Which job(s) would you refuse to accept regardless of how good the pay is?

"Oh, you know what Bill’s doing? He’s going for that anti-marketing dollar. That’s a good market. He’s very smart."

I worked in marketing. Though..

• I create materials/tools to help patients with chronic diseases stay adherent to medication while building a better lifestyle
• I made materials to convince health insurance companies to cover medications

So, it's not all bad. I moved on to hospital records analysis to identify things that would kill people, and now work in protocols and systems that help preserve the privacy of user data (one of them even uses ActivityPub).

I've been pretty fortunate in the jobs I've been able to find.

Unless you are very good at causing internal disruptions, sabotage and slow downs.

Same. Although mainly because I don't have the cool maintain my cover while undermining the organization from within.

But, what about your monthly "nut"?

What if they paid you enough to bankroll a political campaign for the opposition?

As a Software Engineer my list is only slightly longer and has these additional companies:

Oracle

Microsoft

Google

Don't forget the fiscal, environmental, and resource destruction. Now if they only made cool camping/ outdoor gear...

assist or partake in the murdering

Militaries outside of America do a LOT of non-murderous jobs. Sandbag the planet? Search and Recovery? Coordinating aid on the ground? When you're a force that happens to be armed, it's a different job. But they still need boots and belts and brass and buttons and berets and boomsticks.

Me ex-wife worked 100% in surgery. She used to laugh that she never had to talk to the fuckers. She was so clinical about it that she could tell me about a case and had no idea if it was a man or woman, black or white, nothing, just body parts.

there's a lot of different settings for a nurse, but I guess a good nurse should be able to at least stomach the worst of em if needed

Hmm, you sure? You should watch South Park, S27, E2.

Might change your mind. 😉

My wife works in Accounts Receivable, and now manages a team who talks nicely to people about paying that debt over others, so their essential products arrive on time. She's an absolute sweetie and I don't know how she does it, but she's excelled for a decade at it now.

travel to the US

They round up 12 people a month from New Zealand. NEW ZEALAND! Anyone hating on the nicest country on the planet really has mental issues they need to get solved.

That’s the one thing i got from working food service: i so much prefer dealing with the stink and mess of dish room than having to deal with people …. Although tipping made the pay disparity pretty significant

I'd go back to waitering if I needed to -- and if my feet weren't so trashed from either combat boots or dress shoes already!

I try to avoid working anyplace evil, so banks, oil companies, etc. and there are environments I can’t be productive in - government, healthcare, anyplace very structured and bureaucratic.

That's who invented the Internet.

I work for a Contractor who contracts to Government, including Healthcare. The job is meh, but the people are absolutely awesome. The structure is actually a huge benefit, and it makes all the dotcoms' seat-of-the-pants I.T stand out so much more. There's no power-play to prevent updating software - for example - just because "Doug knows the CEO and he doesn't want to" because Dougie's written objection wouldn't pass scrutiny -- and, at most, Doug would get an extension to follow a set plan with milestones to get to that update anyway. But there are many examples where common dotcom slackery dies under review.

There are obvious and well-repeated problems with the overly-structured setup, but they're different from the ones that bother me, and erring on the side of safety and most-benefit is what annoys people ("why can't we have containers and supply-chain exploits like everyone elssssse") the most.

There are pipeline and mining jobs near me that would leverage my degree and skills but I don’t even entertain applying, I would hate it there doing stuff I feel is wrong.

I learned at a young age that I'm not cut out for retail. I can fake it for a minute or two, but I've got a short fuse and a sailor mouth.

But this seems like something that could be tolerated at the right price point. It's a price point they would never pay, but your reason for working it isn't a moral or ethical reason.

I am against the prison industrial complex but consensual relations between adults are just fine. I’m not sure I could do it but I’d try.

This unfortunately is the problem with the police. People who see the police as problematic are unwilling to join so the majority of people who join are the ones who just want to have power over others.

There are many variations on the quote but a cop who doesn’t report a bad cop is themselves a bad cop, so you could be the actual good cop who reports their coworkers until you get fired from the corrupt org but if enough people did that we might actually see some change.

Cops also have a surprising amount of freedom to choose to enforce laws so you could also just not enforce laws you consider corrupt.

I am saying this as a person who wouldn’t want to associate with a cop but would love to have some cops who aren’t bastards but unfortunately #ACAB

Politics, in any form.

But how do you make the world better then?

In fact, you seem very qualified for it. Those who don't want powet are the best people for the job, you should be leading your city/town or maybe country.

Police, in any form.

Do neighborhood watch programs count?

Military, in any form.

Do Militias count?

Literally what kept me from going into medicine

This one doesn't feel inherently evil. There are some great HR reps where I work now, but I don't work for a company that's trying to milk us dry.

Even for $500m per year

That bottom one. It's the kind of job where you can do everything perfectly and still fucking die horribly. Pays like 200k a year though.

That should be evidence to them that they are the bad guys. No one tells a job offer to “fuck off” if the company isn’t utterly shit. Even if Meta or Twitter offered me a job I’d probably just use a curt “no” and move on. But, Project Veritas, Heritage Foundation, Palantir? They’d get a “fuck off” for sure.

if you uploaded on places like INDEED, or another job site, they probably got it from a 3rd party recruiter,.

Example: I travel semi frequently and will work my usual hours in different timezones. Teams makes you restart the app on MacOS just to change fucking timezones.

This just happened to me this week. It was definitely not something I would have expected. I'm really disappointed we had to migrate onto Teams.

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If you have a skill set someone is offering $500k for, someone less shitty is going to be offering at least $400k. So you're not giving up $500k, you're giving up $100k or 20%. I've taken bigger pay cuts than that in exchange for increased job satisfaction.