Nurse: oftentimes we can't control death, only how we greet it, so for the love of God, do not refuse the comfort medication for your loved one. It's not going to [end] them, their disease is!! The comfort medication just help to ensure they have no pain or anxiety when they die. Let us help them so they don't die crying or trashing in bed, confused and scared out of their minds.

The hospice nurses loaded my dad the f**k up when he was dying and I'll forever be grateful for that.

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Veterinary medicine is not a happy-go-lucky career choice where you get to deal with cute animals rather than people. Most of your patients are sick and/or scared, and every case involves a fraught negotiation with their stressed-out human.

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Any medical profession would be full of stress I'd imagine

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School Custodian here and we are NOT overpaid cleaners. What would you pay someone that can paint, Sheetrock, tape/mud, patch concrete/asphalt, operate/repair commercial landscaping/snow removal equipment, operate/repair commercial custodial equipment, restore various types of floors including vct/hardwood/carpet/tile, replace toilets/faucets, air filters, belts, trim/fell trees, shovel roofs, etc? Not all of us are cleaners/janitors, which are vital and underpaid as well. Some of us are Jack/Jill of all trades and you want to pay us peanuts? All employees of a school are important and administrators shouldn't try to balance their budgets on the backs of workers when I've seen an exponential amount of administrative salary and stupid purchasing decisions, not to mention unfunded mandates from the state.

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I remember our custodian in elementary. Super chill old black guy with serious granddad/wise old man vibes. He was a very nice man.

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IT. Rebooting is NOT a waste of time and solves a remarkable number of problems.

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Anesthesiologist: you're not asleep you are anesthetized. When you're asleep and someone stabs you, you wake up.

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I really hope no one stabs me when I'm anesthetized!

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People in minimum wage retail and restaurant jobs are not all high school dropouts or losers who wish they had gotten better educations.

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Please treat these employees with respect and kindness!

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Former dog walker. Cesar Milán is full of s**t. Dominance training does NOT work for most dogs. It creates more aggression and fear. Positive reinforcement with gentle corrections is *so much better*.

Those alpha wolf studies? Total BS as well. Most wolf packs are family units. Your derp wolf/dog needs a dad, not an alpha douche.

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No one needs an alpha douche in their life.

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There is sooooo much more to the speech-language pathologist scope of practice than working with kids who stutter or can't say their "r"s. An entire half of the field is in the adult medical setting working with people who have dementia, swallowing disorders, oral cancer, strokes, Parkinson's disease, and voice disorders, plus some other niche areas like transgender voice or accent modification. The pediatric half of the field also works with AAC devices, social skills, literacy development, syntax, executive functioning, writing, feeding, and more.

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I learned that when my daughter had a stroke. Y'all need a serious rebranding marketing strategy. 😉

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Bartender here. No I am not hitting on you, I just want a good tip and maybe a nice review with my name so boss knows I'm working hard

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If that same boss paid you what you’re worth, I wouldn’t have to tip you

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Nursing is a profession, not a devotion, calling, whatever other b******t they tell you.

Yes, it’s an honor to care for people at their most vulnerable, but stop telling people they’ll be a terrible nurse if they say they became a nurse because of the job security or semi-decent wage.

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You are not selfish if you pick a job for the salary.

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Teachers have very little say in anything. We advocate the best we can but most of the time it’s out of our hands including holding children back who desperately need help.

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Teachers need to be treated better, with better pay.

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Ambulance Drivers, no such a thing.

There’s highly trained Paramedics that just happen to also drive ambulances. As well as dispense over 47 medications, IVs, cardioversion, defibrillation, cardiac pacing, 12-lead EKG monitoring, advanced airways, are able to perform dozens of medical procedures, etc.

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CPR too. They saved my life.

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I am a stay at home dad and former NICU nurse.

No, I do not sleep all day as a stay at home dad. No, I did not get to play with cute babies all day as a NICU nurse.

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I would imagine being a NICU nurse is very stressful. Like another panda said above, all medical professions have some degree of stress to them

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Politics here. Presidents do NOT control the economy!!!

They might be able to have some minor influence, but you are NOT experiencing inflation, a recession, or an economic boom because of a president.

Congress has more influence, but honestly economies are just complicated.

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And it takes a while to see the effect as well. You can’t become President and 2 months later claim the economy is booming because of you. Yes, I’m looking at you Orange Turd.

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Teachers are NOT indoctrinating your children to be gay.

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But Christians ARE indoctrinating their kids to be hateful, racist, misogynistic bigots

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If you go to the ER via ambulance, it does NOT mean you will be seen quicker.

ERs take the sickest people first, definitely not the ones who come in by ambulance first.

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And then there is the opposite situation of people who really need an ambulance but are too stubborn/proud to call one. I worked as a nurse in a hospital emergency department and saw this a few times. One time a man called us and said he was on his way to the hospital and that he was having a heart attack. We knew he arrived when we heard the loud crash as his car hit the concrete wall by the parking lot. But he did survive.

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Nail tech here. We are not uneducated or lacking intelligence. In order to do the job safely, we need a deep understanding of product chemistry, anatomy, and must able to recognize a ton of diseases and disorders that impact the hands and feet. In the US, we are also required to have continued education on these topics.

We also aren’t being greedy by charging higher prices. We not only have to purchase way more products for our services than other professions in the industry, but we also have some of the highest product costs. So no, we can’t afford to provide a LUXURY service with quality products, keep up with our educational requirements and also charge $20 for a full set or a pedicure. If you find a salon charging that low, run. They are absolutely cutting corners somewhere, and it’s anyone’s guess as to whether that cut comes from low quality products, safety, sanitation and disinfection, or labor law violations. For transparency sake, I am on the low end of pricing in my area and a full set starts at $60 and a pedicure starts at $45. At those prices, I’m barely making more than minimum wage after overhead.

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You should have been charging that 15-20 years ago.

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Commercial aircraft are built almost entirely by hand. Like 96%. There's very little automation in the process.

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If you mean built as in assembled, then yes. If you mean fabricated, then no.

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I am a public librarian. While curating books is still a portion of the job, much of it these days is taken up by database assistance and training, program development and teaching, and public education. It’s much closer to school teaching, but for adults and without grading homework, than it was in the past.

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I live in a small town, and our local library is absolutely wonderful. Checking out books is a small portion of what our librarian does. She applies for grants, stays current on different interests, and sets up programs for the community, anywhere from toddlers on up to senior citizens.Thank you to all the librarians.

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Therapist here- specifically couples therapist

Therapy is not just about venting or having someone agree with you all the time to make you feel better. Yes we validate and listen and venting happens at times. But we also challenge you, encourage you to set goals and make change, and sometimes give “homework.” Therapy is an active process and if you want to see change you have to be willing to make change. I think media has really warped peoples ideas and they expect miracles to happen by showing up without any effort. I wish I could do that for you! But I need you to partner with me to make things happen.

Also- very few therapists actually have you lay on a couch

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A therapist who only listens to you and tells you what you want to hear is not doing you any favors. it's just a paid friend at that point.

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Maintenance is worth doing and definitely worth paying for.

"I don't know why we pay those maintenance guys, nothing ever breaks around here."!!

The reason Germany and Japan (and South Korea) became and remain such manufacturing powerhouses is because they know the value of maintenence. If you keep everything in clean good working order, you end up with minimum down time. Working maintenance into manufacturing schedules keeps output level, because you have no unexpected downtime.

It's the same for your car or your home. Setting aside time and resources for maintenance means you won't lose unexpected time and resources when things break. Good maintenance will spot things before they break and switch them out. That's worth paying for.

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Yeah, well, germany has stopped doing that and guess what, our bridges are breaking down, railroads and interstates are constantly out of order...

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That all lawyers make absurd amounts of money. The ones that won't sell their entire life for big bucks tend to make pretty average money.

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Can confirm.

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OBGYN.

Childbirth *absolutely* can and does changes the caliber of the vagina. The entire field of urogynecology wouldn't exist if that weren't the case.

TwoXChromosomes and other women's empowerment places on the Internet love to say everything goes back to normal after delivery. It's not true and it doesn't make you an anti-feminist to acknowledge the realities of pushing a 10cm diameter, 9lb sack of potatoes out of the pelvis.

This messaging detrimental and causes patients with incontinence and prolapse not to seek help.

This is NOT to say that the "husband stitch" is a good thing...or even that it exists. I've literally never heard of it being performed outside of the Internet, and a partner has only asked me about it once in my entire career. (my response was: "Do you need it?")

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I've heard my own doctor/midwife/whatever her official title was, say "I threw in the "extra stitch" for you!" And winked at me. I had torn a bit, needed about two stitches, and to this day I still can't tell of she was being serious or sarcastic. It was almost 25 years ago and I was in post-childbirth haze, anxiety, raw nerves and scared as fûck.

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Fashion design is not glamorous. It has glamorous moments, but is mostly a catty corporate mindf**k and the 2nd biggest industrial polluter, I think. you might have a nice colleague here and there but in general people and management tend to be f*****g AWFUL. 4/10 stars, do not recommend.

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Can confirm. It’s more akin to app design with Phillip morris like ad campaigns.

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Forester.
I am not the one who actually cuts and hauls the trees, that's a LOGGER. If you have a problem tree you need removed from your yard or trimmed, you need an ARBORIST.
My job is to create and implement management plans, cruise timber for volume and defect, and mark trees for the logger, among other preparatory and managerial tasks.
Furthermore, my presence does not mean that a forest is being clear-cut (hardly ever). "Clear-cut" does not necessarily mean the complete removal of every tree in an area. Most importantly, the cutting and removal of trees is not automatically a bad thing; more often than not a forested area needs to be thinned to encourage growth/production, increase carbon sequestration efficiency, and reduce fire risk.

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I doubt this will be popular, but here goes… Not my profession anymore, but I sold diamonds (for engagement rings primarily) for a number of years, and have three separate certifications of expertise.

TLDR: diamond rarity is a more complex topic than people realize, and they are incredibly expensive to produce. Diamond companies have done s****y things in the past no doubt, but the stone itself gets a bad rap for no reason. Besides a sapphire or a ruby, if you put anything else in an engagement ring it will inevitably break regardless of how “pretty” you think it is.

The idea that diamonds are worthless, or should be much cheaper than they are, is incredibly misinformed. People talk about them being “common.” As in, there’s a lot of them mined out of the ground. That is true in a technical sense, but reflects a lack of understanding. 90% of diamonds that are mined are industrial grade and not suitable for jewelry. Of the remaining 10%, about 2/3 to 3/4 are of such low quality that you won’t ever see them being sold (color grade below K-M, clarity below I1). For people who don’t know what those grades mean, color has to do with the presence of nitrogen in the carbon chains that makes it look yellow and clarity is about imperfections in the crystal formation. The price of poor color and clarity jewelry quality stones will be accounted for later in this comment. Of the remainder, they get much rarer as they approach being “perfect” (D colorless, FL flawless color/clarity respectively). Size itself plays a huge factor, because while it’s true that numerically a lot of diamonds are mined, only about 1% are a carat or above in weight. I did the math on this once, and a flawless, colorless, 1 carat Diamond is a 1 in 10 billion stone. Really changes the understanding of what makes a diamond “rare.” Most diamonds also have some degree of fluorescence, which is as undesirable trait, so add in no fluorescence and it gets closer to 1 in a trillion.

However, all that aside, there’s elements of pricing strictly related to diamonds as a commodity. The cut quality of a diamond is absolutely crucial to how it looks and how it sparkles (no one wants a dull diamond). Cut quality is graded to microscopic specificity when it comes to angles and proportions (literally hundredths of a millimeter can effect the symmetry grading). As you probably already know if you read this far, diamonds are also the hardest substance on earth. Long story short, it takes an extremely skilled individual with extremely specific and expensive equipment to cut and polish a diamond and there are not that many of these people left, either. As you can imagine, they are paid very well, and that cost is incorporated into the stones.

There’s also the matter of sourcing the stones (before I get anything about bLoOd dIaMoNdS do some research, it’s not the 90s anymore. If you wanna talk about child labor in Africa, you better never consume chocolate, African coffee, or basically anything made over there at all). Anyway, back to the sourcing. Diamonds are mined out of kimberlite shafts, which go deep underground in the sides of volcanoes. They take about 10 years and a billion dollars to build. So there’s that. 90% of the stones mined are sold for industrial use in bulk for not a lot of money, so for it to even be economically sustainable, the money needs to come from somewhere just to cover costs of mining. Then cutting, not to mention the cost of transportation around the world in armored shipments.

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I don't care, they're stupid expensive and boring. Yes, they sparkle like crazy when cut right. So does glitter in resin.

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I was a Domino's manager for most of a decade. Nobody seems to know that we actually stretch and top the pizzas by hand. I used to make hundreds of pizzas a day, every day, just to have people think we reheat frozen pizzas. On top of that, we were required to be able to make a large pepperoni (from stretching the dough to sliding it into the oven) in under a minute. I was making pizzas at breakneck speed for people who thought I did nothing all day but reheat frozen food.

The bread sticks, cheesy bread, etc. were also made by hand. The pan pizzas were made by hand. Anyone who came in to the store could have watched me make their food and known how much work I actually put into it, but most people ordered for delivery or stepped outside after they ordered or just didn't pay attention.

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For my 30th birthday party, I decided that I would make homemade pizza for everyone. I was really into making homemade bread and beer at the time. It was kinda fun, and the pizza was delicious, but it was so much work that I didn't really get to enjoy my birthday. Everyone else had a good time, but I never had a chance to make the pizza I wanted because I ran out of dough. However I did get a slice from every other pizza. But I still don't recommend any one doing that. Between the cost for ingredients, and the time I spent cooking, It cost more than if I had just bought pizza from my favorite pizza joint instead.

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Performing in a touring band is hard a*s work and a myriad of things can lead to depression and burnout. Also, crew on tour (sound engineers/TM’s/merch people) are what keep your favorite musicians from imploding and having fights on stage. If you see one at a show, thank them too.

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Being a roadie is truly hard work, particularly on the really large productions. Include theater, dance, ice shows.

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I was a tandem skydiving instructor for a bunch of years. For some reason, people thought that I was an adrenaline junky and risk-taking, pass-on-a-blind-curve guy.

I just worked my way up to a pretty easy job that became mundane and boring 99% of the time. The only time it was adrenaline inducing was when something went wrong. It’s not the type of adrenaline high anyone would seek out.

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I wouldn't want it to be an adrenaline rush for the instructor every time. That makes it harder to stay in control to ensure things don't go wrong.

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Ejection seat mechanic. Goose would not have died in Top Gun. The canopy explosives can malfunction but moving at the speed that a Tomcat moves at would’ve ripped that canopy off and Goose would’ve escaped without perishing. Obviously done for dramatic effect.

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I always wondered 🤔 Thanks for clarifying.

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Being a full time artist is enjoyable or good fun. It isn’t, it’s like any job, you have to get up every day and work wether you like it or not. It’s hard work, because you need to turn it on and concentrate 8 hours a day, every day. Because you’re doing it day after day, year after year, you’re rarely impressed by your own work. It is rewarding though, but you have to work really hard to get that feeling.

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This is also why people under-value original artwork. People are constantly surprised at the cost of an original or commissioned piece because they just don't get the years of study that go into it plus the hours and hours it takes to create a single work. My husband occasionally does commissioned pieces, and he's really talented, but it's hard to come by work because people are constantly like "what, you can't do this for free/whatever measly price I suggested???" Well bro, did YOU spend 20+ years studying and perfecting your technique plus hours upon hours working on the piece? No? Then stfu and pay $20 for whatever mass produced c**p you want.

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Engineer here. We can’t fix everything. I’m mechanical, I know enough to stay away from electricity, not enough to fix most electrical problems.

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Engineer here as well. "Electrical engineering degree" does not mean "qualified electrician."

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Hospital lab workers DO exist! No really! The lab isn't just a black hole where tubes go in and results come out, but there's people inside making that happen!

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I'm an accountant. Whenever people jokingly talk about the good looking people in the office, it's always "Lisa from accounts".

As an accountant, I wish to point out that most of us look like a bulldog chewing a wasp.

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This one made me laugh out loud! 🤣🤣🤣

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Logistics is a vital component of our society.

Everything we touch, everything from the doorknob of your home to the oil in your car to the coffee shop to your desk to your commute to your bed has employed around 10 people.

More if it’s food related.

Logistics wins wars and ends them.

Take a banana -

From the planting, fertilizer, cultivation and harvesting involves about 8 different types of transportation, warehousing, storage, distribution and delivery.

On average 17 people will physically touch a banana before it’s eaten (and very few people wash the outside of a banana)

I’ve been in logistics for years, previously a break bulk specialist with my area of expertise being Russia.

It’s a very interesting career

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17 people touched my banana. And that's just to get it to the supermarket. There a hundred more touch it. 117. 117 people touch your banana

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I can write code. I cannot debug most of your windows problems without googling them.

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Postal workers aren't paid by your taxes, it comes from postage.

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Print industry - your paper isn’t as recycled as you think it is.

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That's for sure. Read the package for the actual "post consumer content", it's pretty bad.

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I'm a security guard. The myth that we don't actually have any power is false. We have the power to call the real police if there's real trouble. 😁

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Biomedical/bioinorganic chemist: no, there's not harmful levels of metals in your vaccine. HOWEVER, you absolutely should get your drinking water tested for lead, arsenic, mercury, and all the other nasty metals. Harmful levels of lead, for example, are common in cities and with well water...

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Of course there aren't harmful metals in your vaccines. The mind control 5G chip injected by Bill Gates is fully biodegradable!

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Board game inventors aren't usually multi-millionaires, nor are they all broke with a dream. Many of us just make some extra yearly cash that helps with the daily expenses.

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Social worker here. We do FAR more than just take kids away from their parents. Child protective services social workers make up such a small percentage of us social workers. We work in so many different fields. (i.e. geriatrics, medical/ hospitals, criminal justice, government, foster care, domestic violence, schools, hospice, prisons, the list goes on!)

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- Chardonnay isn’t “oakey” or buttery unless it’s overly manipulated

- Very few Rieslings are sweet

- Saying you want a Pinot Noir tells us nothing. Pinot Noir from Saint Aubin Burgundy France vs Otago New Zealand will be wildly different

- You don’t have an allergy to sulfites unless someone with the letters MD at the end of their name actually told you that you do

- Most red wines that are completely opaque are overly manipulated, and over extracted

- There is no alcohol in the world that won’t give you a hangover

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I most likely don't have allergy to sulfites or anything, bit drinking red wine (or something like cognac) gives me a horrendous migraine every damn time. Even if I'd drink only one or two glasses.

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Daylight savings time isn't for the farmers, please quit blaming us.

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https://www.history.com/news/why-do-we-have-daylight-saving-time

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Archaeologist. The myth that most of the stuff we find is financially valuable. I’ve had literally hundreds of people ask me to look at the tiny stone tool fragment or the s****y piece of pottery they found because they think they’re gonna pay off their mortgage. Buddy I have bags of 100,000 of those things sitting in the lab.

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Them's some big jugs.....

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Marine biologists do NOT get to play in the ocean for 90 percent of their careers. Tons and tons of desk work, data analysis, report writing, etc.

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And don't get me started on the smell of dead sea mammals...

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Emergency Services Dispatcher here: Just because your alarm system is going off, does not mean PD/FD/EMS will respond any faster. They are far more inclined to respond to a confirmed call in progress than they are to the alarm system that goes off every time a spider walks over a motion sensor.

Side note to that: Just because you have an actual emergency, doesn't mean emergency services will get there any faster. They can only respond so fast, depending on the geography of your jurisdiction and how busy it is that at any given time.

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When I was 17/18 I worked for an alarm company as a monitor. The spider - motion sensor type thing is real, lol. We had an installation in a school annex building that had the microphone (yes, audio as well) mounted much too close to the time clock so that damned thing tripped several dozen times a night. One of the guys heard a strange rustling in a bank after the cleaning crew left. It wasn't rhythmic but it was noticeable. He notified the police and the "first person" who met the police there. They searched that building high and low and after about 20 minutes they heard the noise, of a mouse that fell into a newly emptied trash can. But in the end, just like the OP said, the cops aren't burning any tires getting to a call generated by an alarm trigger if they are involved in another violent crime situation.

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Speaking as an unemployed disabled, most of us *want* to work, but society won't give us a chance.

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My field is all desk work. In 15 years of being a hiring manager, I have yet to have a person in a wheelchair apply, although they would have no restrictions at all. It's strange. Did have a deaf person interview but they said they required us to hire a translator simultaneously so we passed.

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Firefighters don’t all look like those calendars

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Especially volunteer firefighters (and all the praise in the world to those amazing people who do it for no pay!)

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Scientist (more specifically, molecular biologist in biotech).

I am not hiding the cure for cancer, and idk s**t about actual medicine.

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I'm appalled!

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Teachers do not get the summers off. We do not work only from 7-3:00. We have no decision making powers concerning curriculum, discipline, or testing. There is very little autonomy remaining for teachers.

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What does the op mean by they don’t get summers off? What do they do? I have heard a teacher use that as the reason he was a teacher.

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Train conductor here. We do a heck of a lot more and are responsible for a lot more than “just taking tickets”.

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Like what?

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Teacher here..Specifically Preschool/toddler..I DO NOT PLAY ALL DAY!!! I am engaging children, making moment by moment decisions and keeping children safe.

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Professors sit in cushy chairs all day thinking important thoughts, publishing stuff nobody will read, spending zero effort on teaching, and lighting cigars with wads of grant money.

The reality is we're all frantically trying to keep dozens of plates spinning at once, desperately begging for the money needed to pay for basic supplies from granting agencies with a

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With b? With c? What?

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Not all mental health workers have mental health problems.

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I'm pretty sure a few of my therapists did. One was an absolute narcissist.

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I was an Amazon Delivery Driver, we aren’t lazy because we didn’t specifically follow the instructions you wrote. We have up to 500 packages per day and no extra time to read your message, your backyard looked sketchy, and the app never deleted old instructions so 1/2 the time it’s outdated info.

And honestly Amazon is world famous as the company that delivers things to your porch, you should expect the package to go on your porch.

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After the very first one was delivered to the vacant place across the street subsequent drivers have been gems.

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The infrastructure, services, applications, and database platforms of even the largest global companies are all held together by hopes and dreams.

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In many cases it's text files and excel held together by hopes and dreams.

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System admin for a major company. It's NEVER as easy to make a change as you think.

"It's just text. How hard can it be to change??!!"

Changing that specific text requires changing 5 training files, multiple Sharepoint pages, 10 other places in the application, and on top of all of that, a code change, which costs time and money. We also have to ensure that the display doesn't break if the new text is a different length, on 3 browsers, and mobile devices. Then, there is translating it to the 20+ languages that we support.

Just so a single executive director can see it say "Personal Time Off Request", instead of "Vacation Request", because that's what he prefers to call it.

Now, that's just for a single line of text. We get change requests every single day for things that not only change the entire fundamental reason for the system, but would require policy changes impacting 20,000+ employees.

Then we get often-escalating hate mail for a month after we let them know that the request was denied, and why.

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It can be done, it just takes work. If you create or buy a system that's not designed with maintenance as one of the key factors you're already messing up

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Massage is not sexy, professionally. If you want a sexy massage...idk, do it with a partner or a sex worker, not your physio.

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Cyber security is tedious. If you are doing pentesting, 60% of your time is spend on deliverables (aka reports). That's what you are paid for and that's what decides if customer will contact you again. Outside of assignments? Learning. Learning. Oh and learning some more.

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That people in the funeral industry really do care about the families and communities they serve and we’re not out to just gouge your wallet at one of your most vulnerable times. Yes, there are certain entities and people that ruin the reputation for everyone else, but that the majority of people in the industry are in it for the right reasons.

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I was sat in the pub with the son of a local undertaker amongst others, and his pager (yes it does date this anecdote) went off. He sighed, put down his drink, said "Time to go and scrape someone off the road" and left. Made me think, poor sod going out on a wet winter Friday night to do that job, losing all your social time. That's stuck with me for a long time.

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Most pathologists don’t do autopsies, except for medical examiners and those in forensics

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I lost my job as a pathologists after one of my reports read "Cause of death: autopsy".

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Working from home does mean I have any free time to do what I want. No, I cannot talk to you to hear the latest gossip. No, I can't go meet you for lunch. No, I do not go to sleep in the middle of the day. In fact I barely get a chance to go to the toilet. It is not easier working from home.

While this is not profession-specific, it is a work-condition that needs debunking.

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I work from home and I have shifts I need to be around for so yeah, I AM at home but please don't drop in on me I am working.

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Airport workers don't make lots of money. Anytime I say that's what I did, people look at me like I was wealthy. Perhaps projecting on me the same way aerospace marketing is concerned. "Put aerospace on the name and mark the product up 50%".

Most people looking to work at airports aren't aware of the monopolies that Delta has. Work for any other airline or worse yet, a sub contractor (fueling, de-icing, baggage, and so on, you've got the s**t end of the stick) You're not making much. They even have the funny practice of falsely advertising benefits that aren't real. Namely flight benefits. I've seen companies lure people because of such false claims.

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