" If you ’re lucky , you ’ll work 10 hour 24-hour interval , though unremarkably it ’s more like 12 - 14 . "
Recently,u/Highscore611askedr/AskReddit, “What profession isn’t nearly as glamorous as it’s portrayed?” So we thought we’d share some of the top responses.
1.“Being a musician on the road, unless you’re super famous. It’s fun for sure. But it’s not for everyone.”
– therealkaiser
" Toured in a van with a band for three month in 2013 and it was simultaneously the sound and worst experience of all time . get to go to many places I would n’t normally have go . Met a huge variety show of people . play to some awful crowd , stay at some wild spot – one of my bandmate ’s uncle hold out in a literal mansion with a pool and we drink top shelf liquor all night – but literally the arctic opposite would regularly materialise the next day .
Drive 10 hours with a hangover , trifle to no one , have no place to doss down but the caravan in a Wal - Mart parking deal with seven other smelly fashion plate who have n’t shower in three day while drinking PBR and finding out your next daytime was cancelled ( i.e. no earnings ) . You sort of can make it what you want if you plan it right and are willing to take a few blow along the way . If you ’re in a mid - tier dance orchestra ( like ' have your own motorcoach and crew ' variety of deal ) then you have it a little easier . "
– RunningFromSatan
2.“Video game designer: you play ONE game. Over and over and over and over for up to several years.”
– TimHuntsman
3.“Event planning – I was an event professional for over a decade and everyone always says ‘oh what a fun job!’ picturing that its just a never ending Pinterest board. Really, it’s mostly Excel spreadsheets and people being pissed about how cold a room is.”
– Objective_Analysis_3
4.“Architect. It’s like 75 percent coordinating trades and 20 percent trying to meet code Egress requirements and stuff.”
– kchatman
5.“Media of any type (TV/Radio/Newspaper). Low paying, terrible hours, and a media workplace that ISN’T toxic in one way or another is a unicorn.”
– HelloSweetie2
6.“Attorneys. If you’re going offSuits, it ain’t that interesting.”
– RelativeMastodon82
7.“Ever seen a ballerina’s feet?”
– AardvarkAapocolypse
8.“Advertising. Don’t get me wrong. It’s been a lot of fun. I’ve shot commercials in places such as LA,New York, and New Zealand. I’ve met a lot of interesting, artsy people and done lots of interesting things.”
" But at the same prison term , it can be a serious swot , with long hours , freakish clients , and constant subjectivity . After 35 years in the business concern , I consider it a pocket-size miracle that I ’ve gotten this far without a substance abuse problem , a divorcement , an social occasion , or a hebdomadary chit chat with a therapist . "
– AnybodySeeMyKeys
9.“Librarians. TV tends to show sexy librarians, or portray librarians as just sitting all day and reading. I’ve had people try to get their teenagers jobs as librarians, because they don’t realise it’s actually a Master’s degree.”
" We do n’t get to read on the job , but we do get to deal with the public , which includes intoxicated / gamey masses , stateless , mentally ominous , and entitled people who ' give our salary ' .
We get masses who slip our materials and then will shake off a fit because they ca n’t check anything else out . We have belligerent people or drug deals that necessitate us to call the cops . Many libraries have start out training their faculty to use NARCAN .
Many libraries also bear their librarian to double as social worker . That ’s not even mentioning the computer programing that we do , as well . All for $ 18 bucks an hour or so , because even though it ’s a Masters degree , it ’s a ' womanly ' subject area , and do n’t we all have fertile husbands indorse us ? We ’re expected to work ourself to end because of vocational awe . "
– AntiqueGreen
10.“Firefighting. Most career departments do 90% medical runs. My town picks up the same homeless people over and over and haven’t had a real fire in over a year. Still the greatest job in the world, but it’s not what it’s like on TV. And when you do go to fires it’s heartbreaking because someone just lost everything.”
– dontbthatguy
11.“Chef. We age likedogs. Seven years to every one normal human year.”
– BobKattersCroc
12.“Intelligence analyst. Much less James Bond and more accountant.”
– ACam574
13.“Professor/academic. Even in an Oxbridge college, nominally quite glamorous, it’s an endless maze of disconnected online portals and passwords and grant applications and bureaucracy. You spend an outrageous amount of time doing admin and then do even more if you’re successful. The ratio between what you are earning vs what you could be earning in the private sector as you climb the ladder is wild.”
– undoom
14.“Photographer. There’s a lot of setting up gear, pulling down gear, making sure you REMEMBERED all of it, and hauling it all around. I do mostly events like fashion shows, private parties and location shoots – which means I’m carrying maybe 10lbs of gear around on a harness/hip bag etc, for hours. Keeping a few pounds of gear in front of your face doesn’t sound like much until you have to do it for five hours straight. And that gear gets hot too – so you WILL be sweaty. I love it, but it’s physically taxing and nowhere near glamourous.”
– nionvox
15.“The film industry can be absolutely soul sucking, especially for below-the-line crew. Sure, it’s kind of cool seeing celebrities in person and stuff in movies that haven’t come out yet, but the hours are insane. If you’re lucky, you’ll work 10 hour days, though normally it’s more like 12-14.”
" Some days you ’re up at the shot of dawn , some nights you ’re working until the sunshine comes up . When you ’re on a show full fourth dimension you have no metre to do anything out of work . When you ’re sidereal day toy , they shuffle the schedule around so much you ca n’t contrive anything . When you ’re not cultivate , you start to panic about money .
You ’re always search for your next line of work . And dealing with the egotism of directors and producers can be a incubus . You ’re often working out in the elements . If where you live has seasons , you ’re be freezing your ass off in wintertime and burning animated in the summertime . I got out when COVID hit , and I ’ve never depend back . "
16.“Environmental biologist. Going out on a boat is fun, until you’re spending 14 hours out in six foot waves getting seasick and trying to sample, soaking wet and covered in fish guts. Or out on the prairie on a 100-degree day getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. Or on a mountain during a thunderstorm trying to sample some obscure plant oranimal. Or stuck waist deep in a wetland, covered in sweat and mud.”"
– lsicilis
H/T tou/Highscore611andr/AskRedditfor having the discussion!
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