Does anyone else have an unpopular job?

[Wednesdayafternoon]

And is just sick of the negativity towards it?
I've worked my way up to a decent position in a call Center dealing with home insurance (for a global company) and worked there for 15 plus years.
It's obviously not the most exciting job in the world and certainly isn't where I saw myself working when I was little, but hey ho, it suits my life!
We actually work extremely hard at our place. Dealing with all sorts of situations which can be triggering and unpleasant, dealing with all types of customers who can be verbally abusive.... more often then not!
Home insurance usually peaks in the winter, I've had my Christmas holidays cancelled and been under the most pressure around the holidays pretty much every year. It's hard, really really hard.
But when do you actually hear anyone say anything nice about us poor buggers answering the phones? Dealing with 20+ claims/customers every. Single. Day.
Heaven forbid you say something negative towards the NHS or a teacher on here (not that I do I will point out, but seen it time and time over) and the Mumsnet brigade comes out on full force. Why do people in these jobs only seem to get recognition for working hard?
I worked through the entire pandemic. Until all of our WFH equipment was set up (which took a while) we were going into office every single day with 200+ people... didn't matter whether you were vulnerable or not! Not a single hour was lost.

Anyway I am rambling. I just find the "free pass" for certain jobs tiring. Anyone else feel the same?

I did a 6 month work placement with a big tobacco company when I was a student. My parents were very disappointed. It paid really well though compared to other placements so I didn't care what anyone thought. I'm selfish, me.

I just work on the counter in a pharmacy. During covid it was apparently my fault if babies died because we had no calpol.

It is currently my fault if some "gentleman" dies because I can't just give him some prescription only painkillers (without a prescription)

and it is always my fault that prescriptions do not magically appear the day the repeat request was put in... number one comment is always "I expect I'll just go home and die then shall I? It'll be your fault you know"

And they'll come in and say the same thing every single month.
Getting jaded and fed up of the hate considering the increasing workload.

Another social worker here...used to work in child protection now in children in care...

I avoid telling people in real life what I do, because I hate the 'oh I couldn't do your job' or the 'can I ask your advise about...'

Love my job, just hate society's view of me.

I'm a management consultant and I specialise in advising private equity companies who are looking at buying and selling companies, including for mergers and acquisitions.

It's basically the centre of capitalism, although we are a relatively small part of the process.

We interview management of the target companies and write reports to our private equity clients advising on their strategy after they purchase the company. For example, should they replace the C-suite, should they cut a division, should they merge departments to realise cost synergies (read: cut jobs). We are sort of a detective agency: we phone around and talk to former staff and customers to get the inside story on how the company is run and whether the investment is worth it.

It's an interesting job. It's a world where even CEOs are considered part of a disposable working class (management is not the same as ownership).

I think consultants in general probably aren't loved by the general public. We get paid well enough that I don't feel a need for public sympathy, though ;)

I'm an NHS manager. Everyone thinks we're a waste of space, do nothing and are completely unworthy and only doctors and nurses matter

I reality I actually work my arse off, work many many hours over and above my contracted hours, for free...I've lost count of the times I've worked 8:30-18:00 with no lunch & barely time to go for a wee (I should finish at 16:30), come home, put DC to bed then work until 11pm. All the managers I work with do the same and are massively overworked

I think the abuse police staff get on here is pretty alarming. We need more police, yet the conditions they often work in and the challenges they face shows we undervalue them. Similarly - prison officer jobs - the 'invisible' and forgotten front line. We have got to reverse the recruitment crisis in public service jobs.

(I'm not in the police or prison service by the way)

I used to be a solicitor working in personal injury. I loved it. The various accusations from family and friends were that I was an ambulance Chaser (which I wasn't) and I must have got paid a ton of money (it was quite good). People were vile about it and rude as well.

I'm now doing a job which is respected but the workload and hours are starting to have a toll on my health. My question to myself, is being respected by others really worth it?

YAB very fucking U to use the word triggering to describe dealing with customers' insurance claims over the phone.

I had a job in Hospital Administration. Got Everybody on their worst day ... Doctors, Nurses, patients, you name them. Very little recognition for my contributions to the place, lots of abuse from people I was helping. That is why I am very careful to be nice to everybody who is assisting me. And I preface complaints with ' it know this is not you, but I have a problem with ...'

I work in a contact centre for a Housing Association. I can't begin to describe the abuse we get. I HATE my job.

Nurse. We are all lazy, soulless and just looking for money we don't deserve.......🙄🙄🙄

Haha, same here! 😂

@Lulu1919

My son's TA is worth her weight in gold. She's an angel and I would move her into my house if I could....

Actually, I recently started in community engagement with a popular UK charity and currently I'm basking in the glory- everyone thinks I'm saint like.... Feel a bit of a fraud!

I’m a vet nurse, me and my colleagues are hated. We can do absolutely everything in our power to save you animal but if we forgot to clip his nails while having emergency surgery, we get absolutely annihilated on social media.

we have a high suicide rate for a reason, people are fucking horrible.

also, for the money grabbing brigade - I get £21k a year, have never had a pay rise, will likely never get one and can’t progress and new grad vets aren’t on that much more.
if I’d known the shit show it was I would never have done it.

I work in a call centre for a big energy company and have been there for 14 years. I also receive abuse from customers on a daily basis. I really used to enjoy my job and although we've always had nasty callers, it got much worse since covid (lockdown seemed to push people over the edge) and now even more so with the energy prices the way they are.

Recently become a stay at home wife. God the hatred or is it jealousy.

I work for Amazon in customer support.

Yes I know Jeff doesn't pay taxes, But I do.

I've heard everything from tax evasion, worker abuse to human trafficking.

All from people who are calling me up to help with the order they placed on the very same website they claim to hate.

Hypocrites.

I’m a hospital consultant in a niche fancy sounding speciality. I know a lot about a tiny area of medicine and people think it’s amazing and impressive. In covid my department pretty much closed and I was deployed to do largely basic work on covid wards. Major kudos given.

My DH is a GP. Works so very hard, way harder than me and my colleagues. Knows far more about an enormously wide variety of specialties. Makes hundreds of decisions each day. Worked his socks off over covid in crap conditions and did full weekends vaccinating. Everyone tells him he’s a failed consultant/part time/useless/busy playing golf.

very unfair.

A old friend of mine is an actuary and he used to get the same responses about his job.

Had to scroll through to see if anyone else was repping me and my despicable colleagues 😂

I work in a legal department. Of course this means that I, and I alone write the law 😂😂. When I assure people that I don’t, they look at me in disbelief and say well somebody here makes the rules up. Err no we don’t.

I used to be a prostitute / sex worker for nearly a decade. Left it 7 years ago.

Most people think we are either abused victims / drug addicts / glamourous belle du jour types.

Many people hate us and blame us for all types of evil.

The reality for most (not all) of us is that it's a job we chose because it earns a lot for few and flexible hours and suits our circumstances as single parents, women with often hidden disabilities penalised by the punishing benefits system, or students.

Yes it can be risky health wise (although we take precautions) and safety wise and a lot of our time is taken up on admin actually and safety screening potential clients, arranging places to work, doing adverts.

It's a trade off we choose or chose. If we could meet our needs with fewer and more flexible hours with something else then we probably would, but most of us are not the victims you think.

I work for the rail infrastructure...so we were unpopular in the extreme last week!

Another GP who seems to be hated on line/newspapers/social media, because I’m apparently never seeing patients or doing anything other than sending patient to A&E 🙄. In real life though the vast majority of patients I speak to and see (yes face to face) appreciate what I do and can see I am doing my best to help them in a broken system.