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

Littlehorny · 17-07-2017 11:11PM

Cleaning of any kind, be it sewerage or sweeping the roads etc is honest work and no one should consider a low skilled labour job as below them.
Two jobs that spring to mind and i'm sure there is other examples of this type of work are clampers and baliffs (carrying out evictions).
Now i know people can't park just anywhere and i am a big believer in paying your way and not screwing people out of money but I just couldn't do a job that involves bringing misery to someone else.
I especially hate those type of cnuts who take great joy in doing those types of jobs.

sabat · 17-07-2017 11:18PM

Those scammy 'sales' jobs that send hapless young people around door to door working for commission- I'd honestly prefer to live on welfare than do that. There's nothing wrong with manual or sanitation work-if the general conditions are ok it's rewarding in its own way.

jacksie66 · 17-07-2017 11:19PM

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Capt'n Midnight · 17-07-2017 11:30PM

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 wanted to be a chugger but my parents were married.

Jobs OXO · 17-07-2017 11:34PM

Oink wrote: »

But to answer OP's question - if your unemployed friend is offended when you offer him a job, he needs a slap, and you need a new friend.

Well if the job is cleaning shoite out of a jacks for €8 and hour you'd be a fool to take it. Stay on the dole.

donegaLroad · 17-07-2017 11:51PM

singing country and western music to backing tracks with a drum machine in all the pokey bars around the midlands.

RoisinClare6 · 18-07-2017 12:10AM

I worked in Dealz for a year, didn't hate the work itself it was the company! Wouldn't consider anything beneath me. A euro is a euro whether you've earned it in an office or scrubbing a toilet. If it wasn't for us people doing 'lower' classed jobs the world wouldn't go round!

con___manx1 · 18-07-2017 12:20AM

I wouldn't consider any job beneath me and I would never look down on anyone for doing any type of job.
I really hate kunts that do tho.

18-07-2017 12:38AM

i don't necessarily consider any job beneath me personally, I consider certain conditions as being below the minimum standard of human dignity.

RoisinClare6 wrote: »

If it wasn't for us people doing 'lower' classed jobs the world wouldn't go round!

Yes it would. The great trope of modern life is that the poor are doing the world some kind of altruistic favour for the benefit of the poorly-waged.

People who work for low wages in the long term are, in general, being used against the benefit they represent to their employers. If it were otherwise, their employers would be on the side of the road.

MayoSalmon · 18-07-2017 12:46AM

Yes there are jobs beneath me..you don't say that in a bad way though. I am merely talking about low skilled work that I once did myself however I have better skills and experience now and have moved on.

Jesus Wept · 18-07-2017 12:48AM

Oink wrote: »

But to answer OP's question - if your unemployed friend is offended when you offer him a job, he needs a slap, and you need a new friend.

Seems an odd way to choose friends or to defriend someone who you could have known all your life.

Aglomerado · 18-07-2017 08:55AM

None. I found myself envying a binman this morning, swinging merrily off the back of a truck in his shorts while I went to my stuffy office job...

knipex · 18-07-2017 09:03AM

Jobs OXO wrote: »

Well if the job is cleaning shoite out of a jacks for €8 and hour you'd be a fool to take it. Stay on the dole.

Minimum wage is €9.25 and if it makes more sense to stay on the dole than work then something is drastically wrong with our social welfare policy..

BillyBobBS · 18-07-2017 09:06AM

Anything in an office or finance.

_Roz_ · 18-07-2017 09:20AM

knipex wrote: »

Minimum wage is €9.25 and if it makes more sense to stay on the dole than work then something is drastically wrong with our social welfare policy..

Depends on the structure of your work. If you're scrubbing toilets, are you doing it for 35 hours a week? If you're only doing it 20 hours a week, are you doing those 20 hours over more than 3 days? If so, you'll make less than on the dole and not be entitled to anything from Social Welfare.

I don't consider any job beneath me, but there are plenty I wouldn't want to do. I used to work as a cashier and it was the most soul-destroying, depressing work I've ever done. I'm an introvert, I prefer not to be interacting with people every minute of every day. I'm also bad at math and frequently counted my till wrong, so I'd be up money one day and down the next. It was awful. So, respect to anyone who can cope with those jobs, but yeah I'd sooner stay on the dole for less money.

18-07-2017 09:25AM

A journalist, especially in the Sunday Independent. Actually, with the exception of a very, very, very small number of public interest investigations on RTÉ the entire profession. Collectively they are sycophantic anti-republican, anti-socialist, rightwing conservative cúnts serving the interests of rich oligarchs. Collectively in Independent Newspapers and The Anglo-Irish Times these lackeys try to promote respect for the cowardly lickspittles who fought for the British Empire, and demonise those who fought for the freedom of this small country. Entire careers dedicated to pushing that particular agenda. Entire careers. I look forward to the destruction of that whole industry and I rejoice at the recent bankruptcy of Anthony O'Reilly and the effective sacking of Anne Harris as editor of the Sunday Independent.

Journalism: a pseudo-profession for complete bastards.

And yes, I feel much better now - thanks for asking!

frag420 · 18-07-2017 09:31AM

I am a pilot...all other jobs are beneath me!!

ligerdub · 18-07-2017 09:31AM

Aglomerado wrote: »

None. I found myself envying a binman this morning, swinging merrily off the back of a truck in his shorts while I went to my stuffy office job...

That's rubbish in fairness.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 18-07-2017 09:42AM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

A pay packets a pay packet, how its earned is just a means to an end.

That's a very bad way to look at it and a very bad way to live your life.

DareGod wrote: »

If you consider *any* job to be below you then your ego is out of control.

Only if you have never worked a day in your life or you're a communist and the only thing anybody should care about is the state. Your concept is very naive.

As people gain more experience in their field, naturally, certain jobs become undesirable. If you are made redundant and a job as a cleaner comes up while you are on the dole, the high horse brigade with frown upon your decision to decline said job, but you shouldn't have to take anything that comes up, that's just idiotic.

railer201 · 18-07-2017 10:10AM

frag420 wrote: »

I am a pilot...all other jobs are beneath me!!

Except for astronauts !

Hector Savage · 18-07-2017 10:17AM

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.

Indeed, that could be an interesting thread on its own.

Hector Savage · 18-07-2017 10:26AM

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

I had one of those a few years ago. A fairly informal environment where everyone went by first name (mangers and staff) except for one manager who demanded to be addressed as Mr X.
Purely because we knew how much it pissed him off a few of us used to call him by his first name, which was Dick. Never had a man been more aptly named.

You gotta wonder about the mindset of people like this ?
How f*cking insecure is he !! ??

I remember in the USA in some tosser posh hotel/restaurant, it was actually written in the contract that you could be fired for not referring to a certain manager as Miss X...

I went for an interview, didn't get the job, maybe cos I said "she sounds like a right stuck up kunt" to one of the managers and tried to high five him - these yanks have no sense of humour.

srsly78 · 18-07-2017 10:29AM

railer201 wrote: »

Except for astronauts !

Nah they are just fancy pilots. Similar to taxi drivers etc.

Ush1 · 18-07-2017 10:40AM

Not a particular job per say but being stressed making money for someone else is beneath me these days. I did my fair share of that when I was younger and was a total waste of time and energy.

Unless my name is on the invoices, I ain't getting stressed for nobody. Doesn't matter if it's sweeping the streets or doing IT work.

Skylinehead · 18-07-2017 10:43AM

Patser wrote: »

Submarine driver.

It's a high pressure job in fairness.

frag420 · 18-07-2017 10:45AM

railer201 wrote: »

Except for astronauts !

Sure they could be below me or above me, thats the beauty of space...man!!

Austria! · 18-07-2017 10:46AM

ligerdub wrote: »

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.

No, I wouldn't. Unless it's for a very short time. Otherwise it's goodnight Vienna.

MRnotlob606 · 18-07-2017 10:50AM

Every job is below me because I am an unemployed student.

sbsquarepants · 18-07-2017 10:55AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Wouldn't consider many beneath me, but there's plenty I wouldn't have any interest in.

Anything in an office, anything 9-5, anything with a boss, anything with too many cnuts working for me that have no interest in work, anything with a union, anything that you can't jack up in five minutes flat. Plenty of other things too.

So work basically?

I'm with you there.

Some jobs are more desirable than others obviously - but when it comes to the crunch, i'll do whatever needs to be done to pay the bills. Within reason of course - i don't care what rentboys earn, i'll give that one a miss. I'll consider fluffer though if the moneys good enough:D

Lollipops23 · 18-07-2017 11:00AM

I worked in a bookies for 9 months in 2010, when there were no other real options around. I hated every minute of it, and don't believe I gained any life skills during my time there.

However, I'd go back in a heartbeat over door to door sales/chugging.

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

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