Careers That Seem To Attract An Unlikely Amount Of Clueless Humans

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Sep 17, 2021 11:00 AM EDT

There are a whole lot of career paths that one can wander down with the highest of hopes, purest of intentions, only to realize that they're surrounded by people that seemingly have no idea what they're doing. To say that this kind of work environment can grow terribly tiresome and weigh on the soul after a while would be an understatement. Hopefully you've never had any experiences like those that the people are talking about in this thread. If you want to keep the work struggle theme going, check out this post about the nasty managers that drove their employees to madness.

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    Font - give_me_two · 3h Finance really runs the gamut from super bright to dumb as a hammer. Finance is confusing on purpose (lots of acronyms, lots of numbers) and requires salespeople. That's a potent recipe for sneaking dummies into an intellectually demanding profession. + G Reply 4 375
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    Font - thegreatgatsB70 · 4h 1 Award teaching G Reply 1 1.1k 3 time_wasting_student · 4h I have had many a teacher in my day who definitely were not very intelligent... 1. once docked points on an assignment because I colored the flag of a country wrong. My parents are from that country. We had the flag in our house. She was going off of her teachers book, which was wrong. It's not an obscure country, most people know its colors. 2. just the other day, brought up a point in a (non school related)
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    Rectangle - ScorpionX-123· 3h school administrators G Reply 1 157 3 ...
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    Rectangle - sayhummus · 4h Nurses. I've had few AMAZING nurses but most of the time, all the biggest bullies went to study nursing and now there's an actual problem of workplace bullying in that field G Reply 1 711 3 ...
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    Font - NickofNames • 4h Game Development. In a college that offers it and I've seen the most intelligent idiots around going for that major. And I'm one of the biggest intelligent idiots around. G Reply 195 ...
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    Rectangle - Leucippus1 · 3h I have to say lT, a lot of us are one half step away from needing to wear a permanent helmet. IT, in most forms, is a very cognitively challenging job. G Reply 1 59 3 ...
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    Rectangle - NotProject · 3h Coding, sounds weirs but lots of kids who get spoon- fed, also repairing phones, people think it's easy by watching a tutorial but they don't all go to plan 6 Reply ...
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    Font - Consenting_orphan · 4h Engineering G Reply 4 58 ...
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    Font - notthatguytheother1 • 43m This will likely get buried, but information security. There are so many articles about how we have a shortage of workers in the field that places are churning out people with certificates in cybersecurity who know nothing about how computers, networks, or the internet works. They can operate tools and respond to rote situations though. Reply Vote 3 ...
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    Font - Icy-Pin-8226• 4m Banking. All those "bankers" you see in big box banks are just sales reps with in house regulations training. And there are reps who are well educated and professional, but a lot of them are sales driven punks who can barely spell. You usually can tell the difference based on how you're treated. I will also mention that you should never feel pressured into a bank product and if you do its against regulations and the bank takes that shit seriously if it's reported. G Reply
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    Rectangle - CheshireKhatter · 2h Chefs, I understand making a few mistakes in a kitchen, But some "Professional chefs" are outrages with their logic why would you give crab to a VEGETARIAN.?! Why would you double-dip a tasting spoon?! Smh G Reply
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    Font - MrBohannan · 2h If you think about it long enough, everything eventually falls into the rule of thirds (the non photo variant) as in 1/3rd of said profession is top tier, 1/3rd is middle, and 1/3rd are just bodies in the room. Only you can decide on where you want to be in that spectrum. G Reply ..
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    Rectangle - kyuronite · 1h Professional poker player. The entire set up only rewards the top whereas all the others are most likely losing players for various reasons. Gambling / Drugs / Money are a combo to set many players up to fail. G Reply
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