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“What do you do?” is that one little question we all hear on a daily basis. But sometimes it doesn’t end just there. It’s not just about “what?” but also about “but really, what is it like to do your job?” And that’s the point we step over the small talk and get into explaining the complexities of our professions.

What’s interesting is that even the most no-brainer things about our jobs are often far from obvious to the general audience. This thread from Ask Reddit is a great example of it: “What's something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public doesn't fully understand?” someone asked, and the illuminating responses started rolling in.

Below we selected some of the most interesting ones, so scroll down below and be sure to check out our similar post on more things that people don’t have a clue about when it comes to these common jobs.

#1

People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About Doctors/healthcare workers use dark humour as a form of resilience not to be callous or flippant.
A lot of traumatic events occur in a hospital on a daily basis. Sometimes a dark joke is the difference between breaking down emotionally or being able to compartmentalise and treat you with all our wits about us.

anon , JC Gellidon Report

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About Nuclear engineer here, and if you think radiation is the devil incarnate then buckle in for a quick second as I tell you that:

1) No one from Fukushima died from radiation exposure. You saw pictures of the horrific devastation from the earthquake and tsunami. Flooding a nuclear plant doesn't topple buildings.

2) Nuclear is one of the safest, renewable, and cleanest energy sources that exist. Second cleanest only to water (and air if you count that).

3) Unless we start growing energy and picking it off the vine, oil and coal will run out in the very foreseeable future and nuclear is the way to go.

4) You get more radiation from eating a banana than anyone ever did from 3 Mile Island. The most radiation I get everyday is from my morning fruit and I play with radioactive sources and crystals all day.

5) Nuclear is actually really cool and by making it to the bottom of the list you're pretty cool too.

Edit: Woah, my first gold! Thank you kind stranger, you the best!

Edit 2: Double gold! Y'all are spoiling me too much, thanks Reddit!

MurkedPeasant , Lukáš Lehotský Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Curious that he only mentioned Fukushima and Three Mile Island and not, I don't know, one of the biggest nuclear disasters in history. No, flooding a nuclear power plant won't topple buildings, but exploding one certainly might. Nuclear is definitely a comparatively clean fuel, if you are only considering the period being used for energy production. There are still waste products involved that are definitely dirtier than wind, solar, wave, etc. And when it does go wrong (and anyone who thinks that's an unlikely possibly has been living under a rock or on an atoll somewhere) it *really* goes wrong. With a lot of regulations, it's safe - goddess help us if we get some idiot in charge who doesn't believe in regulations...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They didn't mention Chernobyl because of the absolute stupidity that was involved with it. When you talk about how safe cars are you mention the accidents caused by engine failure or faulty breaks, but you don't mention the guy who was driving drunk with a blindfold on because it's just not relevant.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One major issue is long-term storage of the waste products. There’s research into speeding up the decay and make it safe to store anywhere. But as it stands, you need a place that can be safely assumed to be stable for thousands of years. Exiting nuclear energy in Germany was triggered by Fukushima but there have been decades of discussions and protests against nuclear waste because nobody wants it in their backyard.

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Bobby
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Another aspect is that radiation is in fact energy. There hasn't been a much research into it but I did read about a group of scientists trying to figure out how to use spent fuel as an energy source

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How is nuclear energy 'renewable'? Also, anyone who's ever seen an uranium mine would have a hard time calling it 'clean'

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How biased is this? Doesn't even mention fusion which if we threw some actual money at would be a great clean solution.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm still not fully convinced, as nuclear power plants do produce waste, just not the traditional greenhouse gasses, and it's incredibly dangerous waste that we still don't know what to do with aside from storing it indefinitely. The solution for nuclear waste is literally "Figure it out in 2100". Also the mining of uranium or plutonium is very dirty work, does produce harmful waste AND is an limited resource as is coal and oil. Third, maybe nobody died instantly from radiation exposure, but the number of radiation-induced cancers will increase over the next couple of years or decades in the exposed population. Just because radiation doesn't immediately kill you doesn't mean it's not a huge problem for your health. There's also a huge difference between radiation from general objects, as pointed out in #4, and radiation from nuclear disasters, as is the dose to which you can be exposed. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm no nuclear physicist, but the points mentioned here are too bluntly put in my opinion.

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Carl Watson
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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As you say, you aren't a nuclear physicist, and you are wrong on so many points..Too many to go into here.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nuclear energy is like an airplane. Technically, it's a safer way to travel, but when it goes wrong, it goes horrifically wrong.

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Paul Macdonell
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

All of the nuclear waste, from all of the US plants, from all of years of service would be smaller than the slag from one coal plant in one year! And remember Uranium, before we mine it, is extremely toxic and dangerous.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Solar power is the safest. If only they researched it to upgrade is as aggressively as iPhones we would have been better off.

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Kevin Hickey
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That "more radiation from a banana" statement sounds like propaganda.

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Dana Berwick
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Petite have the wrong idea about nuclear and the waste it produces. The waste from nuclear power isn't what people think and it's not as unsafe as people make it seem. This video might has help people understand. https://youtu.be/4aUODXeAM-k

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's the radioactive waste that they always leave out of the equation. They still have never come up with a location for or a method for the safe disposal or storage of the waste For example, 10 years after removal from a reactor, the surface dose rate for a typical spent fuel assembly exceeds 10,000 rem/hour – far greater than the fatal whole-body dose for humans of about 500 rem received all at once. https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/radwaste.html

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Leo Domitrix
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"I play with radioactive" stuff.... yes, in safety gear. Which people don't have in general. OMG. Nuclear power is great ----- till it goes wrong. Then it goes really really really wrong.

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Craig Silberman
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sofialottopersio/2021/11/04/no-one-died-from-radiation-at-fukushima-iaea-boss-statement-met-with-laughter-at-cop26/

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Renewable? maybe, but we'll run out of space for the very dangerous waste. And "nuclear is the way to go?" How about, idk, solar and wind?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Uranium is also a finite resource. They also focus on the 'no deaths caused by acute radiation syndrome'. Oh, sure!! Yet given the uncertain health effects of low-dose radiation, cancer deaths cannot be ruled out due to this incident. They are also minimising the waste matter issue - over its lifetime, the European nuclear reactor fleet is estimated to produce around 6.6 million m3 of nuclear waste (excluding Russia and Slovakia). With no proper answer for what to do with it either.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The picture is showing cooling towers. They emit water vapour. That picture is not, as far as I can tell, (I have 1st hand experience of them) a nuclear power plant.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"and I play with radioactive sources and crystals all day." This is the most nonchalant statement I've ever read about radiation. I can almost see a person holding uranium in one hand, polonium on the other and going "pew pew pew, you take that Uri. It's me, Polly, the best space cowboy this galaxy has ever seen!"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i don't know all about it but i think disposal is a big deal

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've always thought nuclear power could be great except that the projects are so massive and there is so much opportunity for mishandling the money involved, and you have to trust in these government organizations and private companies to do their jobs to make it safe. Then on top of that, to my knowledge every plan to dispose of the radioactive waste has been ruined by NIMBY people - people even fight against it getting transported past or through their towns on its way to a remote site for disposal. It annoys me also that there is so much potential to turn nuclear waste into portable power sources since even in very small amounts it can be used as a battery.

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Walter Brameld
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree with almost everything, except for one thing: Nuclear is *not* renewable. It is fueled by material mined from the ground, and there's only so much of it.

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4 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The problem here is too many people remember the horrible expenses of early nuclear plants. There's one in Texas that was touted as costing only $100 million dollars! One billion dollars later, six months past completion, it was finally finished. Also, the movie China Syndrome scared a lot of people.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My husband has been in the nuclear field for 35 years. Yes to all of the above!

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not sure how old this is, but the first one is a LIE, first one died in 2018, and I am sure more since: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45423575

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B Zeller
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Um, the first one is a lie: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45423575

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The real problem is the waste. When they develop nuclear energy with no waste then will nuclear power be the solution.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It also costs billions of gallons of water to run a nuclear power plant.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The thing this person never mentions about wind, solar or wave energy (the real renewable energy sources) clearly shows his/her indication. Or Chernobyl. Or nuclear waste. Or how come nuclear plants' costs doubled and efficiency halved during the last 50 years. And please explain how you categorize nuclear as a renewable energy source?

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The 2 most famous nuclear disasters (that changed public thinking in many countries to "Get rid of nuclear power immediately") : Tschernobyl: "What happens in case of emergency? Lets try out." "Oh, we have emergeny systems to stop core melting? - Lets override them" "... oh f*uck..." Fukushima: "Where is the best place to build a nuclear power plant?" "probably in this earthquake and tsunami area here next to this big volcano you can see in the distance..." "GREAT IDEA"

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I agree but some times the company that owns the plants only worrys about the money and skips the safety part of the job. And also people see corrupt organization/companys and believe ever organization/company is also corrupt.As well as the fact that a few nuclear accidents happened and the view of the people on nuclear energy is essentially ruined. Just watch the three mile island documentary on Netflix (if you have netflix) you will understand why so many people hate or are scared of nuclear energy

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would modify point 3, fission power is not the future, fusion power is

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So there's really an island pronounced f*k u Shima? Sounds like a bad relationship

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Clean? We don't have anywhere to put the nuclear waste it creates. And any engineer worth a damn wouldn't sleep on solar

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here in California, hundreds of people die in fires from electricity equipment every single year. Thousands of people lose their homes every year. Entire towns have been eliminated by fire caused by faulty electrical lines and equipment. But it's a regular thing here and mismanagement of the problem keeps raising rates too. I'd be interested in seeing statistics of the total deaths from this vs nuclear power plants. Also how many people lose their houses too? No power source is without risk.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just curious about the running out of fossil fuels part ... I have been hearing that exact claim since 1970 ... literally 1970 ... yet we are still pumping out mind-boggling millions and millions of barrels a day. Makes it a bit hard to believe it's running out.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

When Nuclear Engery stops producing hazardous waste that needs to be stored for 1000+ years, then you can convince me Nuclear is amazing. Until that time I am firmly on the side of alternative energy sources.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

in addition to this, thorium-based nuclear reactors dont/cant "meltdown" - as they dont have the "spin down" issue that uranium -based reactors have.... however, nuclear has such a bad name, that it doesnt really matter unfortunately. One of the many articles on this - https://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2012/02/16/the-thing-about-thorium-why-the-better-nuclear-fuel-may-not-get-a-chance/?sh=62fc01cb1d80 Also, as many other people have correctly pointed out... if you have a less competent/corrupt government, safety requirements are less likely to be adhered too - and given the way the world is going in that regard... clearly a large issue.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The big issue is what to do with the radioactive waste, which conveniently the OP didn’t mention.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nuclear is one of the safest *until something goes wrong (for whatever reason) and then it can be about the worst man-made thing possible.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Man, someone needs to tell Germany this. A country with zero nuclear accidents collectively freaks out over Fukushima, bans new reactors and starts dismantling operational ones, realizes they can't begin to replace the lost energy with renewables, and becomes reliant on coal and gas (from Russia no less). And electricity bills have gone up by at least 50% since then and will probably double from the time of the Fukushima meltdown soon.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually 3 mile island was ALOT worse than eating a banana, many cases of radiation poisoning hell theres even a documentary on Netflix about this.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Safest, cleanest, renewable energies... After water, solar, air (which obviously should be counted, not discarded cuz it doesn't suit your narrative). Your info is disingenuous at best

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I just don't like it because it's still not great compared to wind and solar, which really don't have the ability to cause a huge disaster.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's only clean as long as we don't count the waste it creates because we don't know how to treat it... so let's just bury it all and hope someone finds a solution. And soon.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

A huge problem is radioactive waste. This problem could be solved in the near future, however. At the moment, reactors can use only a small percentage of the energy created by nuclear fission. New reactors could use up to 95%, which would mean almost no radioactive waste.

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GamerDad
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

solar energy? tsernobyl? nuclear waste? weaponized uranium? i call this bs

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Yayheterogeneity
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unfortunately there are so many flaws regarding this post. Not only the dangers if something goes wrong but also if nothing goes wrong we still have to deal with waste that will still haunt us in over 1000 000 years. There are far safer and cleaner options with renewable energy sources, that will never cease to exist. Sorry that that there is no easy way out of the energy crisis...

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe if we talk about fusion reactions, but splitting uranium atoms still could be considered dirty (Mining and burned out pellets)

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About Libraries are not [vanishing]. The main reason we're suffering is because idiots decide, without doing any research, that libraries are [vanishing], so they cut funding because...why fund something that's dying? It's so circular that it makes my head hurt.

shineevee , Trnava University Report

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About As a plumber replying to my customer who just hovered over me during the whole repair:

Yes, you could have done this yourself.

Yes, you would have saved 100s of dollars.

No, I can't come down on the price because of how simple it looked to you. We are a business and I gave you the quote before I started.

koatiz , osseous Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They also could have just flooded their apartment by trying it themselves like my upstairs neighbors did.

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About Graphic Designer here (but this applies to a lot of creative professions). Doing a job faster actually means I need to be paid *more*, not less.

captainhiltz , Per Lööv Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, this comes from the concept of an hourly rate instead of a per project rate.

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About When you're in a hospital, not every man is a doctor and not every woman is a nurse.

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About Wind farms require environmental impact studies that take birds in account. Yes, they do have an impact, but so does the playground in front of your house.

And trust me, if we don't put wind farms up and keep burning coal, it's gonna be worse, even for the birds.

MarsNirgal , Abby Anaday Report

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

According to studies wind power kills 0.3 birds per GWh, while fossil fuels kills 5,2 birds per GWh

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About Organically grown produce is still grown using pesticides. I stopped arguing with people when I realized the fact that I worked for the EPA and it was literally my job didn't dissuade them from arguing with me.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"the fact that [...] it was literally my job didn't disuade them from arguing with me" is a sentence that explains so much about what is wrong with the world today.

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About Unless it's an actual emergency you'll have to wait in the ER. It sucks, we know, but a suspected heart attack will be treated before a busted knee.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The other thing is your definition of emergency is different to mine. While clearly a suspected heart attack is more important than a broken ankle, the drunk guy with blood pouring down his face getting seen ahead of "maybe appendicitis, maybe gallstones, may even just be gas", because blood, is a level of triage that just won't make sense to many people.

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About As someone in the movie/tv business, most people don't realize that doctoring and altering footage is really really really easy for someone with the right software. I see my old relatives falling for obviously fake footage all the time because they trust all video to be real.

This problem is only going to get worse as the software gets better.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And its getting easier and easier all the time, like products for general public is getting closer to very convincing deep fakes, I think I even read/saw somewhere about rendering face swap deep fake on live video, so throw in bit voice modulating and I could example fake live statement impersonating our president.

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About As your child's teacher, I see them for 53 minutes a day for 180 days of the year. I cannot undo all of the poor habits you've taught/enabled/encourage and "make" your kid successful. I see people post on the book of faces about their child's [lousy] teacher because they won't do "x" or "y" when those things are the responsibility of the parent. Also, my contract says I work until 3. I will not call, text, or meet with you after hours because I need to have my own life separate from my work life which is really hard for parents to understand for some reason.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They whine about demanding ultimate say over how their children are raised then abdicate that responsibility to someone else.

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About If I cared what teenagers thought of me, I wouldn’t be a high school teacher. No, I don’t go home and drink away their lame insults. They don’t bother me, they’re just hormonal kids, and I love my job.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And some folks, who were the dix from previous years, grow up to be ignorant adults who can't understand that many teachers actually have this ability, so they end up thinking themselves a "King" and make angry posts in the internet.

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If you cut off an 18-wheeler, you might die and it will be your fault. The dashcam will show it was your fault, and your family will recieve nothing. Not only will you be dead, but you will probably not leave a corpse that is in fewer than a dozen pieces.

40 tons moving at highway speed does not slow down quickly, and physics doesn't give a s**t that you want to get home two minutes faster.

Yes, *literally* 40 tons. That's about 8 elephants. It depends on what kind of elephant.

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**Hotels:**
1) If you can't prove you are allowed to have access to a room, I can't give you keys to the room. That means if you're staying in your brother's room and you get locked out, you're SOL until your brother shows up with his ID. This is to protect you, your family, and your stuff. If you don't like it, you can go suck a lemon.
 
2) If you call and ask for a person, but don't have their name *and* room number, I can't just say "YUP HERE YA GO" because some people in the hotel might specifically hiding out from someone. I don't know you're not some stalker or jealous ex-lover trying to track a person down by calling every hotel in town and saying "Hey can you transfer me to Jane Smith's room, please?" I have no way of knowing you aren't some phone scammer calling every hotel in town and asking to be connected to random room numbers.
 
2.5) Even if the name you give me is not a guest at my hotel, I'll still tell you "I'm sorry, I can't acknowledge whether or not someone is here unless you give me name *and* room number." Sorry, Sherlock Holmes, the fact I'm stonewalling you right now doesn't mean that person is staying here. Nice detective work, though.
 
3) Obviously you can't leave your dog in the room and go out for the day. You're thinking of a kennel. Dogs left alone in strange places howl and bark and p**s and chew up the furniture and dig at the carpet. "But my dog doesn't bark when I'm gone." How the f**k would you know? I've been told that by so many people who are then shocked to learn their dog barked while they were gone.
 
4) Yes, you need a card for incidentals. No, I don't care if you tell me there aren't going to be any incidentals, I still need the card.
 
5) Emotional support animals are not service animals and we will charge you full price for them. You can't sue us for it, so if you threaten to we'll just write notes about you and laugh behind your back.
 
6) Vaping in your hotel room can set off the smoke alarm.
 
Most importantly:
7) Being a bully to the staff might get you some special perks and privileges, but we will remember you. We will do the absolute bare minimum and not go above and beyond anywhere we don't specifically *have to.* We may even go r/maliciouscompliance on your a*s. For example, when a cranky older man tried to bully me into giving him a discount for some petty problem last month (which I'd have been happy to help him with if he hadn't been a d**k), I jacked the rate up on him and took a small percentage off of that. He walked away thinking he had gotten a discount when in actuality, he was paying higher than full price. I think of it as an a*****e tax.

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About One teacher, plus 32 kids doesn't yield optimum results.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Our son’s second grate year was a wash. Children on the “Bookends” of learning suffer the most, unfortunately. It’s not the teachers’ faults, either. Imagine being just ONE person, in a room of 30, that equates to 20 average learners, 6 exceptional learners, and 4 with challenges. How do you divide your attention? 😥

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About Different artists excel at doing different styles. I work primarily in watercolor, my website and my portfolio are almost entirely watercolor pieces, and yet I regularly field requests from clients asking if I can do oil painting, mural painting, or God Forbid, tattoo them. Just yesterday I had someone ask if I'd give them a tattoo, which I have never done before, have not trained in...

I try to refer people to other artists I know who work in the styles and mediums they're looking for.

"But you make lots of cool things!"
YES. IN WATERCOLOR.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this happens in other fields too, because I use computer to do my work I obviously also am IT expert and people ask me how to fix stuff.. depends how well I know the person I might google the answer because apparently that is also too hard for majority of the people. (I have zero training and zero professional experience about computer science)

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About Clip your dogs toe nails. The longer you wait, the less we can clip them because the quick grows out with the nail!
Also: hold the microphone where it’s meant to be held, the handle. When you cup the head it starts to feedback.

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From an ex-nurse. People don't understand there isn't a pill to fix everything and if you don't exercise and eat sensibly you will die younger than you should. Simple.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was told that live in a 'plus' society. We always expect a doctor to give us something and feel cheated if he actually takes something away - like give up your daily donuts and chocolate or you'll keep on having heart attacks. Whereas here's a pill does - which is part of why the placebo affect happens

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About Electricity is dangerous. Yeah getting shocked by an outlet is nothing more then a quick scare when you're dry. But when you're wet it's almost certain death (a painful one at that). And when you get into some larger stuff it will literally vaporize you. If you're untrained, you should leave electrical work to the professionals.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I know someone who works with high-voltage stuff. He says that it is household electricity that scares him because high voltage barks before it bites... household electricity just kills you with no warning

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About Writing code is not really that exciting to watch. It is very unlikely that you will have a lot of cool graphics or special effects on the screen.

Its going to be some slightly color-coded words, and very little else.

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About The pastures you drive by don't just exist on their own. Grass is an actively managed crop.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Here in Brazil we are developing a kind of grass crop to make the soil better and keep the humidity on the ground even on dry seasons. Once a plague, now a blessing.

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Deathcare industry worker here. Embalming a body is a creepy practice and an unnecessary expense.

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About I work as deskside IT support for an office.

Anyone could do my job if they knew how to google and read tech forums. Besides, 75% of my job is customer service, 20% knowledge, and 5% politics.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Knowing how to Google" and "knowing how to read tech forums" are both very much skills - and there are many people who *really* don't have either. "Anyone could do my job if they learn the skills" is both true and kinda meaningless :D Don't sell yourself short just because skills you already know and use seem easy to you.

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About The more you know how the Internet really works, the more you're amazed that it still works at all.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

especially if your making an app. most of the time you wonder how its functioning

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That I don't set or control the prices and I can't give random people discounts.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As an ex retail monkey - this. We can't do sh*t about pricing, and discounts needed a proper reason and manager approval.

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Just because someone was doing a bad thing doesn't mean its bad when they are trying to make themselves better. Getting healthy shouldn't be looked down upon.

I work in compliance for an addiction recovery company and it's part of my job to tell people to go away when they want to use our patients recovery against them.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What does that even mean? Do people just come in the facility to point and laugh at an addict for needing to get help in the first place?

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About I need details to troubleshoot your website problems.

"The website isn't working, can you fix it?"

What isn't working?? What page, what section of the page, what is it doing that it's not supposed to be doing, what is it supposed to be doing instead? What device, browser are you using? What were you doing before it happened? Give me *something* to work with here. Even if words aren't your forte and it's just a cell phone picture you took of your monitor, I need details. The more you give, the faster your issue will get fixed.

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Rod Egret
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh come on! Just click on the "Fix It!" button and stop pretending!!

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Public Spending on construction projects. What do you MEAN building this new road will cost $100 Million Dollars ?!? Why does the Govt. take so much money for themselves ?!


Not understanding that it’s $50 Million Dollars in materials and another $50 million in labor instantly injected into the *local* economy (obviously its not 50/50 but for the sake of this post)

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do not understand why so many b***h and moan about paying taxes. Sure no body likes them but you want roads? Fire departments? Parks? bridges? rec centres? etc? Or would you rather just have bake sales everytime something is needed?

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About You cannot check-in to a hotel without giving us a deposit or a working credit card to protect us from possible damages.
"There aren't gonna be any damages."
OH OK, I GUESS WE DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT IT THEN

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes u can. I work at a quality inn. We don't take deposits. If u pay cash that's all u pay.

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People From Different Professions Are Sharing 30 Things That The General Public Has No Clue About A significant portion of active duty military personnel (in the U.S., at least) spend a majority of their time sitting at a desk doing basic administration work.

I'm technically trained in my job speciality, but since I'm not exactly in a combat zone when not deployed, I spend most days at a computer answering e-mails and s**t.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The majority of the personal in armed forces isn't there for fighting - logistics, maintenance and administration are the biggest sections in any army

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