What job would you hate the most? and why?

Waste/recycle plant sorter - Awful job dealing with peoples filthy, nefarious & careless habits with dreadful pay.

Solicitor - Awful job dealing with peoples filthy, nefarious & careless habits with dirty money.

Did it in my last year at college.

it literally depended on what ‘campaign’ or type of work you were assigned.

Cold calling selling life insurance was the worst… cold call sales is depressing and difficult…no satisfaction in that gig regardless of the product.

but in on a Sunday, getting double time, working inbound calls for a pharmaceutical company, taking about 8 or 9 calls lasting 5 minutes each roughly. You might only get 8/9 calls in 6 hours….and about an hour of data entry…easy money and good people..

on the other hand, did work experience in a car hire company call center… arseholes, you were micromanaged to fûck and they just tried to make life as routinely difficult as possible, for no other reason then they could.

But the money is serious though. I’ve a couple of friends who are dentists and unlike GPs they don’t do evenings, weekends or house calls and they are rolling in cash. They’ve both got nice holiday homes abroad and multiple properties in Ireland. I’d be able to stomach looking in mouths for that level of cash.

When I was in college I used to work as a cleaner in a 24hr leisureplex early on weekend mornings. Spending 2hrs every Saturday and Sunday morning cleaning **** and puke from the toilets. About the worst job I’ve ever had.

Worked in a meat factory for 20 years, met great people and loved my job a a boner. Wouldn't go near the abattoir part of the factory. They are a completely different breed of people.

Professions I'd hate to be in

GP - all day every day dealing with people in misery, couldn't keep sane dealing with that

Social Work - currently fostering and so have dealings with the Social Work dept in tusla, I do not know how they can work in such a stressful environment. Removing children from abuse must be so tough. Dealing with death threats on a daily basis. No thanks

Children's Respite in disability services - I work in adult services so get to see the absolute hardship families are going through due to lack of supports in the children's services from a distance. Staff and families at the absolute limit.

ER dept - not sure how these people do what they do

I think any job that deals with

misery on a daily basis would be so tough

Open plan office, being observed all of the time, having to look busy when you're not.

It's telling that bosses love open plan but would never dream of letting go their own private office and slum it in steerage class.

Go for your dream. Just do ye're best to keep one PAYE income while you establish an business.

I couldn't stomach being a dermatologist, and having to squeeze other people's spots and blackheads like Dr. Pimple Popper.

My sister in law loves that programme. She'd often arrive in and flick it on while I'm eating my dinner . . just to piss me off.

Yes. A WFH job is my idea of hell.

Id hate to be a primary teacher. Imagine having over 20 of someone elses kids every day for hours on end, and then every single parents thinks you should be giving all your attention to their child. I swear most people think their child is the only one on the class.. I couldnt even keep my own few under control.

Didn't know about those jobs breaking your body up. Is it just general wear and tear of the job or?

Every time I go through a motorway toll I try to picture how soul-crushingly boring it must be to work there. I'd end up running into traffic if I was forced to work a booth for too long.

Id hate anything outside an office. Even call centre work is much more interesting than having to work outside.

I went to school with a rocker kid who was big into Napalm Death and the like. He always wore skin tight black jeans and had a mullet (it was not cool at the time). He never ever knew what he wanted to do but the school had a very good PLC and they placed him in a funeral home. He became a mortician.

Of all the people in school him ending up there was of no surprise but he was also the person I would never leave around a dead body for fear of what he would do.

Prison guard

A mortuary technician told me that the worst cases he had to deal with in the mortuary were junkies and chronic alcoholics. Because their livers were completely shot, the accumulation of toxins in the body would cause their insides to utterly stink. They were practically rotting from the inside out. It was pretty frightening to hear.

No way could not stand screaming kids for what is it at least 7 or 8 hours a day. not a chance would i do that. Dont like my current job either to be fair. Well when i say current, the one i finished last month but still call in to help them out the odd day as part of the deal for them giving me redundancy instead of me just having to quit. The sooner that little addendum to the job ends the better. I guess its only a couple of days a month but it still doesnt feel like ive totally left yet.