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Every industry has its hidden side that may be unappealing. It’s akin to visiting the kitchen of your favorite restaurant and seeing how grimy and untidy it actually is from behind the scenes. 

Much of this insider information remained concealed until someone posted this question on Reddit: “What’s the dark secret about your profession that the general public doesn’t know?”

People didn’t hesitate to respond, revealing what happens behind closed doors among lawyers, healthcare workers, educators, and service industry employees, to name a few. 

Many of these answers may shock you and make you question the fabric of society. But if you want to read about juicy industry secrets, scroll through this list.

#1

“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Former heavy machinery worker. Everything from in facility work to road and construction work.

Every single guy...I mean every guy, that operates a backhoe or asphalt roller or bulldozer absolutely LOVES and gets a kick when we see kids watching and being interested in what we are doing. We all want to stop and let them on the machine and allow them to run it, but are only forced to not to because of rules and insurance.

When we get together for lunch we aren't talking about the women we saw. We're talking about the little boy in the red hoodie who clapped when we dumped a shovel. And not one guy teases you for thinking it was great, because otherwise the job is just grinding and our bosses suck.

I figured we needed a bit of positivity on this thread.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) It is entirely possible that your veterinarian will kiss your kitten's belly when you are not looking.

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

I love vets that love my pet and are kind and sweet to them. Please, do kiss them each time you can.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) The number of completely incompetent employees working in health care settings is appalling.

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

Elder care in memory care units is a disgrace in the US. The employees don't care because they are paid peanuts. The residents cannot complain because they no longer have the capacities to do so. Meanwhile the families are paying the price of a small car every month for "care", and the facilities' owners are reaping the profits.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) I used to be a police officer: There were a lot of unspoken rules about making sure we had a high number of arrests. Demonstrating high arrest numbers meant we got federal/state grant money. This kept the prosecutor employed along with the entire court system and showed the town/city we needed a larger budget because of all the arrests. The entire criminal justice system is literally a giant business which [profits] off the backs of the public

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Economist here. The dirty secret is that economists do actually know what they're doing, politicians and pundits just ignore us and do whatever they want to make more money for the rich. Oh and all conservative economic theory is a made up scam. Trickle down is a scam.

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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Some economists know what they are doing. Enough of them supported Reaganomics to screw this country hard in the 80s. At least most of them are clever enough to oppose Trump's TARIFFS TARIFFS TARIFFS strategy.

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#6

“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Security guard: In an active shooter event, we're not going to protect your a*s. We're heading to the nearest safe exit and calling the cops.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) 80% of women with developmental disabilities will experience SA. The statistics are already horrible for neuro typical women but most people outside the field have no idea it's so high. It is horrific.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Funeral Director/Embalmer here. I don’t know that this is a particularly “dark” secret, but despite the rising popularity, the lack of understand around what cremation really is always shocks me. You do not get “ashes” back. You get back bone fragments. In school we had it drilled into us to never use them term “ashes” because it is so inaccurate and only perpetuates this misunderstanding. Your body is not reduced to a fine, powdery ash that will float off in the wind/water when scattered. It is reduced to large chunks of bone which are then processed to try to attain a fairly uniform consistency. Much more like a heavy sand.

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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I loved making sandcastles with my grandad. But then my mum would tell me to put grandads ashes back in the urn.

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#9

“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Book editor. Unless you have a massive social media following/built-in audience already, chances are very small you'll get published by a major house. Chances are even smaller that you'll make any money from your book. Just self-publish if you really want to get your work out there: the publishing industry is 95% about making money and 5% about publishing decent books.

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#10

“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) I work in the gas pipeline industry and there's been massive accidents and terror attacks people have no idea about and were never reported nor ever will be. All over the world.

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#11

“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) When they make a pain cream, they put in ingredients to make you "feel" something, like menthol, because it's associated with "doing something" or "working". Simple not feeling anything (or less pain) is not associated with effecacy.

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

That's also true for toothpaste. The tingling feeling is actually your gums being irritated a little. It's giving us a feeling of 'fresh' and motivates the brushing.

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#12

“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) A boutique hotel I worked at didn’t wash comforters unless they had to. And even then you really had to push. I was pulled to help with housekeeping fairly regularly in the busy season, found a quilt with blood on it - sent it to laundry. It was sent back 5 mins for being “clean enough” 🤢🤮

My housekeepers told me it was normal. I was horrified. I cringe staying at hotels and take a blanket when I can.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Professors are regularly pressured into passing failing students to keep up graduation levels. I even had the registrar go into the system and change grades. Let’s just say I have seen my fair share of students who failed my science course but were passed by admins who are now building your bridges, interstates, buildings,levees, and multi-level parking lots.

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

I work at a university in Europe and I can tell you we take grading very seriously.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Persuasive design is unbelievably effective on websites.

A little scarcity message there, a little was/now pricing, a big ol' prominent "buy now" button in just the right place, badly designed filters that limit your ability to see the cheapest products.

Lots of websites are utterly garbage, and some might *look* garbage and have obviously annoying experiences (Amazon anyone?) but it's like that because you spend more money, and cost the company less money - not to make it good for you.

We know how long you spend on a page, what you look at, what will make you buy, and how to keep you engaged for as long as possible. We know you are using an iPhone - the newest, largest model - and are likely a wealthier prospect, so will tailor our messaging and pricing to squeeze every cent out of you that we can.

These experiments are conducted on you without your knowledge in order to make you part with your money.

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#15

“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) The US public school system is on the brink of collapse.

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Chris Landrum
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

actually it is poor spending and heavy administration costs that are ruining the schools. budgets are being cut because the schools dont spend money on students

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

If it is at all, and I say this as a highly skeptical retired teacher, it's because it's being deliberately underfunded so that schools can be taken private and made money off of, and this is WRONG. It is undemocratic, wildly unfair to all children, crushing to teachers. Look at what happened to the New Orleans school system. It's nearly all private now, and is just horrific. Public education is a must for an educated populace, and if that's not what's wanted, question that closely and relentlessly. If Republicans don't want an educated populace, they're the problem, not education. And pay teachers more, pay school support staff more. They all deserve it.

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

I'm pretty sure it passed "the brink" a very long time ago.

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

Apparently schools are funded by the taxpayer-base of a certain district. So if a school is in a poor area, it will not get the funding it needs. Also, there seems to be an alarming lack of qualified teachers. I'm not sure whether this is due to the poor pay and benefits, the burden of administration or lack of support from the school itself or the size of the classes.

Justin Tyme
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The US public school system collapsed years ago. But we are still throwing children and money into the pit.

Al Padilla
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The right-wingnuts are taking over. Book bannings (to "protect" our kids) while mandating a Bible in every classroom (never mind separation of church & state- and you should be sure to read Deuteronomy 20:16-18 to learn about brotherly love). And my favorite politician quote on education: We opposse the teaching of Higher Order Thinking skills, critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority. - Rick Perry (Governor of Texas, 2012) If you're afraid that books may change your thinking, you're not afraid of books; you're afraid of thinking.

Nikki Hilton
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It will absolutely go down the drain if trump is elected. He wants to eliminate the D of Education. Red states are heavily into vouchers for private schools, which will take away from public schools.

James King
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3 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The DOE and NEA are b--t f--king America's children into ignorant tools. They NEED to go away.

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Gracie Mae
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4 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

on the brink? I'd say it's been that way for quite some time then

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

One of the largest school districts in the US, Clark County School District in Las Vegas Nevada, is on the verge of implosion. It has been talked about breaking it up into smaller districts, but we will have to wait and see.

Ormond Otvos
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's been rubble for decades. MOST new programs just don't work.

axle f
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

...like the post office....and guess which political group has been pushing for this for half a century or more..

Scott Rackley
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That is by design. One party in particular loves uneducated voters. Loves banning books. Loves defunding (and promises to eliminate) the department of education.

tracy black
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it needs to collapse and start over kids are being taught anything kids are stupid today

Michael Largey
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If so, elementary knowledge of punctuation and capitalization should be stressed, along with the undesirability of run-on sentences.

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So doing FAT Studies and getting a PhD in Social Media isn't helping?

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Because of liberal policies and a woke agenda.

Michael Largey
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because of social and economic victimization profiting the rich and supported by their clueless stooges.

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#16

“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Food service, 20 years in the industry. Even surrounded by all of that food you barely have an opportunity to eat or drink anything. A lot of food service work is part time unless you're a manager, and if you're a salaried manager forget ever having a life outside of work, you are on call 24/7/365, even on your days off. You're on your feet from the moment you start your shift until you clock out. You barely have a chance to sit down unless you're using the bathroom. If you're waiting tables, you earn $2.13 per hour, and all of it is taken in taxes, so you're living on customer's tips. You have to balance a heavy tray of food and drinks on one hand while dodging coworkers and customers and trying not to spill anything. Then you have the customers with entitled attitudes who want their food fast, fresh and hot but don't want to wait for it and refuse to pay their server by tipping them for doing their job. There's a lot of prep work that goes on before the restaurant opens in order to get your meal out in a timely manner. If your restaurant serves breakfast you are awake when your customers are asleep, yep, you're clocking in at 3 am. And we wake up every day to do it for you. So treat restaurant workers well!

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

Cue the flood of comments from all of the countries that pay food service workers a living wage, and who do not have to endure the entitled jerks to stay in business

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#17

“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Professor. We are totally invested in helping you to make amazing work, we stick up for students all the time. We take the responsibility of helping you win very seriously. The only dark thing is that many people see it the other way around.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) I work in laboratory support for a life sciences department at a mid-size university, and the amount of plastic waste we generate is astounding. .

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Becky Samuel
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is unfortunately true, but at the moment absolutely necessary. We have learned some lessons from things like prion diseases (cannot be destroyed by normal heat sterilisation procedures). Although this waste problem will have to be tackled at some stage, it is absolutely dwarfed by the plastic consumed by the food industry, so making changes to that supply line first is the most important.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) During an autopsy, we will not take care with your organs and stuff them back in any old how so they fit back in your chest cavity.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) No so much a dark secret, but authors make pennies on the dollar. Even mid-to-high level authors have to work a day job.

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

The average royalty rate is in the 8-10% for traditional publishing, and up to 15% for affirmed authors. Electronic distribution has much higher rates, up to double. An average book that got picked up by a major editor may sell 3-5000 copies at an average price of 15$. So, except for a few blockbusters an author earns a 5-10k/yr. The real money comes later with licensing and "long tail" commerce, with the book generating small revenues for longer time, compounding with the success of further books.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Dental Hygienist here: Not sure if ppl are aware that a RDH only requires an associates degree in science (2 1/2 yr program), medium salary is approx. 70k, 4 day work week most offices, good hours (no nights), free dental care and usually discounted for family. It’s a pretty good career and if you work at a private practice it’s pretty easy because you’re seeing patients who return every 6 months and have good home care. I have friends graduating from a 4 year college and deep in debt getting 25k job offers. It’s not a bad gig.

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

It's the whole "sticking my fingers into people's mouths" thing I wouldn't be able to handle.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) 50% of our entire financial and banking system runs on legacy cobol code written prior to 1980.

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

For those wondering how bad this is: if the code stops working or someone somewhere makes a seemingly small change then the whole system comes down. Globally. We have seen this on smaller scales with various internet outages most notably when someone took a vital javascript library (the internet runs on javascript) off github (place that coders often use to store their code safely) for reasons and suddenly half the internet was unusable. And the people who know Cobol are retiring currently with minimal new talent coming in. If you want to make yourself indispensable to society learn Cobol.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) I worked at a mental health facility. They were all about image and money. Very few clients were ever discharged. They were far more interested in the money than actually helping people.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) For anyone that didn't serve in the military, it's an absolute s**t show. Just another corporation with fancy names for managers and employees.

I don't know how the govt functions after having served lol.

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

And I quote: "I know you have nothing to do!!! I don't care, just look busy!!!"

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Some farm stands and farmers market booths have fruits and vegetables from Costco repackaged into cardboard pints to make it look "home grown".

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

This is pretty obvious just from the wide variety of fruit and vegetables they sell

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) I work in medical delivery strictly to hospice patients. As you can imagine they die frequently. We pick the equipment up to be returned to the warehouse and sanitized it for redelivery to other patients. It’s a shoe string industry with tiny profit margins. Every single company out there is picking up mattress, slapping a disposable cover on them and putting them back out at the next stop. Logistically there is no possible way everyone in the industry isn’t doing it. I personally refuse to do it. I’ve had a regional vp b***h at me about it and say we were in business to make money not to deliver clean equipment to someone that was going to die the next day. Even if you don’t account for urine and fecal matter there’s still roaches and bed bugs getting moved around all the time.

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

"It’s a shoe string industry with tiny profit margins". You know what? You should not have "margins" at all. You should not even be deemed an "industry". Margins are resources taken out of your core activities. If you give people "in business to make money" any decision power you are creating an environmental push to degrade the quality of service in favor of their profits. Medicine should be a socialized business, with fees -as well as operational standards- decided by the single-payer caregiver, and close scrutiny on expenses.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Vets in the US have a high s**cide rate. High debt, relatively low income relative to that debt and their level of schooling, a lot of client abuse and depressing cases, and access to euthanasia d***s.. and like we're taught the gold standard medicine but a lot of clients can't afford the gold standard, so you've got this frustration where you want to help but can't, and then you're accused of being heartless or just in it for the money. I left clinical medicine after two years for a series of non-clinical roles.

And the turnover rate on vet techs (the nurses in the vet hospital) is fairly high, estimated at about 30-35% with an average time in the industry of just 5-10 years.. and that's for your licensed techs that went to school for it. The school I used to teach at had similar findings in our own post-grad surveys, where a lot of our graduates would either leave the field entirely or leave clinical medicine for things like reference lab work, pet insurance, or pharmaceutical rep work after just a couple years.

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

Just imagine a caring child who gets into this field because they want to help animals. Then they find that through their career, they spend a good amount of time putting down animals when it's simply the most humane thing to do. Talk about mental torture.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) I'm a game developer who used to work on mobile games before moving to PC development. Mobile game developers know exactly how much you've spent on the game and when so they can target you with a pop-up at just the right time to get your money. This is a fairly automatic process though not someone sitting in a room watching you. A lot of people know this so I'll throw in a bonus secret - with regional pricing people in second and third world countries are paying a tiny fraction of what you pay for the same MTX. In first world countries it's all about finding the whale who will spend BIG on a game but in second/third countries they just try to maximise volumes of sale. Remember, an MTX usually cost about a day or less than that's work to implement but from then on costs the company exactly £0. You are buying thin air or worse yet just the opportunity to keep playing the game.

Super bonus third secret that I'm sure isn't much of a secret - mobile gaming ads are downright lies honestly. It's never the primary gameplay loop. It'll be in the game somewhere but limited access and never as good as it looks in the ad.

I just straight up don't recommend mobile gaming to people any more. There may be some good games out there but the majority are quite exploitative. Gambling but without the part where the company ever pays you any money. You just get a shiny hat or some bs.

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Becky Samuel
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What the heck is an "MTX"? I wish people wouldn't assume that we all understand their industry slang and acronyms.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) IT guy, I Google or reddit half my problems. Your computers I buy from a place you could buy them from also I just mark them up 35% or more. I could care less if you look at p**n at work until I'm told to care. We talk about end users like they have the intelligence of a rock and we judge you on your technical skills. More techs than you want to know about will search your personal device for nudes given then chance.

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

It is so common in lots of professional jobs to look up information. You are not expected to have all of the information in your head. Instead, you are expected to be able to use the tools at your disposal, your experience, and your knowledge to find solutions to problems. An IT person looking up information is the equivalent of a GP (family doctor) looking up the correct dosage for a certain type of medication for their patient. It's not a secret, it's how it works.

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“What’s The Dark Secret About Your Profession That The General Public Doesn’t Know?” (30 Answers) Pilot. I don't actually give a s**t if it's turbulent or you're uncomfortable back there. .

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Kristy Marion
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1 month ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow. I’ve been a flight attendant 17 years and have heard about pilots like this but luckily never come across them. At my airline, the safety of their passengers (and crew) are their #1 priority. They all admit the flight deck is a lot smoother ride than down the back, and if we have any concerns to call them immediately. Let alone the fact that a good pilot would be avoiding turbulence as much as possible in the first place. You only have a job as a commercial pilot thanks to the passengers you arrogant tw*t!

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