33 "Glamorous" Jobs That Are Actually Soul-Crushing Hellscapes According To The People Who Work Them

1. "Lawyer. Dramatic objections connected TV. In existent life, mountains of paperwork and emails."

—maandy19

2. "Architecture. Expectations: gathering a Greek temple and talking to affluent people. Reality: Managing subcontractor screwups, managing readying section requirements."

—I_love_pillows

3. "I'm a zookeeper. It's not ever miserable, but moving successful 100+ degrees, the carnal labor, perpetually trying to explicate to radical that the animals bash successful information person h2o adjacent if you don't spot a bowl, and saying goodbye to truthful galore friends takes it's toll. I'm inactive truthful blessed to bash it, but immoderate days are truthful damn hard."

—Tragic_Kingdom

4. "Being a cook looks each fancy connected TV but successful world it’s heat, burns, stress, and nary societal life."

—Smollasiangirlie

5. "Teaching English successful Japan. Unless you person a masters and a licence successful your location country, you’ll ne'er beryllium a existent teacher. The wage is stagnant. There is nary growth. Most English teaching jobs are either sales, oregon babysitting."

—Zidane62

6. "Being a personage looks glamorous and it tin beryllium astatine times but it tin besides beryllium miserable. Your intelligence wellness suffers, you get zero privacy, and the hours connected acceptable tin get horrible. People besides enactment similar they’re entitled to your clip and attraction conscionable due to the fact that they saw you connected a screen. You sometimes don’t cognize who likes you for you oregon if it’s conscionable the fame and money."

—GamerGirlLex77

7. "I’ve been a touring instrumentalist for 20+ years and played with immoderate good-sized acts and a fewer icons. 'Going connected tour' sounds large due to the fact that you get to question the satellite and you’re 'the event' and there’s a enactment going connected each of the time, but you mostly spot the wrong of edifice rooms successful each of those places (but it is beauteous seeing places from a autobus window). The vigor from the shows takes a portion to travel down from, and there’s lone truthful galore things to bash successful the hours aft the performance ends. If you don’t enactment oregon cheat connected your wife, the lone enactment near is beauteous overmuch late-night TV. Then there’s question clip (tons of audiobooks), hurrying up to get places, past waiting astir til they telephone you for soundcheck, past waiting til the show. You can’t truly permission (unless the full set goes together), but it is kinda bully having everything brought to you."

—notMarkKnopfler

8. "Fitness, specifically boutique Pilates. Looks beauteous connected the extracurricular — beauteous radical successful beauteous studios — but the world is I enactment 45 hours a week connected my feet, teaching (in part) Pilates to affluent radical who dainty maine similar the help, past I spell location with my affectional and carnal artillery wholly drained."

—laserminneli

9. "Working connected a cruise ship. Twelve-hour days, small to nary days off, and small pay. Eight to 12 months consecutive contract. You deliberation you get to spot the world, but you seldom truly permission the ship. Plus highly cramped surviving quarters with small to nary privacy."

—Zjimmy123

10. "Archeologist! If you are doing tract enactment (actually astatine the excavation tract and not successful the lab), you are retired successful the elements... In bid to excavation those holes, you person to transportation a screen, a bucket, a shovel, and your trowel. You are carrying this, positive your worldly and immoderate water, up implicit sometimes less-than-kind terrain. Think overgrown writer connected hillsides with bugs. And you are outside. In the sun. Because digging erstwhile it's raining is conscionable not a bully idea."

—isabelladangelo

11. "Personal trainers. It’s precise hard to marque a livable wage unless you’re self-employed. Work hours are typically earlier and aft radical get retired of work... You’re going to thatch the aforesaid things, usually to beginners, implicit and over... It tin beryllium a highly toxic enactment environment."

—cash_jc

12. "Graphic design. You think: I’ll marque ace chill stuff. It’ll beryllium things I’m arrogant of, it’ll beryllium truthful amazing. But successful reality, you’re moving astatine immoderate corp that doesn’t springiness a fuck astir creativity oregon your 'vision.' You instrumentality to the branding guidelines built by immoderate advertisement bureau that thinks it’s God's acquisition to creation. Buzzwords abound surrounding immoderate logo and marque elements are chosen. You are a template maker. A pixel pusher with nary existent agency. People who don’t get plan volition beryllium your bosses and marque each the decisions for you."

—amnicr

13. "I would NOT telephone it miserable — but being an histrion means rejection aft rejection aft rejection and changeless comparison. There’s a crushed truthful galore radical leave. It’s not conscionable the, 'they weren’t talented'. The toll the hours instrumentality connected your carnal health, the fiscal uncertainty, and the isolation that it tin bring is not for everyone."

—agizzy23

14. "Marine biologist. People deliberation it’s scuba diving successful tropical coral reefs and swimming with dolphins. It tin beryllium that sometimes, but usually it’s worrying astir the pH level of tanks earlier your food dice and being a glorified janitor successful cold, dark, bedewed rooms. And the wage sucks."

—hdhabi

15. "I was a ballerina arsenic a teen and trained astatine a well-known school. It was mean for instructors to pinch girls’ waists and archer them to suffer weight. It was truly toxic."

—ProsciuttoPizza

16. "Modelling was amusive astatine first, but precise rapidly felt a spot empty. Apart from the unit to look 'perfect', you're besides mostly treated similar a quality mannequin — it's conscionable a unusual feeling to person a fig of radical fuss implicit you, your clothes, your hair, your makeup, but astatine the aforesaid clip besides wholly ignoring you arsenic a person."

—a-l-p

17. "Content instauration sounds similar my ain idiosyncratic hell. You person to support up the grind, each hr you deliberation and hunt for caller content. There are each the hours of editing if you don't wage an editor. You can't instrumentality a agelong interruption due to the fact that the algorithm volition fuck your career, and you person to bust your ass to marque time. You mightiness not adjacent nett that galore followers."

—DeviousMelons

18. "Tattoo artist. Unless you’ve been moving connected your method skill, originative ability, colour understanding, and doing regular stretches, you’re fucked. Yes, you tin marque decent money, but you’re pulling agelong hours, moving precocious into the night, sometimes not taking a time disconnected for weeks. This tin spell connected for years until you found a lawsuit base."

—SweetnessSurrender

19. "Luxury hospitality/hotels. People are truthful so cruel/awful erstwhile they expect you to beryllium their enslaved due to the fact that they paid a lot. It’s not fun, and you get nary amended perks than different places, different than the gathering looks prettier."

—Prudent-Activity1901

20. "Dog groomer. It looks truthful amusive to springiness puppies cute haircuts, but successful reality, it's each conscionable poop and neglect."

—Mousewaterdrinker

21. "Wedding planner and the wedding manufacture successful general! Working astir weekends, missing birthdays, our ain household weddings, and funerals, past turning backmost astir and doing admin during the week. Ten to twelve-hour days connected your feet, putting retired tiny small fires everywhere. It’s genuinely a labour of emotion and astir radical pain retired truthful quickly."

—autumnaw

22. "I wouldn't accidental miserable, but arsenic a florist, radical would often accidental 'it indispensable beryllium beauteous playing with flowers each day' and I'd be, like, wow, you deliberation this is simply a game?? On my feet 60+ hours a week, tons of dense lifting, unspeakable arthritis, my hands are covered successful scratches and permanently dirty. Spend fractional a displacement bending implicit to scrub buckets with bleach. I emotion the ,work but it's not glamorous, nary substance what the Hallmark transmission tells you! Oh, and the customers are NUTS!!!"

—beejaybaker

23. "Media — radio, successful my idiosyncratic experience. Long hours, mediocre pay, rampant sexism and being perpetually told there's a enactment of radical wanting your occupation if you dared to 'step retired of line'."

—RavenSkies777

24. "Journalism. I person seen truthful galore young girls going into journalism to go Carrie Bradshaw, oregon young boys, thinking, they volition analyse immoderate benignant of brainsick political/criminal themes... In world astir of them volition constitute boring texts, that has much to bash with copywritting than with journalism."

—Envy_Clarissa

25. "Being an enforcement successful a Fortune 500 company. I deliberation Jack Welch said 'everybody wants my paycheck, but cipher wants my life'. You’re nether tremendous accent to perpetually execute a never-ending acceptable of raised bars of targets. You’re dealing with a batch of people, and each 1 of them has their unsocial acceptable of problems. You don’t person the intelligence relaxation of knowing the enactment ends astatine 6 p.m. — enactment ne'er ends. As a batch of radical privation your position, you person to woody with nasty bureau authorities each the time. Your household is having a comfy beingness with each the fiscal benefits, but due to the fact that of travels and endless meetings, you miss captious moments successful your children’s lives."

—AssistantDesigner884

26. "Not precisely glamorous per se, but the magnitude of radical who presume room assistants beryllium astir speechmaking each time staggers me. God, I privation that were the lawsuit erstwhile I’m closing the nationalist bathrooms due to the fact that someone’s destroyed them again."

—SilikatRD

27. "Realtors. A batch of competition, irregular pay, assortment of hats to deterioration successful bid to bash a clump of things connected your own."

—avidoverthinker1

28. "Sales tin beryllium similar this. Free caller car! Lots of travel! But that each gets aged beauteous speedy erstwhile you person to walk truthful overmuch clip distant from family. Lots of clip distant surviving retired of a suitcase gets beauteous tiring."

—Gypsyfella

29. "Game dev. You volition walk astir nary clip astatine each ‘playing’ games adjacent if you’re QA. Upper absorption is astir ever idiosyncratic who knows thing astir however games are made."

—NeonFraction

30. "Flight attendants. Everyone thinks it’s glamorous traveling the world, but it’s exhausting schedules, pitchy lag, strict rules, and dealing with rude passengers."

—CommunityFluffy2845

31. "Anything marketing. It's changeless brainstorming, campaigns, societal media, strategies, ads boosting, contented development, PR, SEO, activations, events, and truthful overmuch more. The 'how bash we spell viral', 'make it much creative', 'can we marque it pop' bullshit are existent challenges that we look everyday. Running retired of originative juices and ideas feels similar a sin, and the situation is truthful fast-paced it'll pain you retired earlier you cognize it. We're thing similar Emily successful Paris."

—bluegiyuu

32. "Science and academia. Very overmuch politics, obligatory overtime and crunches. Very small respect and egomaniac professors moving down their researchers."

—SnooCakes1148

33. And finally, "A sports cause oregon a endowment agent. All you bash is babysit entitled brats."

—PanicCalm5427

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