To ask what jobs people secretly (or not so secretly) look down on and why?

I'm no vegan, or even vegetarian, but I've always struggled with the thought of working in an abattoir. I know someone has to do it, but the thought of seeing/causing that amount of death on a daily basis makes me wonder about the people able to/willing to go through it.

Anything illegal, anything that exploits workers in an 'unnatural' way and the executives of companies that facilitate illegal activities but manage to present as decent citizens.

I can't knock influencers etc, because there are as many idiots willing to fund their businesses, hence they make more money than many of us.

I do lack respect for a jobsworth, the inherently lazy and some of the supposed 'silent quitters'. Especially those in jobs that have a direct impact on people's livelihoods (👀 at some of my coworkers). Do the job or have the conviction to walk away.

My grandmother always instilled in us that there is much honour in an honest day's work, so I can't look down on anyone else.

My friend’s DD (age 21) gave up her part time job and chucked her uni course when her Instagram took off. It was one of those total pot luck moments that gained her tons (hundreds of thousands) of followers and things just snowballed from there. She’s very much of the opinion that she’ll enjoy it while it lasts and go back to “real life” when necessary, but she’s done very well from it - enough to buy a flat in London, always away on holidays with some company footing the bill and loads of freebies sent to her to review and post online.

Dictators and influencers, especially influencers who includes their children in their work. I think it should be illegal to market your young kids that way.

Only fans/prostitutes/influencers (unless you live in a poor country and this is the only way to survive/you're traficked).

Any MP that lies to get elected.

Anyone pushing MLMs to all of their family and friends.

Unsolicited sales people, especially those who knock on your door on a Sunday afternoon.

Content creators who do 'react' videos.

It's incredible isn't it?!!!😂

This plus those working in porn.

• Mlm
• Influencers
• Unsolicited selling in any form
• Estate agents
• Some fields of academic research that strike me as rather self indulgent
• people who are "self employed" making pocket money as vinted sellers or candle makers etc, usually making less than minimum wage per hour after costs
• life or career coaches
• jobs in "policy" in these slightly pointless quasi public sector quangos you can't believe receive funding to exist

Anyone in "finance" - greedy fuckers. Anyone in a "bullshit" jobs: the kind of jobs that society might be better off without. We know who does the important jobs; we saw this in Covid.

I’m more likely to look down on the ethic someone brings into their job rather than the job itself. Anyone who does a job in a half arsed and lazy way gets my down vote.

Totally agree with you, it's such an important and valuable job

Bankers

Yes, I’m the daughter of a bin man, and you wouldn’t believe how often in my life his job has been thrown around in my hearing as shorthand for ‘menial task performed by unimportant dregs’. ‘Oh, I told Jeremy that if he didn’t pull up his socks at A level, he’d up as a BIN MAN!’ I have always put them straight, obviously, and pointed out that if it weren’t for bin men, we’d all be neck-deep in uncollected rubbish and rats, and that if they really want to sit about and think of jobs of no value, refuse collection is nowhere near my list.

(Becky Chambers’ Wayfarer sci-fi series has humans leaving an uninhabitable earth and living on huge spaceships. On these ships, everyone over the age of 14 takes their turn doing refuse collection, recycling, unclogging sewers, because there’s no ‘away’ to throw things, and no poor people to delegate these tasks to.)

Honestly I would not like to be married to a Concierge/door person, the ones outside the big hotels. It's just the donning of the cap I can't stand and having to suck up to anyone. I also wouldn't like to be married to a farmer but that's just the muck and awful hours.

Funnily enough I was thinking about this today. Many of the most important jobs in society caring, cleaning, emptying bins and cleaning the streets, working in a sewerage works or a rubbish tip are looked down on by some people. It would be great if everyone had to do one of these types of jobs for a period of six months. A sort of conscription type system.Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes and all that. I cleaned and did care and bar work before going into teaching. My DH worked labouring in heavy industry for a year before going to University and then into banking. With regards to influencers they do irritate me probably because I don’t really understand them 😂. However on the news today there are 45,000 people employed directly and indirectly in that sort of thing? Better than no job.

I sometimes wonder about influencers who have given up their 'real' jobs to shill stuff/ make content. Most won't remain relevant for very long, do they just hope the gravy train will keep going? Or will they go back to a normal job? I suppose they have to make hay while the sun shines.

Well you do see it on here sometimes, people who seem a bit perplexed and annoyed about what tradespeople charge and earn. A recent thread on this someone was moaning ‘well I shouldn’t have bothered working hard and going to uni’ in response to what they charge. I’ve also seen the odd thread where posters are bit dismayed that their friends child who has become a mechanic or plumber or whatever is out-earning their DC who has graduated. So maybe there is an element of snobbery there about degrees and jobs at desks. I don’t think it’s overly common anymore though?

People who capitalise on the vulnerable and those with low self esteem i.e. anyone who makes a living out of filling people's faces with crap even though they know that every single one of them looks ridiculous.

Recruitment consultants

I've never come across an honest one. They are either advertising jobs that don't exist in order to farm cvs, or are pushing unsuitable people to businesses

Charity street fundraisers (chuggers) and the ones that go door to door.

Yes this is me - footballers for example versus the people who care for us, keep us alive and safe.