Welp , there go my dreams of being a veterinarian .
Recently, Reddit user u/Head_Somewhere3770asked, “What type of job seems appealing but ends up being quite disappointing?”
1.Veterinarian
" Expectation : Ooo , lots of animate being !
Reality : decease . SO MUCH DEATH . "
— uracil / rekniht01
" There ’s a cause that field has some of thehighest self-destruction rates . I only worked in a pet store , and the figure of mad pet parents , scurrilous / ignorant owners , and pets that were definitely not endure their best life was heartbreaking . vet get even more angry client and heartrending suit . I befriended a few veteran techs and ex-serviceman , and their mental health is almost always in the dumps . "
— u / magicrowantree
2.Security Guard
" After four years in the military , my biggest complaint was the lack of slumber and the irregular schedule .
First job after that was a security guard . I could n’t believe how prosperous I was … getting paid to stand there and do nothing .
Until that job , I had not realized how much I would detest being world-weary . "
— atomic number 92 / series_hybrid
" I was so pumped when my caper furlough me during COVID because it mean sleeping in , observe television , and gather unemployment . For the first few months , it was awesome . Probably the best meter of my living .
After six month , I could n’t wait to go back to employment . "
— u/_mike_hunt
3.Forensic Scientist
" A booster of mine is a forensic scientist , and whenever he ’s on date stamp apps , it ’s the only thing people want to talk about . His workplace is really pretty technical and involves a portion of routine task . "
— u / Beneficial - Pop7235
" Former forensic scientist here , it go glamorous but often you differentiate in one thing like drug analysis or fingerprint psychoanalysis and it becomes very repetitive . I was fortunate to be a generalist and did a miscellany of things . "
— uranium / ironmanchris
4.Florist
" Working at a bloom shop is just like any other retail position , but everyone assumes it ’s more enjoyable than it really is . Assisting families in select flowers for funerals is definitely not the fun part either . "
— u / Serious - Baseball-321
" ' I do n’t care that you ’re saying you require azaleas , the email specifically said rhododendron . Yes , I get it ’s your particular day , Janice , but I ca n’t source 34 brand - new centerpieces in the next two time of day . Yeah , well , next time communicate with your bridesmaids comfortably . Yes , I was insinuating there will be a next time , because you seem endearing . ' "
— u / Worried_Place_917
5.Rancher/Farmer
" I cringe every metre I see someone say they want to live on a farm or spread . It ’s hard , barbarous work . Most people that say it will not last . "
— u / peezle69
" Every time somebody romanticize farm life , I call up of the clip my entire family pass on holiday in the eye of winter and left me to take attention of the herd . monumental chicken feed tempest hit while they were gone . render me , a 5'4 " char , alone out in the middle of the prairie in my dad ’s overall and pelage , trying to bust ice in the cattle troughs with an ax . Ballerina Farm could never . "
— uranium / jellyrat24
6.Music Store Employee
" I reckon it was going to be heed to amazing music all Clarence Day . It was just putting stickers on everything , judge to sell an sheer blood - off of a computer memory card , and listening to the same four basic - ass albums over and over and over until you translate why war law-breaking are a thing . "
— uracil / Comics4Cooks
7.Marine Biologist
" A friend of mine is a marine biologist , and they spend the preceding workweek measuring thawed Pisces heads . "
— u / Aggressive - Nerve-961
8.Event Planner
" Seems exciting until you ’re stuck with last - minute change , unresponsive vendors , and managing everyone ’s stress . "
— atomic number 92 / Exotic_Insect8587
" I study event direction and I could n’t believe how much red tape and danger direction there is . It ’s like the whole job . "
— u / ClammyPlacebo
9.Travel Blogger
" A travel blogger Book of Job seems appeal with its promise of escapade and barren trips , but it often twist out dissatisfactory due to never-ending deadlines , unstable income , and the pressure to always ' execute ' for social media . "
— uranium / Delilah_KlineXO
10.Influencer
" I recognize a lot of kids draw a bead on to it , but the idea of having to constantly be on television camera and always come up with new content and always face and recreate the part no matter what seems literally exhausting . Not to cite the fact that you ’re an online figure , so you are going to experience abuse and crap from people because that ’s what citizenry do online . It ’s a punishing offer from me . "
— u / wellyboot97
11.Chef
" I want to be a chef when I was a kid . Now I work in a kitchen and I hate it . The oeuvre is harder than you call back , a lot of your clip is spend doing routine undertaking , and you much live there so no study - life balance .
Although all the chef I sleep together that ' made it ' make quite a turn of money , they were so heavily on their bodies from want of sleep and drinking that they ca n’t savor their life after they retire . Their friends were reduce to their drinking buddies because they were the only 1 who were useable after closing .
Those who had home had extend relationship with their nestling and wife . Super sad . "
— u / Dry - Substance3260
12.Film Crew
" Do n’t get me unseasonable , I sleep together it , but after five year I can already tell my body will not be able to keep up with it till retirement . "
— uranium / Flanman1337
" This is one of the ones that blew my mind . I worked in hotel , and our hotel start up living accommodations movie crew for picture and shows . The minute that people in this industriousness employment are completely insane . I ’m talk everything from set building to television camera to make-up to the damn accountants . Our hotels offered free breakfast and even light dinner , and we almost never see them . "
— atomic number 92 / lovebyletters
13.Video Game Developer
" Video games are great . make them is hell with foresighted workplace minute and lower limit pay . "
— uranium / The1joriss
14.College Professor
" Much less lecturing on heavy matter of importance , much more trying to keep your trend running decently on Canvas than expect … "
— uranium / PuzzleheadedPin1817
15.Archeologist
" When I was an undergrad , it was so exciting . A different dig every summer … dissimilar epoch , dissimilar cultures , unlike countries , different work party , so much to get a line ! But I figured out in grad school pretty rapidly that it was 90 % begging for money for your project while having to juggle learn first - class yokels at some shoal in a part of the land you never want to visit — let alone be — and 10 % using a toothbrush on the same patch of dirt that no one was ever going to be concerned in for the rest of your life . "
— u / SnappyTippyTappies
16.Social Media Manager
" Thought it ’d be memes and shivering , turns out it ’s dealing with 2 a.m. crises over emojis . "
— u / SunbeamHeart
" Even if I ’m at family and on my social media in camera , I ca n’t not see what citizenry are trying to betray , intersection or way of life , or what vogue they are hopping on . It ’s handy since I can recognize a cozenage but also a balls because I do n’t really love social media like normal . "
— u / isaidyothnkubttrgo
17.Porn Star
" You work with a lot of people you wo n’t care or desire to work with , for not a lot of money ( especially as a uncoiled guy cable ) , and the oeuvre itself is largely faux and performative . Everyone act entitled . Everyone acts like male actors are particularly spendable ( because they kinda are … )
Most directors and videographers have dead no mind what they are doing or what their audiences really desire . None . Zero . Half of the sentence , their putz is in their hand , especially if they ’re a step above ' unexampled . '
At the remainder of the twenty-four hours , you find out the clotheshorse with the camera had it pointed at your butthole from 12 different Angle because that ’s what they go steady on the internet , and all of your crusade was a entire waste .
You get a school text that somebody who knows somebody got an STI , and suddenly 100 people have to go get screen again .
I got out early , but the citizenry I know still in it also kick about their societal and dating living and how intemperately it is to get job in other fields where they might be recognized ( e.g. teacher ) . "
— u / KinseysMythicalZero
18.Librarian
" I state multitude it ’s my job and they say , ' That must be shiver , " or , ' I ’d have sex to read all day . ' It ’s fundamentally just another client service job where I ’m either check books in / out or demonstrate the great unwashed how to do canonical computer thing , but we also pull a lot of folks with mental health job or substance abuse issues , and that can run to some tense situations . "
— uranium / fourphonejones
" I ’m a fellow librarian here , and people are surprised when I separate them this . People idealize libraries as a kind of academic third space , but I always explain it by saying , ' It ’s more a community center with a bunch of script than a office to read and do research . '
Like all jobs , it comes down to quantify stats to determine value , even though it ’s a service . How many computer exploiter did we have ? How many people attended our programs ? Not so much talk over literature genres and possibility . Also , here ’s some Narcan , and watch this television on dementia and alive shooter situations .
And let ’s not get started on the book banning ! "
— u / PonyEnglish
