quot Which Job Is A LOT Less Fun Than Most People Expect? quot 35 Of The Most Honest Responses
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Publish Not your original work? Add source I'm a big believer that your job has to be fun! I can already hear some of you mumbling, "But work isn't supposed to be fun-it's work," so let me clarify. You spend a third of your day at work which is a huge time investment, so what you do needs to be engaging and challenging, something that you're passionate about, and a vocation that makes you grow as a person, Of course, money is always an issue, but in the long run, you should strive to find a purposeful calling that also pays well. However, many jobs that people think are very enjoyable turn out to be fun only on paper and can be complete nightmares in real life. Reddit users have opened up about the dark sides of their seemingly 'fun' jobs in a viral thread on r/AskReddit, and we've collected some of their best answers. Have a read, upvote the answers that you agree with, and let us know if we've shattered any illusions about some of these vocations. Want to share the main pros and cons at your own job? Drop us a comment at the bottom of this article. This post may include affiliate links. #1 Working in an animal shelter. For sure, it’s probably less intense than zookeeping, but the amount of people who apply or volunteer expecting to come in and play with cute puppies all day is absurd. We’re basically animal maids. You deal with animals of all sorts of behavioral and developmental stages [pooping] and pissing everywhere and then you look over and this dog named Chumbawumba swimming in his water bowl so you gotta fill that up six times and dry his kennel out and then you go and mop up the cat room around 10 kittens who want to eat your mop and also four children who are all yelling that there’s puke in the floor and I MUST clean it, NOW. Not to mention all the extra behind the scenes work that the public never sees. How in the summer, during kitten and puppy season, the shelter built to house 500 max has 750 and I didn’t take a lunch or sit at all for any of my shifts for the past six days. How the courts force us to put down animals that we know can be rehabilitated, but we don’t get enough funding to fight it. How animal control just showed up with the fourth pregnant stray of the week but intake is full and even double stacked in some cases, so your coworker fosters the cats on her own. Not even to mention the [awful] people who do dumb [stuff] and end up getting bit or scratched and the animal is the one who bears those consequences. I am the proudest shelter worker in the world. I adore my job, even at its hardest. I didn’t sit for 9 and a half hours today and I found a cat turd in the cuff of my jeans but it doesn’t matter because a bonded pair of adult cats got adopted today. I took six applications this morning and the cat in bank 4 with the goopy eye is already looking better, and we sent a mama out to foster. The hard work is always worth it for these babies. highschoolvevo , velveteenviolet Report Final score: 373points POST Kira Okah Kira Okah Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I will say that having worked both zoo and shelter: zoo was easier on the psyche, shelter easier physically. Don't get to sit at all for either, and vet situations for both were terrifying; but zoo work might have you on the receiving end of larger flightier animals that will not hesitate to do you in, whereas shelters (I worked in a no kill) can have overcapacity animals forcibly taken away to a kill shelter and there is jack all that we could do about it. 64 64points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 Teacher. Children are psychic vampires. queer_no_evil , Tima Miroshnichenko Report Final score: 332points POST Friday Friday Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Teachers deserve much more money for what they have to put up with 145 145points reply View More Replies... View more comments #3 Professional photographer.
Not like, hobbyist, but business-owning photographer. Sucks the love right out of your work.
Because you started the business to take pictures.
Then Karen doesn't like the way she looks in one of them so she wants the whole set for free plus a reshoot for free plus those images for free.
Then the two high school kids getting into a very ill-advised marriage at EXACTLY 18 years old wants to book you for their wedding but their budget is only $50.
Then Karen calls back because she loves your work and wants to pay for another shoot, but only if you agree to do her friend's daughter's destination wedding for free.
Then you get a call from your last bride. It's been two weeks since their wedding. WHERE THE [HELL] ARE HER PICTURES?
Then you get no leads from a bridal expo.
Then a client finds out you don't support their candidate and tries to take you to court to get her money back.
Then some insta thot who thinks she's influencing people offers a "collab" where you take pro photos of her and she adds insta filters to it and claims her friend took them. And she's not gonna pay.
And then you get some entitled mom who wants you to photograph every day of her newborn's first year of life for $100.
I went back to being a hobbyist. [deleted] , Hans Report Final score: 306points POST Priscilla Reshell Priscilla Reshell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Wow that's a lot 61 61points reply View More Replies... View more comments Redditor Bwee21's post on r/AskReddit was incredibly popular. The thread was upvoted nearly 90k times and even got the 'Top Post' award. What's more, the intriguing question about which jobs aren't as fun as they seem got a whopping 30.5k comments. That just goes to show how much people resonated with the post (and how much some of them wanted to vent about their jobs!). Sometimes, it's not the actual job itself that's the problem but the stressful workplace environment that you spend your days in. Previously, I spoke with life coach Lindsay Hanson about what to do when they realize their workplace is toxic. According to her, we're all responsible for setting the boundaries for what we're willing to tolerate. #4 I'm a marine biologist. I spent the last week measuring defrosted fish heads. smileedude , Ian Kennedy Report Final score: 239points POST If I could I would live under water If I could I would live under water Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Sounds still awesome to me (no I'm not being sarcastic) 84 84points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 Nurse. Just kidding no one thinks that sounds fun. slothurknee , Viki Mohamad Report Final score: 231points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I was one LOVED IT and will to the day I die! 37 37points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6 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. Mr_frumpish , Les Orchard Report Final score: 229points POST TmKhr TmKhr Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I prefer playing games for fun, working in game industry is definitely not for me. 57 57points reply View More Replies... View more comments "If you feel that there's nothing you can do to change the situation and the company or people involved are unwilling to change, then you have to decide whether you're willing to stay in that environment or not," coach Lindsay explained to Bored Panda earlier. "A good question to ask yourself is, even if this toxic situation were to change, would I still want to work here?" she said that the ball's always in your court and you make the final decision about whether to stay or to move on. #7 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 drug infested, law breaking work environment that only benefits the owners of a restaurant Bestspacecadet2 , Lester Guijarro Report Final score: 214points POST Eslamala Eslamala Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Absolutely. A large percentage of chefs have either cocaine/opiate addiction, or alcoholism. The ego thing is HUGE, the daily work is stressful and there's usually a lot of screaming and name calling involved. You're usually overworked, underslept and underpaid, and if you get to be sucessfull, you'll still be overworked, underslept and underpaid, plus you'll have to deal with clients and other crap. It sounds a lot like the lyrics to It Never Rains In Southern California. 75 75points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 Programmer.
People see it as an anonymous figure typing a few lines of code and gaining access to top secret files.
In reality it’s 10% coding and 90% searching your problems on Stack Overflow. [deleted] , Pexels Report Final score: 213points POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Bless you stack overflow 92 92points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 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. y0r0bin , MIKI Yoshihito Report Final score: 184points POST Ahimsa Soul Ahimsa Soul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It definitely depends on the airline and country. 71 71points reply View more comments According to Lindsay, everyone has two options available to them. The first is choosing happiness (or at least contentment) in the job position you're in. The second is searching for a way out of your current predicament. "The idea that you can't change your situation due to the pandemic is very limiting. There are still companies hiring. There are still ways to make money on your own. There is always a way to change your current situation-telling yourself you're stuck feels very limiting," the coach said. "Again, it comes back to what you're willing to tolerate. You can do everything in your power to bring attention to the toxic situation and attempt to change it. And at the end of the day, you always have control over your own mindset, how you're reacting to the situation, and how much you let it affect you." #10 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. Savesomeposts Report Final score: 177points POST Eslamala Eslamala Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Once a veterinarian friend told me something rather obvious, but that hadn't crossed my mind: "we become veterinarians because we love animals, so we suffer half the time while working"... 100 100points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 Dog hotel. Thought I’d get to play with puppies all day. Instead I cleaned diarrhea off kennel floors for 5 hours a day and stopped tiny dogs from humping each other for the other 3. rafflesthegreat , Studio Sarah Lou Report Final score: 174points POST cybermerlin2000 cybermerlin2000 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago "NO PEANUT! This is a hotel, not a brothel!" 83 83points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 Librarian. It’s not all books and being quiet. There are also spreadsheets. math-yoo , Kevin Wong Report Final score: 165points POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago See, still sounds delightful. 135 135points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 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. wekoo9 , Jimmy Chan Report Final score: 155points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Another job that I think is heaven, stink or not! 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 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. TheMarvelPrincess , Dan Belanescu Report Final score: 155points POST Friday Friday Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago That does not look fun, they must be so hot & sweaty ? 67 67points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 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 [stuff] and touch [stuff] 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. [deleted] , Wikimedia Commons Report Final score: 148points POST Navin Kumar Navin Kumar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago i can imagine that 28 28points reply View more comments #16 Baker. Coming into work at 3/4 am so you can have a six am baked goods is miserable. haireypotter , Tristan Kenney Report Final score: 147points POST If I could I would live under water If I could I would live under water Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago But... They knew that before, didn't they? 88 88points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17 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. Altephor1 , jarmoluk Report Final score: 146points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago But oh! the feeling when something you did turns out extremely well! 25 25points reply View more comments #18 programming. please help me. I need a hug. why did I need to be such a nerdy kid when I was younger. [deleted] , Pexels Report Final score: 138points POST Miocha Miocha Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago *sending virtual hugs 57 57points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 Lifeguarding. Everyone expects baywatch, act, saving lives all the time. But It’s usually just sitting there blowing your whistle telling little kids to stop [messing] around. Theholynun , Yoshikazu TAKADA Report Final score: 127points POST Serial pacifist Serial pacifist Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Still not so bad at all. It's not like you're cleaning whale poop. 62 62points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #20 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. JeremyTheRhino , RF._.studio Report Final score: 124points POST Navin Kumar Navin Kumar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago but i think most of us realise the invention of a lightbulb was a 1000 step process 17 17points reply View more comments #21 Demolition
Everyone wants to break [stuff] 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. Bill_S_Preson_Esq , Janice Waltzer Report Final score: 122points POST Navin Kumar Navin Kumar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago but it sure is satisfying to watch demolition videos :D 36 36points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 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 OMG SPEND HOURS IN THE HOT SUN DUSTING OFF ROCKS!!! MidwesternMonkey , James St. John Report Final score: 121points POST TmKhr TmKhr Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This was my dream job when I was a kid, thanks to Jurassic Park movies and all other dinosaur stuff I had :D 31 31points reply View more comments #23 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. Wazula42 , Sam McGhee Report Final score: 112points POST Izzy_ Izzy_ Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I don't mind it. Beats having a job you really hate and don't want 41 41points reply View More Replies... View more comments #24 Lawyer, no it isn't like they show on TV.
Hey, finally case is before the judge, damn the other party didn't show up. Next date that judge has given is 3 months away. Lousy_Lawyer , energepic.com Report Final score: 111points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I could not defend someone who is guilty no matter how high the pay! 54 54points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 Google Street View driver.
You're all alone for 8+ hours a day, can almost never take a break, need to constantly be "on" and focused (lest you crash the $25,000 Subaru with $60,000+ worth of camera equipment on it), you end up becoming an amateur meteorologist to keep track of weather patterns and cloud cover, and in my experience there are a lot of people who just get insanely upset at you, at Google, and the job in general for a wide variety of reasons. I enjoyed myself when I did it, but it was nowhere near as glamorous or fun as I or my friends & family assumed.
Edit: Thanks to everyone who expressed an interest in my summer job from almost 10 years ago. I'll just answer the most asked questions here real quick:
Pay? $15 an hour, but contingent on hours driven, which were themselves dependent on clear weather to ensure optimal image quality
Why not drive every day no matter the weather? Google got around this problem by making you re-drive routes whose pictures turned out subpar. To prevent people double billing by driving the same easy route constantly, you also had a weekly quota of unique miles driven, so no double dipping.
What could you do in the car? As long as the camera and the napping software (Edit: MAPPING software, thanks for the heads up) was running properly I was on my own. I listened to music, the news, and lots of books on tape. I could stop for short bathroom breaks whenever I felt like it, and had an hour guaranteed for lunch whenever I wanted to take it, which usually amounted to eating in the car on the side of some lonely rural road 90% of the time.
Who would ever think this was fun or glamorous? All I can say is, back in 2012 most people I talked to were pretty excited, myself included, about getting the chance to do any work with Google, let alone this cool new project that would let you see what any place on Earth looked like at street level from the comfort of home. This was the era of Google Plus being a potentially exciting new thing, of Google Glass being the future of tech, and overall it was a different time. That's why everyone I knew thought this was a cool gig. TheUnknownDouble-O , Wikimedia Commons Report Final score: 111points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Would drive me nuts! 15 15points reply View More Replies... View more comments #26 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. InternetKidsAreMean , Bill Abbott Report Final score: 109points POST N G N G Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago There's a reason behind that sign in the store in Wayne's World... 49 49points reply View More Replies... View more comments #27 Accounting isn't the adrenaline rush that most people think it is PM_Me_Cool_Cars_ , jarmoluk Report Final score: 102points POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago No one in the history of humanity has looked at accounting and thought 'now that's thrilling'. 369 369points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 Farming. At least in my experience it's a rough and thankless way to make a living with no days off and no management to cry to when there's a problem.
You: My dad is in the hospital and isn't doing well, can I take a couple days off? The plants:
Also everyone thinks you have the cushiest job ever. Everything is automated now, isn't it? You get tons of bailouts and subsidies and whatnot, right? You get 3 months in winter off, right?
Maybe out west where they're growing a billion acres of corn in one field so the robot tractors can't really get confused and such a machine would actually pay for itself.
Only if you're in Iowa growing ethanol corn.
It's 3 months of building and equipment maintenance with no pay. It's the exact opposite of a paid vacation but it goes for months. No we don't go to Hawaii. Farmbot26 , Nicolas Veithen Report Final score: 97points POST Susan Green Susan Green Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Farming is a really tough job. I can’t imagine why anyone would think it’s easy. 69 69points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 Working in a thrift store? Well I always thought it sounded fun but it's basically just the retail experience but on top of that people think they can haggle with you. I specifically worked in a non-profit thrift store (charity shop) so it was extra infuriating when people tried to return things or talk us down from a $5 shirt. THIS ISN'T A GARAGE SALE. red_death_at_614 , Brad.K Report Final score: 95points POST Friday Friday Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Do not haggle a charity ffs people! 41 41points reply View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #30 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. [deleted] , Free-Photos Report Final score: 86points POST Niffler_13 Niffler_13 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago So Not Penelope Garcia 14 14points reply View More Replies... View more comments #31 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? Foxwix , HarshLight Report Final score: 84points POST El muerto El muerto Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago why not? a little physical labor wont hurt...come kids, se how fun is to be a Victorian chimney sweeper. or child worker in a textila factory...lower chances for survival make things more fun 48 48points reply View More Replies... View more comments #32 Trimming weed, Idk why people think working with weed is like working in the willy wonka factory, it’s not. You literally get to make tiny cuts with sticky scissors for 8 hours. Ari_AK , Yandle Report Final score: 83points POST Bill Bill Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Your hands hurt, you smell and end up sticky 22 22points reply View More Replies... View more comments #33 Working at Victoria's Secret. People think it's a lot of hot women coming in to buy underwear, but it's mostly Karens. Ecila881 , Wikimedia Commons Report Final score: 78points POST Eslamala Eslamala Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Retail is NEVER fun. 72 72points reply View More Replies... View more comments #34 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 nonsense 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. Impossibly_me , ayustety Report Final score: 75points POST Cip IESAN Cip IESAN Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I am a writer: each week I write some 10 humouristic short stories for an important newspaper and each 2-3 years I make a selection (with my editor at the publishing house) of the best stories, for a new book (some 350 pages each). I think constant writing is the best way to do it, but I must admit there are days when my inspiration is far, far away. Writing in some of these days is not a pleasure anymore (sometimes I pick one of my old texts from the archive, some 5-6 years ago, change it a bit and reuse it). 27 27points reply View More Replies... View more comments #35 Engineer.
I grew up loving planes and space travel and being interested in how things work. I loved cars and motorcycles and anything mechanical or electrical.
The reality is that you sit behind a desk likely making subcomponents at best, and dealing with issues that arise when it doesn’t work with another component for the final product. Most engineers will not use even half of what their degree was for.
Please note that of course there are exceptions, and many engineers get to do really cool things for their whole career, I’m just saying that most don’t. StolenCamaro , ThisisEngineering RAEng Report Final score: 73points POST howdylee howdylee Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago My husband went to college for mechanical engineering. Left after 2 years because he could tell it would ultimately be a desk job. He wanted to be in the shop building and fixing and making it work by the power of his brain and hands - not the power of a computer. Most brilliant mechanical mind of anyone I've ever met, and he's happy in his own shop! 20 20points reply View more comments #36 I almost forgot, the bad back!!!!!! Report Final score: 12points JP Appleyard POST Jonpaul Appleyard (Submission author) Jonpaul Appleyard Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This was meant to be an addendum to my post about being a paramedic!! 23 23points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 49 images. It’s been shortened to the top 36 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Upload Upload Edit Image Error occurred when generating embed. Please check link and try again. Render conversation
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POST River Webb River Webb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago this has currently ruined all job options for me, ive decided I'm going to rely on my parents for the rest of my life 35 35points reply Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago this is not fun for the parents though 7 7points reply Load More Replies... Anita Pickle Anita Pickle Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Parent should be on the list, lol 2 2points reply Anna McHugh Anna McHugh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago They shouldn'ta had ya then. Don't have kids if they're going to be miserable. And since you can't guarantee that, just don't have kids! -2 -2points reply Nia Loves Art Nia Loves Art Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Or...they should have kids and expect them to be responsible adults. It isn’t parents job to support their kids forever, it’s their job to prepare them for adulthood. 0 0points reply Nia Loves Art Nia Loves Art Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Also not as fun as it looks. Parents will be disappointed and resentful, you’ll have limited independence knowing that they can take the money away, and people look down on those who refused to work. It’s better to have a job even if it’s not fun. 0 0points reply Gandalf the Pink Gandalf the Pink Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Being a wizard. People think it's all cool spells and magic artifacts and fighting bad guys but most of the time it's riding for days on poorly maintained roads and talking to people trying to figure out how you can help, or trying to de-escalate their arguments with one another. There is no one to ask if the quest you have in mind is going to succeed, you need to sound convincing to the right people and then you are anxious for the next months or years that your adventure could be the death of the group. Living for thousands upon thousands of years has its good sides sure, but it's just as hard moving on from losing loved ones. And in the business you end up in a lot of dangerous situations with people you get to be very close to so losing loved ones you will. During peaceful times the job is a lot of party tricks and magic fireworks, that's pretty joyous actually. 32 32points reply Verena Gitterle Verena Gitterle Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago So if you read all of the above, you know: WORKING SUCKS! 18 18points reply Natalie Kudryashova Natalie Kudryashova Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Which is why people want to be paid to do it 6 6points reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments POST River Webb River Webb Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago this has currently ruined all job options for me, ive decided I'm going to rely on my parents for the rest of my life 35 35points reply Vicky Z Vicky Z Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago this is not fun for the parents though 7 7points reply Load More Replies... Anita Pickle Anita Pickle Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Parent should be on the list, lol 2 2points reply Anna McHugh Anna McHugh Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago They shouldn'ta had ya then. Don't have kids if they're going to be miserable. And since you can't guarantee that, just don't have kids! -2 -2points reply Nia Loves Art Nia Loves Art Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Or...they should have kids and expect them to be responsible adults. It isn’t parents job to support their kids forever, it’s their job to prepare them for adulthood. 0 0points reply Nia Loves Art Nia Loves Art Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Also not as fun as it looks. Parents will be disappointed and resentful, you’ll have limited independence knowing that they can take the money away, and people look down on those who refused to work. It’s better to have a job even if it’s not fun. 0 0points reply Gandalf the Pink Gandalf the Pink Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Being a wizard. People think it's all cool spells and magic artifacts and fighting bad guys but most of the time it's riding for days on poorly maintained roads and talking to people trying to figure out how you can help, or trying to de-escalate their arguments with one another. There is no one to ask if the quest you have in mind is going to succeed, you need to sound convincing to the right people and then you are anxious for the next months or years that your adventure could be the death of the group. Living for thousands upon thousands of years has its good sides sure, but it's just as hard moving on from losing loved ones. And in the business you end up in a lot of dangerous situations with people you get to be very close to so losing loved ones you will. During peaceful times the job is a lot of party tricks and magic fireworks, that's pretty joyous actually. 32 32points reply Verena Gitterle Verena Gitterle Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago So if you read all of the above, you know: WORKING SUCKS! 18 18points reply Natalie Kudryashova Natalie Kudryashova Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Which is why people want to be paid to do it 6 6points reply Load More Replies... Load More Comments Popular on Bored Panda I Used AI To See What These 23 Popular Cartoon Characters Would Look Like In Real Life 30 Y.O. 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“ Which Job Is A LOT Less Fun Than Most People Expect ” 35 Of The Most Honest Responses
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Publish Not your original work? Add source I'm a big believer that your job has to be fun! I can already hear some of you mumbling, "But work isn't supposed to be fun-it's work," so let me clarify. You spend a third of your day at work which is a huge time investment, so what you do needs to be engaging and challenging, something that you're passionate about, and a vocation that makes you grow as a person, Of course, money is always an issue, but in the long run, you should strive to find a purposeful calling that also pays well. However, many jobs that people think are very enjoyable turn out to be fun only on paper and can be complete nightmares in real life. Reddit users have opened up about the dark sides of their seemingly 'fun' jobs in a viral thread on r/AskReddit, and we've collected some of their best answers. Have a read, upvote the answers that you agree with, and let us know if we've shattered any illusions about some of these vocations. Want to share the main pros and cons at your own job? Drop us a comment at the bottom of this article. This post may include affiliate links. #1 Working in an animal shelter. For sure, it’s probably less intense than zookeeping, but the amount of people who apply or volunteer expecting to come in and play with cute puppies all day is absurd. We’re basically animal maids. You deal with animals of all sorts of behavioral and developmental stages [pooping] and pissing everywhere and then you look over and this dog named Chumbawumba swimming in his water bowl so you gotta fill that up six times and dry his kennel out and then you go and mop up the cat room around 10 kittens who want to eat your mop and also four children who are all yelling that there’s puke in the floor and I MUST clean it, NOW. Not to mention all the extra behind the scenes work that the public never sees. How in the summer, during kitten and puppy season, the shelter built to house 500 max has 750 and I didn’t take a lunch or sit at all for any of my shifts for the past six days. How the courts force us to put down animals that we know can be rehabilitated, but we don’t get enough funding to fight it. How animal control just showed up with the fourth pregnant stray of the week but intake is full and even double stacked in some cases, so your coworker fosters the cats on her own. Not even to mention the [awful] people who do dumb [stuff] and end up getting bit or scratched and the animal is the one who bears those consequences. I am the proudest shelter worker in the world. I adore my job, even at its hardest. I didn’t sit for 9 and a half hours today and I found a cat turd in the cuff of my jeans but it doesn’t matter because a bonded pair of adult cats got adopted today. I took six applications this morning and the cat in bank 4 with the goopy eye is already looking better, and we sent a mama out to foster. The hard work is always worth it for these babies. highschoolvevo , velveteenviolet Report Final score: 373points POST Kira Okah Kira Okah Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I will say that having worked both zoo and shelter: zoo was easier on the psyche, shelter easier physically. Don't get to sit at all for either, and vet situations for both were terrifying; but zoo work might have you on the receiving end of larger flightier animals that will not hesitate to do you in, whereas shelters (I worked in a no kill) can have overcapacity animals forcibly taken away to a kill shelter and there is jack all that we could do about it. 64 64points reply View More Replies... View more comments #2 Teacher. Children are psychic vampires. queer_no_evil , Tima Miroshnichenko Report Final score: 332points POST Friday Friday Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Teachers deserve much more money for what they have to put up with 145 145points reply View More Replies... View more comments #3 Professional photographer.
Not like, hobbyist, but business-owning photographer. Sucks the love right out of your work.
Because you started the business to take pictures.
Then Karen doesn't like the way she looks in one of them so she wants the whole set for free plus a reshoot for free plus those images for free.
Then the two high school kids getting into a very ill-advised marriage at EXACTLY 18 years old wants to book you for their wedding but their budget is only $50.
Then Karen calls back because she loves your work and wants to pay for another shoot, but only if you agree to do her friend's daughter's destination wedding for free.
Then you get a call from your last bride. It's been two weeks since their wedding. WHERE THE [HELL] ARE HER PICTURES?
Then you get no leads from a bridal expo.
Then a client finds out you don't support their candidate and tries to take you to court to get her money back.
Then some insta thot who thinks she's influencing people offers a "collab" where you take pro photos of her and she adds insta filters to it and claims her friend took them. And she's not gonna pay.
And then you get some entitled mom who wants you to photograph every day of her newborn's first year of life for $100.
I went back to being a hobbyist. [deleted] , Hans Report Final score: 306points POST Priscilla Reshell Priscilla Reshell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Wow that's a lot 61 61points reply View More Replies... View more comments Redditor Bwee21's post on r/AskReddit was incredibly popular. The thread was upvoted nearly 90k times and even got the 'Top Post' award. What's more, the intriguing question about which jobs aren't as fun as they seem got a whopping 30.5k comments. That just goes to show how much people resonated with the post (and how much some of them wanted to vent about their jobs!). Sometimes, it's not the actual job itself that's the problem but the stressful workplace environment that you spend your days in. Previously, I spoke with life coach Lindsay Hanson about what to do when they realize their workplace is toxic. According to her, we're all responsible for setting the boundaries for what we're willing to tolerate. #4 I'm a marine biologist. I spent the last week measuring defrosted fish heads. smileedude , Ian Kennedy Report Final score: 239points POST If I could I would live under water If I could I would live under water Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Sounds still awesome to me (no I'm not being sarcastic) 84 84points reply View More Replies... View more comments #5 Nurse. Just kidding no one thinks that sounds fun. slothurknee , Viki Mohamad Report Final score: 231points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I was one LOVED IT and will to the day I die! 37 37points reply View More Replies... View more comments #6 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. Mr_frumpish , Les Orchard Report Final score: 229points POST TmKhr TmKhr Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I prefer playing games for fun, working in game industry is definitely not for me. 57 57points reply View More Replies... View more comments "If you feel that there's nothing you can do to change the situation and the company or people involved are unwilling to change, then you have to decide whether you're willing to stay in that environment or not," coach Lindsay explained to Bored Panda earlier. "A good question to ask yourself is, even if this toxic situation were to change, would I still want to work here?" she said that the ball's always in your court and you make the final decision about whether to stay or to move on. #7 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 drug infested, law breaking work environment that only benefits the owners of a restaurant Bestspacecadet2 , Lester Guijarro Report Final score: 214points POST Eslamala Eslamala Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Absolutely. A large percentage of chefs have either cocaine/opiate addiction, or alcoholism. The ego thing is HUGE, the daily work is stressful and there's usually a lot of screaming and name calling involved. You're usually overworked, underslept and underpaid, and if you get to be sucessfull, you'll still be overworked, underslept and underpaid, plus you'll have to deal with clients and other crap. It sounds a lot like the lyrics to It Never Rains In Southern California. 75 75points reply View More Replies... View more comments #8 Programmer.
People see it as an anonymous figure typing a few lines of code and gaining access to top secret files.
In reality it’s 10% coding and 90% searching your problems on Stack Overflow. [deleted] , Pexels Report Final score: 213points POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Bless you stack overflow 92 92points reply View More Replies... View more comments #9 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. y0r0bin , MIKI Yoshihito Report Final score: 184points POST Ahimsa Soul Ahimsa Soul Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago It definitely depends on the airline and country. 71 71points reply View more comments According to Lindsay, everyone has two options available to them. The first is choosing happiness (or at least contentment) in the job position you're in. The second is searching for a way out of your current predicament. "The idea that you can't change your situation due to the pandemic is very limiting. There are still companies hiring. There are still ways to make money on your own. There is always a way to change your current situation-telling yourself you're stuck feels very limiting," the coach said. "Again, it comes back to what you're willing to tolerate. You can do everything in your power to bring attention to the toxic situation and attempt to change it. And at the end of the day, you always have control over your own mindset, how you're reacting to the situation, and how much you let it affect you." #10 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. Savesomeposts Report Final score: 177points POST Eslamala Eslamala Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Once a veterinarian friend told me something rather obvious, but that hadn't crossed my mind: "we become veterinarians because we love animals, so we suffer half the time while working"... 100 100points reply View More Replies... View more comments #11 Dog hotel. Thought I’d get to play with puppies all day. Instead I cleaned diarrhea off kennel floors for 5 hours a day and stopped tiny dogs from humping each other for the other 3. rafflesthegreat , Studio Sarah Lou Report Final score: 174points POST cybermerlin2000 cybermerlin2000 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago "NO PEANUT! This is a hotel, not a brothel!" 83 83points reply View More Replies... View more comments #12 Librarian. It’s not all books and being quiet. There are also spreadsheets. math-yoo , Kevin Wong Report Final score: 165points POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago See, still sounds delightful. 135 135points reply View More Replies... View more comments #13 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. wekoo9 , Jimmy Chan Report Final score: 155points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Another job that I think is heaven, stink or not! 28 28points reply View More Replies... View more comments #14 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. TheMarvelPrincess , Dan Belanescu Report Final score: 155points POST Friday Friday Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago That does not look fun, they must be so hot & sweaty ? 67 67points reply View More Replies... View more comments #15 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 [stuff] and touch [stuff] 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. [deleted] , Wikimedia Commons Report Final score: 148points POST Navin Kumar Navin Kumar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago i can imagine that 28 28points reply View more comments #16 Baker. Coming into work at 3/4 am so you can have a six am baked goods is miserable. haireypotter , Tristan Kenney Report Final score: 147points POST If I could I would live under water If I could I would live under water Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago But... They knew that before, didn't they? 88 88points reply View More Replies... View more comments #17 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. Altephor1 , jarmoluk Report Final score: 146points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago But oh! the feeling when something you did turns out extremely well! 25 25points reply View more comments #18 programming. please help me. I need a hug. why did I need to be such a nerdy kid when I was younger. [deleted] , Pexels Report Final score: 138points POST Miocha Miocha Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago *sending virtual hugs 57 57points reply View More Replies... View more comments #19 Lifeguarding. Everyone expects baywatch, act, saving lives all the time. But It’s usually just sitting there blowing your whistle telling little kids to stop [messing] around. Theholynun , Yoshikazu TAKADA Report Final score: 127points POST Serial pacifist Serial pacifist Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Still not so bad at all. It's not like you're cleaning whale poop. 62 62points reply View More Replies... View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Woman Shows How "Harry Potter" Characters Were Supposed To Look According To Book Descriptions (35 Pics) 50 ‘Weird Facts’ About The World That Might Give You A Fresh Perspective #20 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. JeremyTheRhino , RF._.studio Report Final score: 124points POST Navin Kumar Navin Kumar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago but i think most of us realise the invention of a lightbulb was a 1000 step process 17 17points reply View more comments #21 Demolition
Everyone wants to break [stuff] 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. Bill_S_Preson_Esq , Janice Waltzer Report Final score: 122points POST Navin Kumar Navin Kumar Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago but it sure is satisfying to watch demolition videos :D 36 36points reply View More Replies... View more comments #22 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 OMG SPEND HOURS IN THE HOT SUN DUSTING OFF ROCKS!!! MidwesternMonkey , James St. John Report Final score: 121points POST TmKhr TmKhr Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This was my dream job when I was a kid, thanks to Jurassic Park movies and all other dinosaur stuff I had :D 31 31points reply View more comments #23 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. Wazula42 , Sam McGhee Report Final score: 112points POST Izzy_ Izzy_ Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I don't mind it. Beats having a job you really hate and don't want 41 41points reply View More Replies... View more comments #24 Lawyer, no it isn't like they show on TV.
Hey, finally case is before the judge, damn the other party didn't show up. Next date that judge has given is 3 months away. Lousy_Lawyer , energepic.com Report Final score: 111points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I could not defend someone who is guilty no matter how high the pay! 54 54points reply View More Replies... View more comments #25 Google Street View driver.
You're all alone for 8+ hours a day, can almost never take a break, need to constantly be "on" and focused (lest you crash the $25,000 Subaru with $60,000+ worth of camera equipment on it), you end up becoming an amateur meteorologist to keep track of weather patterns and cloud cover, and in my experience there are a lot of people who just get insanely upset at you, at Google, and the job in general for a wide variety of reasons. I enjoyed myself when I did it, but it was nowhere near as glamorous or fun as I or my friends & family assumed.
Edit: Thanks to everyone who expressed an interest in my summer job from almost 10 years ago. I'll just answer the most asked questions here real quick:
Pay? $15 an hour, but contingent on hours driven, which were themselves dependent on clear weather to ensure optimal image quality
Why not drive every day no matter the weather? Google got around this problem by making you re-drive routes whose pictures turned out subpar. To prevent people double billing by driving the same easy route constantly, you also had a weekly quota of unique miles driven, so no double dipping.
What could you do in the car? As long as the camera and the napping software (Edit: MAPPING software, thanks for the heads up) was running properly I was on my own. I listened to music, the news, and lots of books on tape. I could stop for short bathroom breaks whenever I felt like it, and had an hour guaranteed for lunch whenever I wanted to take it, which usually amounted to eating in the car on the side of some lonely rural road 90% of the time.
Who would ever think this was fun or glamorous? All I can say is, back in 2012 most people I talked to were pretty excited, myself included, about getting the chance to do any work with Google, let alone this cool new project that would let you see what any place on Earth looked like at street level from the comfort of home. This was the era of Google Plus being a potentially exciting new thing, of Google Glass being the future of tech, and overall it was a different time. That's why everyone I knew thought this was a cool gig. TheUnknownDouble-O , Wikimedia Commons Report Final score: 111points POST Brian Bennett Brian Bennett Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Would drive me nuts! 15 15points reply View More Replies... View more comments #26 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. InternetKidsAreMean , Bill Abbott Report Final score: 109points POST N G N G Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago There's a reason behind that sign in the store in Wayne's World... 49 49points reply View More Replies... View more comments #27 Accounting isn't the adrenaline rush that most people think it is PM_Me_Cool_Cars_ , jarmoluk Report Final score: 102points POST Helen Haley Helen Haley Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago No one in the history of humanity has looked at accounting and thought 'now that's thrilling'. 369 369points reply View More Replies... View more comments #28 Farming. At least in my experience it's a rough and thankless way to make a living with no days off and no management to cry to when there's a problem.
You: My dad is in the hospital and isn't doing well, can I take a couple days off? The plants:
Also everyone thinks you have the cushiest job ever. Everything is automated now, isn't it? You get tons of bailouts and subsidies and whatnot, right? You get 3 months in winter off, right?
Maybe out west where they're growing a billion acres of corn in one field so the robot tractors can't really get confused and such a machine would actually pay for itself.
Only if you're in Iowa growing ethanol corn.
It's 3 months of building and equipment maintenance with no pay. It's the exact opposite of a paid vacation but it goes for months. No we don't go to Hawaii. Farmbot26 , Nicolas Veithen Report Final score: 97points POST Susan Green Susan Green Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Farming is a really tough job. I can’t imagine why anyone would think it’s easy. 69 69points reply View More Replies... View more comments #29 Working in a thrift store? Well I always thought it sounded fun but it's basically just the retail experience but on top of that people think they can haggle with you. I specifically worked in a non-profit thrift store (charity shop) so it was extra infuriating when people tried to return things or talk us down from a $5 shirt. THIS ISN'T A GARAGE SALE. red_death_at_614 , Brad.K Report Final score: 95points POST Friday Friday Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago Do not haggle a charity ffs people! 41 41points reply View more comments See Also on Bored Panda Overworked Employee Quits Because He Wasn't Getting A Fair Wage, Costs The Company $40 Million 40 Embarrassing Moments People Didn't Know Who They Were Talking To And Made A Fool Of Themselves #30 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. [deleted] , Free-Photos Report Final score: 86points POST Niffler_13 Niffler_13 Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago So Not Penelope Garcia 14 14points reply View More Replies... View more comments #31 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? Foxwix , HarshLight Report Final score: 84points POST El muerto El muerto Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago why not? a little physical labor wont hurt...come kids, se how fun is to be a Victorian chimney sweeper. or child worker in a textila factory...lower chances for survival make things more fun 48 48points reply View More Replies... View more comments #32 Trimming weed, Idk why people think working with weed is like working in the willy wonka factory, it’s not. You literally get to make tiny cuts with sticky scissors for 8 hours. Ari_AK , Yandle Report Final score: 83points POST Bill Bill Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Your hands hurt, you smell and end up sticky 22 22points reply View More Replies... View more comments #33 Working at Victoria's Secret. People think it's a lot of hot women coming in to buy underwear, but it's mostly Karens. Ecila881 , Wikimedia Commons Report Final score: 78points POST Eslamala Eslamala Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Retail is NEVER fun. 72 72points reply View More Replies... View more comments #34 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 nonsense 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. Impossibly_me , ayustety Report Final score: 75points POST Cip IESAN Cip IESAN Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I am a writer: each week I write some 10 humouristic short stories for an important newspaper and each 2-3 years I make a selection (with my editor at the publishing house) of the best stories, for a new book (some 350 pages each). I think constant writing is the best way to do it, but I must admit there are days when my inspiration is far, far away. Writing in some of these days is not a pleasure anymore (sometimes I pick one of my old texts from the archive, some 5-6 years ago, change it a bit and reuse it). 27 27points reply View More Replies... View more comments #35 Engineer.
I grew up loving planes and space travel and being interested in how things work. I loved cars and motorcycles and anything mechanical or electrical.
The reality is that you sit behind a desk likely making subcomponents at best, and dealing with issues that arise when it doesn’t work with another component for the final product. Most engineers will not use even half of what their degree was for.
Please note that of course there are exceptions, and many engineers get to do really cool things for their whole career, I’m just saying that most don’t. StolenCamaro , ThisisEngineering RAEng Report Final score: 73points POST howdylee howdylee Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago My husband went to college for mechanical engineering. Left after 2 years because he could tell it would ultimately be a desk job. He wanted to be in the shop building and fixing and making it work by the power of his brain and hands - not the power of a computer. Most brilliant mechanical mind of anyone I've ever met, and he's happy in his own shop! 20 20points reply View more comments #36 I almost forgot, the bad back!!!!!! Report Final score: 12points JP Appleyard POST Jonpaul Appleyard (Submission author) Jonpaul Appleyard Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This was meant to be an addendum to my post about being a paramedic!! 23 23points reply View More Replies... View more comments Note: this post originally had 49 images. It’s been shortened to the top 36 images based on user votes. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda! Add Your Answer! Not your original work? Add source Publish Change image Upload Photo Ooops! Your image is too large, maximum file size is 8 MB. Upload Upload Edit Image Error occurred when generating embed. Please check link and try again. Render conversation
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And since you can't guarantee that, just don't have kids! -2 -2points reply Nia Loves Art Nia Loves Art Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Or...they should have kids and expect them to be responsible adults. It isn’t parents job to support their kids forever, it’s their job to prepare them for adulthood. 0 0points reply Nia Loves Art Nia Loves Art Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Also not as fun as it looks. Parents will be disappointed and resentful, you’ll have limited independence knowing that they can take the money away, and people look down on those who refused to work. It’s better to have a job even if it’s not fun. 0 0points reply Gandalf the Pink Gandalf the Pink Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Being a wizard. 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