Congressmen:
Why it sounds awesome-
Being a congressmen sounds like every persons dream job. You have power, wealth, fame, and all the under aged interns you could ever want.
Why it sucks-
The life of a congressmen is boring, long, and very very temporary. From the moment you are elected, your day becomes a non stop work fest. As this run through of the average day of a congressmen shows, when your in washington, from 8 am to 8 pm you are constantly working.
So what, your probably thinking, congress is only in session 1 in 3 days a year. Thats 4 months of work for 8 months of goofing off back in there state. So what do congressmen do during there 8 months when there not working? The answer: Work even more. Thats right, when there at home there regular schedule goes from 8-8 from 730-930.
And unlike other jobs where you might actually get some enjoyment out of what you do, 95% of the average congressmens day is either giving a canned speech of your talking points, or listening to others give canned speeches about there talking points.
And what do you get in exchange for your 2-6 years full of 12-14 hour work days? A public that blames you for everything thats wrong with there state, and a fight to get reelected every few years. That and a paycheck which would barely cover the car payments of those CEOs you just questioned. Speaking of which…
CEOs:
Why it sounds awesome-
CEOs are the top dogs. They sit in there offices, delegate there work out to other people, and demand hundreds of millions of dollars for doing so. And when a recession comes along and there company starts to fail, instead of being laid off like the low men on the totem pole they eject from that shit hole of a company with their golden parachute.
Why it sucks-
First off, most ceos in the world arent the rude, mean, absurdly well paid people we imagine when we think of ceos. In fact, only about 1 in 20 ceos are in the top income 5 percentile for the field.
And while the average CEO still makes 700k a year, they only become ceo after decades of hard work for there company and are, on average, 56 years old. Couple that with the fact that the average CEO retires at age 62, and thats only about 4 million dollars for an entire lifetime spent climbing the corporate ladder.
And while yes, 4 million is significantly more than most americans are going to make over a 6 year period, believe it or not, CEOs are expected to earn that money. One anonymous CEO described his job as a living nightmare, where your expected to be on call 24 hours a day. That means emails at 3 am, multiple meetings with important people all day, calling up people all over the company to make sure things go well.
The CEO is basically responsible for the entire operation of there branch of the company and there expected to be intimitly familiar with its operation. And while it may seem that they are your boss and you have to answer to them, the truth is the ceos have a boss to: there called stock holders, and if the ceo doesnt make them happy, the ceo can be replaced just as easily as anyone else in the company can.
Not to mention that when they do want to spend there money they are hated for doing so. Forbes ran a poll a few years ago that allowed americans to rate how they thought the CEOs of a few top companies were doing. 4 out of 5 of the top airline ceos were given negative ratings, same for telecomuncation and health care ceos. And this was in 2005, before all the goldman sachs bonuses controversy.
Video game tester:
Why it sounds awesome-
This is the dream job of every gamer in existence. Its just simple math really. Gamers like video games, gamers like getting paid money, so any combination of the two is going to sound awesome to a gamer. You are being paid, to play video games
Why it sucks-
Playing video games are fun. thats an established fact that all gamers know. However when your hired as a tester your not being played a video game. Your being paid to formulaically walk through levels of a game and try and discover bugs. Often times youll be forced to purposfully screw up over and over again seeking out a single glitch.
And youll be doing it in rooms of hot electronic equipment, surrounded by nerds of questionable hygine. One tester went as far as to describe it as a living hell, where the gamers worked 110 hours a week, ate the cheapest fast food they could find, all whilst surrounded by the aforementioned nerds, for over two months at a time!
Not to mention, there reward for this hard work is just slightly over minimum wage, with the industry standard being at around 10-12 bucks an hour. And while some of you doing the math may say that 1k a week is well worth it, unfortunately it doesn’t work that way.
You see despite the fact that this is arguably the shittiest job on this list, everyone and there brother wants in on it. So yes your getting 8k for 2 months worth of work but that could be your only gig for the whole year. Plus the tradeoff for that paycheck is that for two months, the game testing facility owns you. Basically all your doing is either working or sleeping. Im pretty sure that even 16th century slaves got to take breaks every now and then.
Professional Youtube Video Maker:
Why it sounds awesome-
Youtube has blown up over the years as a place where anyone can be famous for little to no experience required. Since its creation, it has been the spawning point for hundreds of viral videos such as charlie bit my finger, friday, and evolution of dance. Thousands of videos are uploaded to youtube every day, all hoping that theres will catch on and be the next big thing/
Why it sucks-
Normally when someone becomes a celebrity, they give up there normal life in exchange for famedom. No longer can Katy Perry just go to the grocery store and pick up a bag of chips without it turning into some kind of press endorsement for Cheetos.
Still, they accept there loss of privacy because they get paid millions of dollars in exchange for that loss. However when a youtube video gets “Viral” status, the person forfiets there right to privacy and get little to nothing in return.
In fact, the single most profitable person on youtube as of 2010 -Shane Dawson- made a measly 300k a year. Yes 300 thousands dollars is a lot of money to be made from creating videos about random stuff, but that is the number one grossing youtube video maker. The number one. Hes the oprah winfrey of the internet celebrity world. The difference is that oprah winfrey has a net worth of 2.7 billion, and earns significantly more per year than Dawson does.
