What would be the Job of your Nightmares?

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Pretty much any job that has constant attacks on my ego.


Hence why I'm looking into self employment.

Dude! Don't give out your telephone number just to get a discount. You know they're going to sell that to telemarketers.

Discarding the obvious ones like bomb disarmer and kamikaze pilot, I think it would be hard to work in any kind of corporate Dilbert type office.
I would just go insane within the first week.
I have been working in such places and they're just driving me nuts...

I did some work experience back in high school for the Ministry of doesn't matter now because they're something else again. (They kept getting moved around)

Took some scraps of paper, scanned them, and fixed some typos. Then I was supposed to break up a really big webpage into several smaller ones. (I also wasn't a programmer back then)

Then there's the fact I had to wear pretty formal attire when I feel pretty strongly about my need to distinguish myself.

It wasn't horrible so much because of people I was working worth (I barely spoke to anyone, there wasn't much need for it), but because chances are I'd be pretty much doomed to something pretty similar.

Working the complaint department in a sports arena when they have already sold large quantities of beer to rowdy sports fans.

Wow, you guys are twisted, I can't imagine what kind of disturbed mind it would take to come up with these ideas.

Psychiatrist, having to decide what's good for other people whether they like it or not, and worst of all, perhaps coming to imagine that I do know what's good for them. That's got to be an occupational hazard in that job.

Selling things to people (like Avon), air traffic controller, most things involving people (which narrows it down considerably)

Anything related to telemarkting OR call centers, so common on these shores.

I can't stand the thought of dealing endlessly with some clueless twat on the phone, or getting into cold calling.

Telemarketing. Or worse, something in daycare. All those wretched, sticky, screaming children, plus the stench of disinfectant... *shudder*

Anything that involves speaking to/making contact with lots and lots of people on a daily basis that are not you work mates eg Sales assistant, telemarketing. I can do it, but I always feel exhausted and jaded at the end of the day because someone usually manages to upset me/piss me off or demand many things of me all at once and I can't cope with this, its too much.

I was a police/fire dispatcher for about a year and it was pretty hellish. The phone was constantly ringing with people who had complaints, the 911 line would ring at inopportune times, all while officers are constantly calling in for me to run tags, drivers licenses, letting me know they were pulling someone over (so I could write down where and the description of the car), prisoners were constantly whining back in the tank, people would walk in with complains while all this was going on... AND I was handling calls for the city after hours.

The added cherry on top being the stress of knowing that if you screwed up somebody could die and you'd be out of a job.

They say this is actually one of the worst jobs an aspie can have and I can see why. But like all things, you can adjust. Part of me wouldn't mind doing it again, even if it was so hellish. I remember working Christmas eve that year (my family more that 350 miles away) and some random people came in and brought me food, then later in the night I was on the phone for over an hour trying to talk someone out of committing suicide.

I think I grew a lot as a person when I had that job.

Hey, I've HAD the job of my nightmares, sigh. I was a "sleep researcher" for Stanford U, which meant I cold-called randomly selected people in other states, trying to get them to answer survey questions about their sleep habits. Some of these surveys literally lasted two hours or more. Then there was my boss, who told me I had an attitude problem...and his assistant who would come and tell me not to sit cross-legged in my chair. Even though it's a phone thing, who could tell how I was sitting??! ! I don't think words can even do justice to this job. I had it for 2 months, and that was more than enough for me.

I would hate to have a job that involved public speaking. I've had to do some recently and it's horrible. Standing up in front of a room full of NTs and trying to speak to all of them is terrifying.

Anything involving lots of noise, impressions and hyper-active people, aka preschoolteaching.

I did telesales, or at least incoming complaints and I pretty much succeded bacaue I mentally reduced every caller to an aggregate of problems on which to employ (cerebral) problem solving skills.. I seem to have come over as a bit of a robot, but I got the job done lol