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Okay storytime...
Which job is a LOT less fun than most people
expect?
Video game tester.You aren't spending your
time playing completed fully realized games.
You are playing the same level of a game over
and over seeing if there are bugs.
Archaeologist.
Did it during my twenties and that was more
than enough.
Long, hot days... living out of cheap motels
on sheet pay, and you typically find nothing
more than some pieces of glass and broken
pottery.
Every once in a blue moon you find something
cool, but those items generally end up getting
stored away in a box full of other artifacts
never to be seen again.
After reading through this thread for 20 minutes
I’ve concluded that every job sucks
Zookeeper.Don't get me wrong, it's awesome
to be around so many amazing animals and care
for them...But the smells are ridiculously,
insanely foul.I have a really strong stomach
and it's still tough for me...we've had some
interns quit over it.I was warned about the
smells when getting into the field, but thought
"oh I've volunteered at animal shelters, I
know what animal stink smells like"Nope.
Not even close.
Accounting isn't the adrenaline rush that
most people think it is
Demolition
Everyone wants to break sheet with a sledgehammer.
Everyone is tired of lifting that sledgehammer
by 5 swings.Nobody wants to load the broken
stuff into bags or a wheelbarrow and take
it to the dumpster.
I always say the more fun it is to go somewhere
the worse it is to work there like amusement
parks and arcades
I'm a marine biologist.
I spent the last week measuring defrosted
fish heads.
Lawyer, no it isn't like they show on TV.Hey,
finally case is before the judge, crap the
other party didn't show up.
Next date that judge has given is 3 months
away.....Now, little bit about me.
I am from India and have moved on from litigation
to academia.
Personally it was the right decision for me
as now I am way less stressed and can work
on things that intellectually stimulate me.
Having said that, I need to clarify that law
is still a very rewarding profession there
is something in it for everyone, for those
who want to change the world as well as for
those who want to make money.
It just demands too much of your time plus
the results of all your efforts are not immediate
and that can get stressful.Also, Yes that
song "Don't be a Lawyer" by Crazy Ex Girlfriend
is pretty spot on.
I have seen this question before and then
it was zookeeper at the top comment too.
Nice.Anyways, there's this making-of Frozen
2 mini documentary.
Most animators work weeks for a minute of
animation of one character, if not less.
At one point they decided to leave out a piece
that one person had solely been working on.
Must be crappy to be part of the credits without
being able to say "this is my part!".
Baker.
Coming into work at 3/4 am so you can have
a six am baked goods is miserable.
Working in a music store ( musical instruments
)
Your days are spent listening to 50 different
people play 50 different riffs poorly simultaneously,
as if they're all putting on their own concert.
Lifeguarding.
Everyone expects baywatch, act, saving lives
all the time.
But It’s usually just sitting there blowing
your whistle telling little sheets to stop
ducking around.
Being a Character Performer at Disney.Don’t
get me wrong, there are some amazing perks
and truly magical moments.
I know I’m super lucky and tons of people
would love to be in my shoes.But the day to
day work is EXHAUSTING in ways I never thought
possible.
Guests are ridiculously abusive...I’ve had
things said and done to me I never would have
imagined.
The company isn’t always great - it highly
depends on your leadership.
And there’s so much focus on your body and
face (good and BAD) that it can be incredibly
depressing and difficult emotionally.Plus,
you have to accept that there’s very little
upward mobility.
Most people “grow out of it” and it’s
rough to know that one day you’ll get “too
old” or “too fat” and you will have
to start all over in a new career field.
So you constantly are thinking either, 1)
what you’re going to do when you leave,
2) how you’re going to keep yourself there.
I personally knew it would be temporary, and
I now only work there seasonally while I have
a “normal career”.
But Disney has a way of sucking you in.....
Cyber Security.
Bro, the movies do us no justice.
Hacking is not as fast nor is it as easy as
the media makes it.
It's a great field but you spend a lot of
time researching or watching paint dry, especially
in the gov side.......
Paleontologist.
You don’t get to work with full dinosaur
skeletons and do all kinds of awesome expeditions.
You’re mostly sitting at a desk looking
at some pictures and logging stuff on your
computer, maybe examining a fossil occasionally.
If you’re lucky you can go on a real dig,
and oh my god SPEND HOURS IN THE HOT SUN DUSTING
OFF ROCKS!!!
Gamemaster at an escape room.It's the same
repetitive script, resetting the same stuff,
giving clues and hints about the same things.
The patrons are often competitive families
who argue, obnoxious impatient 13-year-olds,
college students who have been drinking, idiots
who break sheet and touch sheet that I SPECIFICALLY
TOLD THEM NOT TO.
They never remember your initial instructions.
If something gets broken during one group,
you have to hurry and fix it before the next
group.
Working at a Charles dickens fair is...
Interesting, but not incredibly fun.
It is hard to stay in character, and people
get so mad when they see the Alice in Wonderland
area.
Yeah, we know it's not Charles dickens, but
we can't have a kids play area in the world
of Oliver Twist, okay?
Being a writer.
I always thought it was my absolute dream
job.
But the only job I could get after college
was working in a content mill as a blog writer.
I used to work 70-hour weeks staring at the
computer in a basement of an old bank writing
bullshtay articles about the dangers of mold,
fence cleaning, and why you need a commercial
awning and the dream turned into a nightmare.While
I still write occasionally, I am now working
as a communications person so it is a bit
less heavy.
Video game testing.I've been working in the
game industry for 6 years now, and teaching
for 2.Testing video games is thought to be
just "oh you just play games all day?
LOLOLOLOL" but it's actually very specific
and arduous.First of all, there a bunch of
testing methodologies such as load/soak testing,
white room testing, version testing to name
a few, but the most common one is functionality
testing.Functionality testing is "so if I
walk into that corner with the shotgum in
my inventory, I can clip through the wall,
but if I have my M16 in my inventory, I don't
clip through."
Bar bouncer.
Hours of tension and boredom interrupted by
moments of adrenaline fueled fear for your
life.
Then some asshole pukes cheap booze on your
shoes.Edit: I was 19 when I started, and I
thought I would be getting paid to meet lots
of girls and listen to live music.
Which I did.
I also had knives pulled on me, endured threats
on my life, got my nose broken (not even in
a fight) and stood around and did nothing
most of the time.
You don't get to relax, though, because you're
constantly looking for trouble.
Awful job.
I write adult fanfiction as a side hustle
After a certain point it's just like writing
a paper, except you have to keep thinking
of different synonyms for a pen 15
I do closed captioning.While I joke that yes,
I get paid to watch TV, it’s actually very
tedious.
And if you don’t actually enjoy the programming
you’re being forced to watch something you
don’t care for.Or worse, if it’s something
I do enjoy like a long form drama, we usually
chop those up into 15 minute increments and
split between everyone so I only see chunks
and not always even in order it actually ruins
the show for me.EDIT: Wow, for a thread about
my job NOT being fun, did not expect the response
for interested parties.To summarize the questions,
anyone who knows proper grammar and spelling
can pretty much work the technical side of
closed captioning.
For live writing you have to be a stenographer
which you need to train for with an associate's
degree.
If you're looking to do side transcription
work I'd recommend ordering a foot pedal online
and looking into freelance sites such as Rev
and Upwork.
Accountant.
Everyone thinks it's all fun and number crunching.
But the constant stream of women throwing
their panties and wanting to bear your children
is honestly exhausting.
Acting.All the ones we see on TV and movies
are the 0.0001% of incredibly lucky and talented
people who managed to thrive in a hostile
and overcrowded industry.And even when you
are working, the actual job itself is 99%
sitting on apple crate in hot makeup waiting
for some grips to move a lighting fixture.
Then you say three lines over and over again
for an hour, and then you wrap.
Seeing all this makes me feel like I don’t
want to have a job, but instead live off fish.....
(as in catching and eating, it’s my favorite
thing to do, not the job of a fisherman)
Toys R' Us.
Not around anymore but I'm sure this applies
to other toy stores, though few that they
are.
It is still retail and in this case it involves
people's kids so of course the parents are
twice as entitled to have to deal with.....Edit
edit: I rescind my earlier assumption that
Toys R' Us was closed.
That is what I get for listening to rumors.
It was shut down where I was from originally.
I now see that it still exists in most of
the US, Canada, and certain parts of Asia!
Merry Christmas/Black Friday to you all!
Park Ranger.
Don't get me wrong, I loved it, but a lot
of days it was less "talk about cool animals
while wearing your ranger hat" and more "the
toilets are overflowing again, go clean the
septic tank filter and stir the tank with
a shovel."
With a little bit of "hey there's a methed
out guy down by the bridge, can you convince
him to leave without killing anyone."
All for the low price of $26k/year with a
college degree!Edit so more people will see
this:I hate the idea that this comment might
dissuade anybody from becoming a park ranger.
These jobs are so varied, and I just happened
to work for an under funded agency with too
few staff.
Honestly, I still loved this job and would
have kept doing it forever if a higher paying
outdoor environmental job hadn't pretty much
fallen into my lap.
Being a park ranger taught me so much, and
most importantly, I got trained as a wildland
firefighter, which is still my favorite part
of my job!
If you've always dreamed of being a park ranger,
PLEASE go for it.
Video Game Developer (non-Indie)
They're notoriously overworked, especially
during crunch time.
The field is highly competitive too, so I
imagine if you have the slightest issue with
work being your entire life, it wouldn't be
hard to replace you.Voice Acting is also pretty
brutal.
Voice actors generally don't get paid very
well and they're straining their throats or
whatever.
Well I’m a scientist.
I don’t know if people usually think of
that career as fun, but I think people think
it’s a lot more “Eureka!” and a lot
less “this data’s has to be manually processed
for 600 hours before I can analyze it.
Being a chef.
All the flare and awesomeness they show on
vice and Netflix is far from what actually
happens in the industry.
It’s not all fancy plates and tattooed/cool
haired guys doin their thing.
It’s a druga infested, law breaking work
environment that only benefits the owners
of a restaurant
Edit: thank you for the love and good reads
people.
I have some insane stories I’ll share someday.
For those asking I am a Sous chef at Michelin
level restaurants nowadays.
Not a chef de cuisine yet!Edit 2: You guys
are insane.
I once had a server approach my table and
asked where I work because he noticed the
scars on my arm.
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Librarian.
It’s not all books and being quiet.
There are also spreadsheets.
FLIGHT ATTENDANT.
1) You are on call (on reserve) forever, have
a terrible schedule, have no life, and make
no money for 5-10 years.
2) While you work for peanuts, you can’t
afford to use your flight “benefits” in
any substantial way.
3) Then, when you finally get a chance to
use your benefits for a trip, you have to
fly standby which means you aren’t guaranteed
to get on the flight you want.
4) Then, if you do make it out of town you
better have like a week off so you can make
damn sure you’re back in your base city
in time for your next work shift.
5) Did I mention there is an act of US legislation
(Railway Labor Act) that allows airlines to
exploit so you don’t get paid for certain
work hours that you actually need to be working?
For example, FAs don’t get paid for boarding,
or any time the plane is at the gate.
WORST JOB EVER...
Managing a dog hotel.
Breaking up dog fights, dogs sheetting in
the lobby and the occasional awful owners.Edit
- thanks for all the upvotes ! Sad my most
popular comment is about my job LOL
Working in a flower shop.
It's just like any other retail job, but people
constantly tell you how fun your job must
be.
Also helping grieving families chose funeral
flowers is not fun.
programming.
please help me.
I need a hug. why did I need to be such a
nerdy ducking kid when I was younger.Edit:
Sorry if I made you guys question your career
path, I wouldn't trade programming for anything
:D
Trimming magic dragon, I don't know why people
think working with magic dragon is like working
in the willy wonka factory, it’s not.
You literally get to make tiny cuts with sticky
scissors for 8 hours.
Although not necessarily bad, Beekeeping.Get
used to the constant sound of buzzing during
hive inspections/swarm removals plus wearing
the protective suit in hot ats weather for
hours on end (give or take the situation).
Also, there appears to be a large number of
beekeepers allergic to bees so epipens are
a must.
Being a paramedic, if you work somewhere like.
Chicago, new york city or LA yea you get stabbings
and shootings other varieties of murder on
the regular, most places the bulk of call
volume is patients that “don’t feel well”
the adrenaline filled blood guts and glory
calls are far less likely than the media would
imply.
Event planner, it’s hell on earth when you
have a million things going on and your waiting
for everything to come together
I honestly think being a streamer and a youtuber
is a lot less fun than it seems to be, but
a lot of people know that by now, still tho
it doesn't seem unfun.
barnes and noble, your job has literally NOTHING
to do with books & it obviously attracts a
lot of that type, myself included
Not a specific job but traveling for work.
I’m in tech and a lot of people starting
out talk about wanting to go to customer sites
and get “out in the field”...
I love to travel for fun but it’s hard to
fit in the fun stuff when you have presentations
and stuff to worry about and a lot of times
your customers aren’t in the fun cities
anyway.
I also think I prefer the stability in day-to-day
schedule of traveling less frequently.
Veterinarian —
TRULY shocked that nobody has said this one
yet.
We have the highest suicide rate of any profession.It’s
a lot more talking to people about money and
a lot less doing medicine and saving animals
than people hope going into it.
Not all of the animals are grateful, some
of them want to bite you because you’re
hurting them and they don’t know it’s
in their best interest.
Clients can be hugely manipulative jerks.
There’s lots of student debt.
And don’t get me started on near constant
exposure to low levels of anesthetic gasses.Edit:
My colleagues showed up, so for anyone struggling
I want to leave this: Not One More Vet.
I'm a Forensic Scientist and it's literally
the only thing people ask me about on dating
apps.
It's very technical work and it's extremely
routine.
A pediatric nurse, being a nurse for children
and adolescents.
Everyone in nursing school talks about how
much they want to work with kids.
The reality is that a pediatric nurse sees
more cases of abuse and neglect than any other
specialty.
Doesn't matter where you are in a pediatric
hospital, it's the thing you see most.I've
seen so many DCS (Department of Child Services)
caseworkers that I've gotten to know some
of them and became acquaintances with them.
Sure working with children and adolescents
is great, but people don't think about the
most essential piece of that puzzle which
is their families.
It doesn't matter how good of care you give
to those kids, if you don't loop the parents
in to that care you may as well just not be
doing anything for them.
Working at an amusement park.
Honest most real answer: any job/every job.
Until you've done it, you only have an idealized
version of it in your head.
Teacher.
Children are psychic vampires.
Pilot.You could lose your career with a single
illness or injury, which could be happening
to me soon.
Video editor.
The more I do it the more I can't be arsed.
Elementary teacher
Wow I expected everyone to say this but I
haven’t seen it yet.
%100 bartender.
We’ve all had fun in bars but never the
bartender.
Imagine throwing a house party where you’re
responsible for everyone and you can’t drink
yourself
Edit: Yes, yes, I know a lot of places are
fine with you drinking but I always found
it made the job harder rather than easier
Being a boss or manager of any kind.
You think it's gonna be all gravy cuz your
on top but there are 2 ways it can go:your
over worked and still not getting paid enough
for this sheet.
no one is paying attention to your work because
you are the boss, so you don't actually have
to do anything, or even have anything to do
so you are just chronically bored out of your
skull trying to find something to do that
looks like boss work
An artist, time management is very hard.
And it becomes more of a job instead of fun
hobby.
Modelling
