11.13.11
Sunday funny: “overrated jobs”
Scorn the professional shoe-shiners, bootlickers and donkeys paid to write career advice columns.
Today’s example, one in a weekly stream related to the best and worst jobs to have, the most valuable and most inferior people. (If you read these things semi-regularly, you know the only valuable skills people in America are finance executives, petroleum and natural gas engineers, and workers providing app programming and networked IT services for the plutocracy.)
“Twelve most overrated jobs” includes “physician” and “surgeon.”
It works under the assumption that all doctors in the US got into the career because they wanted to make lots of money. And there’s … like … too much stress and responsibility and “regulation” and not enough lucre to make it worthwhile anymore.
If you are someone with a sense of human decency you won’t object to imagining the people who turned in this poisonous dreck suffering a public horsewhipping.
“CareerCast.com cites ‘increased regulations, lower compensation, and the required need to stay abreast of medical developments’ as factors that make the job overrated,” it reads.
Yeah, all good reasons why being a doctor isn’t quite worth it. Fuck the sick. Go into finance and government capture through massive bribery. We need more of that.
Then there’s the last most “overrated” job. It’s the corporate douchebag, the American trademark, the guy organizing and administering the efforts to make everything into fee-based ripoffs, automated pickpocketing, human drone misery and outsourcing trips over the last fifteen years:
A senior corporate executive would seem to have it all. He or she is responsible for the operations, people, and policies of private and publicly traded companies. It’s hard to imagine more complex or prestigious responsibilities than those, and the average salary of $161,141.
Despite the positive attributes of the job, it earns the top spot on CareerCast.com’s list of Most Overrated Jobs. The firm cites “high stress, shaky stability, and long hours that affect family time” as factors that come with the territory, and make the position much less rewarding than it may seem.
From the wails you here from corporate America and Wall Street on the misguided anger of OWS, it must be true. And certainly if you were one of the PSU corporate executives fired for overlooking the depraved Jerry Sandusky for the last twenty years, you’ll agree, too. Finally, you’ll get to spend more time with your family.
And your lawyers.
Christoph Hechl said,
November 14, 2011 at 4:43 am
There is one question, that i really can’t find a suitable answer for:
Are Americans aware of how they are seen in other countries?
I have met quite a number of Americans, mostly soldiers and their relatives, who where stationed overseas (i live not far away from Ramstein), and mostly those were nice people, up until the first Iraq war, when their housing areas got locked up and social contacts practically came to a halt.
Nowadays the USA is seen basically as ultra-conservative, represented by those who probably hail the Gadsden Flag. We don’t see the sensible people anymore.
Environmental issues are quite important for Germans, thus most people here are rather irritated to hear that “green” is used as an insult in the US and GB.
What i want to say is: The “normal” Americans have vanished from the picture. You know there is a Michael Moore and sometimes you here a new name like David Graeber, but more and more can’t help to think, that they seem to stand pretty alone.
Chuck said,
November 14, 2011 at 8:40 am
Blame God–after all George Bush said that God told him to run for President.
Obviously, the Omnipotent has questionable taste.
DD said,
November 14, 2011 at 11:47 am
Nowadays the USA is seen basically as ultra-conservative
Yeah, decades of corporate rule did that. Progressives don’t serve the plutocracy. The wealthy funded government capture and the Republican Party. And the Tea Party. They don’t really care about the social agenda of either but it’s a convenient way to wedge the electorate and get poorly informed voters to go for things that are actually anti-thetical to their way of life.
What i want to say is: The “normal??? Americans have vanished from the picture.
Pretty much. That has led to Occupy Wall Street and the most recent election in Ohio, which defeated a bill which would remove union rights from state workers.
Occupy Wall Street — the 99 percenters — are the “normal” people now.
Europe has social compacts which were unimaginable in the United States.
until the protests began. Whether they can build into real power for change is still unfolding.
DD said,
November 14, 2011 at 12:41 pm
It’s also worth adding that while I’m sure the Americans in the military stationed in Germany were nice, the US military is now not at all representative of the country as a whole. The all volunteer force has resulted in an army that is not all reflective politically, socially (or education-wise) of the country. Huge swaths of American society do not participate in military service.
It’s very conservative in political and social beliefs, much more religious than it should be, and well-trained but not well educated. The service academies provide a good officer corps but not an education that compares at all favorably with the good universities in this country. American universities are liberal, the exact opposite.
Remember, the US military was basically compelled to do away with discrimination against gay soldiers just a couple months ago.
DD said,
November 14, 2011 at 12:48 pm
This paragraph was worth a grimace today:
“If you’re very sick and not very wealthy in America, your best move may be to just flee the country. Otherwise, expect to pay through the nose and possibly wind up deep in debt. That’s the takeaway of newly released research from The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that seeks to improve poor people’s access to quality health care.”
Of course, this isn’t news if you live here. Loads of people have essentially non-performing health insurance which means you pay all the premiums but as soon as you actually get sick you wind up with so many exemptions and co-pays it’s like not having any insurance, anyway. And one entire political party actually believes that sick people ought to die if they’re not rich. Which became impossible to ignore during the Republican debates.
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/11/11/poor-sick-people-u-s-offers-raw-deal-for-the-unhealthy/
George Smith said,
November 14, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Obviously, the Omnipotent has questionable taste.
I believe that at one time or another every current GOP candidate — with the exception of Romney and Huntsman — has said God told them to run. So he has a perverse sense of humor, too.
Christoph Hechl said,
November 15, 2011 at 12:16 am
Well the first gulf war started in 1990 and the selfimplied lockup still persists, so the soldiers who are now stationed here have never known anything else.
The Berlin Wall existed for 28 years, the closing of the housing areas is now going towards its 22nd year, might be interesting to see which one lasts longer.