What glamorized career path is actually terrible?

[Guest edch88]

I can attest to the zoo keeper. 🙋‍♀️  It truly was my dream job.  I loved it, but the pay was insanely low for a job that required a bachelor's degree and previous animal care experience. 

 

Most keepers I knew either had another job, some type of side hustle, or a partner that was the main bread-winner.  I had to give it up when I had children because the cost of child care was MORE than my monthly salary!  😡

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Model. It is not all that glamorous. My friend started out as a model in her late teens in Europe before she moved to the US. She was picked constantly over her appearance. From the color of her skin to her hair, her weight, etc. Every day is filled with rejections and negativity. Before COVID, some days after her go-sees, she will come to my office and just cry. it is a business that requires very thick skin.

 

Still, she managed to build relationships with a group of loyal designers who will book her every season and have her work as their fit model or house model, and made sure she gets paid well. She ended up being one of the top runway models for a few years and snagged a number of editorial work. She did book some music video gigs, and an ad campaign here and there. But the reality of modeling is that it is not really a job that pays well unless you book several ad campaigns or even catalog work a year.

 

Runway, if you are lucky, you get paid a couple of thousands. However, most of the time, if you are a new model, you may not be paid at all, as they consider it giving you exposure. Magazine editorials are the same. My friend unfortunately had one of those faces and bodies that don't transition well for catalog work, think H&M.com, Shein, and those fast-fashion sites. 

 

Anyway, after 15 years, she finally decide to quit when she married a relatively well-off man and is much happier now without being criticised for her appearance daily. 

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Lawyer.

It's nothing like what you see in Suits or Ally McBeal where they spend the whole day in the law firm sashaying about from office to office while talking about their love lives.

 

Long hours, working on weekends, handling people's messy divorces, tonnes of paper work, endless deadlines, no social life, no time to sleep, etc.

It's not surprising that the attrition rate for lawyers is very high, while those who stay on often end up with very poor health and even cancer or heart disease at a young age.

 

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Cabin crew.

 

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Actually, although career planning is important, it's also whether you find a good working environment.

 

A dream job in a toxic place, not good.

[robin]

Miss Singapore. This may not be a job but supposed to carry a glamorous title.

 

My cousin was one & she became a hostess turned mistress.  No judgement made on her status but it is not as easy as how we thought the competition is. 

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On 8/19/2022 at 5:51 AM, Guest edch88 said:

I can attest to the zoo keeper. 🙋‍♀️  It truly was my dream job.  I loved it, but the pay was insanely low for a job that required a bachelor's degree and previous animal care experience. 

 

In Singapore, the majority of jobs have mediocre income. Unless you can dig to the reserve, unite all gold diggers to pass a bill, and start serving only yourself by claiming that you are serving the public by making "lifestyle sacrifices," etc blah blah.

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Bankers, I.T. workers.

[Dart]

Cabin Crew ~ a once glamorous career, now not so much of a prospect. 

 

With head held high and high self esteem, one is able to travel round the world and rub shoulders with the elite. In addition to the competitive salary with perks. 

 

That's no wonder despite the high demand in looks/physical cut, the vigorous training and the risk involved in traveling thousands of feet in high altitude, young people would still dream and aspire to become cabin crew back then.

 

But now with the hard hit of COVID-19 pandemic, warring states and constant treat of terrorism, the Airlines are brought to their knees. Most of them are losing money and many cabin staffs are been laid off. 

 

So no showy staffs anymore. Everything is down to practicality. During the peak of COVID-19, only cargo planes were flying as most countries sealed off their borders.