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

People doing office 'admin' jobs who lack curiosity and awareness but get by doing repetitive tasks (often badly due to lack of critical thinking ability) that will replaced by AI eventually.

But again, no idea from the grass roots of it. The complainers.

when I started at work, as a trainee solicitor, I insisted in doing a month with each “area”. Not full time, because I was also doing the minimum trainee stuff, but I wanted to learn how reception worked, how the cleaners worked, how the secretary pool worked. I did a touch type course. I wanted to understand the business and the process from the beginning. So when my secretary had to rush off to care for her son, no problem, I could type the report up.

when the senior partners secretary broke her leg, the world ended. He couldn’t even turn on a computer.

same for childcare, I do that now. The biggest complainers, those who are not and have never actually done it.

Because bankers make (lots of) money for their banks

I've lost count of how many comments I've had over the past 12 years about me working in food retail.

Generally along the lines of assuming I'm thick/uneducated.

What they don't know is that actually I do have GCSEs,.A Levels, and shock horror a bachelor's degree.

I ended up in this job due to the fact I've spent since the age of 11 trying to cope with being severely mentally ill (and up until 3 years also undiagnosed ADHD). After I graduated I got myself a full time job in order to save money up to move away and pursue the dream of working in media. Unfortunately for me working full time led to me having a mental breakdown and very nearly successfully trying to kill myself (which subsequently left me with PTSD from the trauma of dying/being resuscitated).

That ultimately led to me losing my job and being unable to work. I ended up on ESA in the support group for the next 3 1/2 years.

But I wasn't happy with life and desperately wanted to get back to work (cos in my head feeling normal=working and having a job). I applied for so many jobs but the only one who gave me a chance were my current employers, and I've been in this job for 12 years now (still get a small amount of pip which provides help and therapy but don't claim anything else)

So it really wasn't by choice but I'm proud of myself for getting back to work and for sticking it out. It's certainly not the dream and tbh the way things are I'm looking at upskilling to try and get back into a career relevant to my degree (and with media now being one of the big 5 industries the government are backing and pushing I might have a chance)

I think it’s bizarre to look down on any job.. I can’t really understand why anyone would chose to be a bailiff I guess.

I’m not sure about look down, but frustrating careers for me are those who have no real idea of the grass roots of the area they work in.

so many examples,
someone straight into management of something they have never worked in. Like a bar manager who has never poured a pint.

a site manager who has never built a house.

legislators. They make these decisions and policies, without any comprehension of how it works in reality. You should be banned from such things.

it’s better to look at Scottish law for that, amendment after amendment because nobody could understand the grass root impact the first time.

reactive type legislation is a good example.

well we better quickly pass this because someone did x. Rather than actually working in the area and realising human error and work error are two diff things.

Anyone who lays on the 'hard sell', including dodgy salespeople, and those involved in MLMs

Cleaner. I was a cleaner for 15 years in a Fire Station. It was the best job I ever had ! They made breakfast for us every day. Tea and toast, but still.
There were always casual remarks from the workplace and visitors. ' oh, it's only the cleaner.' 'even the cleaner knows that''. 'could you do my washing ?'. 'If you go and buy bacon and sausages you can have some'
The higher ups didn't even deign to speak to us.

Still the Best job EVER 😀

On line "journalists" .

I’ve done childcare and secretarial. Both eternally criticised

@SquishedMallow i dont look down on them for doing well and making money. I look down on the majority of tradespeople because they put profit above competence and ethics. I’ve employed hundreds over the years and the good ones are rare as rocking horse shit.

And some estate agents

Tobacco industry
Porn industry

Funnily enough my partner is a fundraiser or a “chugger” as you so kindly put, more specifically for PCUK. The amount of men/women that have come back to him and thanked him for raising awareness and encouraging them to get themselves/their partner to get checked is immense and I’m so proud of him doing a job which is informing and saving peoples lives, all whilst people like yourself look down on him.
Just to add if you’re an experienced “chugger” you earn extremely well too, so no need to look down.

I mean honestly I don’t give a 2 hoot what someone’s job is. We never know where we will find ourselves in 10 years time. Aslong as they pay tax and NI 🤷🏻‍♀️

Most employees have to 'suck up' in one way or another to someone, an employer, client, customer etc.

Why are we odd?

More fool them !

They live in a middle class bubble where only uni and white collar jobs are 'worthy'. Who's the mug though ?

I know a builder and a hairdresser (married) who owned a beautiful 4 bedroom detached house in a very nice area aged 22. Married with two kids by age 24. They live amongst more muddle class people. But they grew to love the couple as the husband fixed their odd jobs and wife cuts all their hair !!!

My friend is married to a builder. Their home is worth triple ours and we've both got 'professional ' jobs.

What the "uni" type don't realise is: builders, plumbers, electricians and the like have loads of mates in allied trades: and together they don't need to pay anyone to do either simple work or really big projects. The cost saving is thousands upon thousands. They're usually more down to earth and less pretentious too.

Generalising here but for me it’s estate agents and HR professionals. Both of these career paths seem to attract a disproportionately huge amount of overly confident arses who love themselves for no apparent reason.

My view of most tradespeople born and raised in the UK, is not so positive. An excellent one will do their job competently and charge fairly, turn up on time, and give you the required certificates. An average one will do the job when it suits them and charge what they can get away with. Dont hope for certificates: they won’t come. A bad one will charge what they can get away with or worse, try and extort money, whilst doing a terrible job, slowly or incompetely.

People in recruitment.

Estate Agents. Sorry, but due to recent dealings, they really do live up to every single woeful stereotype.

Influencers and their MLM predecessors, granted the latter seem to have largely disappeared.

Every other job I can think of has value.

I think I get judged harshly. Im a social worker. I actually got verbally attacked about it when in the hot tub at my gym the other day. Some people gush about how amazing i must be (Im not), and some go the other way and act like Im the child snatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

I feel that people look down on those doing what they deem to be unskilled jobs and low paid jobs
I think people tend to look down on

• supermarket assistants
• hairdressers
• nursery workers/TAs
• refuse collectors

I used to be a former teacher and would always tell my class when leaving that no job is ever beneath you (though I wasn't thinking about some of the roles suggested on here and influencers and that sort of thing didn't exist so maybe in today's society I would need to rephrase!).