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People Explain Which Jobs Are A Lot Less Fun Than People Think

It can be difficult to figure out what you’re going to do as a career for the rest of your life. In fact, the job you’re working in now might have started out as, “Just that thing I’ll do until I find the real thing I want to do.”

Usually, these careers are filled with long hours, difficult clientele, and a secret load of hardships the outside world is not privy to knowing. Unfortunately, as it turns out, the “dream” jobs, the ones people spend all day wishing they had while they work their dead-end feeling jobs, may not be as great as some hoped.

The smells. So. Many. Smells.

A Redditor wanted to know what jobs may not bring as much joy as some think when they asked:

“Which job is a LOT less fun than most people expect?”

Imagine The Smells. Now Imagine Them Every. Day.

“Zookeeper.”

“Don’t get me wrong, it’s awesome to be around so many amazing animals and care for them…”

“But the smells are ridiculously, insanely foul.”

“I have a really strong stomach and it’s still tough for me…we’ve had some interns quit over it.”

“I was warned about the smells when getting into the field, but thought ‘oh I’ve volunteered at animal shelters, I know what animal stink smells like’”

“Nope. Not even close.” ~ wekoo9

So, I’m Not Like Indiana Jones?

“Paleontologist. You don’t get to work with full dinosaur skeletons and do all kinds of awesome expeditions.”

“You’re mostly sitting at a desk looking at some pictures and logging stuff on your computer, maybe examining a fossil occasionally.”

“If you’re lucky you can go on a real dig, and OMG SPEND HOURS IN THE HOT SUN DUSTING OFF ROCKS!!!” ~ MidwesternMonkey

Someone Has To Make The Donuts

“Baker. Coming into work at 3/4 am so you can have a six am baked goods is miserable.” ~ haireypotter

‘”o00Oo0h y0u MuST L0vE tHe wAY U SmëlL WhEn ù G0 h0Me!’”

“nope…I go home smelling like burnt oven” ~ Vdd993

No “Smoke On The Water”

“Working in a music store ( musical instruments )”

“Your days are spent listening to 50 different people play 50 different riffs poorly simultaneously, as if they’re all putting on their own concert.” ~ [usernamedeleted]

“Some of my (least) favorites:”

“Person who thinks playing well and playing loud are the same thing.”

“Person who wants to make sure you know they are very smart and you are very lucky to be in their presence.”

“Person who goes to absurd lengths to test out drum sticks to make sure they’re pitch matched without knowing how to execute any of those techniques. Extra points if they’re just going to shred them to splinters in a week anyway.”

“People who act like you’re in their way because you’re trying to do your job.”

“People who assume you couldn’t possibly know anything about the instruments you play and sell all day long.”

“Side note – I mostly loved my time working in a music store and I enjoy helping people but the people who come in with aggressive egos and nasty attitudes are insufferable.” ~ JessicaMessica

No Running!

“Lifeguarding. Everyone expects Baywatch, act, saving lives all the time. But It’s usually just sitting there blowing your whistle telling little sh-ts to stop f-cking around.” ~ Theholynun

I Just Wanted To Smash Stuff

“Demolition”

“Everyone wants to break shit with a sledgehammer. Everyone is tired of lifting that sledgehammer by 5 swings.”

“Nobody wants to load the broken stuff into bags or a wheelbarrow and take it to the dumpster.” ~ Bill_S_Preson_Esq

The Key Is Not In The Wall!

“Gamemaster at an escape room.”

“It’s the same repetitive script, resetting the same stuff, giving clues and hints about the same things.”

“The patrons are often competitive families who argue, obnoxious impatient 13-year-olds, college students who have been drinking, idiots who break sh*t and touch sh*t that I SPECIFICALLY TOLD THEM NOT TO.”

“They never remember your initial instructions. If something gets broken during one group, you have to hurry and fix it before the next group.” ~ Reddit

You Know How Frustrated You Get When You Have To Replay The Same Level Of A Game?

“Video game tester.”

“You aren’t spending your time playing completed fully realized games. You are playing the same level of a game over and over seeing if there are bugs.” ~ Mr_frumpish

“Also, you are probably not going to test the next GTA, but something like Barbie’s Super Happy Funland 3, or some other game aimed for kids 8 and under. And you’ll have to play it for 8-10 hours a day, every day.” ~ __Hello_my_name_is__

“Lets see if I can clip through the wall in position 131, 875, -121”

“Lets see if I can clip through the wall in position 131, 875, -122”

“Lets see if I can clip through the wall in position 131, 875, -123” ~ RoboNinjaPirate

It’s Insane How Much We Don’t See On Screen

“I have seen this question before and then it was zookeeper at the top comment too. Nice.”

“Anyways, there’s this making-of Frozen 2 mini docu. Most animators work weeks for a minute of animation of one character, if not less.

“At one point they decided to leave out a piece that one person had solely been working on. Must be crappy to be part of the credits without being able to say “this is my part!”.” ~ ArrrSlashSubreddit

“I couldn’t believe it! It was even crazier to me when Sterling K. Brown recorded an entire song and it got scrapped. It’s insane how much ends up on the cutting room floor for a movie to be just right.”

“I was so psyched for the animator that did that end scene for ‘Into The Unknown’ though! She killed it.” ~ heronlyweapon

The Magic Never Leaves, It Just Changes

“Being a Character Performer at Disney.”

“Don’t get me wrong, there are some amazing perks and truly magical moments. I know I’m super lucky and tons of people would love to be in my shoes.”

“But the day to day work is EXHAUSTING in ways I never thought possible. Guests are ridiculously abusive…I’ve had things said and done to me I never would have imagined.”

“The company isn’t always great – it highly depends on your leadership. And there’s so much focus on your body and face (good and BAD) that it can be incredibly depressing and difficult emotionally.”

“Plus, you have to accept that there’s very little upward mobility. Most people “grow out of it” and it’s rough to know that one day you’ll get “too old” or “too fat” and you will have to start all over in a new career field.”

“So you constantly are thinking either, 1) what you’re going to do when you leave, 2) how you’re going to keep yourself there.”

“I personally knew it would be temporary, and I now only work there seasonally while I have a “normal career”. But Disney has a way of sucking you in.” ~ TheMarvelPrincess

They say do what you love and you’ll never work another day in your life.

It’s clear after taking a look at these entries, that is not the case and coming home smelling like burnt dough and elephant feces is not the life many thought they wanted.

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People Talk About Free Resources on the Internet That We Should All Know

Even though it might feel like we live in a reality where things are overpriced and we’re getting charged for pretty much everything, there are still a lot of good FREE things online that we should be taking advantage of.

And today we’re gonna get a little bit smarter!

What are some free online resources we should all know about?

AskReddit users shared their thoughts.

1. A whole treasure trove.

“I found this out myself, Wikimedia, the non-profit that runs Wikipedia, has many more things than just articles!

Wikimedia Commons has various pictures and media, all of which is free use

MediaWiki is free source wiki software, and it has guides and a help desk to help you

Wikibooks has free textbooks on a variety of subjects, including computing, engineering, languages, math, science, social sciences, and a few others.

Wikiversity is the specific one for textbooks and learning materials, including videos.

Wikinews offers free news.

Wikisource has poetry, laws of numerous countries, general literature, and original content.

Wikivoyage is a travel guide, which is helpful especially if you’re planning on traveling during COVID-19.

Other things that are not Wikimedia related:

Coursera, which has free classes for computer skills, different languages, certificates, etc;

Open Library, which has free books online for you to read, in various languages, although they don’t have everything;

HubSpot, which has free marketing and other business tools (you can get a premium account, but you can also get a free account)

Ambient Mixer, which has free ambient sounds from horror to Harry Potter.”

2. Math stuff.

“Wolfram Alpha.

Wolfram Alpha was a lifesaver for checking answers when taking Calc 1-3 in college.

Definitely useful for all sorts of answers, but answers for science and math questions, it’s great.”

3. Good to know!

“Google Scholar.

All scholarly work.

If you type in “volcanoes”you will get a ton of scientific documents about volcanoes, research that is being done on them, and papers that have been written about them.

Next time you write a paper for a science class check out Google Scholar!”

4. Try it out!

“Creddle.io – a free resume builder site.

You fill it out like an online application and it generates your resume in different styles for you.

Landed me a couple of jobs after I started using it.”

5. Very useful.

“10minutemail.com

If a website is asking for your E-mail, and you don’t want your original E-mail to be spammed, you can use the E-mail found on this website that self-destructs after 10 minutes.”

6. Wow.

“Alternative To.

It is a site that shows you alternatives to any software you are looking for. If there is a paid application you would like to use? You can find a free or open source version.

Do you like a program but it slows down your computer? You can find a lightweight alternative.”

7. Great stuff.

“Archive.org

Tons of free music, audio books, news reports, newspaper scans, video games, software and movies.

If you haven’t already, please look for anything important you have saved on a USB stick or on your hard drive and archive it here if you find it important or interesting enough.

This site is awesome.”

8. So cool.

“If you’re ever feeling stressed, or feeling the itch to travel when you can’t, you should try Window Swap.

Just click the button and it will randomly take you to a recorded video of the view out random folks’ windows all over the world. You can even upload your own window footage for others to enjoy.

It’s so calming.”

9. Interesting.

“Library genesis.

Almost every science text book you could ever want for free. However, you’re not compensating authors/publishers for their work, so the morality is debated.

But if you want access to knowledge for free, there it is. I haven’t ever encountered any issues like viruses either.”

10. Just reach out.

“If you ever want to read a journal article behind a paywall, email the authors!

I do this and I’ve never not had one send me the paper. A lot of the time they’ll even send you supplemental data etc if you want, too.

Even if it’s something for your job.”

11. Time to binge-watch.

“FilmRise channels on YouTube.

Untold hours of free documentary tv series, including old school Unsolved Mysteries.”

12. Tons of stuff.

“Audacity – A powerful audio editor, ideal for music and podcasts.

Autodesk Fusion 360 – CAD/CAM software.

Bit Warden – Open-source password management service.

Blender – Free and open source 3D creation suite.

Cake Walk – music production software

Dark Table – Open-source photography workflow application and raw developer.

Dashlane – Cross-platform subscription-based password manager and digital wallet application.

DaVinci Resolve – Color correction and non-linear video editing application.

FreeCAD – Open-source general-purpose parametric 3D computer-aided design modeler.

GIMP – A powerful open source photo and image editing tool.

Godot Engine – A 2D and 3D, cross-platform, free and open-source game engine released under the MIT license.

Glitch – Build fast, full-stack web apps in your browser.

Glimpse Image Editor – A photo editor for everyone.

Greenshot – A free screenshot tool optimized for productivity.

Handbrake – The open source video transcoder

Honey – A browser extension that aggregates and automatically applies online coupons on eCommerce websites.

Hitfilm-Express – Video editing software with professional-grade VFX tools.

Inkscape – Free and open-source vector graphics editor.

KDEnLive – Open-source video editing software based on the MLT Framework, KDE and Qt.

Keepass – Free and open-source password manager primarily for Windows.

Krita – Free and open-source raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital painting and 2D animation.

Open Broadcaster Software(OBS) – Open-source software for video recording and live streaming.

LibreOffice – Open-source office suite.

LMMS – A digital audio workstation application program.

MagicaVoxel – A free lightweight GPU-based voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer.

MediBang Paint Pro – FREE digital painting and comic creation software.

Musescore – Create, play and print beautiful sheet music

Ocenaudio – Easy, fast, and powerful audio editor.

Opentoonz – Animation production software.

Paint.NET – A freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows developed on the .NET Framework

Photopea – Web-based raster and vector graphics editor.

Pixlr – Feature-packed online photo editor.

QGIS – Open-source cross-platform desktop geographic information system application

Radio Garden – Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

RawTherapee – Free, cross-platform raw image processing program

Reaper -Digital audio workstation and MIDI sequencer software

ShareX – Screen capture, file sharing and productivity tool.

Shotcut – A slick open source program for advanced video editing.

SlidesGo – Free Google Slides and PowerPoint templates.

Switch – Convert and encode sound files quickly.

The Noun Project – Icons for everything.

TurboTax Sucks A** – Website that makes it easy to file your taxes.

Unity – Cross-platform game engine.

Unreal Engine – The most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool.

Unsplash – Beautiful free images and pictures.

VLC media player – Open-source portable cross-platform media player software and streaming media server

VS Code – Free source-code editor.

Waveform – Fully featured, completely unlimited free DAW for all music creators.

Wavepad – Audio and music editor for Windows and Mac.

Wcostream – Anime and animated Tv-show/movie site with dubs and subs.

7-Zip – File archiver with a high compression ratio.”

Do you know of some more free resources people should take advantage of?

If so, talk to us in the comments.

Please and thank you!

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High School vs. College: Here Are the REAL Differences

I went to a “university model” private high school that had classes Monday, Wednesday, Friday with all other days dedicated to homework. And I mean ALL other days. Pretty much all the hours of all the other days. It was fairly brutal.

Then I went to an actual university. One time while taking a test, halfway through the instructions were to stand up, say “I am Spartacus!” and then sit down again.

We let out early that day.

Twitter knows what I’m talking about.

10. Extra credit

I really gotta hand it to ya for creativity.

9. No joking around

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong.

8. Dr. B

In the house with the dad jokes of the century.

7. And I swear

Look, you’re paying to be here, if you choose not to learn anything that’s on you.

6. Park it

There’s never enough parking. Ever ever ever.

5. RIP fish

You need to take time to mourn these losses properly.

4. Straight up

Say no more, fam.

3. Do the slide

“Unless you require a different hook.”

2. The amazing TP!

I think in early 2020 this would have been considered a war crime.

1. At the end of the day

Look man, easy come, easy go, you know what it is.

For anyone who’s headed to college – just remember: it is a lot of fun and your professors will probably be pretty laid back. But that’s because it’s on YOU to do the work. Don’t waste the money slacking off, yo.

Who was your favorite teacher ever?

Tell us in the comments.

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People Discuss the Differences Between High School and College Teachers

When I was in high school, college was really built up as a place that was going to be super serious. Everything you do here is going to matter there, and it’s going to be TOUGH, so if you can’t hack it in here, you’re never gonna survive a university, and if you don’t survive a university, you’re never gonna be successful.

Turned out, all of that was wrong.

My high school was academically WAY more rigorous than my college, no one ever for the rest of my life cared about my GPA, and despite graduating with honors I managed not to be successful.

So take THAT, high school.

Twitter knows what I’m talking about.

10. Milkduds

They’ve been in my pocket for a while but I think they’re still good.

9. What a drag

In HS you’re just learning the basics of how it’s SUPPOSED to work, in college you learn the horrors of how it actually does.

8. Strict and scary

When you’re in college, you’re literally going into debt to be in that class.
If you wanna slack off, that’s on you, they don’t care.

7. No joke!

And snapping while driving, which is neat.

6. Put it up

Today we’re going to demonstrate the effects of…um…wind on…whatever, just look at this s**t.

5. The bell

Guess we’ll just wrap up early today.

4. Rawr!

We’re traveling back in time!

3. Trail Mix Attack

PS. if this might kill you, maybe take precautions.

2. Prof sick

I mean, I guess in a certain way they kind of ARE?

1. The Amazing Race

But why are they moving like that?

Class dismissed.

Who was the best or worst college professor you ever had?

Tell us in the comments.

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People Talk About Things That Sound Futuristic but Are Happening Right Now

The future is now, people!

While it might seem like crazy inventions are a long way off, we’re already living in it!

And we’re about to get some inside info.

What sounds futuristic but is happening now?

AskReddit users shared their thoughts.

1. Robots.

“It’s quite phenomenal how much certain industries have developed their robotics.

You just don’t see it in your everyday life, but places like Amazon and pretty much all mechanical-related businesses are developing robotics at an insane rate.”

2. Didn’t see it coming.

“I still feel a tiny bit blindsided by lab-grown meat suddenly being commercially viable. Would not have predicted that one.

Those drone light-shows too. What year was it where radio-controlled drones just kind of showed up, and became commonplace?

I think around 2015 was when they really “took off.””

3. It is a big deal!

“Private companies launching rockets into space like it’s no big deal. You can literally walk outside one night and think “what tf is that???”

And someone will tell you “oh that’s just the latest Space X launch.” And you go about your business.”

4. There you go.

“My 2 yr old daughter, walking around the house following and talking to a robot while it vacuums our house.”

5. Pretty insane.

“I have a device that fits into my pocket.

I can get virtually every bit of information produced by the human race if I know what buttons to push.

It’s also voice-activated, so I can just talk to it and figure out when my flight leaves or where the nearest fresh tomatoes are being sold.”

6. Seeing double.

“Scientist have already managed to clone a living thing.

And it happened around 25 years ago.”

7. Open Sesame!

“Automatic doors.

I remember seeing the first 6 Star Wars films many years ago (I’m 18 now) and playing the Lego games of it and I remember thinking to myself how cool the sliding doors were.

I understand they’ve been around for so long, but recently it just came to me that they have automatic doors just like in Star Wars.”

8. Scary.

“In China, they are using AI to identify Uyghur Muslims from the rest of the population.

It detects “classic Uyghur features” based on complexion, and facial features.

It’s the worlds first instance of “automated racial profiling.””

9. Weapons of war.

“Saw the recent news of the Israeli-Hamas conflict, including footage of Iron Dome being used.

I remember seeing the prototypes of that system in a “future weapons” documentary on TV years ago, but was never really sure if or when it entered active service

So yeah, we have rockets that shoot down other rockets now and might have for years already.”

10. Antimatter.

“The fact that humans are capturing and containing antimatter for study is amazing.

The fact that we can store it longer than a year at a time is extraordinary.”

11. That’s crazy.

“Facebook is integrating occlus rift support.

I’m not sure what’s available to the public, but in-house, they are having 3d meetings like in Star Wars. They can project and manipulate a screen in 3D like the 3d map in the first Ray movie. It doesn’t wrap around you yet, it hovers in front, but it will.

My friend works for FB in the AI dpt. The first software I tried out was a demo for medical education. I saw a life size human and I could use gestures to look at his different body systems, right in front of me, like on the Holodeck.

You turn the system on by holding up your palm like a wizard and an interactive sphere appears on your hand.”

12. Gene editing.

“CRISPR gene editing. People’s genes can literally be edited.

Basically, people get this enzyme called Cas9 (a nuclease) inserted into their DNA somehow (don’t know how, maybe an injection?) and Cas9 slices the target strand of DNA open, allowing a sequence to be taken out and replaced with something else which can then be transcripted into RNA, translated into a protein, and used in the body.

It’s mostly being used right now for gene therapy, stuff like sickle cell anemia, and agriculture but it’s crazy to think about what it could be used for in the near future. It’s kind of controversial because people don’t like the unnaturalness of it (like people’s dislike of GMOs), and I can see their point, I just think it is very intriguing and revolutionary, and I will be interested in seeing what happens with it in the future.”

Now it’s your turn to sound off.

In the comments, tell us about things you know about that sound futuristic but are happening now.

Thanks in advance!

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