25 Once-Respected Jobs That Became Complete Jokes
Everyone wants to be respected. And since we spend so much time at work, we hope our jobs will be respected as well.
Published 2 years ago in Ouch
Everyone wants to be respected. And since we spend so much time at work, we hope our jobs will be respected as well.
That doesn't always work out, though. Thanks to Reddit, we've collected a gallery of once-respected jobs that everyone now treats as a joke.
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Chefs. My dad was a chef and in his day you could have your pick of jobs. Literally walk out of a restaurant and into another by the end of the day. People respected them and allowed creative and financial freedom. Now I work as a chef and I constantly have to answer to people (managers, waitresses, etc..) who have absolutely 0 culinary experience.
The pay is sh*tty, the hours are ridiculous it's about 3 decades behind in terms of worker's rights. This goes double for smaller places like non-chain bars and restaurants. They know that there is always another chef looking for a new gig and often have no problems treating chefs like absolute dogsh*t. -u/BanditSurvivalist8
Critic, for the most part. It used to be that to be taken seriously as a critic, you had to have some accomplishments in the field you were critiquing in order to show that your opinion on the subject was worth some value. Somewhere along the way, the position devolved to "any idiot with an opinion is a critic". It has fallen even further in the internet age, with "critics" giving obviously stupid "hot takes" just so their name can be spread out among the media. -u/FDRockAtWork
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Optician. Back in the day, if you were an old-school optician you knew absolutely everything about complicated prescription issues, making glasses, grinding lenses, and manufacturing a complete set of glasses yourself from your own lab in the back of the store.
Nowadays it’s mostly 20-year-old idiots who take a crappy little express program to certify themselves as ‘opticians’, but all orders are sent to an outside lab to be made. If you have a problem with your glasses, 90% of these ‘opticians’ have no idea how to solve your problem. It’s also now essentially just a glorified salesperson job. -u/MaybeBaby9516
Chief Information Officer; in the 1990's that was a very prestigious position in a company. It showed the street that the company took technology seriously.
Now if you work in a business where tech isn't the product, your CIO or SVP of Tech reports to the Chief Financial Officer. Most times it isn't a strategic C-level job. You watch the budget and look to outsource as much as possible. Try to be aligned with the business, who really doesn't want anything to do with you other than what you can give them for less money. Rough gig. -u/Shroom4Yoshi19
A Lawyer. I’m one and I’ve already heard all the jokes, thanks. In the 19th century it really was a position of prestige. In the mid-20th century, it meant Atticus Finch. Now it’s just the equivalent of an ambulance-chaser in the minds of most people. And it’s too bad, because when you actually need one, you see what they genuinely do. -u/amerkanische_Frosch
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