, he did not die quickly, suffered in hospital for some days.
Data entry. Probably the ADHD but I also have bad typing proficiency and I’ve been on a PC since like a preteen. I’m 31 now. I have no excuse but also I just can’t put myself to what seems like torture to me. My mind wanders.
Desk job of most any kind.
Any job with the threat of violence, to me or me to others.
I’ve not been able to hold any position more than six months… So basically I can imagine doing any job, but then quickly loose interest then can’t imagine doing it ever again. Hah
Anything where I have to deal with human shit.
You mean like actual sewage or just like any common corporate environment?
feces
Most of them, I suppose. The list of jobs I could do well enough to be paid for is a shorter one than those I can’t.
I wouldn’t be able to work in sales, marketing, or any client-facing corporate role since I find those interactions very draining and dislike having to negotiate or push people into something they aren’t already at least a little bit receptive to, especially if I don’t fully support that thing myself.
The best sales people are those who - on a per-interaction basis - spend as little time as possible working over marks.
It’s called fail-fast. You want to determine as fast as possible if the person you have approached is going to be an easy mark or not. You use a variety of openers and follow-up questions to determine whether you should just wish them well and move on, or actually focus on them to see if they’ll bite.
Honestly, the absolute worst salespeople are those who chase after people who will never bite, and take offence at rejection. Because being immediately rejected is the other person doing all your work for you - they are openly telegraphing that you will waste more time on them than any benefit that will come out of them. Which is why a “f**k off” should always be followed by a “thank you”. Take that as gospel, fail them fast, and move onto the next person.
Thanks for the info and for teaching me the term fail-fast. I figured salespeople had their own strategies but didn’t know this term. It’s definitely not a job for everyone.
I have changed jobs a few times because the position I was in transformed into a sales based position.
Yeah, same too.
I hate the fuck out of advertising and marketing. There’s no way I’d last even an hour, having someone tell me to go out and get people to buy products. Products and services that might not have been very well worth the money, but it has to be someone’s job to convince another to buy it anyways. You become the very thing you absolutely loathe.
Same, that’s why I’m a truck driver
Same, that’s why I’m a mechanic.
ICE.
“I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that… day.” ~Mitch Hedberg
Hey, it’s the story of my first job mixing and pouring concrete at 14!
Off shore rigs/commercial fishing
I like the ocean but I think I might go insane there
I watched a video about UNDER WATER oil drilling (or something like that, not sure if I got the terminology correct), and like they talk about how workers have to go in a fucking submarine and then they have to live in a tiny living space under water and also they need to spend 8 hours to slowly depressurize before they can resurface…
Nah, fucking caustrophobia is gonna kill me.
Saturation diving. It’s my understanding that they actually haul them up to the surface between shifts, they just keep them in a pressurized vessel to keep their bodies at high pressure. They make bank working a fraction of the year, and for good reason.
Try watching this movie, it was based upon a real event:
