r45 4 Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Dentist. I can't bear the though of looking in peoples mouths all day. Many of them probably not particularly, er, attractive. Your couldn't do job? Link to post Share on other sites
iiyamadude 6 Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Working in a convenience store or McDs or something. Just could not. At least the dentist takes home some decent yen. Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Nursing. Hard job that. Illness all around you. On your feet all day. Poor working conditions and pay. Nup - couldnt be a nurse. Link to post Share on other sites
BarbadosBob 0 Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 Teacher. Sounds like hell. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted May 12, 2009 Share Posted May 12, 2009 I would not like to have to work in the city and commute every day. Or even out of the city needing to be in at 8:30 and chained to the desk until 5:30. Don't think I could go back to something like that. But yes dentist has to be a horror. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 gynaecologist would be like taking your work home with you :S Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 You might as well ask me what jobs I can do, cos I can't do most of them. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 There are lots I cannot do, but that has more to do with my abilities rather than "likes". The job I just couldn't bring myself to do would be police accident investigator - spending your days looking at other people's tragedies - not for this little black duck! Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I second teaching, having done it for 3 years on JET it was hell. Can't imagine what it would be like in a UK school with insolence thrown in. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Special Needs Carer....I have a lot of respect for people who look after those with severe mental disabillities. I get kinda freaked out by them and it takes a very kind hearted and patient person to be able to deal with the challenges 24/7. Chicken farm hand, abattoir worker....I just think I'd forsake meat for the rest of my puff if I worked in the food industry Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I don't think I can be a soldier. In combat, kill or be killed. what a way to go through a work day. Link to post Share on other sites
mina2 6 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Yes that does not sound like a good idea. Commuting on packed trains to job in city. Sounds unbearable to me too. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Teaching was a great job, it was just the politics and the "you can't touch them" rules that killed it for me! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 JA, you wanted to touch your students? Link to post Share on other sites
stemik 14 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 i couldnt be a painter...one DIY job i dislike. Link to post Share on other sites
foreversnow 5 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: JA Teaching was a great job, it was just the politics and the "you can't touch them" rules that killed it for me! WHAT THE ????????????????????? Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 yeah, lucky for JA, if I had been a student at his HS, or perhaps if there had been students like me he wouldn't have came out in one piece.... Link to post Share on other sites
stemik 14 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: JA Teaching was a great job, it was just the politics and the "you can't touch them" rules that killed it for me! was it an all girls shcool or all boys you said you worked at? Link to post Share on other sites
snowboarding-sally 0 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Nursing yes. That looks so difficult, I just couldn't cope with that. Essential as it is. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: snowhuntress Originally Posted By: JA Teaching was a great job, it was just the politics and the "you can't touch them" rules that killed it for me! WHAT THE ????????????????????? Sorry, what part of my post is hard?Teaching was a great job, with many rewards. However, to keep your position, you had to "sell" your subject (I'm talking senior high where the only non-optional subject was English) to te kids and parents. If you didn't, the numbers fell and the class collapsed. Thus no job! In addition, there is a "no touch" policy. If you are a teacher and you haven't heard of it, watch out! If any child complains about your action, you are reported (mandated) to an investigatory body who can ask for your reaction to a claim of 'assault' without being able to tell you when/where/who. How can you respond to a claim when you don;t know when it was alleged to have happened? Buggered if I could! I miss the people i worked with, but not the rest of the crap! Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I would hazard a guess that the "touching students" comment is the one that's causing the fuss, JA........ Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Originally Posted By: stemik Originally Posted By: JA Teaching was a great job, it was just the politics and the "you can't touch them" rules that killed it for me! was it an all girls shcool or all boys you said you worked at? I have taught in a comprehensive (a yr 7 - 12) government school, in a central school (yr 1 - 10), in a Catholic Senior High (yr 11 and 12). All mixed gender. Why for you ask? Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I think the stir is that you might have liked to have 'touched' in an inappropriate way - you are getting stirred up JA. Personally I do see JA's issue - allegations need not be substantiated or reasonable to effect a persons career. Separate issue, but case in point - an off duty cop friend was out for a night on the town with a few of his female friends. He is a self defence instructor in the academy. The group got hassled by a drunk fellow who pushed one of the girls over and hurt her - so the friend of mine told the guy to stand down, go about his business and leave the ladies alone - fella launched at my friend and was blocked by his raised arm/elbow. Unfortunately the sirry irriot was so blind he made dumb decisions and had no balance so he fell over from launching himself into my friend who is a bricksh@thouse at the best of times, but had also consumed no alcohol at all. Dumb drunk party boy hit his head on the way down and had to go to hospital. Mind you first aid and ambulance calling all done by my cop friend - including restraining the violent injured n00b from hurting the ambo's, and he waited and gave a full police report. He has been stood down from his job - one punch laws - police union wont touch him because he was a private citizen at the time, and he doesnt have the right to keep his job until it is heard by a court because accoridng to the police department he is a cop 24/7. Mighty unfair! I think similar could be said about unfair allegations made in school environemnts - and elsewhere. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 I think slightly worried as much as winding up Mamabear. But I know what is being said. Teaching high school kids must be very difficult now. They may go home early, but they probably have to put up with a lot when they're there. Link to post Share on other sites
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