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Yeah, same too.

I hate the fuck out of advertising and marketing. There's no way I'd last even an hour, having someone tell me to go out and get people to buy products. Products and services that might not have been very well worth the money, but it has to be someone's job to convince another to buy it anyways. You become the very thing you absolutely loathe.

I have changed jobs a few times because the position I was in transformed into a sales based position.

The best sales people are those who - on a per-interaction basis - spend as little time as possible working over marks.

It’s called fail-fast. You want to determine as fast as possible if the person you have approached is going to be an easy mark or not. You use a variety of openers and follow-up questions to determine whether you should just wish them well and move on, or actually focus on them to see if they’ll bite.

Honestly, the absolute worst salespeople are those who chase after people who will never bite, and take offence at rejection. Because being immediately rejected is the other person doing all your work for you - they are openly telegraphing that you will waste more time on them than any benefit that will come out of them. Which is why a “f**k off” should always be followed by a “thank you”. Take that as gospel, fail them fast, and move onto the next person.

Same, that's why I'm a truck driver

I watched a video about UNDER WATER oil drilling (or something like that, not sure if I got the terminology correct), and like they talk about how workers have to go in a fucking submarine and then they have to live in a tiny living space under water and also they need to spend 8 hours to slowly depressurize before they can resurface...

Nah, fucking caustrophobia is gonna kill me.

Having done a few weeks of highly repetitive work, the worst was when I had to bundle items in groups of 10. I couldn't think a thought more complex, that repeating song lyrics to myself. When I got a few hours feeding a machine that counted for itself, it was liberating.

Absolutely. I'd go further and say a surgeon. Cutting in to living folk and hoping you do a good enough job to literally keep them alive. That's wild.

Any governmental position really. It all sounds incredibly unstable with all of the news with federal wages and benefits. Unless you're an actual politician, life as federal worker must be incredibly stressful.

I'm fairly certain HR don't like people either.

Hi! Local comedian here! I can help field this.

Every time I do a show, I go in with the intention of being funnier and more interesting than what people are scrolling through. Usually but not always, I succeed. What makes this challenging is that all my shows are in the same venue every single time, on a regular schedule, which means I have regular audience members. I can’t let them down, so I get really prolific really fast. More material than Ricky Gervais, Jerry Seinfeld, Louis CK, and every other goddamn hack under the sun, at the same fucking time (good comics excepted—shoutouts to Randy Feltface, James Acaster, and more). Most of it gets tested in my corporate call center day job, which gets me decent CSAT ratings.

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if I did comedy as a day job instead of a night job. Would I enjoy telling the exact same show to a lot of different venues? Fuck no. Wouldn’t laugh at my own shit half as much.

It's especially bad when you look at time of day stats and see that, on average, judges push harsher sentencing right before their lunch break.

It's wild that we have a system that ruins people's lives that's affected by how hungry one person is

Bruh I agonized over this on jury duty. It wasn't even a violent crime but dude was still facing jail time. I cannot IMAGINE how stressful a Judge's job must be on the day-to-day.

I used to work at a payroll company and our highest workers' comp rates were:

Underwater welders

Seawall builders

Race car drivers

In that order.

I have my own espresso machine and make various drinks for myself as a hobby. That’s actually the easy part of being a barista. The hard part is keeping up with a high pace of orders during rush hour. I would not want to be a barista either, specifically because of the stress of that work.

The other commenter is right about the good coffee though. Making really good espresso from fancy light roasted single origin coffee is extremely difficult.

You absolutely don't have to know a lot, and cheating is what you do when you don't know.

Also, "perfect"? Add more alcohol and 90% of people will be happy. Source: memories from the nineties.

Most baristas are terrible at making good coffee. There are some coffee shops around that make good coffee but they're definitely in the minority.

You already are (4th dimension is time)

My oldest brother went to work for McDonald's, then later for Hardees as a manager. I remember how his room smelled. Like old grease and sadness. He lost feeling in his fingers due to working the grill and was working all the time.

I vowed never to work in food, ever. Now 40 years later, I still haven't. Although for a bit different reason, as I love to cook and have made it a hobby. I would not want to make something I love to do into something I HAVE to do.