Jobs you would never do

[Brian 162]

Prison guard, no thanks

[rwest]

I would do any job before I would stoop to begging on a street corner.

I hope I don’t ever have to come out of retirement, but I wouldn’t want to do a job that had a ton of responsibility, on call 24/7 or didn’t allow me to mentally check out after the workday.

[wildthing]

https://youtu.be/TQdPtjNRcy8?si=hHNxEbfvVJqWYFKj

...or anything related to sewage or sanitation.

(Sorry I don't know how to embed videos yet.)

[rfuerst911sc]

Coroner........ seeing death all day especially children no thanks . Glad I am retired .

[Deschodt]

pediatric cancer ward... no, just no.. heroes, those people, for real...(the term is overused elsewhere)

[fastfredracing]

Moderator on any car forum , although I hear the pay is great !

[jyl]

There’s plenty of jobs I can’t do for physical reasons. Sure you can do something for a few hours, but eight hours a day and after not long you’re disabled. Perk of age!

Jobs I can’t do for mental/emotional reasons - I think not many would be off limits. I’m pretty good at putting on a shell and switching off the emotions, empathy, etc. Social worker for abused or addicted people? Pediatric oncologist? Law enforcement in Dregsville? Sure - I wouldn’t be a good one - in fact I’d probably be the worst, the kind that everyone complains about, the kind of person you don’t want doing the job - but I’d get my paycheck.

A couple years ago, my sister and I spent three weeks in Taipei cleaning out my late mother’s apartment. It was a bad place. So full of trash and hoarded stuff you could hardly move around, rotted stuff and empty cans and insects, medical supplies and pills and bodily fluids/bloodstains, little stashes of the few precious things she still had hidden away, a fancy hat with dents, expensive shoes under piles of soiled clothes, no lights or electricity. My sister went back to the hotel and cried every night, she still has PTSD. I put on the shell, felt nothing, and still feel nothing.

P.S. This assumes little things like knowledge, skill, talent are ignored . . .

[red 928]

Originally Posted by Baz

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

Law enforcement deals with criminals too, not just lawyers.

[red 928]

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.

Did ya hear about the proctologist who tried to
write a prescription with a thermometer,
and said "hey, some a-hole stole my pen!"