37 Jobs That People Want To Avoid At All Cost No Matter How Tantalizing The Salary Is

At the risk of sounding sanctimonious, pharmaceutical development. I received a summer research fellowship from one of the big pharma companies. They held a little conference for us in the fall to present our research, and also to try to recruit us to the field. I vividly remember a presentation given about one of their current projects. At the end of the talk, someone in the audience said "hey, have you guys considered that this mode of action might cause XYZ damage to the kidneys after prolonged use?" The researcher said "we've considered it, but we only get the answers to the questions that we ask, so we haven't asked that question." He also cited that "this is too far down the pipeline to worry about that now."

That rocked me to my core. Yes, pharmaceuticals do a world of good (the fact that a Covid vaccine was developed and rolled out so quickly is nothing short of miraculous), but I never would be able to work on developing a medication that I knew full well might cause further medical issues for the patients taking it, no matter the salary.

So now I am a lab manager in an academic laboratory. Underpaid? Perhaps, but I love my job and sleep well at night.

Accountant. I suck at math.

Lawyer. I couldn’t represent someone if I knew they were guilty. I’d totally suck at it.

Working on an oil rig.

Working on high tension powerlines.

They don't turn them off unless there's something seriously wrong so you're shimmying along in top of live wires carrying enough juice to power cities. Apparently the current is enough to make your skin tingle even through the protective gear.

Roofing. People who do it are superhuman and I think I'd die.

Presidency.

Underwater welder.

The guy that opens the Colonguard boxes when they return to the company.

Anything that involves swimming in the ocean.

I met a woman at a party last weekend that told me she was in HR, and expanded into how she helps set up social worker-types for failure. The entire next day I thought about how miserable a person you have to be to do that for work.

Porta-potty suck truck driver 🤢 🤮.

Someone that says "We are family, we work together" f**k no, i do my work you pay.

Casino dealer, because of the absolutely disgusting people who frequent the table games. I have been playing for more than 20 years and have never, not once, seen a person wash their hands well in the restrooms. Many times they just walk right out and start handling the casino chips that the dealer then ends up touching.

Then, as bad, or even worse are the inconsiderate people who will sit there at the table with a cigarette and let the smoke directly into the dealer’s face.

No amount of money would make me consider such a sad existence.

Job in a fiberglass production plant. Never. Itchy, dirty, hot and nasty .

Saturation diver

Mad respect for them, no ducking way I could do that.

Real estate agent. Those people are like vultures.

Gunman, I don't want to be a criminal, and I don't know how to hold a gun.