As someone who’s been heavily involved on the patient side of medicine for many years, I think doctors are overrated. They’re not bad, but they don’t know as much as they should.
Though I’m starting to suspect medicine has simply gotten too complicated for the current model. The doctors are doing the best they can but they’re human and medicine is constantly and rapidly expanding. There are 5 times as many diseases in the ICD-11 as in the ICD-9, never mind new procedures, medications and best practices.
Chiropractors. It’s a bullshit industry based on bullshit “science”. Yet these people have licenses to practice “medical procedures”.
Nurses, too. Nurses are a legit job and they have an important role. But sometimes I feel like people give them too much credit. And I’ve seen nurses act like they think they are the doctors. I’ve also heard people say stuff like, “I know this is true because my wife is a nurse” despite it being contradicted by the vast majority of the medical community.
Any higher level employees in a company. I’m retired now. I started from the absolute bottom and worked my way up until I was with the CEO daily. The higher up the chain you are the less work you do for exponentially more money. By the time I retired I was doing maybe 1 hour of actual work a week for a full year worth of salary I made when I was stacking boxes all day. Most of the people around me spent more time trying to think of fake things they were doing than actually doing anything while they made the salary of an entire district combined.
Hedge Fund Managers, they charge large management fees, and many have minimum investment requirements and yet none of them can consistently beat dirt-cheap index fund investments year over year.
Bartenders. Yes it can be a ‘hard’ job but the tip money is usually high and the difficulty of the job is so exaggerated. I used to bartend but I’m a nurse now and the fact that I know so many bartenders who make nearly as much as me yet think they work ‘so hard’ wouldn’t last a day even shadowing a nurse around. And there’s a cultural kind of obsession for the profession that is unwarranted imo.
The corporate people that visit their frontline locations and criticize those workers.
So much hype and fanfare around their arrival, all the little managers tripping over each other to impress them.
As someone who was on the retail side for a decade and is now in the corporate world, I can’t imagine feeling good about myself for stirring up that type of shit in a workforce.
General practitioners, and it’s not their fault. The ACA and EHR made record keeping expenses so high that they couldn’t sustain the cost of being compliant. As a result, they were forced to sell their practices to healthcare groups and hospitals. Between that and the insurance companies, your family doctor chooses the treatment the insurance company or employer will permit.
I work at a college, the IT professors have the cushiest jobs ever. The students buy a code that opens up the online program, all the classwork and tests are preloaded and automatically graded. The classes are 100% online. As far as I can tell, all the instructors have to do is plug in due dates at the beginning and then input the grades in our system at the end of the semester. No class time, no lesson planning, no grading.
I will never understand how these instructors make the same salary as the English instructors who are grading up to 125 papers a week.
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Politicians.
Politicians
Politicians
Big 4 consultants
Influencers
CEO, entire “C Suite” for that matter
CEO
Twitch streamers
Football (soccer) players.
As a former pharma sales rep.
Pharma sales reps are somehow respected by people. Probally because of the money.
When in reality they truly don’t do shit. For real. The job is a complete joke.
Athletes
Politicians and “professional” athletes
Any pro level athlete….
Professional athletes.
C-suite executives
As someone who’s been heavily involved on the patient side of medicine for many years, I think doctors are overrated. They’re not bad, but they don’t know as much as they should.
Though I’m starting to suspect medicine has simply gotten too complicated for the current model. The doctors are doing the best they can but they’re human and medicine is constantly and rapidly expanding. There are 5 times as many diseases in the ICD-11 as in the ICD-9, never mind new procedures, medications and best practices.
Billionaire.
CEOs
CEOs
Cops
Influencers
What ever Joy Reid did.
Project Managers. They are the bane of a good engineer.
CEOs
CEO’s
Education industry administrators.
Chiropractors. It’s a bullshit industry based on bullshit “science”. Yet these people have licenses to practice “medical procedures”.
Nurses, too. Nurses are a legit job and they have an important role. But sometimes I feel like people give them too much credit. And I’ve seen nurses act like they think they are the doctors. I’ve also heard people say stuff like, “I know this is true because my wife is a nurse” despite it being contradicted by the vast majority of the medical community.
Surprised nobody has mentioned police officers.
Marketing. For some reason they are the end all be all of every company
This is peak reddit. All of the top answers are the most commonly disrespected professions on reddit.
Any higher level employees in a company. I’m retired now. I started from the absolute bottom and worked my way up until I was with the CEO daily. The higher up the chain you are the less work you do for exponentially more money. By the time I retired I was doing maybe 1 hour of actual work a week for a full year worth of salary I made when I was stacking boxes all day. Most of the people around me spent more time trying to think of fake things they were doing than actually doing anything while they made the salary of an entire district combined.
B2B Enterprise SaaS Sales
Critics. Food, theater and film. Art also.
Politicians
Actors
Realtors. Literally middle men.
CEOs
Hedge Fund Managers, they charge large management fees, and many have minimum investment requirements and yet none of them can consistently beat dirt-cheap index fund investments year over year.
Military. We spend a stupid amount of time and money just doing busy work or nothing at all.
If your profile says you’re consultant my headcanon is that you don’t have a job but get paid anyway.
Oligarchs.
CEO of literally anything!
Real Estate Agents
Lawyers . I got charged $1200 for a one -paragraph letter that was likely written by the paralegal
Law enforcement.
Sportscasters
Weather announcers.
clergy
Real estate agents
president
President
Cops
Bartenders. Yes it can be a ‘hard’ job but the tip money is usually high and the difficulty of the job is so exaggerated. I used to bartend but I’m a nurse now and the fact that I know so many bartenders who make nearly as much as me yet think they work ‘so hard’ wouldn’t last a day even shadowing a nurse around. And there’s a cultural kind of obsession for the profession that is unwarranted imo.
Fluffer
Some get paid for their labor and some get paid for their knowledge. This thread is full of laborers.
landlord
TIL nobody on Reddit understands the difference between a job and a profession
Chefs. You aren’t storming the beaches of Normandy. You are making food. Get over yourselves.
Police
Surprised acting is not up there.
Also, I always found it interesting, the disparity in status of an airplane pilot vs a bus or train driver.
CEO
Celebrities
Cps
Sports players
Hot take, soldiers. I get that their jobs are more dangerous than others, but it’s a job.
Most other countries with “Freedum” don’t celebrate them this much.
The corporate people that visit their frontline locations and criticize those workers.
So much hype and fanfare around their arrival, all the little managers tripping over each other to impress them.
As someone who was on the retail side for a decade and is now in the corporate world, I can’t imagine feeling good about myself for stirring up that type of shit in a workforce.
Yacht brokers…not sure if they get respect per say, more like “O that’s cool!”, when most of them just couldn’t get a normal job.
Priests…
Investors.
General practitioners, and it’s not their fault. The ACA and EHR made record keeping expenses so high that they couldn’t sustain the cost of being compliant. As a result, they were forced to sell their practices to healthcare groups and hospitals. Between that and the insurance companies, your family doctor chooses the treatment the insurance company or employer will permit.
School teachers.
Politicians, everyone sucks em off like they’re a 2 dollar prostitute.
Whatever jobs MBAs are getting these days
Cops
Firefighters
I work at a college, the IT professors have the cushiest jobs ever. The students buy a code that opens up the online program, all the classwork and tests are preloaded and automatically graded. The classes are 100% online. As far as I can tell, all the instructors have to do is plug in due dates at the beginning and then input the grades in our system at the end of the semester. No class time, no lesson planning, no grading.
I will never understand how these instructors make the same salary as the English instructors who are grading up to 125 papers a week.
Every CEO.
Investor, as if having money is a job
Politician.
Cops
Anyone in Hollywood, on “News Networks,” of Influencers… Way too many idiots following bigger idiots.
Realtors. And yes I have my license.
Cops