Comments on: And The Most Depressing Jobs Are ...

Workers In Restaurants And Personal Care Have Highest Depression Rates, Study Says

[iceman_1960]

Dental hygienist -- is that the most depressing job ?

Handling those tongue depressors day in and day out... that has to be depressing.

[tnt1954]

i see that laughter therapy is making you less
depressed. norman cousins wrote that book. it
was his idea of how to get well and stay well.
but what if you have cracked ribs? a real rib-tickler?
the most depressing job of all is that of
professional patient. the job of the person
who makes doctors and owners of nursing homes
and hospitals filthy rich. or the job of hypochondriac. the person who has to be taken
care of, all the time. like stephen hawkins,
a great mind. or people who long to be stars
in the special olympics, fully delusional thinking
that people ought to pay big money to see them play.
way more than the regular olympics or regular
sports. why yes,we''re lined up for miles
to see girls in wheelchairs play basketball.
that''s how it should be, don''t you think rush limbaugh, that''s how it oughta be. yeah, rush
we should all be just as full of bush as you.
and flush. why my pay toilet idea, made
me a multi-billionaire. includes taxes too.
would pay off the national debt.

[grazinggoat]

Gravedigger.

That has to be a depressing job.
Posted by Iceman_1960 at 09:09 AM : Oct 14, 2007

-What do you need to have as training? Shovel handler attestation, backhoe handler certificate or WWF (WorldWrestling Federation) diploma? LOL!

[iceman_1960]

Gravedigger.

That has to be a depressing job.

[iceman_1960]

"Fast food and low paying jobs are full of the George Bush supporting trailer park tribe. They should all be lured to the Jerry Springer show and killed."
- Posted by zootallures2 at 04:06 AM : Oct 14, 2007

LOL !!

If Jerry Springer were a liberal like that nice Oprah Winfrey, he wouldn"t be staging those ugly lowlife brawls.

He"d be offering Book Club recommendations like she does, and giving free cars to members of the audience.

And of course he"d be backing Barack Obama.

[iceman_1960]

Louis Fieser.

"Napalm is any of a number of flammable liquids used in warfare, often jellied gasoline. Napalm is actually the thickener in such liquids, which when mixed with gasoline makes a sticky incendiary gel. Developed by the U.S. in World War II by a team of Harvard chemists led by Louis Fieser, its name is a combination of the names of its original ingredients, coprecipitated aluminum salts of naphthenic and palmitic acids. These were added to the flammable substance to cause it to gel."

[iceman_1960]

RE: "What famous inventor or engineer was also a serial killer?"

Whoever it was who invented napalm.

[iceman_1960]

"Workers who prepare and serve food - cooks, bartenders, waiters and waitresses - had the second highest rate of depression among full-time employees at 10.3 percent."

Remember this the next time you"re in a bar or restaurant.

Leave a decent tip.

Not some measely 15%. Go for 30%, 35%.

Put a smile on that poor waitress''s face.

[Krazcarl]

Why I got out of nursing all politics the staff has to carry out but decent pay there stuck there if they quit nothing but low level jobs,not all it''s cracked up to be, food+drink service the lowest end on the ladder alot of folks first job was mine there desperate will take anything just mostly alcholics now and low lifes or ladies with problems that LOVE to tell you about them nor great pay so what do you expect. Now I''m a repo man great job fair pay great boss great hours never ever thought I''d do this{delinquet storage units}.

[grammawhamma]

Posted by JetRanger7 at 12:45 AM : Oct 14, 2007

There are key words in your post that kind of answer your question. The first is "young". The second is "think". Young kids don''t think of the future they think of the now. Maybe these girls are lonely and feel unloved and think that a baby will get the guy (dad) to like them more...or the baby will be cute and cuddly and love them (kind of like a little puppy). When they have the little baby...people will "ohhhh and ahhhh" over it therefore giving the mom attention. They have no clue that they are in for a lifetime job that will or should change their life forever.

[zootallures2]

I doubt it is the job. It''s the people you have to work with in those jobs. What famous inventor or engineer was also a serial killer? Most people who do social work are sadists and perverts. Fast food and low paying jobs are full of the George Bush supporting trailer park tribe. They should all be lured to the Jerry Springer show and killed. Then nice people won''t be depressed having to be surrounded and out numbered by these worthless sadistic nuts.

[robertkjjj]

What about if you had to change diapers on engineers and architects? What about that? Would you then be depressed half the time and happy the other half? Well?

[tnt1954]

one of the more depressing jobs,
causing abject cynicism is that of journalist or
writer or artist or musician or actress. only
a very few make it to the top. there''s not room
for too many at the top. you have to be the
deliverer of bad tidings. no news is good news,
but there is always plenty of news. and you often
get accused of causing the news to happen, so
you can have news to report. i never could figure out why people
eat dinner while watching the news on tv.
the tv is like the old fireplace used to be?
and people in the news business have to worry
about ratings all the time, and deadlines and
pressures.
sometimes they have a rather mischievious grin
on their face and talk in a laconic manner sometimes.
creative writing is more fun, you can make it
all have a happy, hollywood ending. and they
lived happily ever after. the world psychiatric
association still feels that medication is the
answer for world peace. i feel they are delusional.
there is no pill for peace. maybe a pill of knowledge, by which we may be instantly educated.
a walking encyclopedia, just from taking a pill.
i don''t care how many anti-depressant, anti-psychotic
medications you have in your arsenal against the
''problems'' of individuals and groups, its not
going to make the food grow faster, people be happier,
or people more sane. you still cannot prove beyond
the shadow of a reasonable doubt, that thought and mood
r just a bio-chemical process in the brain.

[tnt1954]

there are some real depressing jobs out there.
that have to be done by someone. i think
the worst would be body bagger in iraq. the guys
who have to come clean up after a bombing.
yeccch! and they are probably getting shot at
while they do the cleanup. being a soldier on
the front line, would be very depressing. or how
about you work in a morgue. deal with stiffs all
day or night. or like you''re like the dude who
go picks up the dead in the middle of the night.
that would just be too much. why guys that work
in nightclubs must have a blast compared to those
guys. strippers, the love industry? how boys
who model underwear? i''m some jobs that are
so stupid even a moron could do it. or how
about being a catholic priest who hears confessions
and problems all day long, and gets accused of
all kinds of crazy stuff by crazy people all day that
wanna get in touch with their long lost relatives
in heaven? and you have to comfort the bereaved,
and hear all about each bereaved persons life.
wouldn''t it kinda ''get to ya''?

[cdfoxtrot]

Looks maybe like jobs requiring creativity or those where you have control over what you do are those with the lowest depression rates.

[jetranger7]

I hope I don''t give the wrong impression here, not pointing to anybody in particular, but as tough as it is today to make a living, and get ahead, and provide for yourself and your future, I''m wondering, why so many young girls think having Kids will change everything ? Don''t they realize how hard and difficult it is, not only to raise them, but to also provide for them on a low wage salary, what are they thinking, moneys just gonna fall from the sky because they have a kid and everythings just gonna be hunky dory ? I see way too many young women from 18 to 30 with kids, and they''re single, without a father, or, with a boyfriend whos not the father and doesn''t have a decent job with benefits or no job at all, or worse yet, a boyfriend with a prision record and still no job, and even worse yet, the woman with the kid or kids with no job, and it doesn''t make any difference what race they are, it seems everywhere, what were they thinking or are they thinking ??? Why do they want to make life so hard for themselves at an early age and force themselves into poverty for years to come, and miss many opportunities trying to raise kids at their young age ?? I just don''t get the mentality, or the jest of this, what are they thinking????

[tnt1954]

i took care of my senile, incontinent grandma
for six years. she had been so kind to take
care of me when i was a kid. it was the only
decent thing i could do for her. it was hard
on my stomach to say the least. the most depressing
job of all is sewer inspector. ugggh!! god forbid
a major pipeline should burst. backed up toilets?
oh, yeeeccchy!! we used to have a septic tank.
it overflowed every fall and winter with the rain.
oh, ugh. and here comes global freezing after
a rather long, hot summer. poor homeless
people in the snow. so that''s another 3 million
immigrants to california. come one come all.
might as well. i was born in los angeles.
its very rare to meet a native californian.
oddly enuff.

[missingamerica]

Oh, great. You''re most likely to get depressed in those jobs that are among the only ones where employment is projected to expand...

[ladyephesus1]

I agree. Im a single mother and when I cannot provide everything my children need, I do tend to get depressed and have battled it for years. With inflation the way it is, you can hardly travel to get out anymore because of gas prices and its just expensive to raise children altogether. I am a thrift store shopper and a coupon clipper and still have a hard time saving money for anything.

[ssm9451]

Perhaps the depression manifests itself due to having a low income position. If we are unable to provide for our selves or our families, that could make any one become dispressed.