Worst job / career for a man in your eyes

[oreo1234]

I've named changed for this.

In your opinion. Not listening to social media or hear say or stereotypes.

If you were to go on a date what would be the one job that would put you off?

I think my husbands would come in the top 3 😩😩😩.

It's not new we have been together 12 years but when I mention it on here no matter what the bloody subject is they use his job as the reason for my post!!!

Fishmongers, yes.
The smell.

TheWifi I know. But it’s just so disappointing as the RM’s come across as setting the bar high. And they will literally do anything for you because it’s part of their training to well,do anything. And then it’s so much worse when they turn out to be predictably typecast.

Interestingly my favourite ExP was an arms dealer. I turned down his marriage proposal because I thought he’d turn out be a player.Now genuinely happily married with a beautiful family for over 25 years. Although completely amoral obviously in other respects.

Road man or front line military.

Both in danger, both use violence, only different is gone government mandates one and not the other.

I'd like a nice, alive man with compassion.

@ShadyLady53 It’s hard to judge tone from text, but I apologise if I have offended you, it was a genuine question.

I think threads getting derailed (especially if they are on a fairly non-sensitive, generic topic such as this) is fairly standard for mumsnet, but I’ve not got enough of an opinion either way to get in to a discussion about it either!

Oh, no actually abattoir worker. As pp said, I don't understand how anyone could do it...

Slaughterhouse worker
Butcher
Prison officer
Gynaecologist

Benefits of being married to someone who does shift work:

You are never fighting for the bathroom at the same time in the morning

He is always there part of the day for the dog

When your kids get to be teenagers and they want to stay at home during the school holiday, he is at home for half the day so they are never alone all day

A couple of my friends were married to people who worked the bins, and they didn't smell when I met them !!

@oreo1234 how long til he leaves the marines? Does he manage to see your children much?

@Handsoffmysweets not most of them no, but I imagine those on the front line have some level less empathy than many humans and all of the ones I know from my school are secist, racist laddish right-wing arseholes.

Principal
Abattoir worker
Street performer - since I've run out of choices, this is a coverall for mime, clown, etc

So many - but primarily

non-professional
low paid
police officer (know 3, all unfaithful)

So he doesn't live with you, he's emotionally distant and he cheats on you... and you fray your nerves worrying about him getting killed or mutilated in a war.

Why are you still married?

This has ash ally proved the point if the thread.

And....

I'd like a nice, alive man with compassion

I would least like my DH to be one of those pushy, brash awntreprenoors who get their stuff made up by slave wage children in third world countries and then tout it in UK for inflated prices, so they can drive around in flash motors and have holiday homes.

I'd find it creepy if he worked with dead bodies of any description. And I got upset when he had a dream of giving it all up to open a cheese shop (he loves cheese) because the smell of a hard-core cheese shop makes me gag.

Abattoir worker. Too many go on to be serial killers.

Is this true?

A professional YouTuber

I say professional lightly

Personally anything to do with killing animals (excluding vet if you include PTS), porn, actor, model, PT, or where their job controls the life of everyone in the family.

MIL followed my FIL around the world with the kids in tow for many years as he was part of the Air Force and then NATO and it was a large strain on them all, she’s somewhat resentful (when drunk) that she couldn’t ever put down roots and pave a career herself.

I couldn’t move around the world as I would miss my family and friends (well, most of them) too much and I find it very hard to learn other languages.

Jehovah's Witness, or any other kind of religious nutter.

And all the rest, pimp, porn producer or actor, thief, drugs dealer etc.

Marine is o.k. except I'm not into a man in a uniform. Have the utmost respect for anyone out there protecting the public - police etc.
Give me a builder any day to any of the city or arty-farty intellectual waffle types.

All the builders I've ever met have been down to earth, honest and easy to have a chat and a laugh with. yes, I know there are cowboys among them like any other profession

I would be turned off by..

A pimp
A drug dealer
A contract killer
A vicar

Anything else Is fine

The question was about what any individual might think. We are all different. It is a personal choice.
But those posters who would not like members of the Armed Forces remind me of the Rudyard Kipling poem, which stated
"Those who mock the uniforms who guard them while they sleep".

Someone who works in abattoir

This.

Bailiff
Bouncer
Armed Forces
Flight attendant
Boxer

i was renewing the car insurance last week and as you type letters for your job, it suggest occupations. 'chicken chaser' and 'chicken sexer' came up.

If I were dating, both would make me a bit . I mean what even is a chicken chaser?