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?

Thanks.
It's really not about the money so they can offer what they like and it won't change my mind, if anything it will make me feel pretty awkward, as I'm already on more than most of my colleagues. It's about being unable to keep up with the workload and feeling constant stress and anxiety as a result. They could reduce my caseload to a more reasonable level but where will those cases go? To my team, who feel the same as I do. They are seriously struggling to recruit people with the right experience. I really can't imagine sitting there like the Queen with my special low caseload with everyone else struggling. I also don't trust them not to hold it over me if they make me stay. Like next time something goes wrong I can imagine the meeting and them talking about being disappointed after they went to such lengths to keep me. I'm excited about the prospect of getting out and doing something different.
I have a meeting today on Teams to discuss it and another in person tomorrow with one of the directors. I need to stay strong. I feel like they might kidnap me and keep as a litigation version of a handmaid at this point, they seem so desperate.

The data shows that the vast majority of people who accept counteroffers end up leaving within the year anyway, @Oysterbabe . They rarely work. If you've got to the point of accepting another offer, the issues that have driven you to do so won't have gone away.

If you are excited to try something new I’d keep that in mind.
It sounds like existing firm would make a few temporary changes then you’d be back to square one.
If you’ve met new firm and they seem fine I’d definitely give it a go. You said you knew someone there?
Worse case scenario you can always go back to similar role.
Start handover early then you can handover in best way for clients so your conscience is clear.

Found your first post! Remember this if you are tempted to stay.
Honestly there’s a world outside Litigation.

Thanks for the ongoing support everyone. I had a meeting today and basically said it's not them it's me, I want a new challenge and to move away from PI and there's basically nothing they can offer that will tempt me. I hope that's the end of it and I can just gradually handover during the next couple of months.

I honestly think that’s best decision. Good luck.

Working for charities: sounds like a rewarding and interesting sector on paper, the reality:

• poorly managed and disorganised
• meeting-heavy and bureaucratic
• chronic lack of investment in staff and infrastructure
• poorly paid unless you are a CEO/Director
• high staff turnover as a result
• some dodgy practices when it comes to safeguarding and staff/clients/volunteers safety
• incompetent Trustees/CEO/senior management who would not last a day in the private sector.

I have really grown to hate it...

Sorry, just saw this. PM me if you like 👍

Is anyone a hotel reviewer? That used to be my dream job.

My friend owns and runs a tattoo shop, good on paper, pretty great in real life!

Being a cake maker.. lovely on paper... sounds like fun..yes?? But when all and sundry can't understand why you would make them an incredibly detailed bespoke confection with handmade sugarpaste figures that takes you hours of your time for a pittance, cos "I can get a cake from Asda for a tenner for that , hun" That's why I work for someone else now.

Detective. Sounds great esp if you watch all th etc dramas. In reality you have to sit exams, do another qualification, get no more money for it, still work shifts including nights, often at very short notice. The number of 24 hur shifts I've pulled is stupid and you are expected to make critical decisions when you've not slept for over 35 hours. Public and politicians hate us. Some bad officers mean we are all tarred with the same brush
Good points are locking up really bad evil bastards.

Oh yes... running a pub too.. fun on paper but hours of slog for nothing.

I think a lot of creative or practical, skilled jobs are undervalued and sometimes not even feasible to make money on (I mentioned this in my own post) and some people seem not to understand the difference between something handmade and bespoke and something factory/machine made and mass produced.

On a local fb page people are often asking for "reasonably priced " cake makers to make a (very elaborate) cake as if charging for your labour as well as ingredients and fuel is unreasonable. Another person was complaining that a carpenter was charging x for a handmade item . When you worked out the price of materials and how long it would take to make, it was not outrageous but on the face of it looked expensive