‘You’re giving your life up to the industry for almost no reward’ – 19 romanticized professions that are actually absolutely soul sucking
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Yeah. 35 here. After a few career changes and realizing everything sucks I’m considering getting that dumb ass masters in philosophy and trying to get a teaching job like I originally wanted to. I still think it’s a dumb idea, but so is everything, apparently
coloradotoast
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Librarian. People think we sit around all day reading books and shushing people, when in reality most public facing library workers have to deal with all kinds of wild behavior on a daily basis.
bowlbettertalk
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[Working in movies was the] absolute most miserable two years of my life when it comes to work conditions and work-life balance. They take advantage of the fact it’s a passion-driven career to exploit you in the worst ways possible. Have to also deal with some horrible people who think it’s normal to shout at you, job instability…
what_you_egg_stab
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Florist!
Hallmark movies are full of shit. Like 20% of the work is actual floral design. The rest of it is hauling heavy buckets of water & product, sanitizing, organizing, scrubbing, and other filthy, unglamorous chores. And it pays peanuts.
Fun fact: most arrangements are predesigned. The florist just assembles them. You don’t usually get to go to work and be creative. You just follow the recipe. If you want to be creative with flowers, do it as a hobby.
MarzipanMarzipan
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Working for a professional sports team. Their hiring practices prefer interns to lowest pay scale jobs. Unless you’re extremely well-connected or have an Ivy league mba, the chances of getting the “big jobs” are very small. The “churn & burn” is real!
Apprehensive-Draw-47
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I am a therapist. The number of people who have looked at me and said something along the lines of, “Your job isn’t that hard. All you do is listen to people complain all day” is too damn high.
Heavy-End-3419
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Archeology. I know via an acquaintance of a local professor who starts off the 101 class lecture with “If you decided to become an archeologist because of the Indiana Jones or Tomb Raider movies, you’re gonna have a bad time. It’s not even remotely close to being like that.”
I’ve heard there’s always a handful of students that don’t come back after that first class haha.
fairywings789
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Author. You think: fame, wealth, notoriety, but in reality it’s spending hours and hours and hours alone, with your work getting rejected or no attention 98% of the time.
Appropriate-Farmer16
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After reading these these comments, basically all jobs ever.
Small-Catch-1492
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