10 Dec
Gawker: The 10 Most Depressing Jobs in America
As a convenient follow-up to my last post, Gawker posted a list of The 10 Most Depressing Jobs in America today, as calculated by Health magazine. Here they are:
- Nursing Home and Child Care Workers: Yes, it sucks to be around death all the time and also annoying sick kids and their horrible parents.
- Food Service Worker: Spend all day being cussed at by customers and go home smelling like onions? No thanks.
- Social Worker: Maybe if they spent some more time focusing on their problems rather than everyone else’s. God, get selfish!
- Health-care Worker: They see dead people.
- Artists, Entertainers, Writers: Exhibit A.
- Teachers: Just like I always said, dealing with kids makes you depressed.
- Administrative Staff Support: “I don’t know what happened. I told Julia she couldn’t go to her birthday party because she had to wait here for a very important fax and she just burst into tears.”
- Maintenance and Grounds Workers: That’s such bullshit. My gardener is always saying, “Good morning, Mr. Moylan. Great day, Mr. Moylan. Good to see you, Mr. Moylan.” He couldn’t be happier!
- Financial Advisers and Accountants: Yeah, that shit is grim.
- Salespeople: They’re paid to lie to other people to get them to buy shit they don’t need. I wouldn’t feel depressed, I’d feel superior.
Hey look, health care workers made it on this list! Also… isn’t this the majority of jobs in the US?
