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I want to hear from people who do crucial but interesting jobs. As an example
@ozaddick has shown his pedigree with some well written class posts about working on oil rigs and the lifestyle that surrounds that occupation. Working on an oil rig is something I've always fancied purely for the isolation but would be easily put off I'm sure.
Same for
@AddickUpNorth keeping the worst humanity has to offer in check whilst they serve their time. Prison officers in general don't per se excite me but ones in high security prisons and their clientele very much do. His input about Dennis Neilson fascinated me
I know lots of scaffolders and their stories mainly involve Stella and punching each other but if any scaffs have stories that deviate (but not much) from there by all means get involved.
I'm not really interested in office roles, sorry. Data analysts, accountants, clerks, town planners, consultants or anyone who spends a considerable amount of time on LinkedIn. This is a read only experience. Unless it is truly interesting or you have a ground breaking interesting story. Or 'banking' unless you are going to regale us with tales of daily, genuine debauchery then keep your sordid activities to yourself. And categorically NO estate agents.
So come forth coppers, submariners, pilots, mercenaries, firemen/women, zookeepers, pub landlords, anything that means life and limb are in jeopardy, massage therapists, bouncers, paramedics, power station commisioners, oncologists, anyone who has driven a tank or fired in anger a .50 calibre belt fed machine gun, filmmakers
@JiMMy 85 and
@supaclive or anyone involved in the creation and production of the sort of media we all love to digest.
I'm after day in the life stories, worst days, best days, unusual stuff and stories of characters that also share your profession as well as cheaply asking for stories of customers, managers, colleagues, what personality traits help you get on in the job and what to avoid.
Nothing is taboo go for it and unload
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One of my favourite posters on here.
If you are reading mate I hope all's well.
Welcome back.
On the job front, I work in acute mental health assessment/treatment. I can honestly say that my job is rarely boring. I've been threatened (more times than I can count, this year alone) spat at, strangled, attempted stabbing, even had someone try to hypnotise me. Sat in countless homes, hospitals, police stations, police cars, train stations, ambulances, assessing life's troubled souls.
This last year has been very surreal. Most of the world are trying to protect their lives, whilst a portion of others (as always) are intent on the opposite.
OP was wanting insight into some of the 'out there' jobs, well in my view, mine is up there as a relentless assault on the senses.
It's hard to stay grounded when your benchmark for health and wellbeing is the, at all times disturbed, and occasionally, insane.
Sadly my years in this work has affected my sensitivity to those near and dear to me, as I can be quite cold and dismissive of what I view as minor troubles. It pains me to say that I've not always been respectful.
So often I am told, "I couldn't do your job", even by health professional colleagues, but it's just a job, like anyone elses, but one I see as a privilege
Two questions
1) largest foreign object found in a human body, specifically the anus
2) most unconventional object discovered in a human anus
I'll go with a marrow