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Post by livaco on Jul 22, 2009 14:49:39 GMT
I don't mean like jobs that almost anyone would hate. I mean, is there some job or career that someone you know has and really loves, but would be your worst nightmare?
I was thinking about this the other day, because it is the case for both my husband and me. He would hate my job and I would hate his.
He drives around all day and delivers auto parts. I really can't stand driving; I hate trying to find new places and deal with traffic. Especially in a big truck like he drives. And car parts! I can hardly think of anything less interesting. But he likes his job. He likes to be out and about and on the move.
I am a teacher. Hubby has said that he couldn't stand to deal with other people's kids every day and be inside all day, and go to the same place day in and out. But I absolutely love my job.
I think the other job I would really hate is sales. But I have a good friend who is a salesman, and he loves it.
Each to his own I guess....
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Post by bazfaz on Jul 22, 2009 14:57:05 GMT
I did 18 months of a law degree and decided I really did not want to make this my life. Does that count?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2009 15:03:18 GMT
I would not want to be a dentist.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 22, 2009 15:29:08 GMT
Painting!
I just had to paint two rooms in my house and every single second was pure torment for me.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2009 15:30:13 GMT
I'd hate to be a social worker or counselor of any sort. After having to take care of myself/deal with my own problems from 9 years of age, after having been a single mom with two kids in a country with no family to help me out, after all the stuff I've been through in my life, I have very little sympathy for grown ups who throw a fit or need mollycoddling any time things don't go their own way.
Probably why I can't stand to watch Dr. Phil or similar shows. A bunch of spolit adults who could do with a swift kick up the butt.
Kids are a different matter altogether, I'd do anything I can to help out with children.
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Post by bjd on Jul 22, 2009 16:06:21 GMT
I don't know anyone who does it, but I would hate to be one of those flunkeys in a uniform that stands outside fancy hotels and calls cabs for people, and opens umbrellas over their precious heads when it rains.
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Post by gringalais on Jul 22, 2009 16:45:05 GMT
Advertising - I don't think I could handle the pressure of having to come up with creative new ideas all of the time.
Sales. With my job now it's bad enough I have to call up companies and ask if they will meet with me to discuss their industry, but at least I am just asking for a little of their time. No way I would want to try to cold call and make sales.
Medicine/nursing, I don't much care for dealing with bodily fluids and the like.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2009 17:16:53 GMT
Telemarketing or door to door sales.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2009 19:27:28 GMT
I'd hate to be some rich persons servant, and at his/her beck and call.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2009 19:31:27 GMT
Oh, that would almost amuse me. Temporarily.
But I confess that I quit my job as the personal assistant of Claude François after just one day (Lagatta and AuntieAnnie should know who I'm talking about).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2009 19:35:04 GMT
Yes, I guess it could be amusing for a couple of days, after that I'd tell him/her/them to go fetch it or do it themselves!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2009 23:37:13 GMT
I worked as an au pair for a very long year and a half straight out of undergraduate school in NYC. It made the Nanny Diaries look like Mary Poppins. It was a great life lesson at a young impressionable age and I made a ton of money. (Never had any opportunity to spend it while I was working).
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Post by lagatta on Jul 23, 2009 0:15:07 GMT
Oh dear, Claude François. Think he was almost as screwed up as Michael Jackson.
Me, anything with figures.
I came to this thread thinking of the Untouchable women who clean latrines with their bare hands, but I guess everyone would agree about that one.
Deyana, people's response to stress and horrible situations is as personal as their response to carcinogens. It is not always a matter of being spoilt. (Confess I've never watched Dr Phil or anyone like him, as I hate TV and hate confessional TV even more).
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 23, 2009 1:45:29 GMT
Working in an electronic plant having to wear non-static coats, booties, etc. I called on these types of manufacturing plants when I was an outside salesperson for a fastener company(sold different types of hardware, screws, nuts, bolts, handtools, power tools, construction supplies, etc).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 2:03:10 GMT
I couldn't be an air-stewardess, I don't enjoy flying much.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 2:03:48 GMT
Deyana, people's response to stress and horrible situations is as personal as their response to carcinogens. It is not always a matter of being spoilt.
Not always, but sometimes it is. It can be a number of things, character (or lack of), never having had to learn how to deal with stress/life's problems, or always having had someone else to deal with their problems for them, etc... It's just that over and over again I see people who have all the support and opportunities they could want (from parents, councilors, other family members etc), and STILL can't seem to get their act together, and this can be a life long thing.
I couldn't work with such people, it would just irritate me too much.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 2:42:17 GMT
"Such people" seek help from mental health professionals for the very same reasons that cancer patients seek help for their disease. The inability to "get it together" is not quite as easy as it may seem for some who have never suffered from mental health problems whether it be of social or biological consequence (sometimes both). Psychic pain is every bit as painful as physical pain. Therefore, "such people "need professional help.
I do not place "Dr. Phil" in the category of professionals as I see him as a media generated charlatan. I'm sure he has helped some people and God bless him for it.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 23, 2009 3:26:56 GMT
I haven't worked as a counsellor, but I've worked a lot in community associations and had to deal with such people. Not easy.
That said, my mum was abused in some very serious way by her father - not necessarily sexual, but extreme violence and terror - this was common back then. Sure she muddled through but she was always hateful to me - though of course that is a generational thing, I know many women of baby-boom vintage who say the same about their mums. Yes, "grief counsellor" culture can be smarmy and self-indulgent but there were many many damaged people walking out doing great harm to others before people paid attention to psychic pain and damage.
I utterly hate talk of "character".
To be really obnoxious, I certainly couldn't work with children. I can tolerate them in small doses... Thank the Goddess that in my generation women won the right not to have them if we didn't care to, at least in the Western world.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 3:27:26 GMT
casimira, where have I referred to 'such people' as meaning mental?? Many non-mental people refuse to get their act together for whatever reason. Do you think that every person who gets counseling is 'Mental'? I'm curious. And no I couldn't work with them, but if you or others can, then good luck to you with it.
This thread is about 'jobs you'd hate' and I stated just that.
And If they are in fact mental, as you say, then they should get the help they need, from medication or whatever means necessary.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 3:48:24 GMT
That said, my mum was abused in some very serious way by her father - not necessarily sexual, but extreme violence and terror - this was common back then. Sure she muddled through but she was always hateful to me - though of course that is a generational thing, I know many women of baby-boom vintage who say the same about their mums. Yes, "grief counsellor" culture can be smarmy and self-indulgent but there were many many damaged people walking out doing great harm to others before people paid attention to psychic pain and damage. And it takes professionals trained in the field to help them. Ones who enjoy doing that kind of work. Which I wouldn't. |
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Post by happytraveller on Jul 23, 2009 9:44:25 GMT
I am totally with livaco. I could not do any job that requires driving around a lot. I don't like driving and hate dealing with traffic too. Therefore... I would never ever work as a taxi driver.
Oh and I would hate to work as a secondary school teacher. I don't think I could deal with teenagers.
And I could not work as an accountant. I don't like numbers and am not good with them.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 10:15:51 GMT
I have known numerous people who had an ideal to deal with "troubled youth" -- none of them were able to stay in the profession, because it takes a special personality to accept a 90% failure rate.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 11:21:58 GMT
My "burn out" in working with adolescents and young adults (and their families) came from when insurance companies started limiting their coverage for any meaningful therapy to occur. The client/patient would no sooner walk in the door and we'd have to work around a very limited amount of time in which to affect any kind of positive change and then have to discharge them right back into the environment they came from. "Band Aid" therapy.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 13:49:38 GMT
My apologies for "pouncing" Deyana. Although you did not use the term "mental", all the inferences were there. As you can tell ,I'm fairly passionate about this and I do get very defensive when the subject is broached.
It is a very high stress profession.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 14:10:53 GMT
It's Okay casimira. I wasn't trying to be offensive in any way to people who do in fact need some kind of therapy, we are all different after all. But I was only talking about people without psychological problems.
Also, English was not my first language, so the way I phrase things doesn't always come across in the right way.....I think many bilingual or trilingual people could understand what I mean, although that's not much of an excuse really...
I do have a couple of family members who work in the field of psychology, and yes, it's true, it's a hard and thankless profession to be in.
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Post by gringalais on Jul 23, 2009 14:12:36 GMT
Lagatta, I don't think I could work with kids either, at least the younger ones. For some reason I seem to have a good rapport with teenagers. I spent some summers in college working with autistic kids and kids with other disabilites like Downs Syndrome. It was okay for a summer job, but I don't think I could handle that constantly.
And social work, stuff like that would be tough. My husband office also includes social workers and they work in some of the most impoverished areas of Santiago. Some of the stuff they deal with and even just things they see in the neighborhood they work in is pretty crazy.
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Post by livaco on Jul 23, 2009 14:19:56 GMT
Props to you, casimira, to doing a job like that.
As deyana's answers show, it's not for everyone. She knows herself well enough to know she wouldn't be suited for it.
I have a similar view on teaching special ed students. I do have a special ed class for an hour a week, and that is enough. To me it takes away the parts of teaching I like the most because it becomes so little about the actual curriculum content and more about how to deal with a student's disablity. I have lots of respect for special ed teachers, but it is not for me...
I have come across teachers in special ed, or in regular ed, who should not be in their jobs. People who have no patience and always seem exasperated with the students and dissappointed in them. I wonder if they somehow ended up in a job that is not right for them, or if they'd be unhappy no matter where they are.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jul 23, 2009 14:22:33 GMT
I had a temp job with H*ney B*ked H*ms once. It was very tedious, boring and tightly managed. Besides the welcome, although very low pay I did get 2 half hams, one at Thanksgiving and the other at Christmas.
It was a tough time in my life, and I was happy to have the work, however tedious.
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Post by bazfaz on Jul 23, 2009 14:35:23 GMT
I am not sure I could be a baker, getting up at unearthly times to do things to the dough. And here have it baked by 7 in the morning.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 23, 2009 16:18:35 GMT
I would hate to be a supermarket cashier. I'd rather stack the shelves.
I would hate to be in any army.
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