Films and television can distort our view of certain things. Professions are no exception. I watched my fair share ofGrey’s Anatomyand saw how they’re constantly shocking flat-lining patients. Turns out, it’s not actually true. Asystole (the technical term for ‘flat-lining’) is not a ‘shockable rhythm,’ according to theCleveland Clinic. So, the whole thing is a hoax.Well, every day is an opportunity to learn something new, so let’s do that, shall we? Let’s see what other people have to say about their professions and the misconceptions that people have about them. The Redditor MajesticWin8708 was curious andaskedother netizens: “What’s one myth about your profession you would like to debunk?” Check out people’s answers below!This post may includeaffiliate links.
Films and television can distort our view of certain things. Professions are no exception. I watched my fair share ofGrey’s Anatomyand saw how they’re constantly shocking flat-lining patients. Turns out, it’s not actually true. Asystole (the technical term for ‘flat-lining’) is not a ‘shockable rhythm,’ according to theCleveland Clinic. So, the whole thing is a hoax.
Well, every day is an opportunity to learn something new, so let’s do that, shall we? Let’s see what other people have to say about their professions and the misconceptions that people have about them. The Redditor MajesticWin8708 was curious andaskedother netizens: “What’s one myth about your profession you would like to debunk?” Check out people’s answers below!
This post may includeaffiliate links.
Not everyone who works in fast food is:- A teenager trying to make some fun money, or trying to save up for school or a car.- “So stupid they couldn’t get a real job”- A felon who couldn’t get hired anywhere else- Lazy and entitled and “wants $15 an hour to play on their phone all day"Most people who work in fast food are:- Hard working, honest folks who want to be able to pay their bills and take care of their family.- Fed up with you assuming they’re too lazy or dumb to get a “real job"Edit: Lmaooo this one really got some people riled up, huh?
Janitor here. We aren’t lazy people who just sit around and drink coffee.All buildings require a hefty amount of maintenance and most commercial buildings would be unusable in less than a month without a team of janitors and sanitisers.We are constantly on our feet and there’s always something that needs fixing, so even on a quiet day, I walk around 30k steps.
Television and film portray some professions in a more positive light, and others are portrayed more negatively. Sales-related professions usually have itthe worst. ThinkWolf of Wall Street, where the characters are money-grabbing, coked-out, and ruthless anti-heroes. On the other side of the spectrum, there’sThe Office, where salespeople are often incompetent and spend their workday pranking each other.
“I think that some of Ted’s personality traits are similar to architects in the real [world]; sometimes pretentious, a stickler for semantics, full of random information, and small amounts of obsessiveness; all character traits I see all the time in myself and my colleagues.”
I’m a librarian, and no I don’t shelve books all day. Those are pages (actual name) and I am so grateful to them for all the work they do. No I do not read books all day. I actually don’t get to read very often at all. If you apply to work at a library, a phrase like “I love to read books” is a red flag because you’ve not given any thought to actual library operations. I also rarely check books in and out, those are circulation clerks and they are badasses. Librarians do handle book purchasing, programming, and outreach; and what they do in those areas varies a lot based on their local situation. I’m an academic librarian. I work in a university and publish research, teach classes, program software, among other things.
That Geology is just sbout rocks. Its also about Paleontology, Paleoclimatology, Earth history, how life began, how our planet became what it is today, volcanoes, earthquakes, Geophysics, mining, engineering and more, its a great career sector and generally well paid.
Computer programmer (software engineer). Just because I write software doesn’t mean I can necessarily troubleshoot your hardware when it doesn’t work.
Researchersat the Southern University of California analyzed data from 70 years of media subtitles and film in the UK and the US. They found that manual labor and military occupations were mentioned a lot less over the years.
The professions that get the most attention nowadays are STEM, arts, sports, and careers in entertainment. This correlates directly with what professions are popular at the moment.
There are increasingly more mentions of specialized medical professions: cardiologists, gynecologists, and neurologists. On the other hand, attitudes towards astronauts, detectives, therapists, musicians, singers, and engineers became more positive.
Bass players are failed guitarists.Most of us can play guitar too. We just prefer bass.
a few for airline pilotsWe probably don’t have a “route” per se. We fly a type of plane and we bid for “trips” each month which depending on the plane you’re currently flying could vary enormously.If you’re senior enough you could bid a “route” let’s say weekday Miami to New York and back 10 times a month and that’s all you choose to do.The Plane flies itself. This one isn’t really true. The autopilot is a tool to reduce workload but we still have to “tell” the plane what to do and understand the rules around when, why, and how to do it.
That all teachers are unhappy and underpaid. I am underpaid, but I am not unhappy. I love my job.
I am a phlebotomist (I draw blood) surprisingly I do have feelings so when you get mad at me for doing my job and hit/kick/spit/scream at me I get upset. Now if you cry during a blood draw I’m not going to judge you needles are freaky. Just don’t take your bad hospital breakfast out on me.
Firefighter/paramedic of 24 years. The vast, vast majority of calls aren’t for emergencies. Far from it. It’s almost all low acuity medical calls to nursing homes, people who don’t want to wait to visit their primary physician, people who absolutely refuse to take care of themselves, people who want/demand for us to help them but won’t lift a finger to help themselves.Don’t get me wrong, we respond to plenty of true emergencies and there are definitely people out there who are appreciative and doing the right thing when it comes to taking care of themselves.However, for every one, actual, emergency there is at least one 400lb type 2 diabetic on the third floor apartment who hurt their knee two weeks ago and now suddenly during a snowstorm they want us to take them to the hospital because they ran out of hydrocodone and never followed up with Ortho like they were supposed to.
Work travel is not glamourous. It’s oftentimes stressful with airport b******t, delays, etc. In most cases, work travel means doing your same job (or perhaps a more stressful part of your job) while jetlagged and exhausted in a new environment.Can it be fun? Yes.Is it a touristy, sightseeing trip? No.
As a person that used to work in retail I can say we do not have that popular must have out of stock item squirrelled away in the back storage and hidden to sell to our friends or ourselves at a later time.Inventory is all controlled and monitored via computer systems these days. Management would have a mental fit if our inventory system showed that we had stock of an item and can’t account for it.EditWhen you ask us to check in the back. I used to take a small break because I know how our inventory system works and there’s no sense for me to make an effort to look for something that I know we don’t have instock.
I don’t know why customers continue to think the manager is going to side with them. All they are going to do is say the same thing I’ve been saying for the past 10 minutes.
If you send your food back to a kitchen, nobody spits on it. We may laugh because we made it exactly the way it appeared on the ticket, but we’ll fix it because that’s our job.
Agriculture: we aren’t destroying the planet with pesticides, we are trying to make more food on the same amount of land to keep up with the global population ever increasing
Medical lab/research techs don’t hold erlenmeyer flasks filled with brightly colored liquids up above their heads to gaze at them with light filtering through. Even in the fields where your role requires you to inspect the opacity of a sample or reagent, that is an idiot move. But it’s like the standard for stock photos and tv/movie extras
Fine artists are not troubled, antisocial, weird, angry, and can actually be pleasant to be around. Most of us just like to paint.
Mail carrier. We don’t decide whether or not we’re going to deliver your check that day, we just deliver whatever the machines and clerks give to us.
Most lawyers spend a tiny fraction of their work time in court and many lawyers never go to court.
Counselling. We can’t fix everyone. You can’t force someone into counselling. It doesn’t matter how much relatives want someone to do it (eg a wife forces a husband or mother forces a child to go) unless they want to, there is nothing we can do. They need to be willing to engage. Even then it’s not a fix all, for example with bereavement you won’t stop being sad, we just give you tools to learn to carry on with your new normal.
I’m in mental healthcare…so…gestures to everything
Scientist who does animal testing. We can’t just do experiments that we want to. We have to get ethical approval for it first and then report back to the ethics committee every year. Violating animal ethics will get you placed in prison.Journals that we publish in (because we MUST publish) will reject your paper if they suspect ethics violations.People doing the experiments don’t enjoy hurting animals and there are no meta-studies assessing the impact of conducting animal studies on mental well-being.Most of the studies I’ve seen in the lab I’m at and others I’ve worked in are very necessary research. Addiction studies, sleep studies, pain studies, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s studies. You’re not going to get better drugs and surgeries without it being successfully performed in animals first. And no, cell studies and computer models are nowhere good enough to replace all animal studies.
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That office people just chat and drink coffee all day, whereas for some office jobs it might be true its definitely not true for mine.
Design engineers don’t engineer things to fail. They engineer things to last a minimum lifespan for a minimum cost. Sometimes we do that job well enough to convince you that it failed on purpose, but the reality is that a failed product will never make us look successful at our job.Also, yes. We could have given you a much better product. It just would have cost more than you would be willing to pay.
All water whether it be toilet water, dishwater, shower water etc. goes to the same place. Doesn’t matter what it’s used for, it all goes to the sewer.
Most American opera singers aren’t really that fancy. Most grew up middle class. The biggest fakes in our industry are Joyce di Donato and Thomas Hampson. They grew up in the Midwest. They use fake accents and are horrible at trying to give masterclasses. It’s incredibly common in American voice from the collegiate level to the big leagues. You’ll be talking to a professor with a chic British accent, then discover they were born and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey and have never gone to the UK. Tons of fakes and scammers.
I’m an electrician and it’s not only a pliers and a screwdriver we use all day.
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The way media shapes our perception of professions is quite similar to the stories we hear about workplace culture. Just as fiction often misrepresents careers, there are common misconceptions about work-life balance and how it impacts productivity on the job.For a deeper understanding of how prioritizing efficiency over unnecessary overtime can benefit both employees and employers, it’s insightful to explore thereasons behind not working unpaid overtimeas discussed in an insightful story about workplace dynamics.
The way media shapes our perception of professions is quite similar to the stories we hear about workplace culture. Just as fiction often misrepresents careers, there are common misconceptions about work-life balance and how it impacts productivity on the job.
For a deeper understanding of how prioritizing efficiency over unnecessary overtime can benefit both employees and employers, it’s insightful to explore thereasons behind not working unpaid overtimeas discussed in an insightful story about workplace dynamics.
Pharmacy technicians do more than count pills and put a label on it.We do a lot of work with your insurance company too on the retail side. I work at hospital where I make IVs for the OR. I basically am a chemist in that regard. And I’m supposed to be able to do it under the pressure of patient crashing and about to die.If you don’t know how IVs are made. In many cases I’m given a powder form of a drug and I have to add a diluent to it. It could be NS, sterile water, D5, albumin, etc. And then I have to manipulate the drug to get it into a liquid form. Sometimes the drug creates a lot of heat or sometimes a lot of negative or positive pressure and I have to be able to get it out of the vial. Often times under a lot of pressure to get it done as fast as possible.
not my profession but my workplace. i work in a library and no i don’t tell people to be quiet.edit. for my second job. as an light director i don’t choose the songs the DJ play
That you get to help people (mental healthcare).Make no mistake; you can’t help anyone. They have to choose to want help. More often than not they don’t want help but are there because they have to be.
Not every guy working in IT is a socially awkward a***e. A lot of us are fun to be around and have had teh sex many times. Also we dont have the answer for everything in our brain, we Google a lot of stEDIT: or girl
That professors don’t know anything about the world outside their specific area of expertise. It’s just a lame stereotype that people came up with to try to feel superior to people who are more educated than them. You might be shocked to hear this but most professors are generally no different than people in any other profession. We have social lives, family lives, hobbies and interests that have nothing to do with our areas of expertise, we read the news, follow current events, pay bills and taxes, deal with the same as everyone else does (like the kind who think an entire profession can be dismissed with a childish stereotype) and basically deal with all the same bt everyone else deals with. It’s the kind of thing that shouldn’t shock anyone except those too stupid to see the world in anything other than the most simplistic black and white terms.
Pediatrics: we don’t get any money from pharmaceutical companies. Don’t even get the fancy dinners that some subspecialties get. Pharm companies don’t care about us because we don’t use expensive/new drugs (heme/oncology being the exception but I’m pretty sure they don’t get fancy dinners either)
That a military contractor = Mercenary.I fix cars lol
HR Manager.I’m not out to get you or fire you. I do not have the ability to fire you out of nowhere. I’m just here to file the paperwork and to keep the company from doing illegal s**t.
That hemp products don’t work the same as normal THC products. They do. Due to the laws interpretation (they are aggressively trying to change it) real cannabis is now being sold in smoke shops and online across the country as HIGH THCA flower and edibles contain the same if not more thc than in licensed dispensaries.
I sell guns at a gun store in the US.1) there is no such thing as a “gun show loophole” for dealers. If we sell a gun at a gun show, we must run a background check.2) there is no “boyfriend loophole.” That’s just a straw purchase and it’s already illegal.3) A small gun is terrible for self defense and is hard to shoot accurately and safely. Rifles are a better option and are generally less likely to over penetrate walls.
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