Often Villainized CAREERS

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joah j and Rich. I want to go around the
room with this.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
A website has compiled a list of careers that are
unfairly villainized villainized. Okay, can you think of any if
Once I go over this list, I think you're gonna go,
oh yeah, But can you think of some that are
unfairly villainized.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
I would think like a defense attorney or something like that.
That's number one. Payment lawyer.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Ye, that is number one on the list, but the
judicial system needs two opposing parties to ensure every step
is taken before a conviction or an acquittal. But that
is number one, which is funny because I thought the
other ones were very interesting. For example, real estate agents.
On the surface, it seems like they get paid a
lot for doing hardly anything, but there's a lot of
legwork behind the scenes that make these life changing purchases

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as smooth and hassle free as possible.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
I don't believe it.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, well, you watch when you watch selling Sunset and
you see the commission on those houses are like hundreds
of thousands of dollars. I'm like, for what open open house?
I don't. I have a couple of friends who are
realtors and they are working twenty four to seven.

Speaker 1 (00:57):
But I don't like the other realtor.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
My mom's a realed her, and I can't say she
is always on the phone.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Growing up, I used to always be like, why are
you always on the phone, Like that's so annoying, Get
off your phone. We're trying to watch our movie. She's like,
I'm working exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Journalists, the best ones have one objective in mind, print
the truth. People assume it's easy, but it's an elusive,
endless chase. Unfortunately, the industry gets tainted by things like
clickbait and people who pretend to be journalists but they're
really just commentators. Right, okay, Parking enforcement right. Unfairly villainized

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human resource workers. Let's be honest, they are not targeting you.
HR is just your manager's scapegoat.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Tax collectors, unfairly villainized. Unfairly villainized tax collector. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Plastic surgeons, A large part of the work isn't about
vanity at all.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
It's reconstructive.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Surgeries have to burns, accidents, and medical conditions that really
improve people's lives. Teachers, these are unfairly villainized. A lot
of parents are really rough on them, especially in situations
where their kid isn't the for danger they think they are.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, that's true. This is a big one. But this
is hard for.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
Me to see them positively. But customer service reps, they
are given a script and you usually don't have the
authority to actually do much, and they pissed me off.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
I really hate you know.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yesterday I got a phone call and it was very
important phone call you to take and I missed it
and it within seconds.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
I just called back and it got a can I
help you? What are you look?

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Please tell us what you're looking for it and I go, oh,
I missed a return phone call and it was like
a recording.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
You know. I'm sorry. I don't understand. I go, you
guys just called me. I'm calling you back. Please say
it again. You called me.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
We're usually supposed to get you to a human. When
you say I'm returning a phone.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Call, got me nothing you never got I end up
hanging up careers that are unfairly villainized.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Dentists. People don't like dentists.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Farmers some of the hardest working, lowest paid people in
the country, and they literally feed you.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah, yeah, so those are a couriers unfairly villainized. Anything else,
anybody else? Anybody else?

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Got one? Anyone else? No?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
No, oh, I got I think the parking attendants at concerts.
Oh yeah, they power trip. I was at a restaurant
the other day, by the way, get this. In fact,
it was a It was a hostess at a restaurant
that you had to have a reservation to get into
the restaurant, right, which is fine. I wasn't going to
that restaurant to go eat. I wanted to show my
sister the lobby of the restaurant, and they wouldn't let
us in.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (03:26):
You need to have an appointment to make a tour
of the restaurant. And I was like, I've been in
this restaurant before. I don't want to make a tour.
I just want to show her the lobby. There's something
really cool in the lobby. And the woman's like, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, you need a reservation. I was like, I
don't want to eat here. I want to pop in
and show her this one room in the restaurant. And
then the manager saw me have the conversation and he said,

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I'll take you really quick and took us in, showed
her we were out of there in a minute and
a half.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
That's the way you do it.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yeah, check it out. But it was like, those are
those people.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
I don't know what that job is called, but those
entry level people that power tree.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
How can't I help?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
But I think those are fairly villainized. They are fairly villainized. Anyway,
if you've got a career that's unfairly villainized, shoots the
tax text JJR, what of that career is the nine six,
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