What job would you hate the most? and why?

A nurse in a hospice or childrens hospital. Dont no how they do it. You would realy need to be very mentally strong to be dealing with sick or dying kids on a daily basis. I have the highest admiration and respect for those nurses all the same.

Yeah, the nursing home carers / staff see off literally hundreds of people over their career if it’s anyway long.

im sure there is some degree of sadness at the time but I imagine it doesn’t stay all that long… there will be somebody else occupying the clients room / bed in no time…. They have to get on helping them.

A friends wife works in a care home on the front desk. She was saying it pretty strange how fast you get accustomed to the conveyor belt of one out, one in… and seeing sadness, despair… chatting with a well enough client of a Monday and by Friday they are in the morgue.

Copper… tough job dealing with some tough and very traumatic situations, as well as some truly despicable human beings…and to top it off, watching your hard work getting pissed all over when said despicable human beings are in and out and in and out of prison, all the while free to continue terrorizing people.

id still hate it….but It’s apparently not so procedural when you get someone who has died as the result of trauma, like motor vehicle accidents, work related stuff, the lad was talking about a decapitation from a crash….what else you can do with the head if it can’t be reattached…. 👀 missing limbs… etc..

id be tempted to put the head under the arm and winking with tongue out.…

GP - every day I'd be working with people who are miserable and sick. Think it would eventually wear me down

Anything involving children, cause I really don't like them.

Along with having to deal with the elderly/ dying and dentists.

Worst job would have to be Cabin crew; spending most of the day in the air and then having to clean the place before the next flight. Deffo budget carriers would be the worst to work for. You'd earn as much if not more as a waiter / waitress and avoid the risk...

HR. The absolute **** you'd be working with on a daily basis would have me going postal in no time.

James Reilly (the then minister) tried to address the 12 hour shifts and offer nurses 5 7/8 hour shifts instead - there was huge objection from the Nurses themselves. Many of them had structured their lives around the shift work; like able to live further from their workplace and only commute 3 days a week; max 3 days of childcare etc

Unfortunately most people think of Swiss Tony and Aloe Vera sales when they think of sales jobs.

Selling a complex piece of software or equipment to a multinational is also a sales job but that’s not what is in someone’s head.

Having worked in one highly-unionised job, I’d hate to work somewhere like that again. Rigid roles, no progression, ‘I’m finishing in 15 minutes so I can’t help you with that 5 minute job’.

I'm talking specifically about working as a nurse in a hospital which would be my idea of hell. Whether or not the nurses like it and are making good money is irrelevant as that's not what the thread is about.

That's a very broad brush you have there. Shop security don't have to worry about anything, most can't touch people anyway so just let it happen and they're more useful as a witness.

New Gardai are not well paid, the "defensive" clothing is years old, unfit for purpose. Equipment is basic and lacking and not evolving. The private security on the Luas has better gear. Going on my reg number, there have been at least 34000 Gardai since the formation of the state (not including women who got different reg's for the first good few years after they were allowed join). So going by your statement, there have been at least 36000 cases brought against the state by Gardai?

I was assulted a number of times during my service, no one was even brought to court over it. The government and people don't care what happens to Gardai. Easily known you haven't a clue of what you're talking about.

A good friend of mine would be one of those "compo claims" you're referring to. Got thrown down a stairs by a scumbag with a rap sheet as long as your arm, suffered permanent nerve damage. Hasn't been able to work since. Can't drive, can't play football with his nieces and nephews, has days when he can't get out of bed due to chronic pain. Of course the scumbag is walking free due to whatever bs about his "troubled childhood" his lawyer sold the court.

Actually, there's another job I couldn't do: barrister. It takes a degree of amorality I don't suffer from to be able to defend people in court (often in the full knowledge that they're likely to reoffend the minute you get them off with a slap on the wrists). The legal types make all sorts of noble arguments about it being the prosecutors job to secure the conviction, everyone deserving a defence etc but let's face it, all they really care about is getting paid. I couldn't live with myself if I knew people were likely to suffer as a result of me using some loophole or exploiting a judge's known softness for a sob story.

I know very few people who were able to work those shifts (which are actually 13 hour shifts as don't get lunch or tea breaks included) and then look after a family and have any decent time off AND do agency on top!

Thats a myth.. Only people who do that or can do that, without making themselves ill, would be young single people, and usually its a limited time thing saving for a big holiday or something.

Those shifts are a killer once you hit 40s with schoolage children.

Most nurses try to get reduced hours or mon to fri jobs at that stage.. Its just too hard. And unless your partner or family can row in with the childminding its too expensive.

I know some staff who worked constant night duty with partners on opposite weeks almost so they could manage..

Anything involving sitting at a desk looking at a computer all day. Hell.

I read the thread title and immediately googled for "Derek and Clive lobsters". Shows my age because I can remember when it first came out.

Chiropodist. I can just about handle my own feet, the thought of handling some of the crusty hobbit feet out there, dealing with bunions, corns and cheesey ingrown toe nails.🤮🤮🤮🤮