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In your opinion: What’s the hardest job in the world?
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 . Myself I wouldn’t have put that even in the top 100 hardest jobs lol  I thought being a brick layer in August was a harder graft.
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"Working in care was very hard " Very hard | |||
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"Sheffield Wednesday manager..!" | |||
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"A podcast clip popped up on my YouTube feed & this young lass was debating how her job as a ‘cam girl’ was 1 of the hardest job in the world . Myself I wouldn’t have put that even in the top 100 hardest jobs lol I thought being a brick layer in August was a harder graft.
But what do you think is the hardest job in the world?"The podcast lass reminded me of a quote I remember reading during lockdown (can’t remember who said it) but it went something like “any job you get to work from home, laying on your back is not a hard job” hahaha I do like the internet sometimes | |||
"A podcast clip popped up on my YouTube feed & this young lass was debating how her job as a ‘cam girl’ was 1 of the hardest job in the world . Myself I wouldn’t have put that even in the top 100 hardest jobs lol I thought being a brick layer in August was a harder graft.
But what do you think is the hardest job in the world?"Eunuch…  | |||
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"Soldier in a war zone must be right up there. Many said teachers and that is true too. I have no idea how they do it these days. Health professionals in certain areas like paliative, dementia etc. " Done one and massive respect for the other 2..spot on | |||
"Children’s cancer ward End of thread !" Not quite. It must be very rewarding when you get to see a child ringing the bell. But fully understand what you mean. | |||
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"Sheffield Wednesday manager..!" That’s a punishment not a job | |||
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"I really don't know. I can think of loads. Doctors, paramedics... police, they have to see some awful things... same with social workers. I can imagine it takes a toll on your mental health. But then, what about the people who work to help trafficked children etc? I couldn't do it. And those who clean up after suicides, murders... or those who work with children who are sick and dying. But then there are also jobs that risk your life, or jobs that are isolating and lonely. Or jobs where you're being worked to the bone for nothing in return. I couldn't pick just one." Police do fuck all.. Not a hard job tbh... They need to start doing their actual job for a change x | |||
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"Nightmayor of London saddiq khan's modesty coach." Yawn.  | |||
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"The person who has to stick all the hairs onto a wig. Or has to count all the screws and fittings for ikea furniture!" | |||
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"I really don't know. I can think of loads. Doctors, paramedics... police, they have to see some awful things... same with social workers. I can imagine it takes a toll on your mental health. But then, what about the people who work to help trafficked children etc? I couldn't do it. And those who clean up after suicides, murders... or those who work with children who are sick and dying. But then there are also jobs that risk your life, or jobs that are isolating and lonely. Or jobs where you're being worked to the bone for nothing in return. I couldn't pick just one. Police do fuck all.. Not a hard job tbh... They need to start doing their actual job for a change x" Right. Just because you don't see them running down the street in firefights all day long, doesn't mean they don't do their job. In fact, if you don't see them they are doing a good job! Police in the UK is not perfect, but I'd rather have the UK police than the cops they have in thailand, mexico or guatemala... Be a little more thankful for how they keep you save. | |||
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"Infantry soldier. Always on deployments, always in the frontline, not allowed union representation for better pay or conditions, only appreciated by the majority of the public in times of war." Only in a DEFENSIVE war. Many oppose oversea deployment. | |||
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"Teacher. My god the patience you need!!! How do they do it? How do they wake up full of enthusiasm when they know that Little Dave is going to be in their class that day and will be daydreaming of football instead of thinking about Trigonometry or that gobby Cathy will be attending morning registration with more attitude than a New York gang member. Lockdown was a real eye opener! " God this, right here! I think teachers are amazing. When I think back to all the shit I put my teachers through just to score points with the "cool" kids. It's embarrassing. | |||
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"We don`t have a big enough Army any more for any offensive action. our army is more like a militia due to it`s size after the defence cuts. The last offensive action by the UK was 20 years ago, everything after that has been peace keeping missions." Um, that is not true. UK is in the nato, and the nato has multiple hotspots in the world, were offensive wars are being undertaken. Somalia, Afghanistan, Kosovo ... Probably also soon upcoming gaza strip and ukraine. | |||
"Teacher. My god the patience you need!!! How do they do it? How do they wake up full of enthusiasm when they know that Little Dave is going to be in their class that day and will be daydreaming of football instead of thinking about Trigonometry or that gobby Cathy will be attending morning registration with more attitude than a New York gang member. Lockdown was a real eye opener! God this, right here! I think teachers are amazing. When I think back to all the shit I put my teachers through just to score points with the "cool" kids. It's embarrassing." Teachers have a tough job because they are being abused, but i wouldn't say it's the hardest job out there. Just very, very ungrateful. | |||
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"Water rescue service (RNLI) their risking their lives to save ur ass! " This!! And voluntarily!! | |||
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"Think some people have got the definition of "job" confused here... Imho any line of work that requires immense mental or physical strength (or both!), or where you witness trauma and suffering on a daily basis. Ooh or where there is great risk to yourself!" Of course those jobs are hard, but not all hard jobs are dangerous. | |||
"Somalia, British troops are there on a peacekeeping and security mission for the UN. Kosovo British troops are there for NATO/KFOR on a peacekeeping mission patrolling the border due to rising tensions in the area. Afghan, there`s no British presence, all troops were pulled out after 20 years." They were in afghanistan until 2014. And yeah, you can call it a peacekeeping mission but they are securing the areas and fight insurgence. They do roll out and actively look for targets, too. Or well, used to. It's part of keeping the peace. That is a war. I mean the vietnam war was the same type of war: Train the local troops and go on missions against the rebels for peace keeping. Brits, aussies and americans "supported" the south in Vietnam the same way they were supporting the troops in Afghanistan. And I think we all agree, that vietnam was a war. Peacekeeping is just a new word for war. Really is. It's just not a territorial war for the supporting nations, as they are not interested in conquest. | |||
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"Depends. Do you mean physically hard or mentally hard ? Because there’s a big difference. The mr " I among others have thrown in physically hard, how about some mentally challenging ones, that you can think of? | |||
"Depends. Do you mean physically hard or mentally hard ? Because there’s a big difference. The mr " And time of year. Imagine being a courier right now,? | |||
"Depends. Do you mean physically hard or mentally hard ? Because there’s a big difference. The mr I among others have thrown in physically hard, how about some mentally challenging ones, that you can think of?" Back in my teens I once worked at a dairy factory, 18 hours in all I lasted before thinking “ fuck this “. I was basic shovelling cheese into a machine to make spreadable cheese. All day 8 hours, half hour break. Oh same agency I had a job for 2 hours. My job was, if you look at the rubber around a car door it has little tiny holes in. My job was to pull the cut out rubber from these holes with tweezers. Also mentally wise it definitely depends on the people you work with. The mr | |||
"Depends. Do you mean physically hard or mentally hard ? Because there’s a big difference. The mr I among others have thrown in physically hard, how about some mentally challenging ones, that you can think of? Back in my teens I once worked at a dairy factory, 18 hours in all I lasted before thinking “ fuck this “. I was basic shovelling cheese into a machine to make spreadable cheese. All day 8 hours, half hour break. Oh same agency I had a job for 2 hours. My job was, if you look at the rubber around a car door it has little tiny holes in. My job was to pull the cut out rubber from these holes with tweezers. Also mentally wise it definitely depends on the people you work with. The mr " I worked agency for some time, I did countless jobs like that. That's just normal. Every job is challenging in its own way really. But I wouldn't class any of this as the hardest. It's just mindnumbing and uncomfortable. But if you do a job long enough, you just turn off your brain and work on full auto while you think about stuff. It's therapeutic in a way, once you hit your zone. I worked all sorts of warehouses and construction site jobs, through all sorts of factory work. One job was me loading and unloading lorries all day long, without a break because "we don't know if you're working 8 or 11 hours today, and you are only legally entitled to a break from 9 hours onwards". And if there were no lorries and you had to sit down and wait, they deducted it from your time. Parcels were all shapes and sizes and weights, and could weigh up to 50 kilos. Loading lorries you were supposed to be 2 people per lorry, often worked 2 lorries alone though... Learn how to throw the parcels right, because if you load the lorries you gotta play tetris and you don't have time to walk in with every parcel from the band, you have to be quicker than they come, or the whole system comes to a stop and they yell at you. I remember having to load lorries full of car tyres with rims, which weigh like 30 kilos each, up to 2,50 high, and they come down a slope and crash into the break bar with enormous speeds sometimes. You have like 10 seconds per tyre, too. And I don't take smoke breaks, so I never got a break, smokers would just dart of every half hours for 20 minute breaks at a time... Because tyres are the only thing were you have 2 loaders per one lorry, otherwise it's impossible. Yet, as I mention, they still fuck off. And if you're so feisty to take a break to have lunch, they come and annoy you every 5 minutes, tapping their watch, saying they need you. There were no official break times... A day could be 6 hours, a day could be 12 hours. You have no idea of what's coming and WHEN. Some drivers are late and then you're fucked. At some point, when there was little work, you had everyone unload one lorry at the same time, and you spread the parcels over the bands that are there, so you kinda throw the parcels so that they don't break but also don't slide off (there were no siderails on those bands) and with the barcode up so the scanner can scan it properly. That was my very first job and I thoughtt it was normal, because i had no other references lmao. I worked there maybe a year or so and then went on in my professional life to do other things. Years later I picked up agency work, and I realised: No other job is even remotely as hard as that one. Heavy parcels, very fast and physically demanding work, you also need a lot of skill to handle the parcels right (or your wall of parcels collapses on you or you break parcels or something else) and virtually no breaks, and everyone is just bossing you around like you're a sla ve. | |||
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"- Being a window cleaner on a skyscraper." With a strong breeze! | |||
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"A single male on Fab "This is the answer I was looking for!!! | |||
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"Work on the space station!" Does that count as 'in the world' though? | |||
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"Working on the deck of an aircraft carrier." Why is that particularly hard? | |||
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"Anything which involves making split second decisions where life and death are concerned. Everything else is replaceable! But the jobs where if you make the wrong call it’s literally curtains! I shall let you draw your own conclusions " It's easier to draw the curtains. | |||
"Working on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Why is that particularly hard?" Rotor and engine wash. Landing on an moving carrier in rolling seas, or at night, Fast moving and aircraft. A snippet from an article, The deck is a busy place, full of dangerous things — like bombs, bullets and fuel. In 1967 a Zuni rocket on a F-4 Phantom misfired and started a massive fire onboard USS Forestall. The fire on the deck burned for hours and cost the lives of 134 crewmembers. Metals like magnesium and phosphorus used in munitions can combust causing Delta-class fires. The metals burn at thousands of degrees and are very difficult to put out. More dangerous but hard work also. | |||
"Anything which involves making split second decisions where life and death are concerned. Everything else is replaceable! But the jobs where if you make the wrong call it’s literally curtains! I shall let you draw your own conclusions It's easier to draw the curtains. " That’s when the skill comes into it…..hence, hardest job you think there is | |||
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"I have to say that although some great ideas, but do you think being a teacher is harder than having to eek out an existence in the sub saharan diamond mines, only being paid what you find and with a life expectancy of 36? Just so all the ladies can get a nice (and very common) diamond ring? Or looking after Aids patients in a ward of a hospital In South Africa that the ANC has not funded for 2 years so your not being paid? I mean we are talking the world not the UK. There are working conditions around the world today that your great grandparents didn't have to do. Or a north Korean farmer? " I think we can acknowledge that many jobs are hard without dismissing each other. I mean sure, the quadruple amputee with untreated AIDS who's a dissident in North Korea has a hard life, but he has so many benefits compared to (someone who has it worse), he should just be happy with his life, ungrateful git. Turn that smile upside down, you're literally not the most unlucky person in the world! | |||
"Working on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Why is that particularly hard? Rotor and engine wash. Landing on an moving carrier in rolling seas, or at night, Fast moving and aircraft. A snippet from an article, The deck is a busy place, full of dangerous things — like bombs, bullets and fuel. In 1967 a Zuni rocket on a F-4 Phantom misfired and started a massive fire onboard USS Forestall. The fire on the deck burned for hours and cost the lives of 134 crewmembers. Metals like magnesium and phosphorus used in munitions can combust causing Delta-class fires. The metals burn at thousands of degrees and are very difficult to put out. More dangerous but hard work also." Rotor and engine wash. ---- that's just a mechanical job. Don't see what's so overly hard about it. Landing on an moving carrier in rolling seas, or at night, Fast moving and aircraft. ------ that is not working on deck, that is flying. Two different jobs and positions. And that snippet is a freak accident. That is not part of the job description. | |||
"I have to say that although some great ideas, but do you think being a teacher is harder than having to eek out an existence in the sub saharan diamond mines, only being paid what you find and with a life expectancy of 36? Just so all the ladies can get a nice (and very common) diamond ring? Or looking after Aids patients in a ward of a hospital In South Africa that the ANC has not funded for 2 years so your not being paid? I mean we are talking the world not the UK. There are working conditions around the world today that your great grandparents didn't have to do. Or a north Korean farmer? " Those are not jobs, that's literally slav ery. So of course it sucks. | |||
"I really don't know. I can think of loads. Doctors, paramedics... police, they have to see some awful things... same with social workers. I can imagine it takes a toll on your mental health. But then, what about the people who work to help trafficked children etc? I couldn't do it. And those who clean up after suicides, murders... or those who work with children who are sick and dying. But then there are also jobs that risk your life, or jobs that are isolating and lonely. Or jobs where you're being worked to the bone for nothing in return. I couldn't pick just one. Police do fuck all.. Not a hard job tbh... They need to start doing their actual job for a change x Right. Just because you don't see them running down the street in firefights all day long, doesn't mean they don't do their job. In fact, if you don't see them they are doing a good job! Police in the UK is not perfect, but I'd rather have the UK police than the cops they have in thailand, mexico or guatemala... Be a little more thankful for how they keep you save. " Obviously you never had to call on them | |||
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"I genuinely think that although it’s probably emotionally rewarding if not monetarily so, that social worker is the hardest job in the world. That and crocodile wrestler. " *Aussie blokes with big dick energy enter the chat* | |||
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"A podcast clip popped up on my YouTube feed & this young lass was debating how her job as a ‘cam girl’ was 1 of the hardest job in the world . Myself I wouldn’t have put that even in the top 100 hardest jobs lol I thought being a brick layer in August was a harder graft.
But what do you think is the hardest job in the world?"Marble cutter | |||
"I have to say that although some great ideas, but do you think being a teacher is harder than having to eek out an existence in the sub saharan diamond mines, only being paid what you find and with a life expectancy of 36? Just so all the ladies can get a nice (and very common) diamond ring? Or looking after Aids patients in a ward of a hospital In South Africa that the ANC has not funded for 2 years so your not being paid? I mean we are talking the world not the UK. There are working conditions around the world today that your great grandparents didn't have to do. Or a north Korean farmer? Those are not jobs, that's literally slav ery. So of course it sucks." true but a lot of the world lives like that. Sadly sl$very is rife in the world. And genuinly the worst job in the UK would be bliss to a vast amount of people always remember that. There is a quote from Warren buffet that goes along the lines of "even the lowest paid workers in the US today live lives that are better than the kings of 300 years ago" totally butchered but applies. Remember we have it ok even if not as well as the top 1 percent. But never stop fighting for more and better. Try and improve your life your health and your benefit to the people around you and if you do that we will continue to get better | |||
"I have worked in retail, with kids, in kitchens, in telesales, and I have worked in extremely labour-intensive jobs. When my Son was born and later developed severe disabilities, I had to give up work to become a full-time Parent Carer. Nothing I have ever done has been as hard, as stressful, as demanding nor as exhausting as what I do now. Carers (especially unpaid) are absolute fucking Saints! x" agreed, the government need to take a hard look at themselves when they waste our tax on shit when the saints of the countries go un thanked. One point is if king Charles had forgone a extra bank holiday for his coronation we could have given a one year 4 percent bonus to all of the nhs staff. Waste needs to be tackled, unwanted days off, I would have taken a normal year and given them a 4 percent bonus. Beats clapping for the nhs clapping pays no bills. | |||
"I have worked in retail, with kids, in kitchens, in telesales, and I have worked in extremely labour-intensive jobs. When my Son was born and later developed severe disabilities, I had to give up work to become a full-time Parent Carer. Nothing I have ever done has been as hard, as stressful, as demanding nor as exhausting as what I do now. Carers (especially unpaid) are absolute fucking Saints! x" Done a work placement at a special needs facility & can totally understand & agree with you it’s not a 9-5 its hard work 24hrs a day everyday | |||
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"I really don't know. I can think of loads. Doctors, paramedics... police, they have to see some awful things... same with social workers. I can imagine it takes a toll on your mental health. But then, what about the people who work to help trafficked children etc? I couldn't do it. And those who clean up after suicides, murders... or those who work with children who are sick and dying. But then there are also jobs that risk your life, or jobs that are isolating and lonely. Or jobs where you're being worked to the bone for nothing in return. I couldn't pick just one. Police do fuck all.. Not a hard job tbh... They need to start doing their actual job for a change x Right. Just because you don't see them running down the street in firefights all day long, doesn't mean they don't do their job. In fact, if you don't see them they are doing a good job! Police in the UK is not perfect, but I'd rather have the UK police than the cops they have in thailand, mexico or guatemala... Be a little more thankful for how they keep you save. Obviously you never had to call on them "Riiiight... Or maybe I just understand that the police here is doing their jobs way better than somewhere else, and without the police, our society would be a lot worse. Just because they're not perfect, doesn't mean they don't do anything. | |||
"I have to say that although some great ideas, but do you think being a teacher is harder than having to eek out an existence in the sub saharan diamond mines, only being paid what you find and with a life expectancy of 36? Just so all the ladies can get a nice (and very common) diamond ring? Or looking after Aids patients in a ward of a hospital In South Africa that the ANC has not funded for 2 years so your not being paid? I mean we are talking the world not the UK. There are working conditions around the world today that your great grandparents didn't have to do. Or a north Korean farmer? Those are not jobs, that's literally slav ery. So of course it sucks. true but a lot of the world lives like that. Sadly sl$very is rife in the world. And genuinly the worst job in the UK would be bliss to a vast amount of people always remember that. There is a quote from Warren buffet that goes along the lines of "even the lowest paid workers in the US today live lives that are better than the kings of 300 years ago" totally butchered but applies. Remember we have it ok even if not as well as the top 1 percent. But never stop fighting for more and better. Try and improve your life your health and your benefit to the people around you and if you do that we will continue to get better" ' I agree, but I want to empathise again: Sl ave work is irrelevant when discussing what is the hardest job in the world. Because being a sl ave is not a job. | |||
"I have worked in retail, with kids, in kitchens, in telesales, and I have worked in extremely labour-intensive jobs. When my Son was born and later developed severe disabilities, I had to give up work to become a full-time Parent Carer. Nothing I have ever done has been as hard, as stressful, as demanding nor as exhausting as what I do now. Carers (especially unpaid) are absolute fucking Saints! x" What labour intense jobs did you work in? | |||
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