33 Overrated Industries That Mask Stress, Pressure, And A Toxic Work Culture

I'm an urban planner with a masters degree in urban planning. A handful of extremely wealthy companies are actively working on buying as much housing as they possibly can in order to artificially inflate the housing market, and there is functionally zero regulatory pushback.

I say this as a veteran.

The military. Society holds the military up as a brave men and women who are doing the right thing by serving their country and have higher moral standards. It’s a load of bullshit.

The military is just a smaller scale version of society. There’s theft, atack, domestic violence, workplace violence,🍇, and unalivings just like in civilian society. The coverups are just easier.

So you want to be a chef? Be prepared to give up your nights, weekends, holidays, family gatherings and most relationships. It does take passion and dedication. Be prepared to hire thieves, illegal substances users & the dregs of the galaxy to be your best employees you ever had.

Working with elderly people who have Alzheimer’s and dementia isn’t really glorified but you will be assaulted and your boss will do nothing because “it’s the disease.”

As a former journalist? Realizing that even though reporters are publishing good and careful work that tells the real story every single day, people’s media literacy is so bad that they can’t tell the difference between those journalists and crappy online hacks and pink slime “journalism”.

If you ever buy “designer” sunglasses or visit a retail optometrist, you’re giving money to the same company: Luxottica.

They own virtually every designer eyewear brand, from Ray-Ban and Oakley to Chanel and Oliver Peoples. They own retail like Sunglass Hut. They also own the health side with LensCrafters and Pearle Vision for prescriptions and optometrists.

You’re spending all of your money with one big bad conglomerate.

As a firefighter, if you’re too obese to be extricated from a burn, you will be left.

It doesn’t mean we won’t try our hardest to get you out, but it comes to a point where it’s not worth a whole crew for one person.

And it’s not that we don’t want to save them, it’s that we literally can’t. The heat, the weight, and obstacles all culminate to make it damn near impossible to move a morbidly obese victim.

As a forensic psychologist the children who are targeted by predators in public places are the ones whose parents aren’t watching. They watch the parents more than the kids. Then target the kid whose parent isn’t paying attentionWhile they have preferences they are more opportunistic. Little boys are attackedd in bathrooms because so many parents will leave them unattended while focusing on going in with the little girls. Supervise both. Always. No little boys alone in the men’s restroom EVER.

Librarians do not get to read and chat about books all day. We are untrained social workers, unarmed cops, and unwitting tech repair.

One of the hardest parts of veterinary medicine is not the euthanasias, its owners extending a VERY sick pet’s life because *they* aren’t ready to say goodbye. You see how cruel it truly is to the animal (even though it’s usually unintentional and ultimately out of love). Also, you inevitably end up becoming numb and desensitized to sickness and d***h. You see it so often that you have no choice but to push it away and it changes you. Its tough.

When I was a teacher, the amount of special education students were being neglected was wayyyy too frequent.

Horse racing isn’t glamour and fancy hats. Too many horses d*e. And it’s all part of the gambling industrial complex.

Environmental work. 99% of it is just discovering horrors that you wish you didn’t know, like how fragile our water systems are.

Another example - recycling, specifically clothes. You think you’re going to help the world and distribute clothes to folks who need them and turn unusable clothes and shoes into materials. Nope, they’re sold off to monopolies in the southern hemisphere and then dumped on trash mountains that you can see from space.

Speaking as someone who makes a lot of money via writing, almost no one can make a living as a writer. I was only able to do it because I married a doctor and was able to stick it out for ten years until my career took off. Also, I have an MBA and am a marketing expert, and you MUST sell your work as much as you work on writing.

But if you can pull it off, it’s fucking awesome.

The vast majority of people in gospel music are not living the Christian life you think they are.

As a florist I have wrapped flowers for a man's mistress and wife at the same time. The mistresses bouquet was much more expensive.🫠🫢

Illustration rates haven't gone up in 40 years and most of us are living in abject poverty thanks to corporate greed and gen ai. Our work goes into every book, film, game and ad and many other things

As a former banker, the person you think is doing so much better than you isn’t. They are all swimming in debt.

I painted backdrops and scenery for Broadway movies and television for 27 years. (Union Scenic Artist) The waste involved in creating a production then deconstructing it is staggering. Sometimes sets as big as towns will get tossed into dumpsters. I was going to make a documentary about it called “Entertaining Waste.”

Im in the home construction industry, the same contractors build your $200K and $5M homes, using the exact same materials and methods