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.
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.
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.
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.
Same, that’s why I’m a mechanic.
I have changed jobs a few times because the position I was in transformed into a sales based position.
Same, that’s why I’m a truck driver
ICE.
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:
I think any purely manual, highly repetitive job would kill me. Like assembly line work.
I worked as a dishwasher in a small restaurant as a teenager. Those 2 4-hour shifts felt like they lasted DAYS.
Having done a few weeks of highly repetitive work, the worst was when I had to bundle items in groups of 10. I couldn’t think a thought more complex, that repeating song lyrics to myself. When I got a few hours feeding a machine that counted for itself, it was liberating.
I used to be a pharm tech. Filling prescriptions was chill, because it meant you didn’t really have to do too much thinking, just scan the bottles, count, and slap a label on it. It was really frustrating as an AuDHD haver because I would sometimes just start talking to myself in my head or paying attention to literally anything besides how many pills I’d counted. Like I’d need to count out 30 pills and next thing I know I’d just have a huge pile of pills that I’d “counted” by 5s but I’d have zero clue how many were there lol.
Law enforcement. I was already in law enforcement and I’ll never do it again. It felt like I was a babysitter for idiots: breaking up fights, handling drunk people, de-escalating domestic issues, etc. Working on the border is shit, too. I’d never want to be in a situation where I have to deal with migrants at the behest of the government.
I’ve seen an awful lot of bodycam videos to agree. I feel bad for the ones that have to shoot somebody. I’ve even seen some bodycam footage where cops do breakdown after shooting someone. They’re really wishing things never had to go that way, but did because some very crazy people do crazy things or decide to suicide by cop.
Doctor
I hate gore-y stuff eww
But since I’m East Asian in a western country, I remember when I was in K-12 school, I get a lot of “Are you gonna be a Doctor?” comments and I’m just like… 🫠
Probably never gonna be a politician…
I hate to have every embarassing moment in my past get disected by the opposition
Also fuck public speaking, cuz I know someone is gonna clip it and replay any gaffles
Absolutely. I’d go further and say a surgeon. Cutting in to living folk and hoping you do a good enough job to literally keep them alive. That’s wild.
Regarding the last line, Macklemore has a song called “Light Tunnels.” It’s basically the story of going to some big music awards show (and his opinions on the matter).
I don’t care about music awards, but I do like the song; at one point he’s describing seeing his face on a big display and thinks to himself “just look normal, don’t become a meme.”
I think that’s a pretty solid line but probably difficult advice to consistently follow in a public facing role.
Judge. I have no idea how you can punish people all day long and not stay up at night worrying that you made wrong decisions that ruined lives overmuch
It’s especially bad when you look at time of day stats and see that, on average, judges push harsher sentencing right before their lunch break.
It’s wild that we have a system that ruins people’s lives that’s affected by how hungry one person is
Bruh I agonized over this on jury duty. It wasn’t even a violent crime but dude was still facing jail time. I cannot IMAGINE how stressful a Judge’s job must be on the day-to-day.
Isn’t that the role of the jury?
The jury doesn’t determine the punishment, only guilt/innocence.
Not all trials involve a jury. A jury can be requested in some cases, but it’s not the default. It’s usually reserved for serious criminal cases.
HR. I don’t like people, and I don’t care about corporate affairs.
Or daycare. I have four on my own, and they’re more than enough. Work hours are my hours of relief.
I’m fairly certain HR don’t like people either.
Yeah… HR’s job is to make sure the company doesn’t get sued over worker’s rights issues, that’s it. It’s always said that they’re on your side, etc, but they are fundamentally on the side of the company
Those that can’t do, teach… Those that can’t teach do HR.
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.
A bartender or barista. Just the thought of having to know how to instantly make an untold number of drinks, with infinite variations and customizations, and get it fucking perfect every single time fills me with dread.
If you do a job like that, please know that I consider you a wizard.
I have my own espresso machine and make various drinks for myself as a hobby. That’s actually the easy part of being a barista. The hard part is keeping up with a high pace of orders during rush hour. I would not want to be a barista either, specifically because of the stress of that work.
The other commenter is right about the good coffee though. Making really good espresso from fancy light roasted single origin coffee is extremely difficult.
Most baristas are terrible at making good coffee. There are some coffee shops around that make good coffee but they’re definitely in the minority.
Depends on where you are but this is true for many places in the States.
I’m in the Seattle area and we have lots of decent baristas.
I’ve never driven a really big truck but a 24 foot U-haul isn’t that big a deal. It’s weird at first but you get used to it.
Since someone already said HR: Middle management. I don’t want to be making life changing decisions for other people at the behest of what someone else thinks shareholders want.
I have seen some people in some of my jobs where they desired to be in middle-management, to swear that they wouldn’t be the uptight asshole boss to everyone. The sad reality is, is that management wants to train you to be an unreasonable hardass on people. If they feel you’re too lax, then you’re not going to make it. Which is fucking telling of itself with why management of all levels is so hated.
Yuuup. I’ve helped train a lot of the current supervisors at my job, so they’re comfortable telling me about a lot of things. Plus I was being prepped to become a supervisor for a bit, and it’s… Not great, to say the least. I’ve seen people with hearts who’ve been changed a lot by management. Even worse when they go farther up the ladder.
For a while it wasn’t even about the money, since every position in the building paid the same. Moving up often came with a pay cut because of salary, and a different bonus structure. Kinda made me realize how little I wanted to be involved with any of it.
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.
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.
Any job that involves moving around in four dimensions. I can’t imagine that at all.
You already are (4th dimension is time)
Look at this time lord casually flexing on us mortals.
