The most difficult profession?

[Ronin13]

Not really a profession, and not really reality, but I think the most difficult, in terms of dealing with death, would have to be an immortal- everyone you know and love will die, and then you have to go through it over and over and over again...

Back to reality- Death is easy, life is hard, that said, I think being a burn unit doc/nurse would be horrible. Paramedic as well- you're exposed to some of the worst things. Death and injuries aside, I really can say that being a career Special Operations Operator would be pretty tough in terms of stress and attachments- you're away from your family constantly, you see death more than anyone else, and your job has the highest divorce rate of any. YMMV.

[ray1970]

So your contribution to this thread advising difficult professions is...? Oh wait you're just playing devils advocate.

Just disagreeing with you. I couldn't think of an actual occupation that would meet your criteria off the top of my head.

[lead_magnet]

I don't know if one could classify any profession as more difficult than the next as there is not set standard. Most difficult technically? Most difficult physical labor? Etc. Someone might see one profession as absolutely unbearable, whereas another person finds joy in it.

I could never work in a factory on an assembly line. This would be right up there with being imprisoned to me. Others would view the job I do now with equal disdain.

I would have to say DHS case worker would be a hell of a job to have. You're constantly immersed in the worst parts of other peoples lives, in way more detailed and intimate levels than say a cop or a paramedic. You make decisions that alter the lives of children, and split up families. You hear about the horrible bullshit people do to one another on a daily basis, and somehow have to not let all of that infect your dealing with the next person you meet.

[Dingo]

Lol, I was a line supervisor at a supplement factory for a year or two. Much like prison, there was such abject boredom and repetition that I was able to learn Indonesian from one of my co-workers, as he didn't speak much English, and Indo was easier to pick up. We used to philosophize about how the manager's head looked much like the top of a penis, whenever he walked the floor. Grin.

[obisean68]

My $0.02. ICU nursing, because that's what I know. Dealing with patients and families at quite possibly the worst time in their life. Dealing with the anguish of having a loved one die too soon. Dealing with the anguish of families as they decide to remove their loved one from life support. Dealing with being the only human contact someone has before they die because they have no one or their family decides not the be there. And yet nursing has been one of the most rewarding thing I have ever done!

[HBARleatherneck]

neonatal intesive care unit (nicu)

at least with dying old people, you know they lived their lives. but one a baby or child is hurting, suffering and or dying, there is no good way to look at it. (unless you are a pro abortionist). i couldnt handle seeing hurting children (and their families)

not much else would be that bad.

[gemery]

neonatal intesive care unit (nicu)

at least with dying old people, you know they lived their lives.....

My wife was a NICU RN....prior to that she worked oncology at Children's Hospital....the stories she'd come home with....just heart breaking.



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[jslo]

Army field medic. Can't imagine some of the horrors they see to fellow brothers-in-arm

[soldier-of-the-apocalypse]

prostitution

[cstone]

I've often thought that some jobs require the wearing of a uniform to allow the employee to remove their occupation and become a semi-normal human being once they are no longer wearing their uniform.

Work to live, don't live to work. Stress kills.

Be safe.