Jobs you would never do

[ckissick]

Okay, I wouldn't do most jobs, since the one I do is what I'm most interested in doing. But I'm surprised there is anybody who signs up for certain professions. I got blood work done today and wondered about the phlebotomist drawing my blood. He does this all day, day in and day out. No thanks. And while I'm extremely thankful for dentists, I could never do that job. Oh, and no fluffer job for me. Besides the usual "Dirty Jobs - Mike Rowe" jobs, such as collecting sperm from a steer, (Ewww!) what job would you never do?

[Baz]

Law enforcement - dealing with scumbags day in and day out....no thanks......

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Baz

Law enforcement - dealing with scumbags day in and day out....no thanks......

Yep, just imagine if 95% of your work was dealing with the absolute armpit of humanity. I occasionally click a video on YT that's based on body cam footage. It's shocking how many folks are morons.

[Bill Douglas]

I would never be a cook/chef. All these Master Chef TV programs trying to glamourize the industry

[Seahawk]

Fighting fires...primordial fear for me.

The absolute hardest thing I have done mentally in my life was Navy Shipboard Fire Fighting School, which was mandatory for pilots...the course was excellent and the instructors as professional and helpful as possible.

Me?

The trip through the tunnel of fire was neither professional on my part and I may have trampled a few folks ahead of me...I didn't, but I really wanted to.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by ckissick

Okay, I wouldn't do most jobs, since the one I do is what I'm most interested in doing. But I'm surprised there is anybody who signs up for certain professions. I got blood work done today and wondered about the phlebotomist drawing my blood. He does this all day, day in and day out. No thanks. And while I'm extremely thankful for dentists, I could never do that job. Oh, and no fluffer job for me. Besides the usual "Dirty Jobs - Mike Rowe" jobs, such as collecting sperm from a steer, (Ewww!) what job would you never do?

You forgot proctologist...

There's something about that job that just doesn't smell right, but I just can't put my finger in it. I think that's probably a really crappy job.

[oldE]

Originally Posted by masraum

You forgot proctologist...

There's something about that job that just doesn't smell right, but I just can't put my finger in it. I think that's probably a really crappy job.

But there are always openings.....

Best
Les

[Flat Six]

Originally Posted by Baz

Law enforcement - dealing with scumbags day in and day out....no thanks......

This, or PARF moderator . . . .

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, a gastroenterologist doing colonoscopys all day. Or the nursing staff doing the prep and helping.

[herr_oberst]

Anything around a smelter or a blast furnace.

Or anything underground. (A friend of mine had a job re-coating the rebar that got scratched and scuffed during installation during bridge piling construction....
Underground with millions of gallons of water rushing around above him.
Hell, I get nightmares thinking about that job.

Or anything involving heights. Like those guys that change lightbulbs at the top of the worlds tallest radio antennas.
Or those guys who fix high-tension cables strung hundreds of feet above canyons.

[Tobra]

Helo or sub, no thanks

Can't think of anything else. Pediatric oncologist would be rough, but I think I could do it

[Dixie]

Flight attendant. You're basically a poorly paid, untipped, waitress with cranky customers.

[stevej37]

Jobs you would never do....

Any of them.
11 years of retirement...I'm out of practice.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Anything around a smelter or a blast furnace.

I can't find any of them now, of course, but I've seen videos that I assume are from China or SE Asia where a guy is working with red hot metal, taking bits of it out of an oven, and then putting them someplace else. There's a guy standing beside him whose only job seems to be to throw a bucket of water on the guy every few seconds.

I think I could manage some of those other jobs, heights, depths, etc.... I think the folks that end up in those jobs are there because they make more money than the guys that do the same work in normal situations. You get paid extra to be in extreme circumstances.

[rcooled]

[Eric Hahl]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Anything around a smelter or a blast furnace.

Or anything underground. (A friend of mine had a job re-coating the rebar that got scratched and scuffed during installation during bridge piling construction....
Underground with millions of gallons of water rushing around above him.
Hell, I get nightmares thinking about that job.

Or anything involving heights. Like those guys that change lightbulbs at the top of the worlds tallest radio antennas.
Or those guys who fix high-tension cables strung hundreds of feet above canyons.

I never changed a light bulb up there but in my early 20's I was in communications and had to climb all the towers around Oregon including the 1000' towers on the West hills. What a view!

I remember once at about the 650' level we were doing an antenna replacement on the KPDX tower. The antenna was stood off from the tower on a truss...about 10' out. Yeah, that was fun...Not! I had no problems with heights back then but I don't even like being on a ladder now.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by rcooled

lol.....

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Roadkill collector.

Search and rescue diver.

[TimT]

Oddly enough, heights never bothered me.... I made a nearly 40 year career working up high, on all the major bridges around NYC, and the northeast...

Me in my office around 1984, one of my first jobs after a few year in the sandbox..



I'm terrified of small spaces.. I never knew I was claustrophobic until I got my first MRI...I freaked out when the slid me into the machine...and made them take me out... Open MRI for me..

What job I couldn't do is something where you have to deal with the general public....

[pavulon]

Burn unit. Did it for a bit. Even a bit was too much.