I don't want to have a job scrubbing toilets.

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I can tell you that, that is something I don't want to do.

All 3 jobs I had were doing some type of cleaning & that was part of the job. It didn't bother me that much. Those were about the only type of jobs I could get due to disabilities.

I'm very grateful for toilets scrubbers.
Think of the state toilets would be in if no one was prepared to scrub them.

I have never had a job scrubbing toilets, and eagerly await the robot takeover of this household task. Eagerly.

"You have to start somewhere" as they say.

My first job was at a local cinema when I was 15 years of age. Part of my duties was cleaning both the mens' and womens' restrooms especially the toilets. After the first week, I got used to it all. Twenty-two years later, I was a house manager for my county's Center for the Arts and, surprise, I was back to cleaning toilets simply because I didn't really trust others to do the job correctly. The only difference over the interim years is that I was only allowed to clean the mens' restrooms.

My job involves scrubbing toilets.
But somebody's got to do it, right?

I'm grateful for all the public bathroom cleaners of the world. Without them, I would be afraid to even think about using one.

Well, yeah, we do need toilet scrubbers. A world without toilet scrubbers would be a world with extremely filthy restrooms. Robots will probably take over this job in the future and people won't need to do it anymore.

What's the reason you've written this? Is this because of a conversation with a parent telling you to get a job or something along those lines? Are you finding it difficult to find work at the moment?

It doesn't bother me. I'd far rather scrub toilets in peace and make everything nice and clean than deal with customers or patients in my face, schmooze with work colleagues and vie for social power and politics, be stressed out constantly about complicated and potentially indictable legal ramifications, engage pointedly in "teamwork" and have that count towards my job performance, or have my whole job depend on whether people like me.
I have had jobs that involve all of that. Give me a toilet brush any day.
Is this a status in society thing? That someone who cleans any kind of facility is the bottom of the proverbial ladder? What does that matter?

I don't mind so much when it's my own toilet... But the thought of having to touch and clean public restrooms sounds absolutely awful. *shudder* I am very grateful for those who clean them. I just know I couldn't be one of them.

Then you need to get a degree. Otherwise, it's hard to avoid more manual labor.

I know THREE people in their 20s who did badly in school, didn't even bother to sit their exams and hence have no qualifications - yet now they are all in high-paid jobs in which they love.

And yet I have qualifications and here I am in a low-wage job scrubbing toilets.

C2V has my answer spot-on. I chose to go down a route that, yes, involves that, because it's infinitely preferable to other work situations. I get to work alone!! ! The Aspie dream. I clean for carefully chosen private clients, families. It's no worse than cleaning one's own family bathroom. You get to know the family/client. The ones in their homes are not public toilets.

I'd rather do this than struggle to fit into someone elses company or corporate setting -- I failed horribly at ALL of those kinds of job. I could not handle it. The office politics. Backstabbing. Abusive bosses. The daily grind.

Trust me, doing something where you are left alone to just do the work and nothing else, is far more delightful, even if it does involve toilets, than dealing with the a-holes and bullying and pressures of the normal work situation.

As for status problems --- well yes that IS an issue. But only because society in general places a stigma on cleaning and manual labor, failing to realize that ALL kinds of people opt for this work.

The bolding that follows is mine:

My biggest issues with the jobs was that management kept pulling me off at one job & then got on my back about why the stuff I was supposed to be doing wasn't getting done. That's the reason I quit cuz I couldn't take the stress anymore after being chewed out by the one running the store. The other issue was my pay despite the fact I had great reviews, extremely reliable, working extra when the job needed me to, & always working hard. Making just over minimum wage isn't enough with the cost of living. I was getting by because I was living with my parents.