Oh my, I really agree with you for the standing all the time… I don’t know how people can spend 8h shifts without sitting down. And in many cases, they are not well paid jobs too. Two thumbs up for them!!
Same here, Christopher. Taking care of my own finances is all I can take. I have a feeling I would be totally unreliable if I had to do it for someone else, even if I tried my best 😛
For some reason, I feel like personal assistant rhymes with something close to slavery. And judging from your comment, I am guessing it was that bad for you.
I agree, it is very close to being someone’s slave. I wasn’t at all willing to be that person’s assistant. I was more or less forced to by family. I had to be at beck and call and even had to run to get a birthday cake for that person’s wife in the middle of the night. It was horrible and I will never ever do it again.
Oh my… Nope, I wouldn’t want to do that either. Good for you, I am glad you could get out of that situation. No one deserves to be a one’s service 24-7, even if the pay check is tempting.
No matter the amount of money offered, I’d never work as a nurse’s aide (or whatever they call those poor souls who clean up after patients and assist nurses in doing things that make me shudder). I tried a version of that when I was a teenager and helping my mother (who was a nurse’s aide for a really sketchy and poorly run nursing home) and it ‘cured’ me for life. The money ain’t worth it.
That kind of job should never be a job, but more of a vocation, I think. If that’s not exactly what you want to do with your life, you shouldn’t even try it. After our first wave of covid-19, the government realized the terrible lack of nursing aid in senior homes. They spent millions to recruit thousands of new people, offering a short training and a good pay check. I doubt that will last, because a lot of these people just applied for the advantages, not realizing how demanding a job it is… *fingers crossed* that I am wrong about this.
That’s a good one! And I don’t know about other countries, but here in Québec, it doesn’t pay all that well unless you get to work for the federal governement… I believe there are two types of people who go into politics… People hungry for power, and people who really want to make a change. The latest usually seem to quit along the way, after finding out how tough it is to beat the system. I wouldn’t dip my little toe into anything of the political world.
I don’t understand the lust for power, since it’s something I’ve never suffered from myself. And I have a reflexive distrust of anyone who either has power or lusts after it.
Oh my, that’s a no-brainer, right? I think that’s a job that a lot of people would refuse, no matter what their eating habits are… But for a vegetarian or a vegan person, that would be torture…
I agree with abattoir. I’m not a vegetarian but I couldn’t be the one to kill the animals. I hear that a lot of people who work at them end up with PTSD.
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Anything that involved standing all the time or lifting heavy things…
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Oh my, I really agree with you for the standing all the time… I don’t know how people can spend 8h shifts without sitting down. And in many cases, they are not well paid jobs too. Two thumbs up for them!!
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Anything that puts me 10 feet or more off the ground.
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I think that a lot of people would say the same… The fear of heights is natural, and thank God some people can easily overcome it and to these jobs 😉
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Absolutely!
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Accounting. It’s not just that anything involving finance bores me to tears. I’m also sure I’d make all kinds of mistakes.
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Same here, Christopher. Taking care of my own finances is all I can take. I have a feeling I would be totally unreliable if I had to do it for someone else, even if I tried my best 😛
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Someone’s personal assistant. I have been there and never going there again.
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For some reason, I feel like personal assistant rhymes with something close to slavery. And judging from your comment, I am guessing it was that bad for you.
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I agree, it is very close to being someone’s slave. I wasn’t at all willing to be that person’s assistant. I was more or less forced to by family. I had to be at beck and call and even had to run to get a birthday cake for that person’s wife in the middle of the night. It was horrible and I will never ever do it again.
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Oh my… Nope, I wouldn’t want to do that either. Good for you, I am glad you could get out of that situation. No one deserves to be a one’s service 24-7, even if the pay check is tempting.
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Cleaning fish
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Oh yuck! Yes, I’m with you Cheryl… They would have to pay me very VERY well to do that all day. I almost gagged just thinking about it 😛
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☺️Stay cool my dear
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No matter the amount of money offered, I’d never work as a nurse’s aide (or whatever they call those poor souls who clean up after patients and assist nurses in doing things that make me shudder). I tried a version of that when I was a teenager and helping my mother (who was a nurse’s aide for a really sketchy and poorly run nursing home) and it ‘cured’ me for life. The money ain’t worth it.
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That kind of job should never be a job, but more of a vocation, I think. If that’s not exactly what you want to do with your life, you shouldn’t even try it. After our first wave of covid-19, the government realized the terrible lack of nursing aid in senior homes. They spent millions to recruit thousands of new people, offering a short training and a good pay check. I doubt that will last, because a lot of these people just applied for the advantages, not realizing how demanding a job it is… *fingers crossed* that I am wrong about this.
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Politician.
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That’s a good one! And I don’t know about other countries, but here in Québec, it doesn’t pay all that well unless you get to work for the federal governement… I believe there are two types of people who go into politics… People hungry for power, and people who really want to make a change. The latest usually seem to quit along the way, after finding out how tough it is to beat the system. I wouldn’t dip my little toe into anything of the political world.
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I don’t understand the lust for power, since it’s something I’ve never suffered from myself. And I have a reflexive distrust of anyone who either has power or lusts after it.
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I wouldnt accept a job as an exterminator! Yuck! No thanks!
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I agree… They probably have to face horrible situations. Not interested either 😉
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Abattoir – oh my goodness – I would be hopeless. Worst job for an almost lifelong vegetarian!
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Oh my, that’s a no-brainer, right? I think that’s a job that a lot of people would refuse, no matter what their eating habits are… But for a vegetarian or a vegan person, that would be torture…
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I agree with abattoir. I’m not a vegetarian but I couldn’t be the one to kill the animals. I hear that a lot of people who work at them end up with PTSD.
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That doesn’t surprise me at all… I do enjoy eating meat, but killing animals for a living would most certainly send me straight to my doctor, too.
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Thanks for teaching me a new word. Nope, Nothing to do with killing animals or heights
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I think that killing animals is something that most of us wouldn’t agree to do for a living.
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Working in a mortician’s office dealing with dead bodies.
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Oh geez, yes, that must be quite morbid. And can you imagine doing this job in a little town where you know most of your ”customers”?
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Yipes! That would me a hard NO!
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Assassin.
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That’s actually reassuring 😉 It’s good to know that you wouldn’t be open to killing people for money 😛
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