What job would you hate the most? and why?

StupidLikeAFox

Proctologist - even if you are an arse man, nobody is going to visit you to show you how sexy their arse is. Sick arses only for you.

walshb

Copper… tough job dealing with some tough and very traumatic situations, as well as some truly despicable human beings…and to top it off, watching your hard work getting pissed all over when said despicable human beings are in and out and in and out of prison, all the while free to continue terrorizing people.

StupidLikeAFox

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954665#Comment_119954665

That's all fairly procedural stuff when you think about it. If you can get over the squeamishness (a big if of course), you do the job and away you go. No pressure, your not worrying about life or death

Strumms

id still hate it….but It’s apparently not so procedural when you get someone who has died as the result of trauma, like motor vehicle accidents, work related stuff, the lad was talking about a decapitation from a crash….what else you can do with the head if it can’t be reattached…. 👀 missing limbs… etc..

id be tempted to put the head under the arm and winking with tongue out.…

gammygils

Definitely a Garda even though I applied 40 years ago 🙄

Having to deal with so called ethnic minorities fighting and anti social behavior time and time again

Having to call to someones' house in the AM or any time and tell them a family member has died in a car accident

And generally having to deal with scum

Couldn't do it! No way

fatherted1969

GP - every day I'd be working with people who are miserable and sick. Think it would eventually wear me down

Paul Pogba

Honestly, bin man!! I’d say they’ve seen things!! And don’t start me on the bin ‘juice’, imagine that when you’re hungover on a Monday morning.

Graces7

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954513#Comment_119954513

The very thought! I stopped eating lamb after raising twin orphan lambs... Beef after making friends with my bovine neighbours... My cats are obligate carnivores so they get raw chicken and i get a little too.. I could not be a produce farmer. The ultimate betrayal..A farmer I knew once raised an orphan lamb.. was sending it to market with the rest when it started bleating to him.... He of course rescued it.

Goldengirl

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

You were lucky Jim. Think its all to do with the people you work with or are in contact with.

Tried it for a while a few years ago when I was moving up to clinical nurse specialist job from an all patient facing role and nearly went mad!

Ended up dreading the phone ringing. Found myself very tense and inhibited having conversations with patients with other staff in background, that I never would have noticed before in the busy clinical situation.

Can take any sort of busy in a clinical setting but not an office environment where there are other staff at close quarters, just too claustrophobic for me. Felt eyes and ears everywhere and tongues wagging when anybody left the room. A bit toxic. Got out of there to a dect phone and a laptop in a tiny space which was next to the clinical space where I was happy to be, with friends and colleagues whom I know and love. It was not ideal but I eventually hot desked in the unit office and everybody there was too busy to be listening and gossiping about others.

Retired now but do some research work parttime at my own pace.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119958731#Comment_119958731

most farmers don't really care about the animals in my opinion, they just see money walking around the fields. I cant believe the farmer would send a pet lamb to the factory, what a monster.

Deebles McBeebles

Anything around the animal welfare area. My hands would go straight to auto-strangle on any offending humans.

Dial Hard

Anything involving children, cause I really don't like them.

Dairy Farmer by far. Awful work, awful conditions, dreadful weather, no time off, problems every day

Politician

Can’t please everybody

GAAcailin

Along with having to deal with the elderly/ dying and dentists.

Worst job would have to be Cabin crew; spending most of the day in the air and then having to clean the place before the next flight. Deffo budget carriers would be the worst to work for. You'd earn as much if not more as a waiter / waitress and avoid the risk...

Mister Vain

A nurse. Working 12 hour shifts in a hospital would be hell.

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119959890#Comment_119959890

Some get great pay and they get to see some great cities, they stay over often and chill at the pool or go to the beach etc.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119957478#Comment_119957478

Strange as it seems it's a love job for a nurse, I couldn't be an oncologist imagine having to tell a mother of a 5 and 7-year-old and her husband there is nothing they can do for them anymore and are recommending palliative care. The thing people forget about working in a nursing home is that it can be great fun. I would also hate to be a teacher I would end up being charged with murder.

orourkeda1

I'm not really a people person and I have great difficulty hiding even mild annoyance with them.

Anyone who deals with the public every day and excels at it should be rewarded appropriately.

I wouldn't last 5 seconds in a job like this.

notAMember

Most of the jobs listed here I would enjoy. I like the public, waited tables and was in support roles in my youth, had fun. slaughterhouse work is ok too I think for craft butchers, a sense of pride in work and humane treatment of good quality animals. Low quality product like meat factory , not so much.

Medical or social services are also interesting jobs, constantly changing

Repetitive boring work is what I don’t like. Anything that can be automatic . Visual inspection of boxes for example . Or filling out forms .

Sleepy

HR. The absolute **** you'd be working with on a daily basis would have me going postal in no time.

Any job dealing with members of the public tbh. Shower of dickheads.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119960037#Comment_119960037

Rubbish, they've only a three day week doing this allowing plenty of time to do agency work and make a killing. Not to mention picking up allowances for working in the evening.

Anything where you have to deal with people, especially the general public, customer interface etc. I did it all my working life and now realise I’d have been better doing creative stuff interspersed with working behind a computer screen. It’s not to say I didn’t sometimes enjoy my customer interactions. I did like being a supervisor and got on well with the colleagues I supervised, I was a good little team leader.

GAAcailin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119971323#Comment_119971323

James Reilly (the then minister) tried to address the 12 hour shifts and offer nurses 5 7/8 hour shifts instead - there was huge objection from the Nurses themselves. Many of them had structured their lives around the shift work; like able to live further from their workplace and only commute 3 days a week; max 3 days of childcare etc

maninasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119954120#Comment_119954120

Thats a fundamental misunderstanding of sales. Great sales people can explain what is good for their customers and guide them through the whole process of the solution that they need. Many products and services are complex to understand and explain. Often sales people act as a tremendous knowledge resource for others. Its not enough to have the gift of the gab nor is it often neccessary, they must be smart and have perseverance , flexible in dealing with different personalities and mentor their customers and their own organisations.

I probably wouldn't make the world's best sea going fisherman.

hoodie6029

Unfortunately most people think of Swiss Tony and Aloe Vera sales when they think of sales jobs.

Selling a complex piece of software or equipment to a multinational is also a sales job but that’s not what is in someone’s head.

Having worked in one highly-unionised job, I’d hate to work somewhere like that again. Rigid roles, no progression, ‘I’m finishing in 15 minutes so I can’t help you with that 5 minute job’.

What's with all the sympathy for guards and what they have to do? I thought we done away with doffing the hat when priests lost their influence.

Gardai are well paid with defensive clothing and equipment. It's the poor sods working security in the Spar or tk maxx that encounter scum with no equipment we should be protecting and giving more rights to defend themselves.

The Garda love an old compo claim and every one of them aim for at least one over a career. Some of their claims would make a toddler look tough.

Mister Vain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119971323#Comment_119971323

I'm talking specifically about working as a nurse in a hospital which would be my idea of hell. Whether or not the nurses like it and are making good money is irrelevant as that's not what the thread is about.

Kurooi

I'm gonna say ER nurse. I'm squeamish enough and generally dislike people so I'd be no good for and take no pride or pleasure from the job.

The working hours and pay are nothing to envy either.

Potential-Monke

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119971614#Comment_119971614

That's a very broad brush you have there. Shop security don't have to worry about anything, most can't touch people anyway so just let it happen and they're more useful as a witness.

New Gardai are not well paid, the "defensive" clothing is years old, unfit for purpose. Equipment is basic and lacking and not evolving. The private security on the Luas has better gear. Going on my reg number, there have been at least 34000 Gardai since the formation of the state (not including women who got different reg's for the first good few years after they were allowed join). So going by your statement, there have been at least 36000 cases brought against the state by Gardai?

I was assulted a number of times during my service, no one was even brought to court over it. The government and people don't care what happens to Gardai. Easily known you haven't a clue of what you're talking about.