People Share What Careers Look Glamorous From The Outside But End Up Being A Nightmare (30 Pics)

Hey,just wanna say thank you for taking care of the critters, good boys and girls and street cats of all kinds. I cant donwhat you do or know what you know. Without you to take care of our furry friends, our lives wouldnt be a lighter shade of darkness.

Most of these seem to be about the US's deeply messed up and exploitative economy that saddles people with unimaginable debt to train for just about any profession - or forces them to work in grossly underpaid deadend jobs.

Our old cat developed diabetes and the vet insisted that several staggered blood tests be done before we discussed treatment. It turned out that our boy had unstable readings. The vet recommended a diet change and no insulin because if we gave it to him when he didn't need it he would die. He lived another 3.5 years. Now I entrust my new boy to this man. Please don't give up. We need more vets like him and you to care of our furbabies.

Come to the UK. My vet drives an Aston Martin with a personalised plate.

I'm sorry to say this but the vet I took my dog to always charged a bomb. I finally decided to change. Took my dog to a different vet. Same treatment but lot cheaper. I still don't understand why did he charge such high fees.

Ugh, what a shame. I feel bad for them and their families.

We really need to overhaul the entire training regimen for the police. MUCH longer training for one, strong and lengthy psych evals., with yearly check ups, and hardcore gun training that teaches them to respect their weapon and it's impact (I'd prefer no guns personally, but if we're going to have them, they need to do better). Society needs to be able to trust and respect the police, or it doesn't work

Welcome to the world, where most people do not care about anything. Law enforcement is one of five secondary pillars of freedom (primary pillars are there for direct survival, secondary pillars keep society working). You are just next to doctors, firefighters and teachers, in other words essential people who are paid s**t and nobody cares about.

"The uniform is a target. You can be the nicest most patient officer in the world but to many the uniform means you are the enemy." Sorry, but the reverse came first. Unless you have a uniform, you are the enemy. It's called the "blue line" for a reason.

I feel horrible when good cops are treated awfully just because a they are a cop. There are bad cops but not all cops are bad cops. Treating all cops like bad cops hurts the good cops and makes there lives miserable.

A picture of a ballet dancer's feet. Enough said. bellet-fee...1a94b6.jpg

Notnto mention how unhealthy the ballet groups can be. They want women who are extremely skinny so bidyshaming is very usual as well as smoking to be less hungry. One of my best friends has done amateur ballet for years and she has bordered anorexia a few times because of all the crap that the teachers and dancers would say

Ballet dancers are 100 times more fitter than your average Olympian. Why is there not a ballet category in the Olympics?

Heartbreaking

And having feet that look like an old gnarled tree root.

I agree. Being a caregiver is an amazing job but extremely difficult as well. Most job positions are unpaid and sometimes they even ask masters or long experience to be an unpaid intern. Even if you get paid the salary is extremely low. You can get all kinds of infections (i worked with animals with diseases that could kill me) and you break your body lifting sacks, digging soil etc. All to become 40 and be unable to keep doing the job because you are too broken.

And then you have Germany: three years vocational training, on the job and some school, and it's paid. Yes, it's hard to get in, because there are not that many zoos around, but once you're in, you're in and you're paid. And you don't even need a degree.

There's so many (biology) graduates that are happy to do it gapyear/resume-building style for a few years at starvation wage that you have to 'compete' with. Once you get higher up, it's pure hard numbers/hard decisions management with ruthless talkers (charity/exposure is vital!) running the show.

I would love to clean up after exotic animals, This whole unpaid thing is insane

Its like slavery never really ended in the U.S. Just pay the wage slaves the minimum you can get away. with.

And so hard on the body. Standing for ten hours straight for days on end takes a toll.

Everybody thinks it's so glamorous after watching Ramsey, D'Campo et al. and that there's lots of money to be made but the reality is so, so different. If it's hot outside, it's even hotter in the kitchen and the hours and stress don't help. Chefs aren't 'fiery' and 'temperamental'. Chefs are over-worked, underpaid and stressed to the max. Imagine every five minutes a countdown clock is reset and you have to get your dish out before it reaches zero. For ten hours. That's kitchen life. Brutal.

Chef or 38 years here - don't do it ; the working conditions are crap, the hours are worse, the employers, by and large are incompetent, uncaring idiots and the chances of earning enough to buy your own place are infinitesemally small .........

I was raised in the restaurant business. It is a living hell, Specially if you’re getting an influx of arrogant customers. There is nothing harder to do than smile when dealing with a total jerk. It really set me up well in my career as a law enforcement officer though

..and why I left food service.

I was shocked when my friend who is a teacher showed me bags and bags of school supplies he bought on clearance for students. I was confused, I asked wouldn't the kids parents buy that stuff? He said no, surprisingly many of them send their kids to school with absolutely no books, papers, writing utensils, nothing. The school won't buy them. The parents won't buy them. The kids won't pay attention or learn anything without them. He has to buy them or they'll end up failing. Combined with the fact he hardly makes enough to pay for rent, transportation, and student loans. It's ridiculous.

I know plenty of friends who were teachers, the verbal abuse from parents and kids, physical abuse from kids too. A lot of people had to retire due to PTSD. It’s way tougher than most people think.

In Estonia, teachers get a quite good salary.

If I had to describe teaching in one word it would be demoralizing. It is an incredibly hard job.

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I'm a developer and I love games but I couldn't make games dev my career. I'd be terrified that the long hours and instability would taint my view of games and ruin what I like to do with my free time. Right now I'm in a software dev job for pretty standard business software and games dev is a side hobby. I wonder if the industry will ever change, I can imagine if people were able to keep a work/life balance and had consistent contracts they would stay longer and build up more exp which would benefit the industry as a whole.

I got into video games because I'm a sculptor and I just love to create things. I used to work in the tabletop gaming industry and sculpt traditionally, but the industry went digital so I had to change with it. Now, because I have more digital skills, I sculpt for both industries. Sure the work sucks and the subjects can be boring, but at least I get to do what I love.

I heard it's like this in the Anime industry, if not worse.

Most of this is true yes. The hours are terrible and the pay is pretty bad as well. Even with the long hours. But particularly in the USA because they have basically no humane work laws. Companies can demand of you whatever they want or you're out. Thankfully I live in Europe where it's much better. There is also many different aspects of videogames. You can be a programmer, artist or designer. If you are an artist you have nothing to do with code, or math or science. Maybe to some extent but it's still about making stuff. Yes it's about polygons but many other aspects as well.

Since COVID hit, nobody in healthcare has had a life. People spent a year avoiding physical contact with loved ones, like spouses dividing houses in half to avoid contact. It's been that bad.