What job would you hate the most? and why?

pgj2015

For me its definitely a professional office job, I did one in the past, lasted just about a month and quit one day when I couldn't take it anymore. The whole suit and tie, formality and fakeness of it all, most of the people I worked with were toxic gossipers who would stab you in the back as soon as look at you. I think most people just hate jobs like that deep down and that is the reason they are such a$$holes while at work.

I nearly get sick now thinking of such a job.

Galwayguy35

Whatever that department that deals with social housing is called, you just wouldn't want to get up in the morning these days with the crap you have to deal with.

Jim_Hodge

Don't judge by your bad experience. I did 35 years in an office job and lived it. It involved constant variety and was with a great bunch of people who became marvellous family friends. It depends on the work and the people.

I'd hate any marketing or sales type work. I think it always comes across as very fake and I'd be too honest for it. But our perceptions of other professions can often be way off mark.

gameoverdude

Gardai. Tough job. Couldn't do it.

You do your job and picking the same lads up a day later. How demoralising

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954084#Comment_119954084

I will judge it. Even if I had great colleagues in a professional office job, I couldn't handle it, its just not a god match for me im afraid, I wouldn't do a job like that for any money. soul destroying in my opinion.

mikemac2

Sales

I couldn’t sell water to a person dying in the Sahara.

There is a personality type for these sort of roles. You don’t need years of education. If you have the gift of the gab then you are more than half way there

I do well in other roles but sales would be hell for me

Atlantic Dawn

Checkout operator in a supermarket, I'd probably last an hour before I'd wrap my chair around some bellends neck. I'm convinced they must be on some class of valium type drug as to not lose the head with what they would experience...

• Customers waiting to be told how much their shopping will be before having the wallet or purse out, would you not have a reasonable enough guess at what it will be €50/60/70, could you really be that blind not to be able to guess what roughly will be needed?
• Customers asking if a pair of childs jeans would fit their 6 year old who is tall for their age...sorry I'm not Louis Copeland this is Tesco, the jeans are €5.
• People in the Q for circa 5 minutes and in that time not checking see if their Revolut account had more than 5 cent in it.
• Families of 7 loading the conveyor belt and on the other end the trolley but still slower than 1 person with the same load who has a clue.
• Anyone who doesn't place a Next Customer marker at the end of their load of goods.

Mad_maxx

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954094#Comment_119954094

Most of them do feck all , it’s a well paid job relative to the level of education and ability required

igCorcaigh

It's mostly about the mindset which you engage with it, though, isn't it?

I've had jobs I was unhappy in, but it was more about where I was in my life; I've never hated my job, nor the people I worked with. Maybe I was just lucky...

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954132#Comment_119954132

I suppose some people just go with the flow but I don't believe that is the way to go. I could have stayed in that awful job but I would have become deeply depressed which isn't something normal for me. I quit and set up a business, I am happier, making far more money and doing something I enjoy. maybe I was lucky. 😉

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954084#Comment_119954084

In all fairness they just said what they wouldn't want to do.

A suit and tie I'd be nope, unless meeting seniors. Think they're pointless. It will make you do your job better?

Strumms

Chewing bread for gummy chickens.

• chef… id hate working in such a hot, stressful, sweaty and uncompromising environment… you don’t get to see any results of that work as you are away from the diners…
• any job on a cruise ship… the staff quarters are erm… basic, officers have their own rooms which are basic but for the most part the rest have to share… basic doesn’t cover the shared rooms actually, have a look on google…. Some are little more then jail cells levels of comfort with doors that open.
• barman… I’d see no craic in after having a long day being forced to be interested in rambling drunken anecdotes and debates about the match, this political person, where I’m going for holidays (for the second time this week) or how ex punter is struggling with x problem, y problem, or the their wife might be chewing the door off the wardrobe… ( he just painted it again ). My local barman claims to be a psychologist, a marriage councillor, a gambling adviser and a spiritual guru.. and of course a spirits guru. He claims to not be paid enough, I agree.
• Garda… just having to be in contact with putrid scum and lots of tragedy..
• Paramedic… as above but trying to help people who have issues.. heart attacks, strokes, assaults, brain haemorrhages, car crash injuries…. Then entitled junkies …plus all the misery and sadness…

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954131#Comment_119954131

I couldn't it. They do their job and judiciary let them down. Why bother?

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954164#Comment_119954164

Sometimes the judiciary doesn't let them down, there is a guy in an Irish prison who is there since the early 80s, some guard had to catch him.

Vita nova

Painter/decorator, I've done a lot of house painting in my time and have always found it very boring. I can't imagine doing it full time for the rest of my working life.

Witcher

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954131#Comment_119954131

That must be why the courts and prisons are full.

Jim_Hodge

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954142#Comment_119954142

It was a bit more than that...

fakeness of it all, most of the people I worked with were toxic gossipers who would stab you in the back as soon as look at you. I think most people just hate jobs like that deep down and that is the reason they are such a$$holes 

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954177#Comment_119954177

True. Others have 10's of convictions. The guards did their job.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954224#Comment_119954224

I was partially answering so. My bad.

billyhead

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954198#Comment_119954198

I'd echo this. More than 3-4 days painting and I'd lose the will to live.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954227#Comment_119954227

Even if they keep them off the streets for a few months or years, job done. The rest of us don't have to deal with them for the while they are in Mountjoy.

gameoverdude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954236#Comment_119954236

Not their job to give prison time.

Ubbquittious

Dentist, undertaker, enbalmer. Disgusting. Wouldn't be long before I'd puke. You can throw most medical/child birth/dealing with small children jobs in there as well.

gary550

The idea of ever having to leave self employment to work for anyone fills me with trepidation.

I've never been employed outside self employment so can't say definitely it ain't for me, I could love it. The idea of just collecting a hassle free paycheck without having to manage the headaches, heartaches and ballaches that come with business certainly make it appealing some days but I've never been even close to packing it in and looking for a job.

From what I can tell from those around me who all have jobs the tyranny of some workplaces and some employers is something I don't see myself ever wanting to dip my toe in.

Of course I know people who absolutely adore their job but I know vast amounts more that show up every day just to pay the bills and feed the kids - which in itself is admirable in my eyes. If the chance presented itself they'd be gone in a second.

saabsaab

Footing turf. Slow and hard on the back.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954203#Comment_119954203

That’s probably because we don’t have enough prison places for the population though in fairness.

Lewis_Benson

Donald trumps rent boy.

I couldn’t work in a slaughterhouse. I don’t know how those people live with themselves. But I still guiltily eat meat and wish I was a vegetarian…

mojesius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954147#Comment_119954147

My favourite job was working behind a bar in New York. The tips helped of course but it was the mix of trusty regulars you could have the craic with combined with the array of random characters from all walks of life that kept it interesting. I knew that it wasn't a good career choice after your 20s so I left it, with great sadness.

I'd agree with the slaughterhouse one. I just couldn't do it. Yes I'm a hypocrite as I eat meat but I try to eat free range/known quality (Irish) most of the time.

I couldn't work in a call centre ever again after I got 'promoted' in one of many to supervisor, which consisted of listening to escalated calls from very irate people 40 hours a week. It gets to you.

Guard, doctor, nurse, chef, secondary school teacher... the stress and responsibility. An office job is luxury compared to many roles.

Motivator

A fireman or paramedic purely for what they have to witness on a daily basis. I know several people working at these and I have upmost the admiration for them. Of course they have good days but as one of them said to me before, you could be sitting down having a chat about the person you saved an hour ago and then 20 minutes later you’re cutting a dead person out of a car or scooping them up off the road. The mental trauma must be absolutely unbelievable.

For those mentioning office jobs. Although I’m in a job in relatively happy in, I’ve found the office environment has become very monotonous and repetitive. I work in a hybrid role so I can split my time between the office and at home spending time with my family but clock watching in an office is hell on earth and I find myself doing it more and more lately.