Back in my parents/grandparents generation to be a london bus driver was generally respected, but the way I’ve seen them get treated by the generally public these days let’s me know its just not well regarded anymore.
What Professions Aren’t Respected Anymore?
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Would a traffic warden be one?
Police officer.
Doctors and nurses
Having met a fair few of them in my line of work, got to be law firms. With a few exceptions they’re on a par with degenerate used car salespeople.
Bank manager used to be a central role in a town. Managing loans that supported local businesses, mortgages, peoples pay, etc. They were fairly well known in the community until maybe the 90s.
Now it’s pretty much analogous to managing retail, has no real community significance, and very little independent decision making.
Did London buses always have a back door you get out of? Out in ‘the sticks’ there’s just the one door you enter and exit from, it means you can thank the driver as you leave, it’s a bit more awkward to do that if you’re further away from the driver as you get off the bus
Bus drivers are treated with respect around here. Most people say thank you as they get off, and I’ve never seen anyone be abusive. That said, buses stop at 7pm, so less people under the influence on them.
Royal Mail Posties 🙁 ever worsening working conditions, terrible pay and the company seems to run itself to the ground as a business rather than a service. The outcome is worse for staff and customers alike.
Architect.everyone thinks they are a pretentious and pointless waste of money
Working in education I think teachers generally are respected (it’s just that all it takes is for one parent not to be on board and it can make a BIG difference), vicars? MPs?
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No person dealing with the public is respected anymore.
I’ve no idea how retail or hospitality staff put up with the amount of shit that they get and they aren’t even paid well. At least the Police or teachers are relatively well paid but even thats not enough for the abuse that they get.
ime my grandparents generation respected the necessary jobs more than we do today, both because they understood that they were necessary but also because you didn’t know what that man had gone through in the war. It was mostly the working class that served.
Vicars have definitely lost the status they used to have in the community.
Politicians
Teachers. Anyone else in authority.
The military
Engineers!
That kid from BT installing your Internet is not an engineer!
The guy installing your boiler is not an engineer!
Thank god chartered engineer is a protected title, cause christ, I met a “Client Solutions Engineer” who called themselves an engineer – they arranged collection of furniture for a charity from donors…
Police
Train drivers, the media has turned people against them with people thinking it’s a high salary for something that can pretty much drive itself. The media/elites probably worry what can be achieved in terms of salary when you actually have a decent trade union.
Train driving is, I imagine, a difficult job where you have to work in all conditions at all hours and you have the responsibility of hundreds of people getting to their destination safely multiple times a day…they deserve their salaries and should have more respect in society.
Engineers.
Brunel, Stephenson, Bazalgette.
Now every vaguely technical position is deemed an engineer when you they are not.
Just waiting for Subway to create Sandwich Engineers.
I’ve certainly lost respect and trust in doctors due to a series of bad experiences over the years. This does not apply to nurses – I find them to be very often brilliant.
Paramedics.
Aside from the assaults, verbal abuse, and misuse of our service there’s also the fact we only get our actual title when the general public or the media deem is worthy.
We’re “ambulance drivers” if we ask for a pay rise or better conditions or are delayed to your call because of circumstances that are out of our control.
We become “paramedics” again when we resuscitate your child.
Bankers.
Scientists
Police, nurse, social worker, school teacher have gone from protector to being regarded as scum in the past 40 years. Trouble is they are still very much needed.
Cleaners have never get the respect they deserve, most businesses would be buggered without them.
Security Officers
Binman
Every profession that has a stagnant wage
Teachers. Parents can’t parent anymore and can never accept their little darlings will ever do anything wrong. can’t wait to see how this generation functions in jobs when they’re older
Street cleaner/litter pickers
Journalism. Good journalism is a public service. Politicians and all people in powerful positions should be scrutinised.
Anything retail, it sucks
Firefighters. Attacks and assaults on fire crews have increased significantly, especially around the time of bonfire night.
That being said Paramedics and Police probably also face similar issues around this time too?
Medical physicsts in hospitals used to be respected. Now no one knows who they are and basically glorified techs.
All of them unfortunately.
Doctors
Oil & gas employees. Can’t admit to working for an O&G major without feeling the need to sound slightly apologetic. Still very good places to work despite regular restructuring and uncertainty about company strategy.
teachers.
Vets. People don’t trust what you say and just think you’re trying to “grab money” nowadays, which is not true at all. Combine that with a governing body that seems to be trying to undermine what you do and make it more difficult for you to do your job and there’s no wonder the profession is dying. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are no vets at all in the next 20 years and people will wonder why, when they’ve been treating us like shit since Covid.
Police Officer, Teacher, probably a lot of other public sector jobs.
Engineering.
I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve been employed for my expertise, gained over a 25 year career, only to be told I’m wrong by someone who Engineering experience never made it past GCSE technology, because I told them something they didn’t want to hear.
DJs. Unless you’re making your own remixes, everyone can find the ‘unique tracks’ that set you apart & the tech is way more affordable.
IT.
Journalism.
IT and any WFH
Not true.. like any profession plenty of teachers have performed other roles previously.. others have also had jobs whilst at college and uni – like almost every single person who has ever been a student regardless of their field of study.
Am sure the experience of being surrounded by and dealing with 100s of children is definitely a unique one that differs immensely from most other professions
The post you responded to was definitely ignorant to the plight of many roles and workers but you in return proved the initial submission true
Saggar maker’s bottom knocker.
Just can’t get the urchins anymore.
So Bribe/Pal/Nepotism express or different!
Hospital porters, used to get a lot of thanks and recognition, now we’re looked at as if we’re scum
Personally, I’m seeing a much bigger problem. The whole concept of respect has gone out the window, and it doesn’t benefit anybody.
Pharmacist
Journalist
Engineering. I went though a 4 year electrical and mechanical apprenticeship, put myself through training for Welding, PLC programming, pneumatics etc. and now im looking at job listings from 30k when the average wage in the UK is now 38k? Feel like I should have just trained in finance or something where I could do a lot less work with much more financial reward. My father in the same role was earning 30k in the early 2000s and and could support a family and buy a home, now I feel like re-training is my only chance at financial success
There are certain places trying to demonise the RNLI. They’re the charity that saves lives at sea, regardless of who they are. I make a point of donating when I see one of their collection boxes. I also added a donation when I bought a couple of things from the Scarborough lifeboat station shop a couple of weeks ago.
Teachers. Nurses.
Teachers, doctors, nurses, scientists.
No offence, but for me it was the NHS. The clap for NHS was a farce, and I’ve had the displeasure of working for 8 different trusts (1 directly, 7 as a contractor) in 5 odd years. And honestly, I’ve little patience left for the system anymore.
I fully understand the government treats it like a political football, but there are just far too many jobsworths in the NHS who treat it like a retirement gig.
I had a 25 year once say he could retire here cos it was such an easy job and he did so little. A radiology department run by a single experienced doctor and a entire squad of clearing students. A software company contracted to the local estates dept, rang me up 2 years after I left, because noone in the department would speak to them about their overdue bill. Each trust seems to operate totally independent of the next, as opposed to having one set strategic goal. One Trust spent £2million on consultancy fees alone for a project that was cancelled days before construction was supposed to start. Another trust has put an autistic teenager in charge of their facilities management system, because the main guy left, and they never bothered to hire again. Endless restructures of the same team. I saw a bloody fax machine once. In 2019. Clown show. And its so consistent across the NHS, like the only reason they got the job is because noone else would hire them.
The entire NHS needs to be turned upside down, before we completely lose it to rife incompetence.
Retail workers
I see a lot of hate for the police these days, it’s especially sad because they are just doing their job, which they would lose if they didn’t do what they were told, however unpopular that may be.
Farmers.
The people who work hard to provide food for the country.
People don’t care where their food comes from anymore.
Teaching
Those poor lamplighters.
I mean, most of the high street was respected back in the 70’s….. think we can openly say that’s long gone, neither the staff themselves or the customer overly respect it. Essentially everything was respected at one point.
Sad state, but there you go.
Teachers. Journalists, news casters, politicians, lawyers, and in some cases doctors