29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online

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Every workplace has gone through a questionable set of employees. Perhaps it's a case of "they are who they are," and they portray the same personality outside of their professional life, or maybe assets like power and money are to blame – who knows?

This netizen, however, took to Reddit and posed this question: "Which profession attracts the worst kinds of people?" The thread has garnered over 34K upvotes and almost 30K comments establishing what careers do, in fact, attract a greater number of jerks.

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Unpopular opinion but nurses. There is a lot, A LOT, of toxic abusive high-school girl drama type behavior among nurses.

It's such an important job and about half the people doing it shouldn't be responsible for a yogurt, let alone a human being's life.

I've seen some s**t, man.

nursingabuseproblem , MedicAlert UK Report

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Bored Panda was lucky to get through to the author of the thread, and we posed them a couple of questions.

First, we asked what inspired them to make the post: "I keep in touch with my college friends. Inevitably, some of our peers are brought up in conversation, and not all of them in a good way. Some of the latter were political science majors who seemed more concerned with basking in their proximity to power than anything else."

We then invited the author to answer their own question: "I don't have an objective answer to this. I can only speak to what tends to get into my head the most, personally. And the response above answers this question in not so many words. (I also disdain certain movie and TV directors who appeal to an audience's most shallow, nihilistic impulses for easy views, attention, and money.)"

Last but certainly not least, the OP added: "I'm an extremely flawed person. I'm judgmental, self-centered, and a touch petty. It's possible that had I the skill and drive, I would have done something in politics myself, because a part of me is attracted to power. The bottom line is that while I have opinions and a right to express them, I claim no absolute moral high ground. And I think that should be the same for everyone."

29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Politicians.

dragonfeet1 , Antonio Jamal Roberson Report

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and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago

Shocking. I’m shocked. This is my shocked face.

189points

Sleepy children love Moon 1 year ago

👁️👄👁️

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Shyla Bouche 1 year ago

I'm shocked at your shocked face.

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RafCo (he/him/ele) 1 year ago

I disagree with the assertion. In my experience there are three types of people who go into politics. 1) the idgaf ones who are in it purely for power and wealth. These are by far the minority, but the tend to do well because of the existence of type 2) the ones who got into it wanting to legitimately help people, but are able to justify corruption in order to clime the ranks, because if they have more power they can help more people. Slowly but surely, they sacrifice more of their principles to political expediency. Then there's 3) good people who want to do good things for their community. This is the majority of people in politics. They're the people on your school board getting death threats from their constituents because they voted to mandate masks. The problem is that in order to get into higher office, you have to sacrifice some part of yourself to the whims of general opinion and donors. So as you approach the higher echelons, the worse they get.

3points

and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago

I agree, actually, although I think the more powerful the position, the more likely they are to be in the first or second category.

2points

Maisey Myles 1 year ago

Yes, I can understand why the is Number One!!

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Impasta (she/they) 1 year ago

1point

Trinity Christie 1 year ago

🤯

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TalenaBr. 1 year ago

Your shocked face has me shook!

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Kris 1 year ago

😑

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David H 1 year ago

you mean a system where there is rampant opportunity for corruption and graft, where people kiss your behind to get government money for company or project, where you handle your own accountability and oversight, would attract the worst types of people? I am shocked, just shocked

13points

Bec 1 year ago

Seems that I have read that there are higher than average amounts of sociopaths in leadership positions like CEO and politicians. They know how to manipulate people to get ahead.

9points

PhattyMcgee (Fat/Phook) 1 year ago

Shocked Pikachu face

5points

Thor Haugen 1 year ago

I don't think it necessarily attracts the worst kind of people (although there are quite a few wastes of skin among the political class), but I think politics being a popularity contest rather than a referendum on competence and honesty is corrosive on the soul.

5points

XenoMurph 1 year ago

Very few countries manage to attract even halfway decent people. Should be chosen by random, you'd get a few people who are terrible, but that's a lot less than now.

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Sad Quokka 1 year ago (edited)

Really? Edit: this is sarcasm

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Vicente Carmi 1 year ago

You can also use '/s' :D

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bob cameron 1 year ago

A politician is someone who can tell you to go to hell in a way that you will look forward to the trip

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El Cucuy 1 year ago

a wretched hive of scum and villany.

4points

Kip Kip 1 year ago

There are other professions that attract equally worse people, but none cause as much damage to so many people.

3points

Joe Hurd 1 year ago

The most useless profession of all

2points

CC Boom 1 year ago

Shouldn't be a profession at all. They need caps on terms and the ability to be fired on sight if they don't do everything in their power to get their campaign promises fulfilled. Useless group of ancients who don't even represent us.

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DC 1 year ago

I have seen many political parties from the inside, three of them pretty close. Once you are even in question to gain any position of power - think local parliament, the highest you are to decide is wether a pedestrian bridge is built on this or that spot or such - you already have made so many promises, already have so many people who "brought you where you are" that there is not much of yourself left in you, and therefore, this requires not giving too many Effs. None at all, often. Independent candidates outdo this, but also don't have a network of people who are in charge of XYZ, that the party can provide, ... double sided, really sharp, knife, this is. Very few remain themselves AND have some sort of success, usually those who are really really good at speeches, can entertain an audience - these will always succeed, but once you have two of them, the one with the better network will succeed, likely, and that's the one carrying more obligations, ...

1point

Missi Boness 1 year ago

Who could ever believe that?! /s

1point

Sue Knerl 1 year ago

Case in point, Greene and Boubert.

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What was that? 1 year ago

Politicians are liars. Every one of them.

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Matthew Walton 1 year ago

How is this not #1?

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Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 1 year ago (edited)

How absolutely overwhelmingly surprising this would show up here. But then again, there are also awesome politicians, who truly works for the people, with the people. It’s a sensitive system that has to be strictly regulated, though. The more money a country allows for politicians to make by being politicians, the more corrupted bυllshit there will be, for instance - if that’s out of control, it’s not politics anymore. It’s just a game of who’s been the most bought. Democracy was never the easy option, unfortunately…

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Muzamil Digital 1 year ago

GREAT ARTICLE master

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Will Cable 1 year ago

People that make a different work in other sectors, people who work to see what they can get from the system and screw everyone else, they are called politicians

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Humansarethevirus 1 year ago

Yep the worst is the christians hypocrite's taliban now controls states

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Michelle C 1 year ago

Yup.

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Phyllis Turbin 1 year ago

Whaaaaa?

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Onion Patch Petunia 1 year ago

You too can become a Mitch McConnell and be hated by the entire world

-2points

censorshipsucks 1 year ago

not really, we think of him as an old turtle. Trump on the other hand is pretty much hated by the entire world except mad vlad.

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Muzamil Digital 1 year ago

Dear companies your competitors can easily match your salary but not your culture. provide the best culture to your employees to make them Stay. AGREE BOOKCHOR

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Law enforcement seems to have some problems

Nwcray , Kindel Media Report

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Paparazzi

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online I'm probably gonna get some hate for this... the military (The US Army to be precise). Probably 99% of the Soldiers are good, honest people. The nature of the job just simply attracts some sickos. The Army does what it can, but It takes a long time to kick someone out of the Army. Source: 6 years Active Duty

yetogev226 , Diego González Report

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online The executives that run MLMs.

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online “Reality” TV

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Academia.

Intelligent people in very niche areas, with no consideration for the real world and social interaction, whilst simultaneously being told they are the best in the world at certain specific subject areas (which is true, but just not as many people care as academics think they do). You end up with an unnecessarily toxic environment of people trying to intellectually one up each other and throw anyone off the ladder on their way up.

It's a cruel, nasty, petty, and poisonous environment.

nchez , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online My mum worked in a prison. She said that a lot of the men in there for sex offences against children had/were looking for jobs like driving ice cream vans, dressing as Santa at shopping centres etc as they liked kids sitting on their laps etc. Apparently it's way more common than people would think

loket87779 , Florencia Viadana Report

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Human resources

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Youth Pastor

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Hollywood producer it seems.

Over and over and over.

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Investment banking. Not all of them are terrible but to be successful its benefical to be a complete c**t

loket87779 , Andrea Piacquadio Report

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Stockbrokers. I have some friends who are stockbrokers. I love them, but man, they are some b******t artists. And not like, "Oh, they're a good salesman, and could sell you anything," No, it's like they make s**t up as they go along and try to sound confident in what they say.

LawnGuyLand94 , Chris Liverani Report

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Psychology. There are lots of great people in that field, but it also attracted the most manipulate and destructive a*****e I've ever known. He's a licensed therapist now, and I feel sorry for anyone who crosses his path.

DynamiteWitLaserBeam , Alex Green Report

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Police

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Sales, estate agents, recruiters

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Substance abuse mental health professionals seem to fall into one of the following categories: a) wonderful, angelic and highly competent souls who truly want to help drug addicts/alcoholics (they're maybe 20% of the counselors, optimistically); b) burnt-out incompetent/lazy/don't-care types (another 60%); or c) absolute personality-disordered, narcissistic/ Machiavellian sadistic types who really get off on the enormous power/control they have over the lives and fates of the people under their care (maybe another 20%). YMMV. The last group can do a LOT of damage.

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Bouncers. I swear those people are always looking to create trouble so they can exercise their right to kick a*s

hatredwithpassion , energepic.com Report

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29 Professions That Attract The Worst Kinds Of People, As Shared Online Line cook. A lot of them are great people, but every beyond horrible person I've met has always been a cook

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Khandnalie E 1 year ago

Surprised landlord didn't make the list.

16points

R Dennis 1 year ago

I dunno my buddy was a landlord, but he quit because people trashed his houses and many times didn't pay rent, staying through the whole eviction process. He was really good to the tenants too... but they took advantage of him.

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Sad Quokka 1 year ago (edited)

So, basically all jobs 😆

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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

No-one mentioned programmers :)

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Jarrod Ozereko 1 year ago

-Jobs that come with power over other people -Jobs that put potential predators in close unsupervised contact with their prey of choice -Jobs with structural incentives for dishonesty

7points

Cerridwn d'Wyse 1 year ago

It's all about the culture.not just at 1 organization but amongst the profession. People are taught one way when they become new to that job and think that that's how they have to treat the next generation coming up and so you end. Up with a vicious cycle that is very hard to break.

7points

Nobody 1 year ago

Stunned Lawyers weren't on the lit, or did BP legal team veto that?

5points

Paul Werner 1 year ago

can't believe nobody said priest or boy scout leader

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XenoMurph 1 year ago

or 1970s tv presenters

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alwaysMispelled 1 year ago

It's not jobs, it's just people. A LOT of people are f*****g psycho a******s. I hate people. I LIKE some individuals.

4points

Angela Schiller-Jones 1 year ago

Insurance sales people. They act uppity, entitled and have power trips. If you're and honest person, they will eat you alive and abuse you. They fired me unlawfully for pregnancy complications. Then they had the gall to try and collect premium payments from me. I threatened a lawsuit for wrongful termination after months of verbal abuse if they didn't drop the collection. They left me alone and I kept my word on not pursuing it further. I just wanted to be left alone and forget I ever worked for their internationally well-known supplemental insurance company. Honest to goodness: I just wanted to be left alone and forget the emotional trauma of being screamed at at the convention and Subway parking lots over my personal choices. Getting fired was the last straw about me giving a f**k. You leave me alone and you won't have a PR nightmare worse than the other one that happened 1 year prior to that. It's now been 11 years since then. And yes, everyone in the office was like that. -_-

4points

Angela Schiller-Jones 1 year ago

And no, for legal reasons of it possibly coming back up again, I won't say who the company was. But insurance sales people are THE WORST. Never again.

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DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago

Whoa, lawyer is not #1?!!

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R Dennis 1 year ago

Surprised IT Help desk, isn't on here. Some of the rudest, most condescending people I have ever had to deal with... I grew up building my own computers and troubleshooting networks, so I didn't take their c**p. But the way they talked down to other managers and co-workers was shocking. More than once, I had to take the phone and chew them out for their rudeness. Incredible god complexes with that group.

3points

OmBoyGanesh 1 year ago

Did I miss debt collectors? Particularly student loan companies.

2points

Maisey Myles 1 year ago

"Influencers" are not mentioned but should be tied with the number one spot

2points

Lola Rogers 1 year ago

People who sell untested, useless 'healing' products and services. Half are deluded, the other half are con artists.

2points

Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago

So, who is left? This list about wipes out a quarter of the human race.

2points

Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

Ob/Gyn's. At least in med school. The most unhappy, heirarchical, bossy, overworked, competitive people ever. And totally lacking in empathy. Maybe it gets better when they get out of med school.

2points

Pablo Aikin 1 year ago

I am afraid the Medical field was spared.

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Paul C. 1 year ago

Scaffolders as a general rule appear to be lunatics.

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Brett Hughes 1 year ago

Where’s the 🤬 lawyers??? They’re one of the few professions that are actually anti-productive. They actually lessen the value of anything that they are involved in and delay the activity in the process. OK, to be fair, not ALL lawyers - 99% give the others a bad name 😊

2points

Will Cable 1 year ago

Can those who marry for money then divorce, then marry again for money, divorce, then marry again etc etc be included? They seem to treat it as a profession.

2points

Maisey Myles 1 year ago

It's not the art of marrying well but the art of divorcing well

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

Telemarketing manager should be on there, too. I get there are people who get into this line of work either because it was a job quick to hire or they thought "customer service rep" really was about customer service. Many don't last long in the entry position of being on the phones. But those who got promoted to anything higher up proved they don't give a s**t about anyone, all about making money at any length, and are often hyper, cocky hot shots loaded on morning coke and taquitos, telling his team they can work at McDonalds and get acne if they don't produce more sales. (based on a true events.)

1point

Michele Dickson 1 year ago

We have to worry about the people who step on others to get to the top not those who worked hard to get there.

1point

Littlemiss 1 year ago

Preschool teachers..

1point

Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago

Have to agree about nurses, and it's both male and female, not just the women. I worked in healthcare a total of 40 years before retiring a few years ago, though alongside nurses, not as one of them. Mean! Hoo-whee, some of them are so mean, they could kill a tough boar hog with just one sharp-tongued word! They'll be super nice to the patients and fams, but absolute, utter witches with each other. And to the "lesser" staff? We weren't even considered to be human beings by quite a number of RN's, which is all most hospitals can hire now (and they usually have to have their BSN anymore just to be an RN in a hospital).

0points

Heze Alii 1 year ago

@zububonsai, my bad. Confused it with Khabarovsk.

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3 Trash Pandas in a Trenchcoat 1 year ago

School deans? Maybe it's just my school. I realized today how much of control freaks they really are when it comes to dress code, late passes, missing school for anything, and what we can and can't access on our computers, there's even a sign on every door leading outside stating that you'll get suspended if you open it for another student whose locked out. Arrived just after the bell rang? Too bad, you have to go to the office and wait 15 minutes in line for a tardy pass. It's ridiculous, the principal is super chill about almost everything, and most people actually really like him, but the deans are such strong enforcers of tiny rules that most of us hate them.

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Tom 1 year ago

The most dishonest and all around manipulative people, I ever delt with work in the insurance industry....after 5 years I was so burned out and mentally exhausted I left and went back to retail management.

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Bri 1 year ago

Influencer should've been on here

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Haywood Jablome 1 year ago

Nobody mentioned actors. Imagine someone who could talk about themselves for hours and still say nothing. Actors.

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Eledore Massis 1 year ago

Can't class it as a Proffession, but it you think about it, it actually is. Middle managment, all the do is manage other managers. It can be a shoe factory or a investment bank, they never manage assets or inventory only department and people. Yet they never direct there attention to where the company is going, only bicker about resources, margins and the bottom line. I fired a lot of them, as good ones are hard to find. But the worst is from above (C*O) you are not allowed to promote lower managers who might be good at the job, no we need outside expertise! F**k the career Middle-managers screwing up millions.

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Hmm I do not see system administrator here. Those guys are megalomaniacs. Google "bastard operator from hell" if you want a sample.

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René Sauer 1 year ago

Are there technical problems on BP currently? I can´t post comments under the pictures, only replying to other peoples comments.

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Erik Ivan 1 year ago

Accountants. I became a member of an Facebook group for us accountants in my country. I was there less then a week. It was the most poisonous social media group I have ever come across. Full of know-it-all that (because they were accountants) knew exactly how everything in the world works.

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Khandnalie E 1 year ago

Surprised landlord didn't make the list.

16points

R Dennis 1 year ago

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Sad Quokka 1 year ago (edited)

So, basically all jobs 😆

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Apatheist Account2 1 year ago

No-one mentioned programmers :)

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Jarrod Ozereko 1 year ago

-Jobs that come with power over other people -Jobs that put potential predators in close unsupervised contact with their prey of choice -Jobs with structural incentives for dishonesty

7points

Cerridwn d'Wyse 1 year ago

7points

Nobody 1 year ago

Stunned Lawyers weren't on the lit, or did BP legal team veto that?

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Paul Werner 1 year ago

can't believe nobody said priest or boy scout leader

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XenoMurph 1 year ago

or 1970s tv presenters

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alwaysMispelled 1 year ago

It's not jobs, it's just people. A LOT of people are f*****g psycho a******s. I hate people. I LIKE some individuals.

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Angela Schiller-Jones 1 year ago

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Angela Schiller-Jones 1 year ago

And no, for legal reasons of it possibly coming back up again, I won't say who the company was. But insurance sales people are THE WORST. Never again.

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DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago

Whoa, lawyer is not #1?!!

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R Dennis 1 year ago

3points

OmBoyGanesh 1 year ago

Did I miss debt collectors? Particularly student loan companies.

2points

Maisey Myles 1 year ago

"Influencers" are not mentioned but should be tied with the number one spot

2points

Lola Rogers 1 year ago

People who sell untested, useless 'healing' products and services. Half are deluded, the other half are con artists.

2points

Kevin J. Henning 1 year ago

So, who is left? This list about wipes out a quarter of the human race.

2points

Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

Ob/Gyn's. At least in med school. The most unhappy, heirarchical, bossy, overworked, competitive people ever. And totally lacking in empathy. Maybe it gets better when they get out of med school.

2points

Pablo Aikin 1 year ago

I am afraid the Medical field was spared.

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Paul C. 1 year ago

Scaffolders as a general rule appear to be lunatics.

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Brett Hughes 1 year ago

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Will Cable 1 year ago

Can those who marry for money then divorce, then marry again for money, divorce, then marry again etc etc be included? They seem to treat it as a profession.

2points

Maisey Myles 1 year ago

It's not the art of marrying well but the art of divorcing well

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StrangeOne 1 year ago

1point

Michele Dickson 1 year ago

We have to worry about the people who step on others to get to the top not those who worked hard to get there.

1point

Littlemiss 1 year ago

Preschool teachers..

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Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago

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Heze Alii 1 year ago

@zububonsai, my bad. Confused it with Khabarovsk.

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3 Trash Pandas in a Trenchcoat 1 year ago

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Tom 1 year ago

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Bri 1 year ago

Influencer should've been on here

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Haywood Jablome 1 year ago

Nobody mentioned actors. Imagine someone who could talk about themselves for hours and still say nothing. Actors.

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Eledore Massis 1 year ago

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

Hmm I do not see system administrator here. Those guys are megalomaniacs. Google "bastard operator from hell" if you want a sample.

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René Sauer 1 year ago

Are there technical problems on BP currently? I can´t post comments under the pictures, only replying to other peoples comments.

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Erik Ivan 1 year ago

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