'This job is not worth it': Fed up Employees Share the Lack of Perks in Their Professions

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Eleonora Bader
Dec 18, 2023 10:00 AM EST

My mind is made up… customer service is the absolute worst job to have, and no matter what you say, I won't change my mind. This is most likely because I had to suffer at the hands of micromanagers, lazy coworkers, and Karen customers for far too long. I was a hostess, a server, a receptionist, a secretary, you name it. I did it all!

Also, did I mention that the money was terrible? I probably didn't. So there you go, I didn't get proper compensation, either! If you are thinking to yourself, 'Wow, you complain a LOT', then yeah, you're right, I do. That's what you come here for, right? You don't want to read inspirational stories about bosses sharing their bonuses with their employees… Or, do you? Let me know, I'll bite.

Scroll down for this eye-opening thread on employees who explain how they ACTUALLY feel about their jobs. Then, check out this employee who terminated a future hire's contract after she found out it was her old boss. Talk about petty…

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    Posted by u/CeleryLover4U 18 hours ago What's a job or profession that seems easy, but is incredibly challenging?
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    gwarrior5 16 hr. ago . Anything customer facing, the public is dumb and horrendous. 3.9k Reply Share First-Combination-32 · 11 hr. ago . The further I get in my corporate career, the less I believe I will ever again be capable of working a public facing job. I don't know how I did it in the past. I
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    couldn't handle it in the present. I know people are only getting worse in regards to how they treat workers. It is disturbing, embarrassing and draining for everyone. Reply Share 224
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    Worth_University_884 · 16 hr. ago Pharmacist. So many people think their job is essentially the same as any other kind of retail worker and they just prepare prescriptions written by a doctor without having to know anything about them. They
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    are very highly trained in, well, pharmacology; and it's not uncommon for a pharmacist to notice things like potentially dangerous di g interactions that the doctor hadn't. 1.6k Reply Share
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    15 hr. ago Teaching, especially special education. 1.3k ↓ LaTesora99 Reply Share bq87 - 13 hr. ago Two nuggets of wisdom from my mentor teacher when I was younger: "Teaching is the easiest job to do poorly and the
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    hardest job to do well" and "You get to choose two of the following three: Friends, family, or being a good teacher. You don't have enough time to do all three." We all know colleagues or remember teachers who were lazy and chose the easy route, but any teacher who is trying
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    to be a good teacher has probably sacrificed their friends and their sleep for little pay and a stressful work environment. There's a reason something like half quit the profession within the first five years. 409 Reply Share
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    rubberduckyis · 17 hr. ago Some creative professions, such as designers, are often perceived as 'easy' due to their creative nature. However, they may face the constant need to find inspiration, deal with criticism, and meet deadlines 1.0k Reply Share
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    Wide_Habit6437 - 18 hr. ago . I can't think of any job that isn't extremely challenging in some way. 280 Reply Share Captain Apathy419 - 16 hr. ago My first job out of college was digitizing VHS tapes and then writing a description of what was on the tape. It took two, maybe three brain cells.
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    N MangoMatinLemonMelon 11 hr. ago Care work. I wish it could be taken for granted that no one thinks it's easy. But unfortunately many people still see it as an unskilled job and have no idea of the many emotional complexities, or of how much empathy, all the time, is needed to form the sorts of relationships with service users that they really need.
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    DrHugh 17 hr. ago I suspect everything fits this. Consider that someone whose job is stacking boxes in a warehouse has to know how to lift boxes, how many can be stacked, know if certain ones must be easily accessible, know how to use any equipment that is used to move boxes around, and so on. ☆ 220 凸 Reply Share ●●●
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    forthegoddessathena · 16 hr. ago Veterinary Technician. Do the job of an RN, anesthesiology tech, dental hygienist, radiology tech, phlebotomist, lab tech, and CNA, but probably don't make a living wage and have people undervalue your career because you "play with puppies and kittens all day". Reply Share 188
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    breebree934. 14 hr. ago Preschool teacher. I get a lot of "oh you just get to play with kids all day!" But in fact we do lesson planning just like teachers of higher grades and these kids aren't even emotionally mature yet. Aside from teaching them academics we also need to teach them social and self help skills. And in my state our ratio is 10 kids per 1 teacher so I have a class of 18
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    between me and my TA. Not to mention having to deal with crazy parents who think their kid is the only one we need to focus on. And we don't get paid nearly as much as the other teachers either plus we don't have unions or benefits or PTO/vacation time which teachers of higher grades are guaranteed. 68 Reply Share
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    Counterboudd. 13 hr. ago Anything that involves a lot of people skills and socializing. I thought these positions were just the bs of sitting in meetings all day and not a lot of work happening, but having to be the one leading those meetings and doing public speaking is taxing in a way I didn't realize. ↑ 16 ↓ Reply Share
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    ThrowRA1r3a5 - 13 hr. ago Performing arts and other types of art- people think it's a cakewalk or "not a real job" not realizing the literal lifetime of training, rejection, and perseverance that it takes to reach a professional level and how insanely competitive those spaces are ↑ 39 ↓ Reply Share
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    randomtrend 10 hr. ago Honestly, as dumb as it sounds, receptionist at an office where things are extremely busy. You wear a zillion hats and everyone needs a million things that aren't related to each other all at once. It's not "hard" it's just a lot to juggle while keeping a smile on your face and making everyone happy. ↑ 36 ↓ Reply Share
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    Manit Effective-File-5715 15 hr. ago In my own experience, cleaning, specifically contracted janitorial work, getting everything done properly under a time limit is extremely exhausting. Company I worked at went through so many people in the short time I was there (1 1/2 years is all it took for me to become the most senior employee) ↑ 18 ↓ Reply Share
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    NiceCat BigAndStrong 12 hr. ago Mechanic. Try doing a timing chain where you have to remove the transmission to get to it. Or when every bolt breaks because you live in an area where they salt the roads, and you have to spend several hurs drilling out a bunch of bolts, only for the drill bit to break off inside the bolt you are drilling.
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    the_chosen_ginger · 11 hr. ago Wedding/family Photography. So much goes into reading people, knowing your camera and constantly changing settings, directing people, making people comfortable when they hate it. Then editing is a whole other beast that is much more complicated than people think. People assume you push a button on a fancy camera then apply a filter and you're done. It's so much more.
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