‘What is a job that looks incredibly fun from the outside, but is actually a soul-crushing nightmare?’ – 21 secretly crappy career paths

12.

Forensic Scientist.

Looks good on CSI or whatever, swanning around with your hair all neat. The day to day is so mundane and the paperwork fucking sucks.

The ‘exciting’ parts are fucking horrifying.
shavedpademelon

13.

Acting, of any kind. Between doing a lot of takes to get any lines or scenes right, and memorizing way too much, and possibly being at the mercy of a director who will not know what they’re doing about half of the time, usually something like 60% of it will not make it in the final product, which ends up creating the illusion of the job being less effort than it actually is. So believe any actors when they say that acting is not for the faint of heart.
LudgerVanderson

14.

Being in IT and having to explain 10 times a day to someone that the computer isn’t saying ‘password incorrect’ for shits and giggles and you need to learn to type
FastFredNL

15.

Wedding photographer: You might think it’s an easy job with a great salary, but in reality, it’s a job with enormous stress (since there’s no chance for a second take) and very demanding clients. And the days are often very long.
consistent-paper7569

16.

Attorney. Its not fun. Its constantly dealing with other people’s problems and none of your clients listen to you. When doing custody cases, its disgusting to see how many people use their children as pawns to get back at the other parent.
Almighty_Hobo

17.

Farmer. It’s romanticized to high hell. You have livestock? Great you don’t get days off or vacations. -30 degrees and wind blowing like hell? Well the power went out in the barn you gotta rewire the panel before the pigs get too cold.
FormerStuff

18.

Trucking. It’s soul-crushing when I tell people I was driving and sleeping in a truck for a while, hauling 53 footers. A common first response I get is “Ohh! I love driving. That sounds like so much fun!”
Morphatoo

19.

Film/TV production. 12-18 boring, stressful, abusive, and life-sucking hours every day of the week. No time for sleep, family, friends, chores, or a life until the show wraps. Then it’s either hop right onto the next one or stress yourself out not working/looking for the next one.
SlipUp17

20.

Being a flight attendant. Travel the world, free flights, etc… In reality, you’re working odd hours all the time, apologizing for things way outside your control. You see the worst behavior from grown adults. All you want to do is ask them what they want to drink and they won’t take out their headphones or worst yet they don’t use headphone to stream/facetime/scroll through socials.
Jhhinerman

21.

Self-published author.

You are your own social media manager fighting against a sea of poorly written smut and endless query letters to literary agents that will (99% of the time) never be read. You will have to market yourself intensely in order to just get someone to read your work even if it’s just for $1. Those that become famous are mostly due to luck and having lots of money to back themselves up to begin with. Have fun making all the social media accounts just for marketing purposes alone.
cheeto-dude625

Inc-gomes said what we were all thinking.

Reading through this thread and it seems like literally every job sucks

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Someone asked which jobs would suit people who hate everyone, and these 17 fit the grumpy bill

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