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Society is strange
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2024
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I recently discussed this with my doctor. The amount of disgusting shit you have to see and work on is insane.
Woah! You got to discuss with your doctor?!
I‘m not sure if that is a serious question. I see my doctor every two weeks for hyposensitization so we get to chat a couple sentences every time. This was the question I came up with.
Haha I'm sorry my playful tone didn't quite come through here. I was playing up astonishment that you got to actually talk with your doctor about things, because often the experience seems to be that they see you for 30 seconds about why you're there, maybe write a scrip, and you're out the door. (I've seen some good ones that really make an effort to care though.)
It's a complex subject. Have to break it down to smaller pieces.
Being a doctor is glorified because there are huge benefits attached. Especially when you think about the benefits for the people around them, such as family and friends. Not to mention the fact that sounding smart can make others feel inadequate in a doctor's presence. Knowing you are a doctor means that you know how difficult it was to reach it. However, as you mentioned, it is not as beneficial for the individual. Instead, it is beneficial for society, friends, immediate family, and the rich people. Rich people are more emotionally invested to save their ass than leaving an area that got more dirty, bad food, poor service, or painless transaction. With a doctor, he is the only one who you can rely on to save your ass. So no shitting on those jobs makes no sense, but it does make more sense why some are not getting anyone talking shit about. It's a different extreme, one where there is a lack of shitting on a doctor vs. other jobs.
Doctor can't get to the hospital to save anyone if there's a month worth of trash in the streets.
Yes, but people forget about this often and still have social stigma against thrash men. Good luck saving lives by moving the thrash to a giant pile called the landfill(or thrash dump). Can't save lives without engineers building the tools. Can't save lives without funding. Can't save lives without everyone involved. Yet it's doctors that get idolized as if it's the perfect and only right path in life.
Didn't we just do a whole pandemic where a bunch of folks were overflowing with rage for doctors and healthcare workers?
The loud few idoits fucking over the quiet majority.
It's amusing, the foolishness of people who crap on "lesser jobs." These are the same fools who then throw a fit when everyone listens to them, and nobody sees the point in taking their trash, or serving them their daily ultragrandelatte / whoppermac burger / whatever else.
It's all propaganda to drive down and excuse low wages.
About overrated cool/sexy jobs:
That's how I feel about infosec. I still often think "That'd be so awesome, knowing computer sorcery and being a cyber ninja, and knowing my stuff was solid because I could verify it myself. Maybe stopping bad guys from turning vulnerable machines into terrorist-funding cryptominers, exposing spyware..."
But the main earning opportunities seem to be based around checking boxes to secure evil corpos and being on call 24/7 because the ShiJinPing bot swarm got riled up again.
Nah I'm good. I'd rather just learn it as a hobby.
Once computers got all suit-and-tie everything got a lot less interesting.
It's a shame the "eyes" countries are so gulag-happy. Meaningful hacktivism would sound so rewarding. Bet those folks are all in suits and ties now too. :(