" Get off your buttocks and do something ! "
Recently, Reddit userExisting_Iron_4089started a pretty controversial conversation. Theyasked, “Which profession gets way too much respect for how little they actually do?”
1.“I’ve been a white collar worker for 20 years. The more you get paid, the less value you add. It’s just 35 hours of meetings in a 40 hour work week, and all you do is waste time talking about various options without actually choosing one of them.”
2.“Investors — as if having money is a job.”
— SlykRO
3.“As a former pharmaceutical sales representative, I noticed that pharma sales reps are highly respected by people — probably because of the money. But in reality, they truly don’t do anything. For real. The job is a complete joke.”
4.“The corporate people who visit their frontline locations and criticize those workers. There’s so much hype and fanfare around their arrival, with all the little managers tripping over each other to impress them. As someone who was on the retail side for a decade and is now in the corporate world, I can’t imagine feeling good about myself for stirring up that type of crap in a workforce.”
— house of cards - tea - mouse
5.“Landlord.”
6.“Management consultants have no real expertise or experience. The quality of their work isn’t good and they charge too much for it.”
— SnooOwls2295
7.“Life coaches are so scummy for preying on vulnerable people. Therapists have to go through four years of undergrad, then two to three years of school, then complete 1,000-3,000 hours of internship under supervision, then pass their licensure exam. Meanwhile, life coaching requires nothing. Certification is becoming more common, but there are still no regulations requiring it.”
8.“I work at a college, and the IT professors have the cushiest jobs ever. The students buy a code that opens up the online program, and all the classwork and tests are preloaded and automatically graded. The classes are 100% online. As far as I can tell, all the instructors have to do is plug in due dates at the beginning and then input the grades in our system at the end of the semester. No class time, no lesson planning, no grading.”
" I will never interpret how these instructors make the same wage as the English instructors grading up to 125 papers a week . "
— Coconut - bird
9.“Influencers. There really are people out there who see large followings and think ‘that person would never lie’ or ‘that person can’t get facts wrong. They have one million followers. They’re telling the truth.'”
10.“Realtors. They often post a listing with the absolute worst photos ever taken. My pet peeve is when they post bathroom photos with the toilet seat up and photos of messy rooms. Get off your ass and do something, realtors!”
— Longjumping_Cod_9132
11.“House flippers. As a first time homebuyer, I’m so sick of affordable houses in my neighborhood being scooped up by house flippers, painted grey, and put back on the market for more than double what they were before.”
12.“Hedge fund managers charge large management fees and have minimum investment requirements, yet none of them can consistently beat dirt-cheap index fund investments year over year.”
— TheMysteriousDrZ
13.“Royal families from any country.”
14.“The military. We spend a stupid amount of time and money just doing busy work or nothing at all.”
— Bruenor80
15.“People who react to other people’s content for a living. Like, you’re watching a video of someone making a cake while you make a face and say, ‘whoa.’ That’s the whole job.”
16.“Chiropractors. It’s a BS industry based on BS ‘science,’ yet these people somehow have licenses to practice ‘medical procedures.'”
— CaptainAwesome06
" 90 % of the metre , they take reference for ' cure ' consistence part that naturally heal themselves within a few weeks . "
— babygargoyl3
17.“Politicians. People think they are so powerful, but they spend half of every day calling rich people and groveling for money.”
18.And finally, “Whatever the hell my supervisor thinks their job is.”
— ProfessorWatches
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