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What’s a job that’s way harder than most people give it credit for?

Maybe not in todays world, but garbagemen. Those dudes were lifting 100 lb garbage pails at odd angles non stop for 8 hours.
I dont give a fuck how much you work out or what you can lift, that is absolutely brutal.
 
Maybe not in todays world, but garbagemen. Those dudes were lifting 100 lb garbage pails at odd angles non stop for 8 hours.
I dont give a fuck how much you work out or what you can lift, that is absolutely brutal.
I also once heard that their immune systems take a battering and it shortened their lives which makes sense if true.

The thing I feel bad for them for is when I see all the shit people expect to have them dumping, couches and shit and stuff that isn't in cans or easy to dump, people are just so inconsiderate, that has to play with a guy's head. Already dumping garbage and then people just shit on you a little extra by not even having it so it's in any sort of order to dump.
 
Nursing, most people have no clue what the job actually entails and we keep getting more responsibilty piled on us while patient acuity keeps getting higher and higher.

That's very true for hospital ward nursing but then there are five other settings in which it's a cushy job.
 
Crime Scene clean up. I heard a story that pretty much the death smell is encapsulated by the human body even with the appropriate air filtration; you will smell death at your next bowel movement. Heard it in an interview with a guy that did it out of college.
I remember talking to a guy at a party whose job was something to do with embalming/ working with removing and attending to dead bodies.

They had to go to an old peoples home once where an old man had fallen onto a heater in his room and died. His face had part melted into the heater which he said was one of the most grotesque things he has seen.

Also transporting another body where the dead body had vomit coming out of it. Not just an old person's vomit, but an old DEAD person's vomit. The smell was apparently unimaginable.

He also worked on dead people making them look more presentable before deceased family members would see them. One of them was a girl who apparently had shot herself in the head. Her face/skull had almost split in two so he was tasked with putting it back together again. A job he said was really interesting.

Yes he was weird but the reason I remember asking about his job was he drove a very nice red Porsche.
 
In terms of the military everyone knows it's very hard to become a special forces sniper or fast jet pilot etc., but apparently being a mine clearance diver is also very hard. I'm referring to the British military but it's probably the same in most places. Apparently they are the elite of military divers and it's very demanding mentally and physically. There are quite a few videos you can watch on YouTube. Having to eat a raw [Edit: live] shellfish would eliminate me from the running right away.
 
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Martial Arts School Owner. There are computer systems that can help you with the business/marketing end of things, but unless you have a good staff, you are doing most of the teaching and sales. It can wear on someone after awhile until youre well established and have a good team.
 
Martial Arts School Owner. There are computer systems that can help you with the business/marketing end of things, but unless you have a good staff, you are doing most of the teaching and sales. It can wear on someone after awhile until youre well established and have a good team.
Ya but most of them are only open a few hours a day. My biggest gripe with trainers or owners was that they only wanted to give orders and be lazy themselves. That's just my experience.
 
They're doing it wrong. You rent out the mat/time slot to yoga/crossfit/aerobics/TKD instructors.
The one mma gym i know has been in business since the early 90s. Seem to have done ok without renting space. Haven't been there in 15 years and you never know what's going on behind the scenes but any martial arts or boxing gym I've been through has pretty much been the same. Fighters sweat while little else gets done.
 
Martial Arts School Owner. There are computer systems that can help you with the business/marketing end of things, but unless you have a good staff, you are doing most of the teaching and sales. It can wear on someone after awhile until youre well established and have a good team.
Plus of course you get old rivals who beat you in the All Valley finals opening rival dojos for free. Also former senseis coming back to take over the business if your students become successful.
 
Roof tiling in Australia. Heavy cement tiles that are sharp as shit and working in the blazing hot sun. The single hardest job in the construction industry. The majority are Junkies.
While I’ve never worked in Australia, I’ve been on plenty of roofs. I’d say roofing and masonry are tied, from experience. Both break your body down like no other trade can. I’ve got the arthritis and herniated discs to prove it lol
 
manager for a grocery store is about as bad, average burnout rate is a couple years I hear. It's the customers, the workers, the noise, the crowding, the constant working things out.

Retail working in general sucks, Mainly because of the customers and managers.
 
Retail working in general sucks, Mainly because of the customers and managers.
i'll take your word for it. I'll never work customer service if I can help it. Never did retail, if that means like selling clothes or shoes or non-food items.
 
Plus of course you get old rivals who beat you in the All Valley finals opening rival dojos for free. Also former senseis coming back to take over the business if your students become successful.
you're saying that in jest but it's true in my exp, with boxing and martial arts, it's super common for trainers to run each other down and nearby ma/mma gyms to be competitive and talking shit about each other. In fact, there was a former pro boxer in this area who got shot in the leg arguing with a rival trainer about who was the better trainer. I've never seen it get to that level before but it's not surprising.
 
i'll take your word for it. I'll never work customer service if I can help it. Never did retail, if that means like selling clothes or shoes or non-food items.

Retail covers food and non-food, at least in the UK.

A thankless task, in many ways. Not least because shoplifting has been de facto decriminalised in many areas.
 
Retail covers food and non-food, at least in the UK.

A thankless task, in many ways. Not least because shoplifting has been de facto decriminalised in many areas.
ok, I generally think of retail as selling of clothes or something. I've done cashiering at grocery stores and such, I don't have the patience for it anymore. It's a job where if someone shits on you and you react in any way, you can get fired, that's bullshit. I also did security in a grocery store and that was even worse being as it was in a shitty neighborhood.
 
Paramedic - dealing with a wide variety of injured people , in North America they often deal with addicts who can be violent . High rate of suicide among paramedics .
some fields involved in dealing with trauma seem to rub off on the practitioners and those fields end up with high suicide rates. I used to hear that psychiatrists and counselors had a ridiculous rate of suicide, which makes sense when you're dealing with multiple people's issues. and, my uncle used to tell me that counselors start of crazy and that's why they get into psychiatry to try to heal themselves. I also heard dentists have a high suicide rate.
 
Content filtering for social media companies. The stuffs you see on Youtube or FB etc.. are screened by real person so they are exposed to gore, violent, p0rn (inc ped0) stuffs uploaded on the daily. I can't imagine the damage done to their mind after a while in this job
That must be a head fuck. I was a juror on a ped0 case and had to see photos I wish I could forget. And probably nothing compared to what they look at.
 
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