<story><title>What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?</title><url>https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/what-does-shitty-job-mean-in-the</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; A meatgrinder job is a job that pays more not because there are fewer people who can do it, but because there are fewer people that will. They have insanely high turnover, because some aspect of the job is so bad that the vast majority of people who try it don’t stay. Maybe it’s long hours that never stop or maybe it’s constant on-call work. Maybe it’s an insane, stress-intensive workload you can’t begin to keep up with.&lt;p&gt;Pediatric oncology.  Extremely high skill&amp;#x2F;pay.  Very prestigious.  But most will leave within a few years.  A working day surrounded by kids undergoing painful treatments, particularly when you are the person prescribing those treatments, grinds down one&amp;#x27;s soul.  Or criminal defense attorneys&amp;#x2F;prosecutors.  Or any law enforcement.  To survive such jobs you mush develop a skin so think that to outsiders you appear inhumane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giantg2</author><text>In the case of LEOs or prosecutors, I think many give up the search for truth and give in to the us-vs-them mentality. The cognitive dissonance and pressure of group dynamics make it almost a certainty.&lt;p&gt;There is huge power in law enforcement and prosecutorial discretion. Yes, some parts of the job have to be strict for safety purposes. There are many other parts that don&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve had prosecutors and police know that our rights were violated as part of a citation. They did not care. Cop lied multiple times in court and was caught. IAD merely gave them a warning. The LT of the troop made a bunch of BS excuses - either he&amp;#x27;s actually that stupid or he&amp;#x27;s lying too. Filed a complaint about an incompetent magistrate whow also violated due process rights - judicial board doesn&amp;#x27;t care. Prosecutor instructed the court not to talk to us which prevented us from securing remote accommodations for our witness - the Bar didn&amp;#x27;t care. Civil rights lawyer said our rights were violated, but unless there was substantial monetary damages, the system doesn&amp;#x27;t care and would likely see it as frivolous.&lt;p&gt;Nobody cares. Nobody protects your rights. If nobody can enforce your rights, do you even have them at all? All the trooper&amp;#x2F;prosecutor&amp;#x2F;magistrate&amp;#x2F;judge had to do, was drop&amp;#x2F;throw out the case. They had the discretion, and even the responsibility, to do that. Their mentality was the problem. We were guilty in their mind because if we were not, that would make them participants in a broken and unjust system.</text></comment>
<story><title>What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?</title><url>https://www.residentcontrarian.com/p/what-does-shitty-job-mean-in-the</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sandworm101</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; A meatgrinder job is a job that pays more not because there are fewer people who can do it, but because there are fewer people that will. They have insanely high turnover, because some aspect of the job is so bad that the vast majority of people who try it don’t stay. Maybe it’s long hours that never stop or maybe it’s constant on-call work. Maybe it’s an insane, stress-intensive workload you can’t begin to keep up with.&lt;p&gt;Pediatric oncology.  Extremely high skill&amp;#x2F;pay.  Very prestigious.  But most will leave within a few years.  A working day surrounded by kids undergoing painful treatments, particularly when you are the person prescribing those treatments, grinds down one&amp;#x27;s soul.  Or criminal defense attorneys&amp;#x2F;prosecutors.  Or any law enforcement.  To survive such jobs you mush develop a skin so think that to outsiders you appear inhumane.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Ozzie_osman</author><text>&amp;gt; Pediatric oncology&lt;p&gt;My father in law does this, in a developing country no less. Bless his soul, he&amp;#x27;s a very kind man. But it&amp;#x27;s incredibly taxing. Not just the treatments but there are many cases where children die and there&amp;#x27;s nothing you can do about it. And it doesn&amp;#x27;t stop, even when he&amp;#x27;s on vacation, he has patient&amp;#x27;s families calling&amp;#x2F;texting him.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been at dinner where someone will walk over and say something like &amp;quot;you saved my brother&amp;#x2F;daughter&amp;#x2F;sister&amp;#x2F;son&amp;#x27;s life.&amp;quot; Or sometimes my wife and I will meet someone who will recognize she&amp;#x27;s his daughter and day the same. Hopefully that makes it worth it.</text></comment>