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At 60k per kilo, my weight in gold is a rough 3.5 million. I'd have a pretty damn horrible day for 3.5 million.
So that really just rules out stuff with long-term consequences. Asbestos mining, organ donor, etc..
A single day of asbestos mining isn't gonna hurt you.
Organ donor is not a profession.
Right?
Depends on whose organs you're donating
That's called organ trafficking.
What if you do it for the love of the game?
Organ trafficking as a hobby
When I donate one kidney, I'm a hero. When I donate 10 kidneys, I'm an 'organ trafficker'. What did I do wrong?
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He's gone, just donated second kidney.
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Law enforcement, I could never respect myself after taking money to be muscle for the psychopathic hoarder class.
I have friends in police that joined out of spirit of mission.
Road safety, counterfeiting detection, contraband, drug traficking, slavery, violent crime, environmental damage, poaching...
These are situations where police enforce rules for the better of all.
There is more to being a police than just muscle.
The police in my country held siege to our parliement building to remember our politicians and government the police is sworn to uphold and defend the country and constitution, not governments and politicians.
Ah yes joining the fascist organization to make the world better place.
I can't find it but there was a nice Finnish comic where a guy joins nazi army in early 1900s and says "I'm changing the system from inside"
Edit: found it
If your friend is in America:
Counterfeiting is investigated by the FBI, drug trafficking prevention (targeted at the source, such as cartels) is handled by the DEA, human trafficking—FBI, poaching is monitored by fish and game.
There are times when a cop may have the ability to do some good now and again, but a key part of the job is harassing homeless people, busting young black guys for having some coke in their pockets, and sitting on the side of the road getting paid to aim a speed gun for a few hours. Whatever notion your friend had of being a hero is more likely to be found in almost any other law enforcement agency than the bottom level flatfoots we call the police.
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Military / weapons, police, bailiffs, pyramid scheme grifts, wellness grifts, petrochemicals, mining, financial services (unless it was something like a credit union)
You wouldn't work for the police for 3-5 million????
How awful must the police be where you live?
No I wouldn't. It would go against my ethics and my politics. Police are police, everywhere. Ultimately they exist to protect the interests of the ruling classes. While the level of violence and corruption and abuse of power might vary from place to place, and there may be good work that they do, there is violence and corruption and abuse of power wherever there are police. I want no part in that, no money is worth it. And I wouldn't last long in a racist and sexist workplace anyway.
You could be the change you want to see and earning alot of money, to maybe do more change you care about.
It's literally worse for everyone, that you say no to this. Including yourself.
I mean I'm very flattered that you think that me joining the police would revolutionise it but... No. That's not how change happens. Otherwise it would have already happened. I'm sorry my decision to turn down a fictional offer of joining the police offends / upsets you.
Dw, not upset. It's fictional, and so is the arguments we are making for this. It just doesn't make sense in this fiction setting, that's all.
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Out of all the things on the list, that was the one I understood the most. I’d be willing to risk my body, comfort, or sanity for a few million, but joining the police will cost you your soul.
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Selling things to people who shouldn't have it or need it. Money doesn't mean shit if you're fucking people over.
Executioner for the US prison system. In some states it's a real job, and it's not a doctor, it's just whoever is sociopathic enough to want to do it.
I'm a big guy so my weight in gold is pretty compelling tbh.
I'd probably do anything not deadly or grievously injuring for $7.5M in gold in one day.
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Sex worker would be pretty rough and possibly deadly. Being a soldier in one of America's resource wars. Anything to do with criminal justice. Working in a narcotics cartel. It's a lot of gold but no point if I'm gonna die.
Sex worker could be fairly safe, if sex workers had any rights in my country. (context: USA. There are countries where sex workers are are least somewhat respected and have rights. Not here.) Then it would be about as safe as being a doctor who makes house calls, or hospice, or other jobs where you may be in private with another person for some reason.
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I don't think any reasonable person would actually turn down their weight in gold for one unpleasant day of work, unless there was a high probability of grievous injury or death to themselves or others.
But if we're just being hyperbolic, I deliberately never worked in the food industry. I knew if I worked in food somewhere, I would get sick if it and never want to eat there again.
im thinking traumatizing or against your morals.. maybe skinning dogs for meat
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I think you could do almost anything for a day. One day is "Here's Jim, he's new, and we are going to show him how we do things here" stuff where little actual work happens.
A month would be a more realistic situation. I wouldn't want to be military in an active war zone, work for a drug/trafficking cartel, or any other dangerous profession where the likelihood of dying or going to prison is high. Or professions where I'd have to actively harm people.
There are professions where one day on the job is enough to leave marks.
Joke answer: retail
Serious answer: anything that took me more than 50 ft above the ground
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First thing that comes to my mind is something military-like or something that involves killing People (innocent or not).
Working in a foundry or an oil rig. They both seem like pretty shit jobs due to the hazards, materials and conditions.
Know a manager of an oil rig.
Away from friends and family for months at a time, extremely dangerous, 12+ hour shifts, constantly dealing with issues with staff and all around miserable and stressful. Said he wished he had gotten into literally anything else.
a days work for 80 kg of gold? I'll do anything
Assassin.
Also anything I can't do that I'd you put me in that place would result in death of others or environmental devastation. Emergency room doctor, oil rig operator...
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Police, mining, executioner, anything to do with fossil fuels, factory farming, surgery, human trafficking, drug trafficking, maybe prostitution.
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Sex work for sure. Anything illegal really. Would stress me out.
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