A thread titled “Jobs I genuinely look down on” popped up on 5ch’s Live News board. Posters piled in with specific professions — septic tank pump-out workers, temp staffers, food delivery couriers — while plenty of replies turned the joke back on the OP: “The people looking down on these jobs are probably only a little better off themselves.”
Cleaners
Probably someone who makes short-form videos out of 5ch posts
A guy I know who pumps out septic tanks for a living used to get drunk and go, "Yeah, I do this kind of work, but at least I've got money… I really do…" all the time.
I never meant to look down on him, but it made me wonder how many times people had said that kind of thing to him before.
I never meant to look down on him, but it made me wonder how many times people had said that kind of thing to him before.
>>15
These days it's a rarity since sewer systems are everywhere now, but I heard from a waste collector that back in the day, doing house-to-house pump-outs used to get you juice and tips all the time.
Apparently they could live off the tips alone and pocket their whole salary.
These days it's a rarity since sewer systems are everywhere now, but I heard from a waste collector that back in the day, doing house-to-house pump-outs used to get you juice and tips all the time.
Apparently they could live off the tips alone and pocket their whole salary.
Low-paid middle-aged guys doing caregiving or customer service jobs
>>1
Honestly, isn't it really about pride in the end? These jobs just don't look like they come with much pride, that's the thing.
Honestly, isn't it really about pride in the end? These jobs just don't look like they come with much pride, that's the thing.
Whoever's out there hawking those sketchy hair-growth or stamina supplements in YouTube ads
Whoever posted the "jobs I look down on" thread here probably has a job that's only a notch better than the ones they're listing
Food delivery, probably
Nothing but social misfits doing that
Nothing but social misfits doing that
Thought about it, but honestly nothing comes to mind
Sex work doesn't even count as a profession since it's illegal — that's just antisocial types making money off a violation
Sex work doesn't even count as a profession since it's illegal — that's just antisocial types making money off a violation
>>32
Sex work's been around since before the Common Era, though
If anything, it's basically the default of human society
Sex work's been around since before the Common Era, though
If anything, it's basically the default of human society
Well, YouTubers I guess
People who make video games and anime
Temp workers
Why don't they have any drive to improve themselves? No wonder they can't become full employees
Why don't they have any drive to improve themselves? No wonder they can't become full employees
Not that I look down on them, but… drugstore clerks
Six years at pharmacy school just to end up doing this? That's what I think
Six years at pharmacy school just to end up doing this? That's what I think
The guys hawking phone plans and water servers outside Aeon Mall — you can just tell they never really job-hunted properly
>>50
It's basically no-degree-required work, but if you play it smart even as a plain door-to-door salesperson you can apparently pull in around ¥350,000 a month
It's basically no-degree-required work, but if you play it smart even as a plain door-to-door salesperson you can apparently pull in around ¥350,000 a month
>>50
Seriously, they're way too pushy
Seriously, they're way too pushy
Ever since I hit side-FIRE, I don't really look down on any job anymore
If there's ever a job that's literally about scamming people out of money, though, I'll start looking down on that one
If there's ever a job that's literally about scamming people out of money, though, I'll start looking down on that one
I basically don't look down on any job
People who think they understand someone else's whole job just from the sliver they can see are creepy and arrogant as hell
Even with the shadiest-looking jobs, I end up thinking "huh, I never would've thought of doing that"
People who think they understand someone else's whole job just from the sliver they can see are creepy and arrogant as hell
Even with the shadiest-looking jobs, I end up thinking "huh, I never would've thought of doing that"
Sketchy under-the-table crime gigs ("yami baito")
People selling get-rich-quick info products
YouTubers
People selling get-rich-quick info products
YouTubers
>>51
That's not really why they get looked down on — it's more that they drift into whatever pays decently without any real career plan
That's not really why they get looked down on — it's more that they drift into whatever pays decently without any real career plan
>>51
It's like telemarketing — the smooth talkers land contracts and make good money, but to everyone else it's just a job that hassles people wherever they go
It's like telemarketing — the smooth talkers land contracts and make good money, but to everyone else it's just a job that hassles people wherever they go
Making inflammatory 5ch threads back to back, replying to yourself, then turning it into a summary post
Real estate agents pushing sublease schemes or junk properties
You guys don't look down on caregivers?
>>66
We all end up relying on them eventually
We all end up relying on them eventually
>>66
I'm a caregiver myself, and honestly I can tell the visiting families look down on us
I'm a caregiver myself, and honestly I can tell the visiting families look down on us
It's not really about jobs — more like they look down on Japanese people in general
I look down on those shady-looking suits you see at family restaurants
No matter the job, I look down on any single man over 30
>>74
By that logic you'd have to look down on anyone single without a partner, especially ones still living with their parents, regardless of gender — but that's off-topic here
By that logic you'd have to look down on anyone single without a partner, especially ones still living with their parents, regardless of gender — but that's off-topic here
I look down on convenience store clerks and caregivers and stuff, but I'm 41 and have literally never held a job 🥹
>>80
Stay unemployed forever
Just keep sinking down there
Stay unemployed forever
Just keep sinking down there
Not even a real job, but resellers/scalpers
Zero productivity, wish they'd just get banned
Zero productivity, wish they'd just get banned
Not sure it counts as a job, but YouTubers and influencers
Septic tank cleaners
But I'm genuinely grateful for them
But I'm genuinely grateful for them
>>97
Septic tanks? What countryside are you even living in
Septic tanks? What countryside are you even living in
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Live News board) thread “Jobs I genuinely look down on lolololololololol.”
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