What careers sound good on paper nightmare in reality and what sounds nightmare on paper good in reality.

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On paper teaching sounds great, all those weeks off. Weekends off working in primary schools sounds fun secondary schools you can specialise in a subject you prefer. Reality grading lesson plans admin alot of work not enough pay.
Firefighters and police sounds fun reality dangerous.
In paper admin or reception jobs sounds boring and tedious paper work. But some have great hours and good work life balance.
In your opinion what jobs aren't worth the hype?

Working with animals I should imagine is not all it's cracked up to be, especially outdoors (peers out of the window into the rain, murk and gloom).

"insurance" sounds deadly dull, but I know some very happy and rich insurance -ists. No idea what the real term is!

Lawyer.

Working in a library is less fun than people imagine, plus very badly paid.

Or; actually - lawyer: interesting, well paid. No. Nightmare. Depending on which area of law, I guess. I am probably biased.

Nightmare but is good: funeral director. I know several. They are thoughtful, and doing well financially. Interesting and well meaning career.

Academic. Sounds great: swishing around in a long coat, inspiring students, doing interesting research, summers off. Reality: marking endless half-baked essays, never any time to do research, constant pressure to apply for grants, relentless email traffic, summer is a long panic of writing papers and prepping new courses.

Second this!!!

Sweet shop owner.

A friend left a stressful career to buy a business and run a sweet shop and had dreams of being Willy Wonka. Reality was stress, boredom and very little profit!!

There are loads of jobs in insurance.

I've done stuff for insurance companies. Some of the data you get to look at is interesting. 🤓

Oh and if you are dodgy be careful as if your name ends up in the media, your insurance claims will be denied or your insurer can pull your policy.

I always impagine this could be true of book shop owner too.

Midwife….everybody says “oh what an amazing job, I’d love to do that”

Reality - Paperwork up to your eyeballs, working far more hours than contracted, always living in fear of losing your registration.

(Although I wouldn’t do anything else!)

HR - sounds all fluffy and/or easy as its just procedures/processes and helping enforce them

Reality is everyone thinks you're their mum and will sort out general disagreements and have the answer to every difficult situation instantly. And even though you know for a fact an employee is taking the absolute piss with sickness you can't just sack them, esp if they have more than 2 years service.

I was so happy to leave HR!!

Running a pub

I know a few ex-pub landlords/landladies. The lucky ones got out in time while the others went bankrupt. If you want to be involved in the business the safest way is to be a manager though you don't have full financial control of running your establishment.

It is.

And bakery / cafe owner. In my work circles (university) the thing to say is "oh I just want an easy life, I'll quit and open an independent bakery or bookshop". It makes me roll my eyes SO hard. Like you think that running your own business in today's economy is less stressful?

Detective , tv makes it look amazing. It's all paperwork paperwork and arguing with cps

Working in public sector...People said it'd be a nightmare, where people are lazy and if you go there you'd find it hard to come back to private etc. I've actually found work far more interesting and yes there is your share of incompetence but there are lots of talented people too.

Vet…majority of practices corporate owned. Heavy, unrelenting work load. Deal with difficult members of the public all day.

That's so sad to here because do many kids aspire to be vets (myself included)

*hear

GP according to my neighbour. She did all the med school training etc, qualified worked for two weeks and quit to run a post office. She said it was a dreadful profession.

Some Solicitor/barrister jobs eg crime. People assume law well paid but it’s often not.

Being an account manager.

Thought it would mean lots of flexibility and freedom, working with lots of well known brands, having a varied workload and fun projects.

What it seems to be recently is constant meetings about prices, reporting, entitled clients who call constantly and at all hours demanding things that are basically impossible. Having too many clients to manage.

Journalism. Sounds good on paper (ish) fucking nightmare in reality. Shit money, shit hours, shit from the public, shit from editors and more content created with clicks in mind than the actual public interest.

Admin: on paper it sounds stress free and giving you a great work-life balance. In reality: it'd boring and tedious and you develop a crappy posture and eyes from staring at a screen all day. 😁

Depends on preferences, doesn't it?