Curiosities,Economy & LaborMAR 21, 2023

29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online

Every workplace has gone through a questionable set of employees. Perhaps it's a case of "they are who they are," and they portray the same personality outside of their professional life, or maybe assets like power and money are to blame – who knows?

This netizen, however, took to Reddit and posed this question: "Which profession attracts the worst kinds of people?" The thread has garnered over 34K upvotes and almost 30K comments establishing what careers do, in fact, attract a greater number of jerks.

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#1

29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online

Unpopular opinion but nurses. There is a lot, A LOT, of toxic abusive high-school girl drama type behavior among nurses.

It's such an important job and about half the people doing it shouldn't be responsible for a yogurt, let alone a human being's life.

I've seen some s**t, man.

nursingabuseproblem, MedicAlert UK

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325points

Bored Panda was lucky to get through to the author of the thread, and we posed them a couple of questions.

First, we asked what inspired them to make the post: "I keep in touch with my college friends. Inevitably, some of our peers are brought up in conversation, and not all of them in a good way. Some of the latter were political science majors who seemed more concerned with basking in their proximity to power than anything else."

We then invited the author to answer their own question: "I don't have an objective answer to this. I can only speak to what tends to get into my head the most, personally. And the response above answers this question in not so many words. (I also disdain certain movie and TV directors who appeal to an audience's most shallow, nihilistic impulses for easy views, attention, and money.)"

Last but certainly not least, the OP added: "I'm an extremely flawed person. I'm judgmental, self-centered, and a touch petty. It's possible that had I the skill and drive, I would have done something in politics myself, because a part of me is attracted to power. The bottom line is that while I have opinions and a right to express them, I claim no absolute moral high ground. And I think that should be the same for everyone."

#2

Politicians.

dragonfeet1, Antonio Jamal Roberson

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310points

#3

Law enforcement seems to have some problems

Nwcray, Kindel Media

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266points

#4

Paparazzi

SuvenPan, Zeg Young

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216points

#5

I'm probably gonna get some hate for this... the military (The US Army to be precise). Probably 99% of the Soldiers are good, honest people. The nature of the job just simply attracts some sickos. The Army does what it can, but It takes a long time to kick someone out of the Army. Source: 6 years Active Duty

yetogev226, Diego González

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216points

#6

The executives that run MLMs.

PhilemonV, Hunters Race

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181points

#7

“Reality” TV

Kresstro, JESHOOTS.com

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180points

#8

Academia.

Intelligent people in very niche areas, with no consideration for the real world and social interaction, whilst simultaneously being told they are the best in the world at certain specific subject areas (which is true, but just not as many people care as academics think they do). You end up with an unnecessarily toxic environment of people trying to intellectually one up each other and throw anyone off the ladder on their way up.

It's a cruel, nasty, petty, and poisonous environment.

nchez, Andrea Piacquadio

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147points

#9

My mum worked in a prison. She said that a lot of the men in there for sex offences against children had/were looking for jobs like driving ice cream vans, dressing as Santa at shopping centres etc as they liked kids sitting on their laps etc. Apparently it's way more common than people would think

loket87779, Florencia Viadana

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140points

#10

Human resources

Keiner97, cottonbro studio

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135points

#11

Youth Pastor

Old-Bug-2197, cottonbro studio

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119points

#12

Hollywood producer it seems.

Over and over and over.

JGCities, Thea Hdc

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107points

#13

Investment banking. Not all of them are terrible but to be successful its benefical to be a complete c**t

loket87779, Andrea Piacquadio

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105points

#14

Stockbrokers. I have some friends who are stockbrokers. I love them, but man, they are some b******t artists. And not like, "Oh, they're a good salesman, and could sell you anything," No, it's like they make s**t up as they go along and try to sound confident in what they say.

LawnGuyLand94, Chris Liverani

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103points

#15

Psychology. There are lots of great people in that field, but it also attracted the most manipulate and destructive a*****e I've ever known. He's a licensed therapist now, and I feel sorry for anyone who crosses his path.

DynamiteWitLaserBeam, Alex Green

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89points

#16

Police

AggravatingOne3960, King's Church International

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87points

#17

Sales, estate agents, recruiters

Sir-weasel, Kindel Media

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73points

#18

Substance abuse mental health professionals seem to fall into one of the following categories: a) wonderful, angelic and highly competent souls who truly want to help drug addicts/alcoholics (they're maybe 20% of the counselors, optimistically); b) burnt-out incompetent/lazy/don't-care types (another 60%); or c) absolute personality-disordered, narcissistic/ Machiavellian sadistic types who really get off on the enormous power/control they have over the lives and fates of the people under their care (maybe another 20%). YMMV. The last group can do a LOT of damage.

tjraff01, SHVETS production

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70points

#19

Elementary School Front Desk Administrator.

P4NT5, Marek Levak

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68points

#20

I thought I wanted to be an architect… but then I met a bunch of architects. And architecture students. And architecture professors. And they were pretty much all A******s. It was weird. I mean… how could it be so consistent? But there ya have it.

oferchrissake, Karolina Grabowska

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67points