I did retirement home training and used to think it was a sweet job. Then I got in the business and underestimated how demoralizing it was as they give you the easy elders in training while the others make you, or at least me, really think of the fact the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.
Human Cannonball
Hear me out: Many circus performers are multi disciplined, or put on an incredible display of training and talent. The last big top I went to had a knife throwing couple who also did a fantastic roller skating routine, a few very talented clowns/jugglers, and a bike troupe in a ball of death. Just to name a few. These people have devoted days or years of their lives to their craft. Do you know how hard it is to ride a bicycle across a tight rope with someone on your shoulders?
The Human Cannonball? He got launched out of the cannon and did one flip before getting caught by the net. That’s all he did that night, yet he came out and bowed with the rest of the performers like he was an equal contributor.
The Human Cannonball? He got launched out of the cannon and did one flip before getting caught by the net.
That’s what it looks like to the untrained eye. But they’re not really going to fire a person out of a cannon. That’s not safe. So he just huddles in the cannon, they light a decoy fuse, it makes a bang (with no projectile), and he spring out and jumps that distance by himself. Requires a lot of core and leg strength.
This is equal parts so silly and so possible that I have no idea if this comment is a joke (I’ve never been to a circus)
Really, there’s no launching mechanism at all?
I…can’t tell if you’re serious or making a joke. Lol.
Recruiters.
100 percent agree. Recruiters are a waste of oxygen. Back when I was in school I attended this massive recruiting meet and greet. Head hunters from the largest firms in the area attended and talked with the students about career prospects. A recruiter from a big firm was there bragging about her arbitrary strict screening process for resumes. This Karen, a failed elementary school teacher, gloated about how she required a full page cover letter, and a full page resume. There could not be any blank space. She would measure the margins and if not exactly I inch she would throw the applicant in the reject pile. The cover letter would have to be a full page long. If any length less than 1 full page straight to reject pile. However she stated would never actually read the cover letter.
A week later I attended a Q and A with several partners from the biggest firms in the area. They all talked about how they hated absolutely HATED cover letters and bloated resumes. All they looked for was prior experience, grade point average, and whether the applicant is licensed or not. Funny enough the partner from the same firm as the Karen recruiter had a 2 minute rant on why he hated cover letters.
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Bankers, lawyers, marketers, police, military, landlords if that was a job, politicians.
Cop
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Gas-filler. There’s a couple states in the US where you aren’t allowed to pump your own gas, someone else has to do it for you, and you’re expected to then tip them.
The job is essentially getting me to pay to be inconvenienced. I’d prefer to pay to let me pump my own gas.
The first time I crossed the border into Oregon years ago and started pumping my own gas, the attendant came out shouting “Hey! What are you doing?” As someone that had never heard of this law in either state, I was about as confused as you could possibly be, because this obviously seemed like a trick question.
Just reinforces my belief that America is a bunch of weird different countries smashed together under a bastard flag.
Oh, that is absolutely correct. Texas is so different from California, which is so different from New York, which is so different from Florida which is so different than Massachusetts, etc. forever.
California would be the sixth largest economy in the world if it was its own country.
Those people deserve a tip, alright. The tip of my middle finger. Pouring fossil fuels into people’s cars is evil.
Only about 60-70% of them.
Naturopaths.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure there’s folks doing sane, evidence-based care in this area. But I’ve seen so much bullshit from practitioners, ranging from the grossly unethical to the blatantly dangerous, that I find them hard to trust about anything as a group.
Besides, we already have health professionals that can provide good, evidence-based care (issues like ego v. evidence/new findings to improve care notwithstanding - but there’s crappy people in all fields) - we call them doctors and nurse practitioners. And we need more of those.
Local natural food store sells Homeopathic medicines. We’re talking water selling at the same price as ink jet printer ink.
Let’s throw our morals away and sell homeopathic meals. Like “this is a cheeseburger diluted 10c” and slap a picture of a burger on a water bottle.
Advertising. Landlord. Intelligence agent or special operator for a bourgeois state.
Came here to write advertising. Your product should speak for itself.
Landlording, however, is not an occupation. They’re just parasites who’ve convinced people it is.
Corporate lobbyist.
MSM propagandist
Fossil capital think tank wonk
YouTuber
Israel
Taxi/uber driver / chauffeur
Rancher
Slaughterhouse worker
Insurance claim assessor
Animal breeder
Fossil fuel miner/minesite worker
Gas station attendant
Propane salesman
Any sanitation worker, sewage diver, drain block remover, in most of the third-world countries.
We need city drainages to be repaired, cleaned, maintained, and managed with draconian safety, extremely well-compensated, hazardpay up the wazoo workers comp and complete-healthcare all covered for life. So many workers are just abused for the lifeline work that keep a city’s arteries from getting clogged and flowing smoothly.
I saw how Korean drain-workers do it with high-pressure water jets and incredible efficiency and knowhow talent of their vital job. I wish we didnt have the corruption that prevents this type of training, trained worker, worker pride in the essential labour that they do.
Same goes for recycling and reducing waste. We humans don’t do nearly enough and the Top-20 major corporations that cause 80% of worldwide pollutants go unchecked and unpunished.
Parking enforcement?
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I’m not sure I do, but one thing I haven’t seen mentioned here yet is consumer psychologists. I once read an argument that they could be improving people’s mental health, instead they are working on manipulating people into buying more.
Time for a rewatch of The Century Of Self.
