Which Profession is Most Overlooked for Respect?

[Kinsao]

I agree with the professions that people have already said - waiter/waitress, garbage collector, mailmen, nurses...

I also think that call centre workers are overlooked for respect. Because their job involved having a script/set procedure, it doesn't need a specialist skill. People associate call centre workers with the annoying person on the other end of the phone who doesn't know the answer to your query and puts you on hold for ages. But on the other hand, call centre workers (in 24-hour centres) have to work shifts, they have to sit down throughout their work, they are not allowed to take a proper time to interact with their customers because they have targets of how many calls they need to take, and they have to deal with people giving them crap down the phone. I've known people who work in call centres who even get people phoning up because they want to talk to someone, hear someone's voice, and they end up having to play the counsellor! So yeah - it's not a physically demanding job in the traditional sense, but actually it can be pretty demanding on your body in a different kind of way to sit down all day (it makes me feel really ill when I have to do it T_T), and although they don't have specialised skills, call centre workers are really put down all the time, people think they are the lowest of the low when they are aiming to help, and people always remember the occasion they got below-par service rather than the times someone was nice.

I definitely agree about service staff. I know someone who owns a restaurant - owns, not waiters - and he worries a lot about the business and hasn't had a holiday for 7 years.

 

[strongvoicesforward]

Hi cashhighlander,

Sorry for the abscence; me and my dad just got back from a trip up to South Dakota.

No need to apologise. We all get busy. Had you come back earlier there would have been a good chance that you would have missed my post that you have just recently replied to.

Hope you had a good trip to S. Dakota (hope it wasn`t a hunting trip ). Visited there once many years ago.

Since you are a vegetarian (just found that out), it would be pointless for me to counter anything from your post.

Not really. I was once a flesh eater and it was only through argumentative discussion that I changed. I guess if I changed once, it is possible to do so again. Besides, just learning new debate strategies in the course of "arguing" is valuable -- if indeed you do value debate. Although I, too, feel it is pointless arguing with some people at times, in fact, I do have to admit I learn from those people because they come at the issues from different angles and that forces me to adapt to that particular style or information.

To each his own.

That, too, could be a whole other topic.

Oh, by the way, sometimes I do urinate and defecate outside. I live in the woods, so I can.

lol. I do, too, when I am hiking. But you don`t really live "in" the woods, do you? You mean you live in your house which is in the woods, and which shields you from the true realities of nature. Right?

At any rate, I think if we want to continue this conversation, we should move it over to one of the vegetarian threads or create a new thread topic. Because of that, I won`t post anymore on farming, ranching, or vegetarianism in this thread.

Here are the other threads if you want to look at some of the arguments on those topics. Don`t feel pressured to post in those threads. Do so if you wish:

Are you vegetarian?

Fighting animal exploitation/cruelty

Vegetarianism for the Environment

Famouse Vegetarians on Vegetarianism

 

[galychanyn]

In my country these are sanitation workers and cleaners.

 

[Aristander]

I believe that being a plumber is the most under appreciated and under respected profession. My father was a plumber and as a boy I had to work with him. Until you have had to run your arm up someone's sewer line and dig out impacted sanitary napkins, while laying in a puddle of raw sewage, you have not suffered.

 

[LeBrok]

Yep, watch the Dirty Jobs reality show for these jobs.

 

[Olivia_19]

teachers for sure