Are there any jobs that you consider 'below' you?

Road sweeping

Mining

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Chugging and Cold Call Sales. Although that's more of a moral thing.

Did cold call sales on phones for about a week and left. Some serious sociopaths involved in the industry.

I think giving them a go and leaving is fair enough. I did cold calling and door to door. Hated both and left. Got some agency work to tide me over, loved it.

HR (Not the get me a job kind, the ones who work in companies). I just don't get how people do this. You essentially want to be the mouth piece for those who have all the money and powerful. You want to tell the weaker and poorer bad news and all the time you yourself get treated like crap by both groups. I just can't do that.

Grave digging.

Fundamentally there's no job that's beneath me, or for anyone else for that matter. In reality you do what you can to survive.

Having said that there are caveats to that.

There is an underlying tone to the original post that "you should sweep the streets if you have to" in a sense of the noble aspect of that. Now while that's true, it assumes you'd get the job over someone else who may have zero qualifications and zero chance of getting a higher status role than that. What happens to that guy if that happens?

I've had a couple of periods of unemployment in my life, each time I've come through them with a much, much higher level of value to employers than when I became out of work. I used the time to work my arse off to upskill. It wasn't all that expensive as I did it mainly from books I read and worked at myself. I obviously looked for compatible jobs (any I was suited to at all, much the same level as where I was previously) and any that would have come up I would have applied for.

There's a potentially large cost of taking a step back from the previous role you were in, and there's really no need to do this if you can at all help it and is reasonably likely you can recover your position without all that much problem. There's a long term thing to consider here, and your career is important. There's only a certain amount of time in which you get the chance to frame that to your own preferences. Beyond that you get pigeon holed based on what you HAVE done not what you can do.

If you're worked for a few years then you qualify for benefit outright. It may well be taking from the State coffers but you can bet that you more than paid your way while you were working. If worst comes to worst then by all means go for the job which you can attain but doesn't relate to your experience, qualifications or indeed interest, but until that point I'd argue that it does more harm than good. It means you're taking a job you've absolutely zero interest in. Most importantly, you're using up your most valuable resource, your time, to do work where you'll not develop skills related to your next job, one you'll snatch up at the drop of a hat.

I hated the Slavebridge concept but I'd put working in one of those schemes ahead of working in a job which completely doesn't suit you. I reiterate that if it's a choice between working and sitting on the scratcher doing nothing, and you have nothing to fall back on capital wise, then any job is better than no job, but a bit of realism needs to be considered here.

Samwell Tarly's new job cleaning **** pans :eek: