Worst job out there ??

Always thought of the horrific scenes ambulance crews and firefighters must sometimes encounter as first responders.
Great respect for them.

Hyperbollix wrote: »

Call center work is horrible. While a meat factory has physical awfulness to deal with, the call center is pure mental torture.

I often began a graveyard shift back in the day, knowing that apart from a short break and a half hour lunch I was going to spend 8 hours in hell with no let up. It was hard not to stop myself leaping out the window at times. The only thing it has going for it is you're in a nice warm environment in winter and you're sitting mostly.

I did call center work back in the day ‘99-‘00 for a crowd called ICT Eurotel,,,in Harcourt St then out to Eastpoint.

If you had a handy campaign which most of the inbound ones were it was reasonably easy going, easy money.

The outbound cold calling, trying to sell people shît that they didn’t want or need was monotonous, boring, dull, difficult and soul destroying.

I remember having to cold call people selling life insurance, you’d get the most abuse if it was during a sporting event like a big champions league or big all Ireland games. Full on threatening.

On the other hand there was an inbound campaign for devising plans to help people stopping smoking... a question was... ‘when do you most feel inclined to want a cigarette ?’ A regular answer... ‘after sex’... one colleague thought he’d put his headset on mute and said “ she, smokes after sex ? Needs more lube !” The mute button was not working, . The number of ‘senior’ individuals who gave that answer though would be enough to put you off your beef stroganoff.

mariaalice wrote: »

Most doctors, there are some medical positions where you can avoid the worse bits but that is only after they have trained. There are under tremendous pressure to always make the correct decisions and a mistake could have lifelong consequences for the patient.

Oncology and cancer surgery must be the worst, imagine having to tell a young mother or father with 3 small children there is nothing more that can be done for them.

That’s got to be tough. Imagine coming back from your break, seeing two parents and an 8 year old waiting outside your rooms, looking hopeful, nervous, anxious... but you KNOW that in 3 minutes, that you’ll impart information to them, that will break their hearts and change and shatter their lives for all eternity... I know it’s got to be easier to impart that info than be the recipient of it but.....fûck.

Underwater Welding

Unlike a lot of jobs posted here, you can take home a very good salary if you're among the best of the best at it, but it's among the dangerous jobs in the world, with a death rate of 1/5 killed on the job before retirement.

What is the death rate of underwater welding?

There about 10-15 deaths per year. With about 6,500 underwater welders that equates to about .015% to .022%



https://www.cromweld.com/underwater-welding-dangers/#t-1592436506740

So after a hundred years welding your risk of death would be 1.5% - nothing to sniff at, but we take similar risks using a motor vehicle.

However I did see something else in the search that was more along your numbers, I think those ones are full of crap as it would never be allowed if one in five died.

Quote: iamwhoiam

As a nurseI worked with a great surgeon in a very busy hospital . His first words to the SHO’s was” Be nice to the nurses, learn to listen to them , they know their patients and they know what needs to be done . Give them respect and they will be your greatest help on a busy stressful night “


If i saw an SHO under pressure and he /she was respectful and nice I would make life easier by having charts ready with a note of what was needed to be signed etc all laid out in order of priority

Be kind to nurses and they will be a great asset to you


I think having charts ready and priority issues highlighted should be standard. If you have one doctor coverning wards at night they're goign to be fairly junior and probably covering 150-200 patients and could be on a 24 hour shift."

My reply:

I think your friend the Surgeon got that advice about nurses in the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine because I recall reading it there before.

chosen1 wrote: »

Speaking as a secondary teacher, I can tell you it's nowhere near the worst job out there. Love it for the most part and you can't let kids acting up get to you. There should be a personality test before entering the profession though, as some teachers are not cut out for it at all. These types seem to be the loudest voices so that's what alot of people hear when teaching is brought up.

Lots of others mentioning meat factories being up there. It wasn't that long ago that they were one of the biggest employers in many an Irish town. I know loads who worked in them including family and friends and while it wasn't glamorous work, it wasn't remotely terrible. I myself worked in a meat processing factory and didn't mind it at all.

Irish people have gotten very soft in recent times and I don't envy the foreign workers on poor wages and living conditions who have replaced the Irish working in these factories.

Any time I have talked to secondary teachers, the ones who love it are the ones who love the slagging with the kids and having a laugh. its a job I couldnt do, I find most teenagers cheeky little $hits, I couldnt be dealing with that. Like you could have a laugh with most of them id say but there will always be a cheeky prick who will ruin it for the rest of them.
we had a teacher who was sound but he was really strict on day 1 of 1st year and no one ever misbehaved with him for the next 5 years. I met him a few times after i finished school, he was actually a really sound guy, i suppose he just was laying down the law on the first day.

I would say a cleaner at a sex/adult cinema. I saw a young lad waiting outside a booth with a bucket and mop as old lads cracked off to porn.

partyguinness wrote: »

I would say a cleaner at a sex/adult cinema. I saw a young lad waiting outside a booth with a bucket and mop as old lads cracked off to porn.

When did you see that? 1978?

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Going back over 10 years ago now, but I worked for a sketchy call centre for a week and it was horrible.

I had worked for another call centre for over a year before it so I knew the craic. It wasn't working in a call centre that was the issue - it was we were ringing old people in the UK selling them garbage. Usual story of stick to the script and these old people were getting confused.

It was wrong looking back. 9 out of 10 people were all OAPs. You were just trying to trick them. For the life of me I can't remember exactly what we were selling - but I do remember talking with other new starters and saying "why would some 70 year want this?"

Wasn’t the same crowd as me ? Ict Eurotel? If so I think it was life insurance.... royal bank of Scotland was it ?

Immortal Starlight wrote: »

Undertaker. There’s no amount of money I’d do that for.

500 billion a month? CASH