With countless occupations and professions people do in this world, it’s easy not to know much about how a day at work looks for everyone else except you.
In that sense, we know very little about what doctors, journalists, firefighters, truck drivers and all the others really do while on duty.
So Bored Panda created this list of pictures that show the invisible side of different jobs we don’t get to see often, if ever. The photos from on duty speak stories without any words, so pull your seat closer and enjoy the ride!
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A Dog I Knew In My Last Job. My Job Was To Receive And Redistribute Things Like Food, Medication, Clothing, Blankets And Toys To People Who Need It
"The absolute perfect job probably doesn’t exist," Christine Mitterbauer, a licensed and ICF-approved career coach and serial entrepreneur, told Bored Panda in an interview. Having said that, she believes that it’s possible to get a job that is 90% perfect.
"Where most people go wrong, however, is by thinking they can achieve this in a few months, whereas especially if they’re looking for a career change, you need to think long-term and be willing to work hard to achieve this," Christine explained.
She added that even in a fantastic job, there will be bad days or even weeks. "So you always need to keep the big picture in mind, as well as get clarity on what work values are most important to you."
Sometimes Working Night Shifts Has Rewards
Firefighter Buddy Saving A Tiny Kitten
We also wondered why our society puts so much importance on careers while we know that it leads to burnouts or our lives being put on hold.
Christine explained that it’s maybe because for decades, people did work just to survive: “after wars and economic downturns, people are happy to have a job that puts food on the table.” But as things have improved, she argues, “people expect more from their job than simply a pay check, you could say it’s a result of how well we’re doing overall.”
To The Karens That Can't Wear Masks. I Have Asthma And Work 13-Hour Shifts In This
We need to do something about your attitude! Can I speak to your manager???
Exhausted Firefighters Resting After Fighting Multiple Fires That Are Still Fustigating Central Portugal. They Are Our National Heroes
Fustigating? Just looked it up. To beat or cudgel. I learned a new word! 'I feel totally fustigated today'. Like it.
I Work At A Cat Shelter. These Are The “Can We Keep Him?” Photos I Sent To My Partner. It Worked
In fact, “You could argue that some people now expect too much from their jobs (aka happiness and fulfillment), and they might be wise in considering whether they could achieve more happiness and fulfillment from other parts of their lives too.”
The main signs that a person is happy at work can come down to asking yourself these questions, according to Christine. “Are you able to switch off over the weekend and not think of work? Do you even look forward to Monday morning? Do you feel work is getting the best out of you?”
What makes someone happy at work is very individual, Christine said, but often a mix of being stimulated, supported, rewarded, and having great colleagues and bosses.
I Work In The Film Industry And I'm Usually Too Shy To Ask For A Picture With An Actor, But I Had To Get One With This Little Guy
Dutch Firefighter After Dousing A Fire In Freezing Conditions
This looks miserable. I never considered this, thank you for this picture and thank you firefighters!
I Work At A Call Center. Whenever I Get A Particularly Rude Caller, I Like To Draw What They Might Look Like. Here’s Lorraine From Today
If there’s anything the worldwide pandemic taught us, it's rethinking our priorities and values in life, including our work and life balance. Many employees switched to partially or fully remote work, while others quit en masse, which caused the Great Resignation.
In a previous interview with Bored Panda, Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, the best-selling author and CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts, explained that the Great Resignation is a phenomenon that began in 2021, where a large number of people across various industries and countries decided to voluntarily leave their jobs.
“This mass exodus from the workforce was primarily driven by a combination of factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic, changing work-life balance expectations, and increased demand for higher wages and better working conditions.”
I Work At A Funeral Home And During A Service Today, Bumped Into An Old Painter
Insanely Jealous Of My Wife's New Working Conditions
While North America Freezes, These Guys Are Fighting Bushfires In Tasmania, Australia As The Mainland Bakes At 116F
The pandemic prompted many workers to reevaluate their priorities, leading them to seek out more fulfilling and flexible work opportunities. Additionally, government stimulus packages and unemployment benefits provided a safety net for some people, enabling them to take time to reconsider their career paths.
I’m Working At A Pop-Up Animal Shelter At A Local High School For Hurricane Ian
Found This Little Guy At Work Today
Every Thursday Morning My Little Nephew Waits For The Garbage Man To Arrive So He Can Help. Today They Brought Him A WM Hat To Wear
My Uncle, Who Works On An Arctic Research Vessel, Got An Unexpected Visitor Today
Found This Little Trash Heart In My Work Dumpster This Morning
A Firefighter From Washington State After Battling The Wildfire
Exhausted Firefighters In Australia
We Use Hulk Hands To Move Cacti At My Work
My Mum Is A Florist Who Occasionally Sends Me Pictures Of What She's Working On
I found a lost dog once and turned out the owner worked at a florist! She gave me a beautiful flower arrangement to say thanks for rescuing her good boy.
Photos I've Taken While Working As A Flight Paramedic In The Canadian Arctic
I Work In A Bar Owned By A Lord And Lady Who Live In A Castle On An Island You Can Only Walk To At Low Tide
I Am A Remote Worker. I Chose This Desk To Work From Today
This Is The Hand Of A Doctor After Removing His Medical Precautionary Suit And Gloves After 10 Hours Of Duty
Northern Lights This Morning At Work
My Sister Caught Her Husband Sleeping On The Job. He’s A Very Hard-Working Dairy Farmer In Wisconsin
Let's hope he wakes up before the cow decides to stand up. Getting trampled by a cow hurts, a lot.
My Mom Works At Amazon And She Sent Me A Photo Of One Of The Trucks She Loaded
It’s not skill, it’s a computer programme that knows the exact dimensions of the box and the route that’s planned and does everything in precise order - if I remember correctly. But that’s why you get random sized boxes sometimes, as they only have certain sizes to maximise how efficient the packaging is. It calculates the weight too.
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One thing is to load in every box, other is to make it accessible for drivers according to drop off order.
Omg can your mom work for whoever loads the trucks for Michaels stores? I am part of the unload team that unloads the trucks every week at Michaels and the way they pack merchandise into those trucks is absolutely atrocious. I would cry tears of joy if I ever got to unload a truck like that!
I almost feel sorry for the person unloading that. Trying to get a grip on the top boxes to pull out.
Just get behind the wheel and smash the gas pedal for a second
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Now we all know why we get giant boxes for a tiny item. Duh! There are only so many Tetris shapes...
Alright this is really satisfying but how are they gonna get the boxes out?
I wonder the same thing.... the person unloading it is probably not gonna appreciate it
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How to they get deliver if the driver can't see the labels? I would have thought they needed stacking in a way they didn't have to search through them to find the right one?
Fun fact: the people who put the boxes on pallets to be loaded into the truck are called waterspiders. I think this is true. I have a family member working there and they told me but I don't know if I remembered right.
I was great at Tetris and it did come in handy when working in removals and storage, done it for 10 year's, sometimes a little bit of thought in packing the truck can mean the difference between 1 run or 2 .
As a former retail team member, this is so pleasing to my brain and making me a lil "hott" 🤓
Ah! I see some empty spaces and air gaps! Do over (shaking head in dismay).
That's pretty good! I see a lot of these as I work for the company that makes that conveyor sticking out in the picture. This stack is the best I have seen. FYI the conveyor is a MaxxReach. Also I hope you can't be identified from this post as it's strictly against Amazon policy to take photos anywhere in the building. Would hate to see your mom in trouble for something so innocent.
Packed by size & shape? No wonder so many get lost or delivered to the wrong address. . .!
Hmm. I'm guessing practices differ in other parts of the world, but when I worked for Amazon in their GLA-1 facility in Scotland we were told not to load trailers more than three quarters high.
Perfectly loadad, now will be perfectly kicked around your doorstep.
Does a computer create a diagram of how to perfectly stack all those different shapes boxes?
My Dad was a master packer. My four boxes would fit into 1 box with him. Yet, I fear he could not match this packer!
"But I NEED the package.... Row two, third from the right!"
To everyone praising this, have you ever had a package damaged because it was typed sideways or upside down? About 1/3 of the boxes I can see are ignoring the "this way up" arrows. Sure it looks nice but maybe not the best philosophy for parcel loading
Um, those are Amazon trademark arrows, not "this way up" arrows.
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I need to remember to circle the funny faces I see in this picture.
Hmmm, Wonder if all the arrows pointing downward is a comment to the work conditions. FU Bozo
Part Of My Night Shift Tasks At My Job Is To Feed The Outside Cats That Come Every Night
One Of My Favorite Things About Working In The Ski Fields
My Friend Sent Me A Before/After Photo Of Him Cable Managing The Servers At Work
My Friend Mike Is A Veterinary Dentist. Sometimes His Job Takes Place Inside A Lion's Mouth
My Work Buddies Sometimes Take Pics Of Me On The Job. My Mom Is Not A Fan
Got My First Job In An Observatory
Took This Photo Yesterday At Work. Thought I'd Share It With You Guys
Being A Pilot In Northern Canada Has Its Perks
"the walls will ooze green slime?! oh wait, they always do that"
This Is My Husband After Working All Day In -57F
We Have A Cutout Of Our Boss At The Office For When He Works Abroad
These Carrots That Grew Around Each Other At The Farm I Work At
We Got These Giant Screws In At Work Today For Mounting Solar Panels
It Is -45°F (-43°C) Where I’m Working Today (South Dakota)
I cannot go outside when it’s 45F (around 7C), this takes superhuman strength as far as I’m concerned
My Arm After Grinding Fiberglass All Day
Album From My Work As A Field Geologist On The Remote East Coast Of Greenland With Mountains, Ice, And Polar Bears
Be Nice To Your Trash Man When It's Raining And It's 30 Degrees Outside. We Are Not Invincible. This Is My Hand After Working 4 Hours In That Weather
We had to stop for new gloves otherwise I probably woulda got frostbite.
My Sister Works In The Photo Department And That's Who She Was Asked To Photograph For Documents
Mineral Named Turgite - Found This Today While Working In An Iron Ore Mine, Remote Western Australia
It’s Someone’s Job To Hoover The Whale At The American Museum Of Natural History (NYC)
I Work At A Hotel, A Guest Left This When They Checked Out
these are magic: the gathering cards. Either someone ditched all their low-value ones, or this is someone's collection and there could be some serious dollars in that pile
My Dad Worked At A Place That Makes Car Windshields. Here Is The Excess That Gets Blown Out The Side. Person For Scale
Life Of A Sailor
We live in cabins, each one by one. Depending on the position, the cabins can be better and larger. There is also a separate bathroom, shower, toilet, and wash basin.
This feels wrong, where are your beards and glass eyes?
Note: this post originally had 140 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
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When the Royal Flying Doctor Service lands on the highway. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-04/eyre-highway-becomes-runway-as-rfds-responds-to-car-rollover/102183702 Respect!
Imagine how expensive it would be to change from imperial to metric for the USA. Not to mention how difficult it would be. It would require the cooperation of almost 340 million people. Just saying 🤷
This was a very interesting list. So many cool and important jobs out there!
My dad was a firefighter. The job destroys you. You either die young or retire on disability. No one makes it out healthy.
You seem, in your boredom, to be fascinated by cats, men who get dirty working, and freezing temperatures.
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Load More Replies... When the Royal Flying Doctor Service lands on the highway. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-04/eyre-highway-becomes-runway-as-rfds-responds-to-car-rollover/102183702 Respect!
Imagine how expensive it would be to change from imperial to metric for the USA. Not to mention how difficult it would be. It would require the cooperation of almost 340 million people. Just saying 🤷
This was a very interesting list. So many cool and important jobs out there!
My dad was a firefighter. The job destroys you. You either die young or retire on disability. No one makes it out healthy.
You seem, in your boredom, to be fascinated by cats, men who get dirty working, and freezing temperatures.
