Let’s face it—some people have no idea what our jobs are all about. Sometimes, we might enjoy explaining the basics with a few polite sentences but when they ask the same questions over and over again, it can start to feel slightly annoying. Luckily, there are plenty of people on the internet ready to enlighten the masses about the realities of what they do for a living.
One Reddit user posed a question on the r/AskReddit forum, "What is something that people in your profession understand, but the general public can’t seem to grasp?" From lifeguards to teachers, hundreds of people rushed to share insider knowledge and debunk the myths surrounding their jobs.
Take a look at some of the illuminating observations commenters revealed in this thread and make sure to upvote the ones that you might not have known about. And if you can relate to any of them, don’t be shy and share your insights in the comments below!
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I work in healthcare. People are dumb and I’m just going to leave it at that.
Pencils are expensive. Prints are expensive. Proper paper is expensive. It takes a lot of time to do a painting. So, no, I can't give it to you for free or 'exposure.'
Mental health is real health.
It's all tied together. Your mental health WILL affect your physical health - and vice versa!! Pain management is mental health care too.
We managed to get in touch with one of the Redditors who had enough of people misunderstanding their profession. User Substantially-Ranged left an illuminating comment under this thread, explaining the common misconceptions they face as a teacher.
"Teaching children takes more than subject knowledge," they wrote. "Many people think that their experience as a student qualifies them to be teachers. It's called the apprenticeship of observation. There are strategies for both classroom management and teaching that you don't learn from being a student."
Substantially-Ranged was kind enough to have a little chat and share some thoughts about the topic. They started by mentioning that, sadly, teachers in the US feel unappreciated.
I work on super yachts. We understand that the rich and famous can get away with ordering drugs, hookers and whatever else they want to their yachts. I've been stopped by police with drugs, but when I tell them it's for the owner of the yacht I work on they let me go. Rules and laws do not apply to the rich and famous. Oh,....... And yacht owners are rich and rarely famous. The really rich don't want to be known.
Public libraries are not safe places to drop off your kids. It's not the books that are unsafe; it’s the other patrons, and the fact that librarians are not babysitters.
In most places, we don't set the prices for anything. Your surgeon is not making $50,000 on your grandma's hip because the hospital charged that much. He or she is probably getting $1,500, and the institution gets the rest. Insurances and institutions are the problem.
"When classes went online due to COVID-19, the public attacked teachers as being lazy and suggested that they should be paid less because they were not actually in the classroom," they told Bored Panda. "It starts to feel like your education, your commitment, and your effort aren't appreciated."
The user believes that the general public does not value and respect "the amount of education and experience it takes to be a skilled teacher." One of the reasons behind this could be that "the apprenticeship of observation makes people think that because they've seen teachers, that they can teach."
Your children are generally [jerks] and we don't find them nearly as charming as you find them
The thing with this is, you ALWAYS notice the naughty kids, running amok in the restaurant. I would hazard a guess that because the other kids are well-behaved you NEVER notice them. It's always a minority spoiling it for the majority. Note: You can apply this to adults too.
Military spending.
The U.S. spends the most by far, but it doesn't mean that money goes towards making sure Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors, and Marines have the best training, facilities, education, and equipment.
The vast majority of that money goes to private companies for programs that never produce anything or contribute in any way to the effectiveness of the fighting forces.
There is no concrete evidence that the U.S. has "The Best" military in the world.
Although I have several friends who work for a division of a vehicular defense company. That is designed around armor and transport for personnel. There should be more oversight/insight into wasteful spending for sure.
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I have a firm belief that we should pull some of that money and use it to fund a socialized universal healthcare system. I know it probably won't happen, but it's a nice thought
Actually that will be happening in the next 10 to 20 years.
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I've worked in and adjacent to military contractors for my career and it's a pretty open discussion that government money gets treated like that rich uncle that isn't even paying attention. I've seen costs at ~300% of what a private company would pay. Yes there is some extra work that goes into security clearance and documentation, but by and large the government overpays for everything because their budget is considered infinite.
Yup, and the active duty soldiers have to buy all of their medals and ribbons from the PX along with most of their clothing and boots. It's a racket!
the US military-industrial complex has supplied weapons we don't need, that don't work, that cost 2-3 times what were originally proposed, and that are obsolete by the time they are deployed. The whole system is set up to keep the equipment suppliers well supplied with our tax dollars. If you understand this, you also understand why the US gov't is always doing something to increase world tension. This scares the congressmen into voting in more legislation at high expense to keep the merry-go-round turning. This has just gone on since WW2 was over. It is an addiction the corrupt politicians will never deal with since they get re-election donations from military suppliers. What a corrupt system. This explains whey Biden is currently moving US troops into Poland & Romania. Biden doesn't care who governs the Ukraine. This is just another excuse to alarm congress into more spending. If Putin moves into Ukraine, it will be an excuse to really screw up the Russian economy. This will give all the Nato members business advantages.
This is false. The DoD budget $750 billion authorized annually in the NDAA has for many decades been roughly 3rds. 1/3 pure personnel compensation, salaries benefits 1/3 operations, fuel, parts and some contracts for services such as IT. 1/3 acquisition of new stuff planes ships etc. (This is what your thinking of) This doesn't include another $270B in just Veterans Affairs. With an all volunteer force we have unquestionably the most expensive and well compensated military personnel in the world. Best military? Definitely the most technologically advance and capable globally. Economical? no.
They spend a lot of money paying private companies to constantly mail letters and send emails with surveys attached. This last one was titled "Genderisms in the Military". I will never participate in their surveys because 1. They really do not want to know what I think 2. they say it is anonymous, but it has a special code on it or an access code to get to the survey on the computer, 3. I have plenty of actual work to do training said military members instead of this absolute harassment. But when you compare our training, gear, installations, assets, ability to protect those assets, and massive logistic machine inside the military, with other nations, yeah we blow them out of the water.
We could cut military spending by 50% and still maintain National security at a high level. Biggest thing would be to stop acting like the World's hall monitors. Sure, be ready to assist our allies IF THEY ASK FOR HELP, but otherwise stay out of it.
By far the biggest detriment to the effectiveness of our military is our politicians. If, once the politicians have decided to send them to war, they would allow them to do their job without interference, our military would be far more effective.
Wrong. The vast majority of the US defense budget goes towards paying our people, both current and retired. Covering medical, college, etc. The idea that the government dumps money into the military for nothing is propaganda.
That is not true... 4/5 of the military budget goes to both paychecks and retirements... We are taken care of better than nearly any other military on earth...
That is so LAUGHABLY disprovable. My 10 year old niece found the breakdown of the plans for the 2022 $715B *base* budget in under 6 seconds. If she can find out how WILDLY you've just "fudged" the facts, anyone can.
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Perhaps. But the anecdotal evidence sure is there. So is the drive.
This is a largely false post that is either uninformed or entirely speculation. The majority goes to military healthcare and family services and other programs to help soldiers.
Oh dear. You really believe the military vets are getting all thos help qnd Healthcare don't you? They are NOT. I know lots of Vets, they aren't getting s**t from the gov.
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This story could spread to sooo many different facets of the U.S. culture
We wore Vietnam Era Kevlar and armored our vehicles with sandbags and chicken wire in OIF.
We pay for defense contractors to develop weapons, and if we end up buying weapon A, manufacturer B and C go sell the things we paid to develop to other countries. Shouldn't they pay to develop their own technology? Or if we pay for it, we get royalties on the sales? Isn't that how a private company would do it?
maybe the fact that the US gov. has enough nukes to kill everyone on the earth 7 times over…
Yeah, if you actually want to feel like you're in the best funded military in the world try special forces. Or join another military.
There are those of us in the public that do understand this, hell some of us are old enough to remember the $2 M toilets.
When your neighbor has a better kit and plate vest for a "zombie apocalypse" than what you get deployed with.
This NOT TRUE. The DoD budget is broken roughly into 3rds. (Not including the VA which is $270B alone.) 1/3 pure personnel conpensation. 1/3 operations cost (fuel, maintanence), 1/3 acquisition. Read about the NDAA
And soldiers returning from combat are pretty much ignored by the government.
There’s a little known movie from the 80’s (90’s maybe) that has a scene in it where if people paid more attention to the things being “cut from the budget” & not just see it as a scene in a movie… they’d have a better understanding of government issues. The movie is “DAVE” staring Sigourney Weaver & Kevin Kline & it’s honestly just something written by someone who’s probably been witness to it actually being done but they’ve written it down in such a way that people might be able to relate to it easier. Unfortunate that these days, nobody seems to think it it could be that simple. Never has the phrase,”Use it or loose it” been more true than when you’re dealing with a “budget” but sometimes things go unchecked for long enough that either they get thrown in with other things & get lost or they been done a certain way so long that they become “the norm”. Funds just keep getting approved & go towards “issues” that in the past might’ve been more prevalent than what would be today. DAVE👍🏼👍🏼
If the US has the best military, then update their computers!!! Bill Gates assist your country.
Bullcrap. Without a doubt our soldiers are second to none. If you had been a proper soldier, you'd know that.
What an unpleasant thing to say. Just a random guess but you're a Trump zombie right?
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Wait sooo...I'm left with a sentence about "evidence" after reading a paragraph that offered zero evidence where the money goes...ugh 🤦♂️
Forgot Coasties (Coast Guard - within Homeland Security but a branch of the military none the less)
We can all agree the coasties arnt a real branch...
Load More Replies... Absolutely! Almost every contractor and military tech company over charges the US government. I grew up next to Fort Knox base and it was a well known fact that contractors would automatically tack on huge extra costs when they did work for the Army. It didn't matter what the work was, they always charged more because they knew they could.
The USA starts a lot of pointless wars and produces veterans that are self serving, self indulgent and a level of entitled that I can't find words for. Just because you had to do push-ups for rolling your eyes at a higher up does not mean you get to beat your wife bc she didn't make what you wanted for dinner.
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They have a habit of losing to the Brits in the 'War Game' exercises they do with allied forces.
No but I wonder where Europe would be if they hadn't stepped in during WW2?
Fine because Canada Stepped in. Which oddly, Americans never seem to mention. Ever.
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But in reality they dont even need to have best (even though I think they do by a large margin if you pull full force) realistically they just need to have better than Canada and Mexico and they should be fine. I dont think anyone is crazy enough to try to invade US in large scale.
Where I live, I befriended an American Soldier, who teaches at the local military Academy. The US DND is currently paying 9000$/month on his rent because that's the place his wife chose (it's nowhere near his work place). Do y'all believe that that expenditure is justified?? It wouldn't surprise me one bit that half the US DND budget would be considered wasteful by any other typical business.
So, is we don't have the best military in the world, then why haven't our enemies tried to land on our shores.
That might have something to do with the oceans to the east and west, and the ridiculously long borders to the north and south.
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And what does "The Best" mean if shepherds with AK-47s kick you out of their country after 20 years of war?
We should have only been there to do what we went in there to do. 20 years was excessive to say the least.
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Exactly was in the army and a mechanic buddy of mine said if that fighter jet he was working on had bad spark plugs they would just scrap the whole damn engine!
Horseshit. Army doesn't have fighter jets, jet engines don't have "spark plugs", maintenance is done down to the individual component level.
Load More Replies... us army can f**k right off and bow down to russia and israel, when i comes to military strenght. and the sooner the average american realises that, the sooner the entire world will start working towards betterment. you ain't s**t, my dudes, nothing but cannon flesh and dogs of war.
Just evidence it's the most expensive from one of the most corrupt governments in the world really
No the US just has the biggest EGO about everything because they believe they do have the biggest and best
Well we can do an empirical experiment, right? Just carry on annoying Putin and Xi and we will find out quick enough.
we're a hair away from seeing that in reality, so don't joke about it, please.
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A lot of "tough" parenting stances don't work.
I work with teenagers who have committed minor offenses and are not required to do jail time, but seeing a youth worker and working on anger management/social skills/life skills is required of them. There is not one single teen that has been sent to me who has come from a background of "gentle parenting". Not one. Every singe one of them without fail as long as I have been doing this will tell stories of all the times they were hit as punishment, and it becomes their logic when faced with conflict, "He disrespected me so I bashed his face in", "He called me a wanker so a smashed his car with my baseball bat", "I didn't do anything wrong, he stole the girl I like so I kicked him and his knee just broke, it's not really my fault".
This whole "Back in my day we got hit and we grew up right!" is just silly. Back in "your day" hitting was more prevalent so it's safe to say that most, if not all, violent crimes were committed by those who were hit. Most of the more shocking serial killers and so on have very well documented back stories of abuse.
Not every child who is hit will resort to physical violence when things don't go their way, of course, but children who are taught proper coping mechanisms for anger other than hitting people or things are very less likely to resort to that themselves, because they've been given conflict resolution skills that they can carry on into young adulthood.
And yeah, here's the point that a lot do understand in regards to this- if you are saying that you were hit and you grew up okay and you are using that to defend physical violence against children who most of the time actually don't know any better (and it's even worse when it's "Oh well they're too young to understand why they shouldn't touch the stove, so I hit them so they understand"- if they can't understand why they can't touch the stove they won't understand why you hit them either), you didn't grow up okay, you grew up with violent tendencies.
General rule, don't hit people.
If you hit children, they will learn to hit.
When children grow up and hit other grown ups, that's a criminal offense and they will go to jail.
I was hit as a child and I did NOT turn out ok. There are better options.
It can be quite hard to figure out why the public has so many misconceptions about other professions. Whether it’s seeing librarians as babysitters or assuming that the IT guys can do it all, there seems to be a general lack of common sense when it comes to appreciating what others do for a living. "It can be difficult to have empathy for others and realize that they have to work hard," Substantially-Ranged added.
The user continued by saying that it’s necessary to talk about such issues. "The beauty of Reddit is that it creates an environment where positive and open discourse can occur. A simple subreddit like r/AskReddit has the power to educate people and enlighten them about things just by scrolling," they concluded.
'Switching it off and on again' in I.T. usually resets the device to the state before you pissed about with it — this quite often solves the problem.
Just because I "play" in a band, doesn't mean it isn't work! For every hour you see me on stage, I spent probably 100 hours practicing and rehearsing, so you would enjoy listening to me.
In Chinese there's an expression, One minute on stage comes from ten years' practice.
Veterinary- just because you can’t afford care for your pet, doesn’t mean I have to give said care for free. Nor does it it mean I’m heartless and cruel and killing your pet. It just means you can’t afford it.
I have bills to pay too. I have a right to make a living wage. I need to get paid. We get no government funding, we exist solely because people they their bills.
Well this goes for healthcare as a whole. I don't think it's the fact people have to pay that is the problem, it's the ammount of money that needs to be payed that is the issue. Sometimes a vet just looks at my cat, gives a short diagnose 'give it some rest' and I walk out fo the door with a € 80,- Bill. I know they deserve a good salary (studied long, have a big responsibility), but this I find ridiculous. I take care of kids in my profession, a big responsibility, but the pay is lousy. Just to compare.
Emergency Rooms are NOT first-come, first-serve businesses! We triage you for a reason, and you CANNOT cut the line in front of somebody with a more serious complaint just because you got here first!
Sorry, Jenny's non-Covid sniffles have to wait behind that guy's bone sticking out of his arm.
As a teacher, No! Your "babies" are not babies. They are delinquent teens with sociopathic behaviors that you allowed to go unchecked, and now we have to deal with it when they disrupt learning environments and harm others, while you throw a fit when we call home about it, even though we have video evidence of them brutally hitting others, including staff, and behaving like out of control animals. But your little "baby" would "never do that."
I am not a babysitter. It is your job as a parent to watch your kid when swimming and if they can't swim, you have to be in the water within five feet of them at all times.
YOU NEED TO SLOW DOWN IN BAD WEATHER!!!!!
(Two wheelers)If you ride faster in rain, the rain will pelt you like bullets. Driving slower makes it a bit bearable.
That the eighty thousand pound truck I’m driving can’t stop in a dime
Thiiiiiiissss! That extra car length in front of them isn't for your beemer to slide into! And if you can't see the driver's face, the driver can't see your CAR.
You actually don't want an exotic animal as a pet.
Not very exotic, but we(my wife) just "adopted" a mouse. Not a lil white mouse from a pet store, but a field mouse that we found almost dead in the toilet. I didnt want to put it out in the cold while half dead and wet, so I had it in a box to recover. Showed it to my wife...she deemed it🤩 "precious, with its little ears and feet"...so now we have a house for a mouse in our house. So far, it doesn't seem to have any diseases, but its still under observations. Hoo boy...
Marriage and Family Therapist
Your partner only wants your advice if they ask for it. They want you to listen and emphasize. Tell them what they're going through must (fill in appropriate adjective here- examples: suck, feel amazing, feel overwhelming, etc)
No, you haven't found your soulmate. You're brain is giving you a super boost in brain chemicals so you screw like bunnies and have babies. Tell me in 1.5-2 years if they're still your soulmate. That's how long it takes for that chemical boost to return to their "normal for you" state. And not feeling fireworks at the first kiss doesn't mean anything. Plenty of amazing long-term relationships started from friendship (which by the way is what you'll need to have a long-term, fulfilling relationship).
Also... be kind to each other. You will each f*** things up in your relationship. All is not lost because one of you talked to an ex, forgot a birthday, etc. Relationships go through seasons and I promise if you can work though the winter you'll have an amazing summer! Every relationship sucks sometimes (screw you social media and your highlight reels).
Lastly, though there are so many more- I can't stress this one enough, there is no such thing as my problem or yours. Though the work to get through it will look different for each of you, once you decide to become partners, everything becomes ours to work through together. Yes, even that thing that happened before you met but is getting in the way of your healthy relationship. And especially that thing you never want to talk about that is getting in the way of your relationship.
Your kids lie to you. If we said they didn’t do the homework and they said they did, it’s a 99.985% chance they are lying. If they say they weren’t doing xyz behavior in class and we say they were, it’s a 99.985% chance they were doing it. I have so many more demands on my time than to make up random c**p about your kid.
Flossing actually helps.
You can lie all you want about falling on or accidentally sitting on the stuff that gets lodged in your [butt], none of us HCWs believe you though!
Dear lord.. I'd probably die of embarrassment if I 'fell' onto anything.. But I'm pretty sure people make up stories to cover their own embarrassment in these situations,rather then think they'll ever be believed....
Teachers don't "give grades" - students earn them. The teachers just calculate them.
Sure, some teachers can be d**ks, and actually give grades, but that's not how it's supposed to work.
That office work is more than just making excel spreadsheets and chatting at the water cooler. A busy day in an office can be exhausting.
This. Mental exhaustion still counts as exhaustion. Just because I'm not in the middle of a forest chopping down trees all day it does not mean my job is less taxing than yours
My god, your chocolate will last the two weeks until Christmas. Buy it now and give it next Christmas. It has a shelf life measured in years. And stop putting it in the fridge. I made it three months ago and it's been sitting at room temperature in a box since then. If you put it in the fridge for a week it'll get condensation on it and turn sticky, or the cold will ruin the tempering.
I like my chocolate from the fridge. It's never in there for more than a day cos I'm a pig :P
Yes, the animal is in the exhibit. Sometimes you have to look for longer than eight seconds.
I would try to stay hidden too if I was forced to be stared at all day by hundreds of strange looking beings.
Bathroom renovations — things take time. Drying times are a factor. If I ask your budget, it’s not because I’m trying to empty your account. I just need to know your expectations so I can meet them.
Teaching children takes more than subject knowledge. Many people think that their experience as a student qualifies them to be teachers. It's called the apprenticeship of observation. There are strategies for both classroom management and teaching that you don't learn from being a student.
Absolutely! I had two kinds of science (phy) teachers- one who came in, stood like a robot, and puked out everything written in the textbook. And one who made us learn through real-life experiences, telling us topic related jokes, bringing all types of teaching aids, etc. The thing is, we still talk about the second teacher and miss him so damn much, whereas almost everyone has forgotten about the first.
Correlation is not causation.
I had 4 vaccines today, and one of them was the MMR. I wonder how long till I get Autism. lol
The Cloud is just someone else's computer.
See also: "Microsoft are reading all my emails, accessing all my files and examining all my data" - Trust me, no one's interested in your furry porn collection son...
Just because I'm an electrical engineer doesn't mean I can rewire your house. At least not legally.
Well, you CAN, but it will cost 5 figures, a few permits, and a couple of inspections, plus a crew.
I work in long term mental health care with special need adults.
I see al kinds of s**t, trust me. Most people get that. I get the 'ah you are such a hero for doing what you do, I could never do that' quite often.
What most people don't grasp is that the good moments are equally amazing as the bad things are horrible.
My residents are capable of such great things. Or they become so happy in our care it's just amazing to witness.
I could tell amazing or terrible things about my job, depending on the mood you're in to hear about.
Having spent some significant time as a patient on Psych Wards (not special needs, just adults) I feel quite well placed to comment on my experience. The ward staff were always ready to offer an ear, a hug or to nip to the shops. If it was in their power, they would do it for you in a heartbeat. Whilst the modesty of this chap is admirable, I have to disagree, these doctors and nurses ARE heroes, do a wonderful job and deserve praise.
No, I can't grab your iPhone and take a picture to match my best studio works, even if it's the most recent model of an iPhone. Also, yes, I do charge money 'just to take a picture.
Lots of ppl are willing to pay lawyers $$$ per hour for advice on the law "because they had to study long and hard" but somehow think artists just somehow "know" how to paint/take photos etc. beautifully and therefore don't deserve to charge much. Like..it's just drawing sth with a pencil, or "push a button" etc. Sure, you also know how to read but you still pay lawyers so what gives?
Unpleasant feelings are healthy and needed for us to function properly
Yes, but if I feel my depression signs building on top of grief and stress, I should be able to get requested relief from my MH team during a time of additional mental stress.
That everyone is entitled to due process and to be presumed innocent until proven guilty no matter how sleazy or guilty they are.
Complaining to my manager isn't going to get me fired. If anything he's going to be even more blunt with you about how much of a power tripping c**t you're being because he knows for a fact that you can't get him fired either. Retail workers, especially during a labor shortage and especially when they've got a few years experience, aren't so replacable that you can get one axed just by complaining to management. Most of the time your complaints won't even reach anyone with the authority to fire someone. Even if they do, they get so many complaints from unreasonable people that the management is far more likely to side with an employee that's in good standing with the store than with some random weirdo that didn't get what they wanted.
Teaching English in Japan does not elevate you to godlike status among the locals and Japanese kids can be as ill mannered and unruly as kids in the West.
The only certainty in medicine is that everyone dies eventually.
I am a material scientist.
America will never go to war with Russia. We buy too much Titanium and Helium from them.
Yes, this is a weirdly false assertion. We produce many times more Helium than Russia and we could easily skimp if we needed to. (How about stop wasting it in balloons?)
If you want to fit a portrait image into a landscape canvas, you either have to crop it, leave a black or white border or empty space left and right, or distort it (which is almost always a bad idea). On a regular occurrence, clients are unhappy with either of these options, they just want me to somehow make it fit.
Please turn your phone sideways when taking pictures of scenery or large groups!
Note: this post originally had 78 images. It’s been shortened to the top 40 images based on user votes.
From medicine: No, we are not all just googling things when we look at the laptop or blackberry. We're often looking at the PDR, and it's much faster than the physical PDR. (The Physicians Desk Reference, a pharma guide that's about 2,000 pages of tiny print.) We may be reviewing your medical history, if it's available. We may even be checking to see if a specialist is in the hospital at the time. Do not assume we're going on Web MD. Please. Thank you.
Most people don't understand that before they get a med prescribed you have to first make sure there won't be any reactions
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Every person that doesn't want socialized medicine because they won't want their taxes to pay for someone else's healthcare....they already are. The tons upon tons of people that treat the ER like a walk in/minor care clinic because it's "free"...how do you think the hospital recoups that loss?
Exactly! ... And now you can explain the idiocy of medical costs in the US to some extent. (They also just like big profits. Patients second, the ba*tards.)
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I think what's most annoying is when people constantly complain about their job and have to go on and on about how exhausting it is. My job is hard, your job is hard, most jobs have some negative aspects, working sucks. I mean it's one thing to vent about a bad day but some people just need to either switch their careers or at least switch their attitudes.
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody and they meet at the bar" - Drew Carey
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When you see errors in films and shows, like camera crew reflections or background things from the wrong time, it's very likely the production knew about them but let them stay in. Fixing things in post costs _a lot_, and you are on tight deadlines to air the show. Quality control will catch a lot of errors, and most will be fixed, but some there won't be the time or budget for so the flaws are knowingly left in.
IT architect and tech.... yes, if we are competent - we do have periods where we don't do much..... that's the result of designing and implementing something well.... and we were doing 80-100 hour weeks during implementation.... that's the life-cycle - get used to it. If you see someone who is busy all the time, they are an average (at best) tech.
When IT are busy fixing an emergency: Why did this happen, what do we pay you for? When IT are not busy: What do we pay you for?
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Digital artist: I don't just draw a couple lines and a finished piece appears lol. Digital art is basically just as much hard work as traditional art, though having some specific advantages (the ability to resize, separate layers, THE UNDO BUTTON) and disadvantages (different colors on different screens, less leeway for brush and blending techniques, you can't see all of your canvas at once sometimes). Art is art and it all takes time and skill.
I don't even have a child and I know that's something you don't wanna skimp on
Load More Replies... That who you vote for makes no difference because the elections only replace ministers ("secretaries of" in USA). Elections do not replace any other officials. Especially not the ones in charge of fixing potholes in your suburb's streets. Therefore, if you really want a change in your country, e.g. you want free healthcare, you have to actually change your entire system of government, because as it is presently structured, it is designed to keep things as they are.
lol... what? You have a gross misunderstanding of how the system works
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Market Research: When you give one company providing a service your contact info and they have sign a contract or application for anything, read the fine print before you go off at a research interviewer because you didn't realize part of the fine print included possibly being contacted for customary feedback or market research.
Behavioral health worker here. No, we don’t “do this job for the money.” The vast majority of us are underpaid and overworked. We subject ourselves to hearing some of the most awful things a person can do to themselves, or someone else, because we want to help you get better.
Honest question, every bmh worker I have dealt with mostly tells the patient "you are not trying hard enough" would you also say that to a cancer patient? (Btw, meditation, journaling, crafts, eating right (not eating when I can not afford good food). Still not good enough?)
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The only reason you survive break checking a tractor trailer is because the driver needs to keep their job. Even with a dash cam it's not a given that we won't be found at fault. Your vehicle (yes even your jacked up obnoxious pick up "truck") may as well be made of tin foil. You've no idea the self control and reflexes it takes to not just drive over you for being an idiot putting the lives of everyone around you at risk.
from someone who works by taking art commissions: please be specific about what you want—no it's not rude to show us the exact pose you'd like! that's actually a major help! art isn't magic, it needs instructions—if you're unhappy with the sketch you're shown, say something before I pour hours of work into lines and coloring! don't complain once I'm done with it because there's nothing I can really do at that point
Here's one for ya: Digital and traditional artists don't make a lot of money unless they put in a few years of good, solid practice, and being with the right audience. I cannot tell you how many people don't realize that just because You draw well and have a few fans it means nothing without a presence and a firm grasp of the craft. Even if your art is considered bad, you're still rooted in those years of trying, you may just not be in the right place, forum, or site.
CGI artist (student still): No, we cannot just magically turn a bad shot into a good one. If the scene looks good, it means that both the VFX artists and the camera crew did a good job, because a terrible shot will still look bad even with ungodly amounts of visual effects thrown on top of it. Appreciate the camera crew!
The so called material scientist confused me. The US has the world's largest helium reserves and has been selling them off at cut rate prices to avoid the cost of storage. So who is this person?
We don't just put your pcr in a magical machine and get results, we don't just look at random stuff in a microscope and show the doctor, we don't just draw your blood, put it in a bag, and just transfer it to someone else. We are also healthcare professionals know perfectly and diagnose based on your samples, we don't just pick up some fancy machine and use it, even through years of working with centrifuges, if I get a new one, I have to read the entire manual because medical equipment is delicate and all manufacturers are different, pcr is a much more complex process, no machine does the work, machines are just tools for us to analyze the samples, separate, calculate and everything our works needs to be able to do something so delicate, we are not just there to control the machines, they serve us, not the other way around
In animal rescue: adoption costs are small potatoes compared to the amount of money rescues spend in animals before they can be adopted out. Rescues don't charge that fee to screw over adopters. Most rescues focus on donations to keep running. Complaining about a $500 adoption fee when you just got a fully better animal is ridiculous. Also, a good rescue will work hard to make sure you're adopting an animal will fit in your home. If the fosters rejects you, it doesn't mean your bad. It just means they it wasn't the best fit.
This was mostly ill written garbage. I think I'm done with this garbage site??!!!!!
No not on the computer playing games I'm usually charting. Looking at test results, your medical history, the meds you are using etc.
From medicine: No, we are not all just googling things when we look at the laptop or blackberry. We're often looking at the PDR, and it's much faster than the physical PDR. (The Physicians Desk Reference, a pharma guide that's about 2,000 pages of tiny print.) We may be reviewing your medical history, if it's available. We may even be checking to see if a specialist is in the hospital at the time. Do not assume we're going on Web MD. Please. Thank you.
Most people don't understand that before they get a med prescribed you have to first make sure there won't be any reactions
Load More Replies... Every person that doesn't want socialized medicine because they won't want their taxes to pay for someone else's healthcare....they already are. The tons upon tons of people that treat the ER like a walk in/minor care clinic because it's "free"...how do you think the hospital recoups that loss?
Exactly! ... And now you can explain the idiocy of medical costs in the US to some extent. (They also just like big profits. Patients second, the ba*tards.)
Load More Replies... I think what's most annoying is when people constantly complain about their job and have to go on and on about how exhausting it is. My job is hard, your job is hard, most jobs have some negative aspects, working sucks. I mean it's one thing to vent about a bad day but some people just need to either switch their careers or at least switch their attitudes.
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody and they meet at the bar" - Drew Carey
Load More Replies... When you see errors in films and shows, like camera crew reflections or background things from the wrong time, it's very likely the production knew about them but let them stay in. Fixing things in post costs _a lot_, and you are on tight deadlines to air the show. Quality control will catch a lot of errors, and most will be fixed, but some there won't be the time or budget for so the flaws are knowingly left in.
IT architect and tech.... yes, if we are competent - we do have periods where we don't do much..... that's the result of designing and implementing something well.... and we were doing 80-100 hour weeks during implementation.... that's the life-cycle - get used to it. If you see someone who is busy all the time, they are an average (at best) tech.
When IT are busy fixing an emergency: Why did this happen, what do we pay you for? When IT are not busy: What do we pay you for?
Load More Replies... Digital artist: I don't just draw a couple lines and a finished piece appears lol. Digital art is basically just as much hard work as traditional art, though having some specific advantages (the ability to resize, separate layers, THE UNDO BUTTON) and disadvantages (different colors on different screens, less leeway for brush and blending techniques, you can't see all of your canvas at once sometimes). Art is art and it all takes time and skill.
I don't even have a child and I know that's something you don't wanna skimp on
Load More Replies... That who you vote for makes no difference because the elections only replace ministers ("secretaries of" in USA). Elections do not replace any other officials. Especially not the ones in charge of fixing potholes in your suburb's streets. Therefore, if you really want a change in your country, e.g. you want free healthcare, you have to actually change your entire system of government, because as it is presently structured, it is designed to keep things as they are.
lol... what? You have a gross misunderstanding of how the system works
Load More Replies... Market Research: When you give one company providing a service your contact info and they have sign a contract or application for anything, read the fine print before you go off at a research interviewer because you didn't realize part of the fine print included possibly being contacted for customary feedback or market research.
Behavioral health worker here. No, we don’t “do this job for the money.” The vast majority of us are underpaid and overworked. We subject ourselves to hearing some of the most awful things a person can do to themselves, or someone else, because we want to help you get better.
Honest question, every bmh worker I have dealt with mostly tells the patient "you are not trying hard enough" would you also say that to a cancer patient? (Btw, meditation, journaling, crafts, eating right (not eating when I can not afford good food). Still not good enough?)
Load More Replies... The only reason you survive break checking a tractor trailer is because the driver needs to keep their job. Even with a dash cam it's not a given that we won't be found at fault. Your vehicle (yes even your jacked up obnoxious pick up "truck") may as well be made of tin foil. You've no idea the self control and reflexes it takes to not just drive over you for being an idiot putting the lives of everyone around you at risk.
from someone who works by taking art commissions: please be specific about what you want—no it's not rude to show us the exact pose you'd like! that's actually a major help! art isn't magic, it needs instructions—if you're unhappy with the sketch you're shown, say something before I pour hours of work into lines and coloring! don't complain once I'm done with it because there's nothing I can really do at that point
Here's one for ya: Digital and traditional artists don't make a lot of money unless they put in a few years of good, solid practice, and being with the right audience. I cannot tell you how many people don't realize that just because You draw well and have a few fans it means nothing without a presence and a firm grasp of the craft. Even if your art is considered bad, you're still rooted in those years of trying, you may just not be in the right place, forum, or site.
CGI artist (student still): No, we cannot just magically turn a bad shot into a good one. If the scene looks good, it means that both the VFX artists and the camera crew did a good job, because a terrible shot will still look bad even with ungodly amounts of visual effects thrown on top of it. Appreciate the camera crew!
The so called material scientist confused me. The US has the world's largest helium reserves and has been selling them off at cut rate prices to avoid the cost of storage. So who is this person?
We don't just put your pcr in a magical machine and get results, we don't just look at random stuff in a microscope and show the doctor, we don't just draw your blood, put it in a bag, and just transfer it to someone else. We are also healthcare professionals know perfectly and diagnose based on your samples, we don't just pick up some fancy machine and use it, even through years of working with centrifuges, if I get a new one, I have to read the entire manual because medical equipment is delicate and all manufacturers are different, pcr is a much more complex process, no machine does the work, machines are just tools for us to analyze the samples, separate, calculate and everything our works needs to be able to do something so delicate, we are not just there to control the machines, they serve us, not the other way around
In animal rescue: adoption costs are small potatoes compared to the amount of money rescues spend in animals before they can be adopted out. Rescues don't charge that fee to screw over adopters. Most rescues focus on donations to keep running. Complaining about a $500 adoption fee when you just got a fully better animal is ridiculous. Also, a good rescue will work hard to make sure you're adopting an animal will fit in your home. If the fosters rejects you, it doesn't mean your bad. It just means they it wasn't the best fit.
This was mostly ill written garbage. I think I'm done with this garbage site??!!!!!
No not on the computer playing games I'm usually charting. Looking at test results, your medical history, the meds you are using etc.
