What is the most shameful line of work?

Yeah, anyone profiting by deliberately disseminating misinformation is beyond shameful.

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Anyone involved with the stock market

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Attention Economist

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Paparazzi and realtors? No love for arms dealers

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Post 4.

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Anything you can’t describe reasonably well in four words or less.

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Weighing Options Are You Sure GIF

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Well, shame on me, I guess. :face_with_diagonal_mouth:

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Before the rammy starts, this is not a hill I’ll die on. It might be better formulated as “would a five year understand roughly what you do?”. An answer from one of my past jobs might be, I help doctors talk to their patients better.

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Definitely more than 4 words, there, mister. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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Definitely, although I was trying to quietly change my definition to something a bit less inflexible.

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When I worked on financial models in the mortgage industry for affordable housing, my then 7-year old knew that I “did math to help people buy houses.”

Was useful for some older relatives as well.

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Police Union President

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“You give me shots and hurt me and scare me!!!”

Maybe?

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the hard part is, that’s anyone who’s got retirement savings. retirement shouldn’t work that way, but there’s few alternatives

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Everybody hates lawyers. Until they need one.

My vote: Stock fund managers. Unless I’m mistaken, not one of them has ever managed to outperform an index like the Dow Jones or the S&P over a long period of time. They’re just gamblers betting with other people’s money.

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i’d add “Social Media Influencer” and “YouTube Grifter” to the list.

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I don’t see how “easy to understand” correlates with ethical/shameful. A person who studies quantum mechanics has a job that is hard for children and laypeople to understand, while a person who makes advertisements aimed at selling tobacco products to children has a job that’s easy to understand.

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I used to work in the industry. Sometimes being a consultant in IT sucks. The “Petrochemist” titled people were curious people. Usually the best people to have an intelligent conversation with in the lunch room, yet they had bumper stickers saying things like “I :heart: Big Oil”

I do what I do because I’m good at it and didn’t go to college, and I try my best to choose ethical employers now. I couldn’t imagine going to school from a young age with the intention of helping big oil.

The worst job is Jailer (Sheriff). Anyone that makes their profession containing other human beings is shit. I would clean the cum out of porn wank booths before I consented to being a jailer.

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I suppose it depends how formulate your response, I’m trying to learn how everything works, opposed to I try to sell people things that everyone knows will kill them.

I made my first comment, irritated by a related topic in real life and then posted here without thinking too much, But yeah my comments don’t really stand up to any real scrutiny.

Edit
My “thinking” was that many kids will quickly haul you up if they find some inconsistency or something ethically questionable in your statement.

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