Jobs-what job wouldn't you do

[mikehn]

I'll do anything legal if the price is right

 

[tink_n_pooh]

I can't really think of anything that I wouldn't do or at least try other than to work directly with a politician or company that I strongly disagree with their stance, belief, premise, etc.

 

[AKL_Megs]

I couldn't sell anything where I get commission. I hate to force myself on people!

I did this for a year and hated it! I just couldn't do it! I actually ended up getting fired for not meeting my quota. I just couldn't force that crappy furniture on people!

I could never be a firefighter. WAY too terrified of house fires.

With that in mind, anything that has to deal with house fires.

Anything having to do with processing milk, delivering milk, or stocking milk. I worked as a Consumables Specialist for Target years ago, and it was the DIRTIEST part of my job, having to deal with the milk. GROSS.

Anything having to deal with people and their saliva, sweat, or any other bodily fluid.

 

[Saphire]

I could never have a job requiring a lot of authority. A judge, a doctor, a CEO, an administrator, etc. I admire people who can manage all that responsibility, but I am a better 'worker-bee' and like having people 'above' me, lol.

 

[SOnotLayuh]

I couldn't deal with bodily fluids, mud, getting ANYTHING on my hands, etc. I have an OCD problem. I worked in the food industry through high school and college, and had to get special gloves that went up to my elbows! I couldn't deal with that!

Haha... I know... it's a problem.

 

[leslie@dvcstore]

i would have to agree with the comment basically anything mike rowe does on dirty jobs!

 

[remyandhollandsmommy]

Honestly? Pediatrics lol..I will HAPPILY work in a gastroenterologist office dealing with upper AND lower before I would work with kiddos (actually this was one of my fav offices I worked in lol). Not that I have anything against kids..I have three after all. It's just that dealing with sick kids daily creeps me out. And I am nervous about the thought of giving little ones shots..I mean the thought of sticking a needle in a fighting baby who is screaming bloody murder makes me cringe lol.

I have been asked to work in a few peds offices and gently turned them down. Alot of people look down on me for my stand on this but I feel that peds is a job you HAVE to love if you want to be happy in your work life. I 100% respect and admire those that can do it, I just know I can't and am honest enough to say so lol.

 

[shmoogrrrl]

I couldn't do ANYTHING that works with animals. I used to be an EMT/volunteer FF and can handle human blood and injury with no problem, but animals gross me out and I can't deal with it. I can't even watch animals on TV while I am eating, or it grosses me out. I am NOT a vegetarian, and I love meat, but I can't eat anything that looks like what it was when it was alive. My husband cooks the Thanksgiving turkey, and cuts it before I even see it. I am not that way because of some animal rights issue either. I have no real answer for why it is.

I couldn't be a Vet or work in a pet shop. I am allergic to dogs and completely terrified of them , so Dog walker is RIGHT out for me too. It is pretty bad. I panic when a strange dog or cat comes up to me, and I can't STAND being licked by dogs that I DO know! Even if I like them!

My daughter has fish, and even they freak me out sometimes.

Obviously I didn't grow up with pets....

 

[klacey1]

Anything that involves being paid on commission-- like I did one summer in college Nordstrom was the worst experience!
Or a telemarketing center-- like I did for three weeks in college. I'll never forget talking to a woman who was crying to me about how she just buried her husband and my boss standing over my shoulder saying "YOU STILL HAVE TO ASK HER TO DONATE TWO MORE TIMES." Ugh. Never again.

 

[kathie859]

Umm...or dancing in a cage sans clothes. Seriously--anything involving bodily fluids--I don't care if it's blood, snot, vomit....I just couldn't deal

 

[ilovepcot]

Poop and dead bodies? No problem! Kids? No way!!!

 

[loveWDWalways]

This thread reminds me of this quote from Mrs. Doubtfire. A housekeeper/babysitter was being interviewed:

"I don't do laundry, I don't do windows, I don't do carpets. I don't do bathtubs, I don't do toilets, and I don't do diapers. Well, I don't do washing. I don't do basements. I don't do dinners, I don't do reading."

There's so much from that movie I can apply to daily life (aka, the Dis; it seems like I'm on here enough! ).

 

[spacemermaid]

Anything that involves caca or dead bodies.

 

[loveWDWalways]

But, the one job that I would turn down at any cost would be a job that involved driving (delivery of any kind, escort, etc...not talking driving to/from work). I am the worst driver in the world and would probably wind up dead and possibly killing a lot of innocent bystanders. I don't know why I am so horrible at it, but I just am. My 18 year old daughter drives better than me.

OMG! This is me. I've been known to take avoid certain left turns by going the long way around to get on the road I need. At least I'm keeping people safe! At a bakery I once worked at, before a change in work schedule clashed with my school schedule and I left, I was told that delivery duties could be added to my responsibilities. You remember that episode of Full House where Michelle mushed up all the wedding cake samples into a gloppy mess? That's about what my delivered cakes would have looked like. Of course, I'd still have eaten the cake ... cake does NOT go to waste!

 

[dolphinrescuegirl]

Pretty much anything Mike Rowe does on Dirty Jobs.

Other than that, school bus driver. Never.

Me either. In the paper the other day, a high school kid attacked the bus driver because the driver refused to give him a cell phone that he had consficated! Didn't read the whole article but I think the driver was beaten pretty bad.

 

[tonilea]

I don't know that, under the right circumstances, there are any jobs I wouldn't do. BUT, I would have a very hard time in a medical field where I had to touch dirty, smelly people, help adults with personal care issues, etc. Surgery wouldn't bother me, I worked it the veterinary medicine field for ten years. lol It is the people that would skeeve me out! lol I would sooner eviserate chickens at Tysons!

 

[Becky2005]

For me, anything in an office, behind a desk, in a cubicle. I want to be busy and dirty.

See I love that kind of work!! We would compliment each other perfectly -- you go clean up the crime scene & I'll file the paperwork for it.

My ideal job would be to go into an office after they close and do all the busy work that can never seem to get done when people are around. Filing, etc.. (although I don't know how much is done now with computers). I worked as a secretary for 10 years in a multi-person environment. Filing although needed to be done, always seemed to be last on the list. I sorted mail, did data entry, answered the phones, stocked the supplies and made sure NO ONE touched the toner on the copier!!! The repairman put a big old note up there to not even THINK about touching it without consulting me when it said out of toner. We had to call him in several times where someone put the wrong stuff in the toner area, I guess because they thought they knew what they were doing but it was always a big old messy job to have it fixed. I think it was about the 3rd time where the note went up. I'm pretty sure he asked permission before putting it up there, I don't remember.

I know there are lots of jobs I wouldn't do but there are just as many that I *can* do them but would prefer not to. I'm thinking I really wouldn't want to be a Tollway attendant or road construction worker. I don't even like driving on the interstate much, can't imagine having to stand out there & have cars go zooming past me all day long.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Bus driver (school or public)

K-8 Teacher (I might be able to handle 9-12)

Anything in the sex industry

Police officer

Military

Waiter

Telemarketer, Helpdesk, Bill collector

 

[Luv Bunnies]

I guess a lot of you wouldn't like my job - Special Ed Preschool Teaching Assistant. I change diapers (yes, sometimes they're poopy). I've seen a few kids puke (we call the custodian to clean it up). I've been hit, kicked, bitten, scratched, spit at and peed on. I have to watch little kids eat and then clean up after them. I helped a kid change his clothes after he peed his pants today. I recently needed physical therapy after 8 years of having kids pull on my arm and shoulder. But, it's part time and I can be home when my kids get out of school. And, as far as part time jobs go it pays well. I like to tell my parents that they paid for my college education so I could change diapers!

 

[SiAmCrAzY]

I think I could do almost anything that didn't involve heartbreak on a daily basis.

Telemarketer, Bill collector or anything having to do with Health Insurance approval & denials

Anything involving foreclosures or repossessions, I have no desire to be a part of one of the worst days of someones life.

I have a friend that is a social worker, she is the kindest, most amazing person- she has an unbelievable amount of emotional strength and deals with the most horrible things human beings are capable of on a daily basis. A job like this would have me sobbing in a ball in the corner crying. I am just not that strong. I could never do it, but God bless those who do.