What job would you never do, even if you were paid a million pounds a year and had all the training in the world

[Moveorstay2022]

For me, it's a commercial pilot. I just would never trust myself to make the right decision in a situation of distress. I'm in awe of pilots

Yes I think this too. Jelly legs!
And for the same reason, lorry driver. I don't like motorway driving, but maybe I'd feel differently in a lorry and you can't go that fast.
Dog walker/groomer/anything involving dogs

If I were earning a million pounds a year for it I could probably deal with the smelly stuff like being a dentist and dealing with peoples' horrible mouths or emptying out sewers, although all the training in the world wouldn't give me the manual dexterity to be a dentist.

Dog food tester

Anything that involved hurting or causing suffering to animals. Abattoir / laboratory / livestock farming.

Inner city secondary school teacher. Terrifying

Spider farmer 😱

Anything that required me to leave the house.

Pest control

Anything with any admin, ever again. Because I hate it so much and would not even be a secretary if you paid me a million pounds a second. I'd much rather just never have to think about admin ever again my entire life.

Went for an interview once in a very swish building in Mayfair - some sort of armaments business.

All very well looking at a genuine Picasso opposite your desk but knowing it’s been bought by selling arms to Assad or the like. Wasn’t for me.

I can already see that there are much worse jobs (abbottoir work, sewage worker) but....I would hate to work in a call centre. Don't approve of the job anyway and if I was there I would be sacked because of my over active bladder!! I was always worried when I was unemployed that I would be pushed to work at one.

Butcher

Anything in front of a camera,
skydiving, parachuting
anything claustrophobic
Cooking

Social worker
Foster carer

What an interesting question.

For me, some of them are that no matter how much training, I don't think I have the ability.
air traffic controller/pilot - I don't think my spacial skills are good enough, and you can't train that in. So I am pretty sure I'd make a mistake.

But most of the others I would be prepared to do if I had to.
eg I eat meat, so I should be willing to work in an abattoir (although I'd hate it)

The ones I would refuse to do are all for me on moral grounds.
eg arms seller
con artist
call centre - selling things, not help centres
abortionist

etc

@SilverSplitsTheBlue

Would you consider doing an AMA?

Sales. I just don't have any interest in selling anything.

Anything PR-bullshitty.

I am a Chiropodist, and would never want to be anything to do with cleaning, bins or sewage.
Being a carer or Dentist, pest control or sex worker also would fill me with dread.

Anything involving dead things, driving or people....my dream is to be a wfh hermit.

Be Donald Trump's wife.

Teacher. I am in awe of people who do it and do it well but I couldn’t control 30 children and keep a smile on my face. As for dealing with parents, no thank you.

I could/would do most things tbh, but what I couldn't do would be to in the sort of first lady role/ CEO wife where I had to make inane small talk with random people and keep smiling and being nice to them whatever I thought day after day while wearing high heels.
I'd be rubbish at being a nanny, actor, dancer, singer but maybe training would help

Yes same here .

Work in a betting shop, or as a bailiff/debt collector.

Or in an abattoir.

I'll work in the reptile house but it's a hard Nope to the spider house 😅

Presuming the training is good enough to give me the right skills even for jobs I think I'd be rubbish at, I'd still refuse:

• abbatoir work or similar, as I'm a vegetarian and wouldn't be able to cope
• anything in front of a camera or requiring being a public figure, because the criticism would be too much and wouldn't go away when I quit the job.

For a million pounds a year, I'd cope with fatbergs, heights, bodily fluids, etc. Even if I wouldn't like it.