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Jobs with a high mortality rate or drastically shortened life expectancy in places without an alternative.
A migrant in a foreign land, alone, with hostile racist imbeciles everywhere around them, working like a slave.
Sounds like Qatar and UAE.
Or the immigrants from Morocco that work the fields in Spain to produce fruits for all Europe.
Lol really? I’m not aware
Thousands died building Qatar’s infrastructure in preparation for the World Cup.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/11/30/qatar-world-cup-chief-publicly-admits-high-migrant-death-tolls
That’s shitty
The last World Cup was built on the backs of slaves
They surrender their passport on arriving.
They’re housed in a state so poor, that their keepers honestly said “they don’t need a shower as they can wash themselves from the bowl of a clean toilet” as if that was okay.
They work in stifling heat without water, break, or humanitarian oversight.
They die.
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There are people who have to dive into septic tanks and sewage ponds to fix stuff. Pretty sure that is objectively the shittiest job in the world.
Anything to do with politics.
Your background will have to be audited thoroughly. Anything you say or do is going to get reported or even worse twisted. No financial freedom otherwise it would be seen as corruption no matter how small. You are expected to make the correct decisions for the future while not knowing how it would turn out, so you can’t fix everything no matter how hard you try, you aren’t going to make everyone happy, there are always people who are going to be pissed at you, you will get called in the worst names possible, and you are expected to have to take on all of that shit in the name of criticism.
Content reviewer for big tech companies. It’s your job to watch live video of all the things that are against all the rules. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know the language; screams are universal. You have to push a button if it’s bad enough. They’re trying as hard as they can to replace you with AI, by the way. If we’re lucky, the AI is somehow good at this job without actually suffering.
Now imagine doing this for free, like what Reddit mods do.
Came here to say this one. Imagine watching NSFL content day in and day out. Absolutely depressing.
The airport clerk at the lost luggage counter. I’ve watched dozens of people run over to wait in line, then to shout at him when it’s their turn, their flight was cancelled or redirected without their bags, they’re going to sue his company and demand he reimburses their entire vacation, all before he even opens his mouth. And then the next person has the same story and they have to spill the entire thing out again.
The clerk looks tremendously beaten down, and just answers the customers with robotic answers, “please fill out the form, the airline will contact you within 24 hours. Please fill out the form, the airline will contact you within 24 hours.”
Picking through a smouldering trash heap to collect the occasional phone, radio or whatever, to burn it down for metals.
Globally
Probably being one of those exploited slaves in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the hand dug tunnels to mine cobalt. Or indebted slaves in Pakistan who spend their whole lives making bricks for taking out predatory loans.
But where I live any manual labor as I am very accident prone, or DMV and Postoffice.
I saw a recent video about the debt slaves in Pakistan, the families making those bricks literally do nothing but make bricks all day every day. They sleep In a hut 10 meters away from where the work, wake up, and make clay bricks by hand all day until the sun goes down. They take short breaks to eat and they stop to sleep but other than that it’s just bricks all day every day. Whole families do it, husband, wife, grandmother, grandfather, kids (no school, just bricks). They work until their debt is paid off but the owners of their debt are purposely obscure about how much they owe and just keep them working as long as they can. It’s really sad.
DMV and Post Office have decent pay and great benefits lol
Yeah it’s not working at the DMV that sucks. It’s being a customer that sucks.
Russian front-line infantry
You could not pay me enough to be a daycare provider. I’m a father of two and feel overwhelmed sometimes…I can’t imagine taking care of 10-20 all day everyday.
Any job where you service
I do really hate having to service
Right now? Probably CEO of Twitter. In more conventional times, probably suicide bomber has gotta rank pretty high, I’d think.
Neither of those are really jobs.
Lmao I love my job but would give it up to be CEO of Twitter. Collect the salary and get out. It can’t really be that bad.