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“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations I scrolled a long time and didn’t find it:

Fast food workers

They’re the butt of every demeaning comment about a lack of achievement or the reason why minimum wage shouldn’t be raised blah blah blah

But those people get real quiet once they’re ordering their Big Mac

TheHomieData , Kampus Production Report

Final score:

217points

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Gabriela Cink 1 year ago

What?? Why is this first?? Anybody working in services, where have to deal with people is a saint. Everybody should try this once in life and will never judge these people anymore... world will be nicer.

69points

breathlesstuna , LightFieldStudios Report

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Paramedics for sure. Doctors and nurses spit on us and treat us like we have no qualifications. the media calls us ambulance drivers or ambulance workers.

And whenever there are reports of the Healthcare crisis, you rarely hear about medics getting ground into dust due to call volume, its always about nurses and doctors.

TV shows only ever show medics being told what to do by cops, or just plopping a patient on a stretcher then disappearing.

The general public votes for policies that make us get paid like s**t.

Yet, when their family is dying at home or in a ditch, people beg us to help and cheer for us.

Final score:

207points

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Lance LaRocque 1 year ago

At one point they were just ambulance drivers. Paramedics have had medical training for decades now maybe over a century. People and media need to get with the times.

78points

One of the first options that many people thought of are lawyers. From ambulance chasers to sleazy defense attorneys, there are so many examples of legal professionals who bend rules or generally are bad-mannered. But, as the question states, there are times when you really really need a legal professional. Lawyers can help you avoid a predatory contract or help you obtain damages when a neighbor floods your apartment.

Lawyers' poor reputation is actually a time-honored tradition at this point. Shakespeare alludes to it in Henry VI, Part 2 (act 4, scene 2, line 73, if you are particularly curious). When a group of pretenders to the throne are discussing how to improve the nation, one offers a simple idea: “The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.” This is presented as a reasonable idea. If a line like that can get a laugh almost 500 years later, that shows something.

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations I've been scrolling forever and haven't seen this yet:

Scientific research.

During downtime, we routinely get made fun of for doing "pointless" things like dropping balls down a waterfall or making people listen to sounds. Our staffing is small and we're chronically underfunded, which only gets made worse when some guy in a basement thinks he knows more about climate change than someone with a PhD and politicians claim vaccines cause autism.

But then a catastrophe happens and suddenly everyone looks to us to churn out answers at 300% speed.

eekspiders , ckstockphoto Report

Final score:

184points

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Stardust she/her 1 year ago

My mother is making fun of me for “believing the lying scientists”. I just want to chuck a chair at her sometimes

109points

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations All the trades guys. “They’re so expensive!!!”

Until that plumber shows up at 2am to prevent the sewage backup. Or the electrician that fixes an overloaded breaker panel, preventing a fire. Or the carpenter who builds the room for your toddler so you can get some sleep and *maybe* some sexy time.

Definitely tradesmen.

Wolfie1531 , polga2 Report

Final score:

176points

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Missy Missy 1 year ago

Tradies have to pay for their education, then their tools, job insurance, tool insurance and transport insurance and still actually charge reasonable rates. Those who don't understand this are being ignorant.

79points

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Teachers

Aquorral , drazenphoto Report

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171points

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Tamra 1 year ago

Teachers are going through some c**p in the US right now, and my heart goes out to them.

60points

Historically, lawyers have been a tool of the powerful to keep and legitimize their power. A regular person’s interaction with one would normally be costly and unpleasant. 19th-century American short story writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce defined litigation as "a machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.” This was also intended as a joke, though no doubt many people at the time lost their livelihoods and freedom to lawyers working in the interest of industrialists and other powerful groups.

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Therapists. I'm a licensed therapist. Even in this comment thread someone called therapists "glorified life coaches" which couldn't be further from the truth. We are significantly more qualified. Everyone wants to s**t on therapists until someone gets hurt or hurts themselves and suddenly "Mental health matters! They should've had a therapist!"

oaksmokedtruffle , Rawpixel Report

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156points

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Stardust she/her 1 year ago

A psychologist at my school said that I needed therapy just a couple of days ago yet my parents insist that therapists will give the exact same advice they’re giving me right now for extra money

49points

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Truck drivers. Everyone is either scared or annoyed at us, but good luck buying anything without truckers.

ExcellentPlay9684 , Mint_Images Report

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155points

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Eric G 1 year ago

As long as you're not the truck driver trying to pass another truck driver going a tenth of a mile faster than them on an uphill on a two-lane Highway, you're cool.

79points

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations When I was a janitor I got a lot of hate for knocking out my 8 hour day in 4 individual hour long chunks of effort.

I Was always available for spills and got extra work done every day but spent another 4 hours basically chilling and management not once got on my case.

The other employees despised this until a customer's colostomy bag somehow ruptured in the bathroom. From that day forward none of them gave a f**k if I was just hanging out on my phone.

Electronic_Warning49 , svitlanah Report

Final score:

149points

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SeaLouse 1 year ago

I was a janitor for 15 years. One needs a strong stomach and a sense of humor to handle this job, even then it's not enough sometimes. People are disgusting, especially germophobes who would rather shít all over the floor than sit down properly on a toilet seat.

75points

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Another common option where those salespeople who contact you at the strangest time to suggest you update your car's extended warranty. While this doesn’t sound so bad, the main reason most people hate them is the fact that it’s generally just a scam. These scammers want to get some data about you, like your social security number, credit card information, driver’s license number, or bank account information. This can then be used to defraud you in the future.

#10

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Essential services during COVID, bunch of derps calling us heroes now back to s******g on us

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135points

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God Chasers Something pursued 1 year ago

Thank you to those who kept working at the pharmacies and the grocery stores and gas stations and all those other places that we had to have

52points

raym0ndv2 , United States Coast Guard Report

#11

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations The US Coast Guard for fishermen and boaters. Usually there's a pretty good working relationship between them, but some hate the Coast Guard for the various inspections they do. But the USCG is also the ones who will come out there in a storm to rescue them.

Final score:

125points

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Kookamunga 1 year ago

I have not an ounce of hatred for someone who will come and get me when I'm stuck in the middle of the OCEAN. I don't need Wilson the soccer ball, I need the Coast Guard.

59points

#12

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Plastic Surgeons. My uncle is a plastic surgeon and he does only reconstructive stuff, fixing burn victims faces and stuff like that. But when people ask him what kind of doctor he is and he says Plastic Surgeon, they usually kinda scoff.

darkysix , GeorgeRudy Report

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121points

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Lolly Gagger 1 year ago

People confuse plastic surgeons with cosmetic surgeons

103points

Bisjoux , Sony Pictures Television Report

While scammers are truly detestable, sometimes your car’s warranty or insurance really has ended. And since most people don’t keep their car insurance or warranty expiration dates marked on a calendar, someone needs to remind them. But let’s face it dear pandas, even if you didn’t know that many of these callers were scammers, most of us deeply dislike cold calls from strangers.

#13

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Lawyer here. The expectation that because you are a lawyer you know everything about every law everywhere. In reality most lawyers are highly specialised.

Final score:

118points

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Eric G 1 year ago (edited)

Former lawyer here. Don't be a lawyer unless your parents own a firm. It is a miserable freaking job. Most likely you will end up in insurance defense working long a*s hours for not enough pay. Seriously, minimum billing is equal to 8.6 hours per day without vacation and only taking holidays off. Add a vacation, and it goes up. Take a vacation, you have to make up those hours. So you end up working harder the month before and after. And best of all, you go into massive student debt to be able to do this. I now work as an insurance adjuster and make more money, normal hours and way less stress.

42points

#14

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Child protection caseworker. People generally hate us and vilify us but man when you need us you need us. Most people genuinely do not understand the work that we do (I work in Australia) and I have been chased out of houses with knives, punched, had abuse hurled at us, had my kids threatened the whole shebang but we never stop trying to keep kids safe.

Aliburns79 , varyapigu Report

Final score:

106points

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DippityDooDerp 1 year ago

There's way too many cases of CPS having multiple reports of and not removing the child, resulting in death the majority of the time. Not to mention the countless children that have died in CPS custody (United States, not entirely sure about other countries) Over 200 kids died in Texas while in CPS custody from 2020-2022. That's more than 200 kids in one state.

50points

birdwomanofalcatraz4 , ckstockphoto Report

#15

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Disease Intervention Specialist!!! By state law, when you test positive or are exposed to a certain infection (in my work’s case, STDs), the state health department is required to reach out to you to follow up and make sure you have access to treatment, resources, answer questions, etc. DAILY I am cursed out (as if I’m the one who gave them Syphilis…), hung up on, told to never call them again…….until they realize they have no idea where to get treatment. Then they come crawling back, being as polite as ever, because they finally realized we’re literally just trying to help them get through a potentially scary/confusing situation.

Final score:

102points

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God Chasers Something pursued 1 year ago

Our society is not very good at respecting professionals

41points

#16

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Nurses. A lot of people think they don’t deserve pay raises or think we’re not overworked, or that not much education is required but they don’t realize a 12 hour shift is 13 hours with patient handoff, most hospitals require a bachelors rather than associate’s, and a lot of hospitals stick a nurse with 6 patients which is extremely demanding and also dangerous for the patients and can result in a nurse losing their license if something goes wrong. Nursing is 100% either manual labor+ critical thinking or tedious charting, there is 0 downtime for 13 hours straight.

If nurses didn’t advocate for their patients, nobody would. Doctors treat the illness, not the patient. I’m not trying to downplay the importance of doctors or anything but if they actually had to take care of the patients they treat, the patients would be dead. Nurses are specialized in reacting to the needs of a patient and identifying underlying causes quickly.

EDIT: People are interpreting this wrong. I'm not saying other healthcare professionals don't care about their patients or protect them, but doctors see 20+ patients a day in a hospital setting and spend around less than 5 minutes around each patient in most cases. (Yes they are taking care of their patients all day long but its by orders, virology, etc. They are barely with the patient at all unless something arises). My point is that nurses do nearly all of the direct medical care and CNAs do a lot of the daily living tasks. This isn't the doctor's fault its just a symptom of our broken healthcare system. If the doctor is not in the room with the patient for 23.9 hours out of the day, how are they going to do anything for their patient without a nurse first inquiring on the patient's behalf?

pingasthrowaway , halfpoint Report

Final score:

86points

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ISeeWendiGo 1 year ago

Retired nurse here, I agree with much of this comment but I would like to elaborate on CNAs. Yes, they do the ADLs but they are so much more than that. They are the ones that notice first 99% of the time if something is wrong with a patient. They notice first if their skin is breaking down because they're washing them. They notice first if there's a problem with eating/swallowing because they're feeding the patient or collecting the meal trays. They notice if a patient is constipated, having problems urinating, if they have a fever. CNAs are the backbone of any medical facility and they are highly valuable and underappreciated. A nurse can only be as good as their CNAs and I worked with some of the best! Hats off to you, I couldn't have done my job without you!!!👍👏❤️👍👏❤️👍👏❤️

62points

#17

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations IT, not the clown.

Nebula_Forte , RossHelen Report

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85points

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago

Everything runs well: "What do we pay you for again?" - Things don't run well: "What do we pay you for again?"

64points

#18

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Dentists for sure

Ohboohoolittlegirl , Pressmaster Report

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85points

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Tunk 1 year ago

Dentists and vets. High suicide rates.

1point

#19

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Lawyers and mechanics. You want to have a good one of each, but you never want to have to call either of them.

OneFingerIn , wutzkoh Report

Final score:

73points

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Marina 1 year ago

Great point

14points

#20

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Lineman. Been called a lazy overpaid drug addict by old men I don't even know. God forbid we go grab lunch or a coffee.

MaesterKyle , puhimec Report

Final score:

72points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

what is a lineman?

14points

#21

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Police

FlyTerrible , LightFieldStudios Report

Final score:

69points

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Potato Panda 1 year ago

Well, depends on the individual officers...

78points

#22

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Thanatologist, embalmers...any funeral workers really.

Nanyangosaurus , dolgachov Report

Final score:

69points

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BewilderedBanana 1 year ago

thanks for teaching me a new word. I thought a Thanatologist was someone who preaches Thanos' gospel :D

40points

#23

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations People are very quick to look down on people who work retail or in the food industry, people openly disrespect sanitary workers and even USPS and DMV workers but our society couldn't function without any of them.

Honestly though USPS and DMV workers are almost always rude and because the U.S loves to make simple things complicated all the stupid rules at both the places are almost physically painful and If I had to deal with it for 40hrs a week I would probably be rude too.

Dudebrohoe , astrakanimages Report

Final score:

68points

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Lew k 1 year ago

This. You all are my heroes. Can’t believe the c**p you have to put up with for so little pay! Everyone just says try harder and get a better job. If no one worked front line our society would crumble. All people who work should be respected and paid enough to live on.

24points

jim_the-gun-guy , YuriArcursPeopleimages Report

#24

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Traffic control. They make you late to work but they are there to protect construction workers.

Final score:

67points

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Chloe Runyan 1 year ago

I wish i could upvote this more!!!

18points

#25

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Safety manager.
Everyone thinks they’re sissies that needlessly spend money and complicate things… until someone gets hurt or the company gets cited, then suddenly everyone wants to know what can and should be done to remedy the situation.

Spooky-SpaceKook , Media_photos Report

Final score:

58points

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Kerri 1 year ago

I was looking for this one as it's part of my job (along with QA). It's like banging your head off a brick wall every day until someone bangs their head off a brick wall and they come running to you.

17points

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#26

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Tow truck drivers

diasaurus1 , Anyra22 Report

Final score:

53points

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Freya the Wanderer 1 year ago

You hate 'em when they drag away your car for being parked in the wrong place - but appreciate 'em when your car conks out!

14points

#27

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Criminal defense attorneys

AdmiralBofa , Freedomtumz Report

Final score:

41points

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Best Behave 1 year ago

In the uk, criminal defence barristers are allotted cases on a taxi rank basis - the take the next case, and don’t pick and choose. It is an absolutely necessary part of law that everyone gets a solid defence- if they don’t, how can you be sure that the right person has been convicted? Those people who you demonise for defending horrific cases may some day be defending you. It’s not only guilty people who are prosecuted - Birmingham six, Guildford four, Colin Stagg (thankfully acquitted) Derek Bentley, and countless others maliciously prosecuted by the police and CPS. Defence barristers are your last hope if you are unlucky enough to find yourself in that position.

20points

#28

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Locksmiths, or people in general who know how to pick locks or how they work.

DuckJuice128 , photovs Report

Final score:

41points

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Marcellus II 1 year ago

What?! This is nonsense. I've never ever heard anybody talk down to locksmiths, or use it as an insult/threat to someone that's not 'making it' in life, nor even heard bring up locksmiths outside of some issue with a lock. And lockpicking is a hobby with a growing group of people (see also LPL, the LockPickingLawyer, on YT).

23points

#29

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations UX designer here. Every engineer thinks they know how to make an interface, yet the software or site they create is terrible and they would rather accuse users of being dumb than admit their baby stinks.

el_supreme_duderino , RossHelen Report

Final score:

37points

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BewilderedBanana 1 year ago

Same here. You can always tell when a system was built by an engineer coz everything works (most of the time) but it's almost impossible for anyone else to use it. It's fine if it's just other engineers using the software coz they'll figure it out. It's so great when you finally get to work with someone who appreciates the value of a system that works as intended but is also very easy to use, even for someone with limited tech knowledge

11points

#30

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations The guys *actually* trying to contact you about your cars extended warranty

PartTimePOG , wutzkoh Report

Final score:

19points

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Justin Thyme 1 year ago

If I need it, I can find one without having some putz blow up my phone.

31points

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#31

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations HR

Basic-Green-8112 , titovailona Report

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10points

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Samuel Pelatan 1 year ago

You mean bosses snitches?

8points

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#32

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Insurance or tax people

BookofMidnight10 , AZ-BLT Report

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9points

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BewilderedBanana 1 year ago

This is a tricky one coz with insurance people, sometimes you hate them even more when you need them if they keep trying to weasel their way out of paying up :)

3points

#33

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Proctologist

GaragePure8431 , romankosolapov Report

Final score:

8points

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GayPenguin 1 year ago

What are those?

1point

#34

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Journalism feels more and more like this.

LysWritesNow , AmparoGV Report

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8points

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TotallyNOTaFox 1 year ago (edited)

Depends on the kind of journalism, entertainment journalist are basically just PR employees for studios nowadays or activists trying to get attention, at least the US outlets look like that

7points

#35

Veterinary professionals.

DepressionFilled Report

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8points

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Oki 1 year ago

Who doesn't like vets?? What the hell is wrong with them? All the intense training of MDs with none of the glory?

3points

#36

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations accounting.

tadashi4 , Rawpixel Report

Final score:

7points

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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago

If you mean bean counters stifling innovation and manufacturing quality, as well as employee pay, because "stockholder value", there is something to that.

1point

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#37

"Lawyer" is going to be the most common answer to this question by *far.* But I suppose any licensed service provider could fall into this category, given the right context.

Plumbers are another good example. Everyone thinks they're scum and crooks until the washing machine breaks down. Electricians, contractors, locksmiths, etc. They all fit this mold. Unless you work with them daily, you're not going to be seeing them very often. And you're only seeing them when there's a problem -- so you're primed to be upset by the time they even show up. Psychologically, you associate the plumbing issue with the plumber, when ironically, the plumber is there to fix it. Everyone wants to shoot the messenger.

IT people and network security professionals are another classic example of this effect.

MissBitsy Report

Final score:

7points

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#38

Contractors.

Diesel07012012 Report

Final score:

7points

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Unpopular opinions 1 year ago

Go live in the woods & then see how much you like contractors.

0points

Few_Psychology_2122 , Image-Source Report

#39

Maintenance

Ih8pelican Report

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7points

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Unpopular opinions 1 year ago

Maintenance workers keep the wheels turning.

0points

#40

“Everybody Hates Me Until They Need Me”: 30 Professions That Are Underestimated Until People Need Them In Emergency Situations Realtors. Everyone hates them until they dig up some serious dirt on a property and help you dodge a bullet. The caveat is the barrier to entry to become a realtor is way too low. Bad realtors are on every corner and can cost you big, but a good realtor is worth their weight in gold.

Final score:

6points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

realtors NEVER show you what is really wrong with the place and they're generally cagey about why the person is selling. Usually it's (a) the owner is bankrupt and let the place go to s**t, or (b) the neighbours are nightmarish. Every time I've bought a place older than about 5 years it's been one of those issues.

6points

#41

Psychiatrists

portia0018 Report

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6points

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Lyone Fein 1 year ago

Most other MDs look down on them.

0points

#42

Me. A tax adviser 😂

Ela_De_Salisbury Report

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5points

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#43

Influencers. They annoy me until I need a product review before purchasing something expensive.

illonamoon Report

Final score:

-20points

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Lance LaRocque 1 year ago

An influencer is the last place I would look for a review. I would just assume anything they post is paid advertising.

45points

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

I want to add "farmers". People dont realise how difficult it is to manage a few hundred hectares of plants in random weather conditions and actually yield a good crop. It's not trivial at all. And without them we are dead.

21points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

As a farm kid, I thank you. One bad day can ruin a season of hard work.

10points

Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 1 year ago

Agreed. It’s deplorable. About 2% of the population in this country (Sweden) are farmers, the most important task in society, and as a rule they’re perpetually in debt because the only way to make a living at all is having industrial size production, which demands industrial size machines. But do we give them, the FOOD PRODUCERS, these machines, free of charge? Why, no. No, we don’t. Do we pay fair prices for food? Barely, at best. Do we support them, with tax money - which I and everyone else pay for society to work - in case of drought or other force majeure? No. No, we don’t. It’s driving me up the goddamned wall, because farmers aren’t just an important part of a functioning society, they ARE the functioning society; without them the society is by definition not a working one. They MAKE the goddamned FOOD. There’s some re-prioritizing that’s going to need to be done before long, that’s all I’m saying.

5points

Greenmantle 1 year ago

As an Australian, farmers here do it very tough, year after year it seems more likely that they have have hardship instead of gains.

2points

Lonely Tentacle 1 year ago

Who hates farmers, though?

0points

Marcos Valencia 1 year ago

I am a translator. Private customers only hate me when I tell them how much I charge. People think that you will translate their 80,000 words romance for USD 2-300 (I can do it for 5,000-6,000, instead). That's why I usually don't deal with privates.

10points

Loki's_Lil_Butterknife 1 year ago (edited)

Marcos, I work in the linguistic field and used to be a translator as well. The linguistics field is so severely underpaid despite the amount of education and skill it takes to become a specialized translator (I did government and literature--weird combo I know). Many professional translators have a specialized domain that they work within like pharmaceutical text and spend years upon years of study honing their specialization. A lot of my clients are medical and governmental and the amount they want to pay our linguists for translation and interpretation is laughable at times. It is always "how fast can you get this". Whelp, you can either pay me pennies and get it done by Goolgle Translate or have it done by a skilled translator. We help people communicate is some of the most dire situations yet we are still paid peanuts.

5points

albernistuff 4sale 1 year ago

My approach is that we over-value too many USELESS occupations and they are admired and financially rewarded for activities that provide ZERO societal benefit - Actors, musicians, star athletes, CEO's of mega-corps, a majority of politicians, etc. THOSE are the folks we need to take down a few notches.

5points

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

Very few actors and musicians make enough money to live on. I think you are referring to those with celebrity status? But most actors are making tv commercials, or working at local theaters, etc. Most musicians are playing at bars in 2 or 3 states around where they live.

0points

Tinu 1 year ago

So basically every job?

5points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Medical doctors. God gets all the credit for the saves, we get all the blame for the losses. "How didn't you...." Well, why didn't the deity? I've heard "thank you, doctor" maybe a dozen times in nearly 25 years. And we accept that we're there in the worst situations as a rule. But don't hate us b/c we can't magically fix mortality. We die, too, y'know.

4points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Whoever downvoted, please go work a Covid ward where people weren't brought in till they were spitting out bloody sputum, and their Trumpista family are screaming at you for "killing them" with a "hoax".... When granny could've lived if they'd prayed less and gotten her butt to a doctor more.

6points

Mani Lacao 1 year ago (edited)

:( The very well-off family of a patient who died at the age of 96 tried to prosecute my dad (ER doctor) for the loss. Nothing from nurses and doctors was done outside of regular procedures yet they tried to put the blame on his service. Hopefully the public hospital backed my dad and charges were later dismissed, but I remember my dad being extremely stressed out by the whole ordeal (which lasted for a year or so.)

2points

Greenmantle 1 year ago

Totally agree Leo. As an RN people think all we do is clean up s**t and p**s, without any regard to the level of education we have. Same with doctors- people are so quick to call you a quack despite many years of study and so, so many long hours of work. The interns at my hospital are lucky to get off shift after 14 hours...

0points

Valdemar 1 year ago

Let me add corrections system employees whether security or non security employees. You expect us to keep the criminals behind razor wire so you can " be safe " but you complain about raising taxes to pay us a living wage. You know why drugs and other contraband are getting inside by staff members? It's because that officer or office specialist isn't able to pay $1,500 rent and pay bills and eat on a $29K a year salary but they can when they get $1K to bring in fent.

2points

GadgetGirl 1 year ago

Forgot soldiers.

2points

Dazzled masochistic Lamb 1 year ago

I'm a correctional worker and let me tell you something. You don't know how much we actually DO. The justice system throws people away with zero thought of how they'd react the to the correctional system. We go through literal hell and we're seen as the lowest of the law enforcement pool. You book them and we deal with them for either our life or theirs!

2points

Lee Henderson 1 year ago

Pest Control Techs. I used to be one and a big part of my job was calming down excited women and assuring them the problem is/would be resolved. One case: A woman was pulling down Xmas decorations and a dead rat fell out. I pulled down all of her decorations to make sure that was the only one. Treating fleas, cockroaches, carpenter ants and solving the problem. One day I was at a customer's house and her kid was trying to describe a bug. I asked if she had one and she pointed to a grey smudge on the wall...

2points

Jonathan Nichols 1 year ago

It's almost as if the world is a big complicated place and glorifying college/office work as the salvation for generations of kids was an awful idea...

2points

KC T. 1 year ago

Everyone hates us in InfoSec until they need us. IT never wants to patch what we ask them to, C-levels blame us because other departments don't follow our advice, and other departments see us as a hindrance...I can go on. Even though I can tell them how risky something is and they don't want to remediate it, they always come rushing to me to fix it after what I told them would happen happens. :/

2points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Upvoted b/c someone downvoted you. It's true. My relatives in info security are always groaned about until...., it's too late.

1point

Pattie Cox 1 year ago

Military members and their families. Especially the privileged who would be “horrified” if their children join the military - like it’s only for the lower class to protect our freedom. As a Mom who is one of those privileged few, my friends belittled my son when he joined the Marine Corps. “I can’t believe he’s doing THAT instead of going to college.” So, after 8 years of service, 5 more years and three degrees from an Ivy League College later - SHUT UP! Or speak up - his three tours in the Middle East protects your right to do that. (I might add - all books and tuition paid for along with a living allowance.)

1point

Julie Snelling 1 year ago

I don't hate anyone doing any job. We are all just doing the same thing working a job to pay the bills and put food on the table doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

1point

Mia Black 1 year ago

I don't know...I really don't hate any of the jobs because they all are important in some way and I really cannot understand why people are so stupid to hate people with jobs who for example can be live saving like paramedics....I can't wrap my head around the fact that in the last years people behave more and more aggressive towards ambulances, firefighters and police on scenes, of they are actively helping

1point

Marc C 1 year ago

Data Center Backup and Disaster Recovery specialist. What I do isn't cheap, can have a performance hit on some systems, required engineering teams to jump through a few minor hoops, and everything only becomes more expensive the larger your dataset. Worse yet, in some cases the requirements are heavily regulated. But the moment a client (or executive) facing system has some outage....... Best part (also worst part depending on your perspective) is that no amount of "I told you so" will fix the issue after the fact.

0points

Tunk 1 year ago

Number one should be the unemployed. The most victimised group in so many countries. Until people realise those 'bludgers' are the only ones keeping inflation from going even more insane then it is currently. You know. Basic economics?

-1point

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

I kind of get what you're saying. I remember thinking once that beggars (literally anyone who asks for money from another person) have such a crucial job in the world. They put themselves in harm's way in order to provide others with the opportunity to be compassionate, to overcome our own prejudices. It is usually a thankless task. I can see many people thinking that what I'm saying is infuriating. . .Sorry if you disagree.

1point

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censorshipsucks 1 year ago

21points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

As a farm kid, I thank you. One bad day can ruin a season of hard work.

10points

Mim“the Swede”Sorensson 1 year ago

5points

Greenmantle 1 year ago

As an Australian, farmers here do it very tough, year after year it seems more likely that they have have hardship instead of gains.

2points

Lonely Tentacle 1 year ago

Who hates farmers, though?

0points

Marcos Valencia 1 year ago

10points

Loki's_Lil_Butterknife 1 year ago (edited)

5points

albernistuff 4sale 1 year ago

5points

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

0points

Tinu 1 year ago

So basically every job?

5points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

4points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

6points

Mani Lacao 1 year ago (edited)

2points

Greenmantle 1 year ago

0points

Valdemar 1 year ago

2points

GadgetGirl 1 year ago

Forgot soldiers.

2points

Dazzled masochistic Lamb 1 year ago

2points

Lee Henderson 1 year ago

2points

Jonathan Nichols 1 year ago

It's almost as if the world is a big complicated place and glorifying college/office work as the salvation for generations of kids was an awful idea...

2points

KC T. 1 year ago

2points

Leo Domitrix 1 year ago

Upvoted b/c someone downvoted you. It's true. My relatives in info security are always groaned about until...., it's too late.

1point

Pattie Cox 1 year ago

1point

Julie Snelling 1 year ago

I don't hate anyone doing any job. We are all just doing the same thing working a job to pay the bills and put food on the table doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

1point

Mia Black 1 year ago

1point

Marc C 1 year ago

0points

Tunk 1 year ago

-1point

Lyone Fein 1 year ago

1point