What careers did the genuinely nicest people you know personally get into?
What careers did the genuinely nicest people you know personally get into?
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Librarian. They love their time on the reference desk. Their main work is in discovery services.
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What are the discovery services?
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They have access to a bunch of digital content. However it can be hard to find what you are looking for or even know what databases and other services are available.
Discovery services try to make that more available to end users. Kind of like a index of all the digital content the library has available.
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One is a teacher, one works in a college applications office and one works in a helicopter parts factory.
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They deal with parents, helicopter parents, and helicopters. neat
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Lol
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The nicest people I know are nurses and teachers. Although I think there are genuinely nice people in all professions. I know nice people in HR and IT too.
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As a teenager, my friends and family always told me I was the nicest guy they knew... and they were genuinely shocked when I joined the US military.
I came home after Basic Training for a couple weeks before moving to my first assignment and everyone was surprised I came back successful. They expected I would've been kicked out for being too nice. In fact, I earned Honor Graduate.
I didn't know much about the military when I joined, except for what I'd seen in old war movies. But they had some amazing benefits that I couldn't pass up, and my uncle, a retired service member himself, highly encouraged it. I got free medical and dental, free college education, my initial career field training qualified me for most of an associate's degree in my field, free travel around the globe, free food/housing... and they paid me to do it all. It was the best deal I could get right out of high school.
My whole military experience was a lot different than I expected; I spent a lot of time correcting stereotypes about military service with my friends and family. I actually had a pretty good career and retired after 20 years of service.
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I've noticed anecdotally that people who join the military are mostly either really nice people or really terrible
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That is very true. Leaning more toward the terrible side, in my experience. However, the terrible people usually get out pretty early in their career, while the good people tend to stick around longer and make a full career out of it.
Not always the case; I've definitely met some terrible high ranking leaders in the military. But generally speaking, You need some solid core values in order to go far in your military career.
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With terrible being The kind of ppl that murder random civies from range and will high five each other for it. Then claim they felt threatened.
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One of the only people I've heard actually recommending the military. Maybe it's a generational difference, but all my friends in the military absolutely do not recommend it. We'd throw a DD214 party every time one of them got out
The only person I know who is more positive about it was medically discharged after ~15 years. Despite loving his time in the Marines, he doesn't recommend it to anyone, and wouldn't ever allow his kids to join when they get old enough because of how much he got fucked up from it
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The branch you join does make a difference in experience. I was in the Air Force, which is one of the most chill branches to serve in.
Despite the name, most Air Force members are not pilots. In fact, only about 5% are pilots, while the rest work in careers that either directly or indirectly support those pilots. We have doctors, lawyers, accountants, police, cooks, engineers, teachers, etc. I was an IT professional in my service, so my job was basically to sit at a desk and fix computers.
The Army and Marines tend to abuse their members, both mentally and physically, so I wouldn't be surprised if those guys don't recommend military service to others. I've heard horror stories from my Marine buddies, and I've personally witnessed some of the harassment/hazing rituals Army members go through.
They have a lot of toxic behaviors that keep getting passed down to the next generation. Surviving it and promoting above it is more a badge of honor than anything, so they subject the new guys to the same abuses to "toughen them up" or something.
The Department of Defense also uses it as an excuse to give them the worst equipment and hand-me-downs in the military, so they tend to operate with old and barely serviceable gear, while the Navy and Air Force tend to get the newest equipment.
But the Air Force was pretty fun. The Navy is pretty good too. They have some of the best technical schools in the armed forces, so they set you up with plenty of opportunities when you leave the service.
The Space Force is basically Air Force 2.0. All our space programs were under the Air Force until the Space Force was officially created, so they just transitioned those members into the new branch and copied Air Force regulations over until they could define their own unique requirements.
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DD214?
Nvm, I asked ai
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I guess it's okay to join a terrorist org if it has good benefits 👁️👄👁️
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Yes, this was one of the common stereotypes I heard a lot, mostly from anti-war people who only view the military as a war vehicle. Fortunately, I had no direct involvement in terrorism during my service. We mostly engaged in humanitarian aid. Publicly, we promote ourselves as a humanitarian service, and in my experience, that was the majority of what we focused on. But some people (like myself, initially) only know the military through war films and assume we're just there to kill people.
That's not to say the US is completely exempt from bad deeds. For instance, the Iraq War should never have happened and there was literally no reason for us to be there. That was a very bad call by Bush Jr., who expected we'd find something to justify our campaign into the country. (Note: we did not.)
We have regulations about what type of orders we have to obey and what orders we're required to disobey. Thanks to the Nuremburg Trials, we know that "just following orders" is not an excuse to carry out horrific actions. So if we're given an order that violates the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC), we're expected to ignore those orders, and depending on the situation, we may even remove the person who gave those orders from command.
Honestly, I'm glad I retired when I did. I served during Trump's first term in office and it was a dark time for us. But he was mostly restrained by a majority Democrat government that time, so most of the fascist ideals he demanded got shut down.
This time around though, he's running with a majority Republican government and they've given him a green light to do as he pleases. He even replaced the Secretary of Defense with an unqualified alcoholic National Guard captain. Completely circumventing the promotion programs we have in place to ensure only the best and brightest are allowed to hold those positions. You'd better believe I'd be abusing the hell out of that regulation to disobey unlawful orders if I was still serving.
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The nicest, sweetest, friendliest but also strangest people I know are all circus folk
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Works at a dog daycare. Seriously she's the sweetest woman and super socially awkward.
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Hallmark store retail worker. I swear it requires a very particular type of person to work there.
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Several of the most kind hearted people I know got into social work. My mom is one too and is the reason I know so many.
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A lot of them went into academia, the poor fuckers. My old university tutor comes to mind as the best of what they can hope for from that path. He did relatively well for himself as a scientist, but I reckon he was a far better scientist than what his level of prestige in that area would suggest.
There's one paper he published that was met with little fanfare, but then a few years later, someone else published more or less the same research that massively blew up. This wasn't a case of plagiarism (as far as I can tell), nor a conscious attempt to replicate my tutor's research. The general research climate at the time is a plausible explanation (perhaps my tutor was ahead of the times by a few years), but this doesn't feel sufficient to explain it. I think it's mostly that the author of this new paper is someone who is extremely ambitious in a manner where they seem to place a lot of value on gaining respect and prestige. I've spoken to people who worked in that other scientists lab and apparently they can be quite vicious in how they act within their research community (though I am confident that there's no personal beef between this researcher and my old tutor — they had presented at the same conference, but had had no interactions and seemed to be largely unaware of the other's existence). Apparently this researcher does good science, but gives the vibe that they care more for climbing up the ranks than for doing good science; they can be quite nasty in how they respond to people whose work disrupts their own theories.
I suspect that it's a case of priorities. My tutor also does good research, but part of why he left such an impact on me was that he has such earnest care in his teaching roles. He works at a pretty prestigious university, and there are plenty of tutors there who do the bare minimum teaching necessary to get access to perks like fancy formal dinners, and the prestige of being a tutor — tutors who seem to regard their students as inconvenient obstacles to what they really care about. It highlights to me a sad problem in what we tend to value in the sciences, and academia more generally: the people who add the most to the growth of human knowledge are often the people who the history books will not care to remember.
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The kindest most caring person I know works in a toy store. Second most is a phlebotomist
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I worked at a strip mall that used to have a toy store run by the grumpiest old bastard you’d ever meet.
I always wondered why the hell he was in that business when he clearly hated kids.
I’m sure a bit of it was all the years of kids getting boxes sticky and what not but damn maybe retire or something. I used to compare him to a character in a movie a saw back then “nobody tells DJ Request what to play!”
Get a different job man lol
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One's an AUSA and the other is a stay-at-home dad.
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Interestingly... an insurance assessor. Proper good human.
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Teaching, early childhood education, and health & safety
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Nursing.
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anchor on relay race teams. /s
They are all in medical or medical-adjacent careers: nursing, radiology, pharmaceutical R&D, medical device R&D, etc. These fields seem to attract empathetic people who want to do good.
Let it be known that nursing saps your empathetic energy faster than any other customer service job. The main reason being that it's just another customer service job (in the US)
My heart goes out to the good nurses. Putting up with people in general is incredibly draining, especially when they're acting out while you're trying to help them.
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and in the ways that's it's not customer service focused it's so focused on flowsheets and tracking metrics that you have to constantly consciously remind yourself that the human in front of you isn't just an object that you're doing things to. It gets to a point that you're wiping people's genitals with the same efficiency as you'll wipe down the bed when they're done with it and some patients can tolerate that well enough but then every once in a while you get someone with sexual trauma. And that's just one example.
I've heard there can be a lot of bullying by well established nurses against new nurses.
Genuinely curious: do you tip your nurses in the US?
All those jobs are the most in demand to boot.
You would think so but it's not my experience. You don't get to be a nurse unless you truly despise people (here in Czechia at least)
Since medical-adjacent includes administration I think you need to reevaluate this lol