To ask what jobs people secretly (or not so secretly) look down on and why?

[ForBreezySloth]

We’re always told “all work is valuable” and I do agree in principle, but if we’re honest, most of us have a job or two we side-eye, even if we don’t say it out loud. Is it how people behave in the role? The pay vs attitude? The ethics of the job itself?

AIBU to think it’s okay to admit we have judgements - as long as we’re willing to examine them?

I’m a banker. My clients are social housing providers. We lend them billions and billions of pounds so they can build affordable housing and also invest in their current stock, for example making homes energy efficient so their tenants energy bills are more affordable. I’m sorry if that makes me a ‘greedy fucker’ I actually think it’s a fairly valuable contribution to society - if we want to build more affordable homes of course. I guess banks could just shut up shop and see how it goes?

Ponzi recruiters on Insta - be a boss babe - usually to do with travel agency/stocks and shares/life coaching etc.
Post pics of themselves in sunny places, images of a coffee next to a laptop, usually sporting a very expensive watch.
Then there are ‘conferences’ in exotic places where they all discuss being a boss babe.
Trained to spot and target vulnerable women or women they know who are struggling financially.
Someone I know reasonably well contacted me to ‘meet for a coffee’ to get involved in this bullshit when my dad was dying, I explained I couldn’t meet I was at my dad at the hospices and she replied…
I can bring the coffee to you!
I told my dad who to be fair was both dying and still funny and he told me to invite her and let her try her recruitment pitch on him. He’d have done it as well for the laughs!!!

yes there is also the view that people with more money have ‘worked harder’

Life coaching, and only because I know a life coach whose own life is all drama and chaos. Definitely not someone I'd respect or take any advice from.

Ugh yes they were so rife about a decade ago, I remember a few of the ‘boss babe’ types on my Facebook and one or two occasions when you think somebody you’ve not seen in ages is genuinely trying to reconnect then you realise ☹️

MLM types get a thumbs down and two fingers up from me

The jobs that are done by some people's 'high earning' husbands on here, that they apparantly can't actually do. Because they need the constant support of their wife to do them and function. They can't combine them with any type of childcare or domestic responsibility at all, so all consuming are they, yet they don't seem to involve actually making the world a better place, or helping anyone.

I was semi expecting this (I'm a childminder) but then was pleasantly surprised when it didn't crop up in the first dew dozen posts.

Then I got to your post and realised, yep! There it is. Cheers!

I spend my day caring and cleaning and cuddling and teaching little ones so their mums and dads can go to work and realise people look down on me for that is charming.

And no I dont believe you yourself dont think it, it's always easy to say 'of course I dont think this, other people do though.'

MLM and for some reason traffic wardens. I know a TW is a job that needs doing I just can't imagine ever doing that job. It's not personal or logical I just dislike the concept.

MPs. The quality is so poor.

MLM recruiters

My dad always used to say to me and my sister, ‘you can bring home any guy you want if he respects you, and is kind to you….with the exception of…an estate agent’ 🤣.

Any made up managerial role that pays handsomely 'diversity manager' for example.

Don't like solicitors/estate agents/sales people : any cut throat jobs that are designed to maximise profit and exploit people who are at their mercy. I find people that work in roles like this lack empathy for fellow humans.

My uncle worked in an aboittor for years. He retired aged 65. No idea how he did it but he never talked about it. Just showed up day after day.

Z list influencers that think they are A listers

Yes. This type are sharks. They've no regard for people. And human traits such as empathy, people pleasing, kindness and vulnerability are like hitting the exploitative jackpot for them. It's cruelty.

Not really secrets about it. Prostitution/porn/only fans - absolute trollops.

Bonnie blue

From reading Mumsnet lots of poster's here definitely look down on trades people. It registers with me because I'm married to a builder. Lots of poster's seem to view tradies as barely literate oafs who are unreliable and untrustworthy.

Anyone that has anything to do with the Beagle Farming at MBR Acres. Repulsive disgusting people from the suppliers to the trades people to the accountants.

God yes. People such as Katie price are such a bad example to women. She looks awful but you can tell by how she poses that she really thinks she looks sultry, sexy and every man's dream. It's delusional. If you've got to wear bikinis and pose seductively to be of any worth, it's a very shameful slur on women. I don't feel sorry for her. I don't think she's a victim. I think she's extremely clever and manipulative and probably has undiagnosed BPD/EUPD. She lies about sexual abuse too : just nobody dares call her out on it. (The south Africa tale that the camera men contested never happened) So when she comes out with other stories of a similar nature (at convenient times ) who's to know what to believe!?. Very 90s to think shaking your tits about is a valuable way to make money.

Exactly. Mortgages. Housing provision. Pension. Insurance. We rely on the financial markets for all of these products.

Most people don’t actually understand what banking is or how the financial markets work. They just think they are a bunch of London wankers.

I can honestly say the best people I’ve known in terms of careers are builders: in my experience they went above and beyond to sort our house for my disabled daughter.
i work as a midday assistant now (“dinner lady” if you will) because I can only work minimal hours because of my daughter’s needs - I think that comes with a lot of disregard. Having said that, given many other jobs I’ve had (and I have a PhD in a very academic subject) the only jobs I have no respect for are lying politicians - there’s something to admire about almost everything else.

I am in hospitality and have come back out of management and am FOH again, partly due to the stress of management and partly because I am also a carer.

I definitely get looked down on by a certain type of person. The vast majority of people are great but there is the odd sneery "Fail the Waitress Test" type.

As if that is all I am capable of. As it is, its a job I love and am very good at, and my customers agree if my tips and reviews are anything to go by!

Property developers as they often ride roughshod over neighbouring residents.

Influencers, because they often ride roughshod over places, people and things. Extra points if you monetise your children.

Anyone trying for ‘passive income’ by publishing those shit affiliate link web pages, especially travel related ones - because you’re flooding the internet with meaningless crap.

Waste clearance chancers on my local FB/ Nexdoor pages who will take your money to remove waste and fly tip it generating costs to tax payers

The worst of all: Anyone who engages in tax avoidance. Ie those taking cash payments and not declaring, non doms, non- VAT payers.

Basicslly anyone being selfish and not contributing their fair share to society.