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

@PennywisePoundFoolish completely agree with your SEND related points. I mean, it must be grim to work for a council and be under threat of being sacked for agreeing to £££ provision but there is finesse and ways of being compliant with the law without selling people out. There is a whole industry of SEND chuggers out there.

Parking wardens!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡

Working in a slaughter house i couldn't do it. Its not that i look down upon it i just don't know how anyone could do that job it would break me. Telesales again I dont look down on people who do it we all need money and a job but I hate the phonecalls asking if I've been in a car crash, would I like cheaper internet and have i got home insurance. If I want it I will go looking for it i dont need spammed

I don’t think that’s snobbery I think it’s anger. People are told that if they/ their children work hard and get a degree they will earn very well as that used to be the case. Now you can get a degree and still end up on minimum wage.

Even 10 years ago people were told trades were for the non academic and uni would mean middle class money. But it hasn’t worked out that way.

My relative used to work picking a certain kind of vegetable, when I told people this, most would laugh 😳 and say, “OMG that’s such a random job.” Like excuse me ?

All jobs in the care sector are massively under valued and under paid. Others like bankers are massively overpaid. Sad but true. What people are paid does not reflect their value.

Tabloid journalist or talkshow host.

Second hand car dealers. Shady, the lot of ‘em!!!

Do you use any public or private service providers regularly? I mean, if you live on a self-sustaining smallholding, fair play. But if not, eeh, you’re going to have to do some mental gymnastics there.

My husband is a tradesman and I'm a shelf stacker in a supermarket, and I think generally a lot of people would look down on us. Though maybe I should also be mad at my husband, because I ought to be rolling around in wads of cash 🤔. DH finds customers tend to make assumptions about his political leanings, or rather they're comfortable expressing theirs and assume he'll join in. Awkward.

My DC all have SEND. I look down on the LA SEN team staff from the top to the caseworker. I get the decisions are made my the elusive panels, but the SEND legislation is very easily accessible and so many of the decisions are made in full knowledge it's unlawful, and you're part of the problem even if you're only the messenger.

I also have a lot of concerns about SEN Advocates. There are some good ones, but so many have sprung up now. Too many give poor advice and aren't exactly cheap. Most start from a place of good intentions, but it seems it gets to a point where they take on too much and ghost families, or expand into snake oil services.

I think YouTubers can actually add a lot of knowledge and joy to the world by creating amazing videos.

I think there's rather a lot of judgement about people whose jobs seems fun or intrinsically very satisfying and who rely on state subsidies or funding to do them - part of the reason why funding for artists can be so controversial. Like the feeling they aren't doing their fair share of drudgery.

Bankers are a bit interesting - I see them as contributing somewhat by helping organisations earn money that other finance products invest in and thereby give some benefit to every day people.

The thing that really irks me is the pay packets for "entertainment" ie actors, musicians, sports people, compared to roles that benefit society ie health care, education, scientists. It says that, as a society, being entertained is more valuable than wellbeing and learning. That's pretty shameful in my opinion. Imagine the good that could be done investing the entertainment billions into health related research and affordable and timely healthcare for everyone.

Any WFH jobs

Chuggers

I find it really sad and frankly immature and pathetic that people will dismiss as "immoral" all politicians whose party politics don't align with their own. Should we all have to vote the same way? Is this Russia?

My friend’s DD gave up a regular job and became an influencer and has done amazingly well. She recently bought a 300k flat with cash and she’s only 24. I can’t see her going back to a regular job now.

^^ Very much.

There are lots of jobs i don't really want to do. But with most of them I am more likely to admire people who do them than look down on them (teachers for example).

The argument that bankers are performing a civic good because they lend money for social housing does make me chuckle. I find it hard to see venture capitalists as morally upstanding, although maybe there are exceptions. Generally, contracts are drawn up to protect returns, and if profits are looking at alldubious it’s cut and run. There is a crisis looming as public sector PFI contracts come to an end.

'Journalists' working for the s*n, gb news and the mail (none of these outlets deserve capital letters).

I wouldn't look down on anyone else for earning their own money though. Not even Only Fans. If people are stupid enough to pay for that sort of thing then I don't blame others for cashing in (as long as they know what they are doing and are taking good care of their mental health).

I think people tend to confuse someone not liking or wanting to do a job with looking down on people doing the job. I remember a thread around Covid time with someone who’d had a well-paid office job having to take a supermarket job that got very heated.

There are loads of jobs I wouldn’t want to do, but I don’t think less of the people doing them.

I think I have disdain for people who leach off creative industries, nothing specific but
middlemen types with all mouth, plenty of unwanted opinion and no talent

A lot of advertising and sales. Not all of it, probably not the majority, but a lot of it is scummy. Influencers. Those involved in pushing plastic surgery, botox, lip fillers, etc. Those involved in the porn industry, strip clubs, OnlyFans typestuff. Commercial surrogacy. Many politicians.