What job would you hate the most? and why?

Don't judge by your bad experience. I did 35 years in an office job and lived it. It involved constant variety and was with a great bunch of people who became marvellous family friends. It depends on the work and the people.

I'd hate any marketing or sales type work. I think it always comes across as very fake and I'd be too honest for it. But our perceptions of other professions can often be way off mark.

Checkout operator in a supermarket, I'd probably last an hour before I'd wrap my chair around some bellends neck. I'm convinced they must be on some class of valium type drug as to not lose the head with what they would experience...

• Customers waiting to be told how much their shopping will be before having the wallet or purse out, would you not have a reasonable enough guess at what it will be €50/60/70, could you really be that blind not to be able to guess what roughly will be needed?
• Customers asking if a pair of childs jeans would fit their 6 year old who is tall for their age...sorry I'm not Louis Copeland this is Tesco, the jeans are €5.
• People in the Q for circa 5 minutes and in that time not checking see if their Revolut account had more than 5 cent in it.
• Families of 7 loading the conveyor belt and on the other end the trolley but still slower than 1 person with the same load who has a clue.
• Anyone who doesn't place a Next Customer marker at the end of their load of goods.

In all fairness they just said what they wouldn't want to do.

A suit and tie I'd be nope, unless meeting seniors. Think they're pointless. It will make you do your job better?

I couldn't it. They do their job and judiciary let them down. Why bother?

Painter/decorator, I've done a lot of house painting in my time and have always found it very boring. I can't imagine doing it full time for the rest of my working life.

It was a bit more than that...

I was partially answering so. My bad.

Dentist, undertaker, enbalmer. Disgusting. Wouldn't be long before I'd puke. You can throw most medical/child birth/dealing with small children jobs in there as well.

Footing turf. Slow and hard on the back.

Donald trumps rent boy.

My favourite job was working behind a bar in New York. The tips helped of course but it was the mix of trusty regulars you could have the craic with combined with the array of random characters from all walks of life that kept it interesting. I knew that it wasn't a good career choice after your 20s so I left it, with great sadness.

I'd agree with the slaughterhouse one. I just couldn't do it. Yes I'm a hypocrite as I eat meat but I try to eat free range/known quality (Irish) most of the time.

I couldn't work in a call centre ever again after I got 'promoted' in one of many to supervisor, which consisted of listening to escalated calls from very irate people 40 hours a week. It gets to you.

A fireman or paramedic purely for what they have to witness on a daily basis. I know several people working at these and I have upmost the admiration for them. Of course they have good days but as one of them said to me before, you could be sitting down having a chat about the person you saved an hour ago and then 20 minutes later you’re cutting a dead person out of a car or scooping them up off the road. The mental trauma must be absolutely unbelievable.

For those mentioning office jobs. Although I’m in a job in relatively happy in, I’ve found the office environment has become very monotonous and repetitive. I work in a hybrid role so I can split my time between the office and at home spending time with my family but clock watching in an office is hell on earth and I find myself doing it more and more lately.

I agree with dentist/medical - think I could do the undertaker/embalmed jobs. There something about them already being dead that I wouldn't mind - go in, do the job, go home. I mean if you are a doctor and you can't save someone's life then that will stick with you, if you are an undertaker/embalmed you just going in and do a good job and go on home no worse off than you were when you came in

A podiatrist for elderly/diabetic patients. The thought of having to handle and treat decomposing feet and grotesque toenails would give me nightmares 🤮

A chef would be horrible also. I adore cooking but I'd hate to work in such a high pressure environment. I watched a really good movie on Netflix recently called Boiling Point starring the excellent Stephen Graham as a stressed head chef. I'd recommend it to anyone who's interested to know what many chefs/kitchen staff have to go through.

A teacher, a Gard, anything to do with security or a Community Service supervisor would also be a nightmare. I believe you need a certain type of tough personality for those jobs. I certainly don't have that personality. After one day of having to deal with sneering bullies and entitled nasty scrotes I would be wanting to top myself.

I pretty much agree with everything you said

I'm not squeamish or mentally weak, but jaysus, I know myself. I'd be destroyed if a kid was involved. Couldn't get over that. Once I'd be done.

Office job, meh. I prefer to work from home. Get more done. I look at my pay compared to my future wife's pay. Makes no sense to me. I make money for the company, they do something important and are paid crap.

Any job where you have to deal with old people.

My last job we had a lot of elderly customers and they were the most miserable, entitled, grumpy pain in the arse whingebags. They talk about young people having no respect - they have no qualms with being rude, way more than any other category of person i dealt with. I know being old must suck but that doesn't give you the right to be abusive and make everyone else miserable, we're all just trying to get through the day. And I'm not a teenager I'm in my 30s.

I was required to kiss their arse and treat them like royalty and it was still never good enough. They get confused and angry at the drop of a hat and of course management blame the employee then if aul Seamus took the hump and didn't buy anything. Especially the men of the older generation are so disrespectful to workers at times, the amount of times they would come into buy something then they act like you're trying to rob them when you give them the price of anything even though many of them have plenty of dosh. Another common thing is just grunting or ignoring you completely.

Had to leave it finally as I was literally hoping for another pandemic to wipe the whole lot of them out for good. I swear to God I will never be like that in my later years.

Loved dealing with older people. Just need to know how to deal with them. "Go away with yourself young one. We'll sort it out" done!

Gees are great.

You wish loser. You're not even a 3

I posted in another thread a long time ago about a man who would come into a pub I worked in . I got on well with him ,but still knew when to back off. He was a trauma surgeon. Pressure !!!