TuringBot47 wrote: » We got married with an old priest and a young priest performing the ceremony. A couple of months later the old priest open the 2nd storey window of the parish house and let himself fall out backwards. No future, no life, no money... I'm sure it's a very difficult calling as numbers entering the priesthood fall.I've no love of any organised religion but can imagine a lot of psychological damage from the abstinence of a real life. The catholic church in particular needs to modernise to survive.
skooterblue2 wrote: » Western civilisation is coming to an end. Once religion goes the whole moral compass is gone and society collapses. The same way as it did in Rome Greece and the Tsars. Civil servants are like cockroaches they survive everything.
TuringBot47 wrote: » We got married with an old priest and a young priest performing the ceremony. A couple of months later the old priest open the 2nd storey window of the parish house and let himself fall out backwards. No future, no life, no money... I'm sure it's a very difficult calling as numbers entering the priesthood fall. I've no love of any organised religion but can imagine a lot of psychological damage from the abstinence of a real life. The catholic church in particular needs to modernise to survive.
Snow Garden wrote: » That psychological damage can subsequently get passed on. I heard there were a lot of suicides and suicide attempts by young boys in Industrial schools. I heard Letterfrack was particularly bad for it.
steddyeddy wrote: » How much do priests actually get paid?
whiskeyman wrote: » Archeology. Your career is in ruins before you begin...
steddyeddy wrote: » I work in science research and I can't think of many things were you can put as much effort into for sometimes very little reward. Whether one makes it in this game depends on hard work, intelligence but a huge amount of luck and contacts. You can spend 8-10 years getting your PhD, 4 for the degree, 1-2 for the masters and 3-5 for the PhD. I'm on an early postdoctoral position but right now it's sink or swim. A colleague of mine is on his fourth postdoc, has 25 years of working at Cambridge's MRC lab under his belt but now he's retraining because they let him go. 25 years at Cambridge and you end up unemployed seems a bit scary to me. Anyway that's a career path I think can be hard. No doubt there's harder career paths out there where you put in a lot but get very little back. Anyone suggest the most difficult one?
corner of hells wrote: » However, women love archeology because they spend their time digging up **** from the past.
DanDan6592 wrote: » What area of science/research are you in?
firstlight wrote: » Truck driving A minimum wage job with big responsibility and stupid long hours for no reward
vriesmays wrote: » Scientists are intelligent, successful people are clever.
sbsquarepants wrote: » The world doesn't necessarily value things just because they are difficult. Friend of mine was telling me a story about her sister, recently achieved a phd (something to do with neuroscience, I'm not quite sure of the specifics) She was applying for a research job in Trinity in the very thing she has the phd in - it paid 29K:eek: The add below it was for a window cleaner - paid 30k There's very little doubt this girl is more intelligent than the window cleaner....but smarter? He's basically gotten to the same point it has taken her a decade of hard work to reach, by buying a bucket!
padd b1975 wrote: » Did you helpfully point that out to her?
ILoveYourVibes wrote: » Also Actors. All the rejection. The humiliation. People seeing all your mistakes and the general public judging you.
LirW wrote: » Kinda agree but I've worked with a myriad of "professional" actors (as in going from one crap paid job to another) and most of them think they're super intellectual, hot sh1t, sophisticated and generally a huge number of them are absolutely awful and entitled people. I worked on a set for a short film year ago and the producer crashed his car on the way to pick the lead actress up. Nothing happened to him, he rang her and told her why he'd be running late, still in a total shock state and all she had to say was "yeah but don't forget my coffee and the cigarettes".
magic_murph wrote: » Low level Pro Golfer Having to pay for your flights, accommodation etc - you might win a low level tournament that nets you 25k but you just about break even. Obviously if you make it then the dark days are well behind you.
razorblunt wrote: » ++ The stress of hiting the monetary targets and the Qualifying School in the event it doesn't work out.
ILoveYourVibes wrote: » Jockeys. Lot of admiration for them. Amazing horsemen. But also absolutely NUTS. Ruby Walsh is riding a leftie horse on a right hand track ...and WINS
Dubh Geannain wrote: » Engineering. College hours were equivalent to a full time job. Not including assignments, projects and study. Start a job and you're getting bet down by clipboard merchants and accounts. Spend months meticulously designing (or fixing problems). Then, on completion some fupper from sales and marketing decides to change to colour and gets a nice big bonus for their troubles.
