What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?

Re:What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world? by dumpsterlid on Sunday April 17, 2022 @01:21PM (#31062469)

> Or any law enforcement.

Please don't equate healthcare workers with law enforcement. Healthcare workers have an astronomically harder job and actually make society a better place.

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Re:What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world? by hattmall on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:03PM (#31063917)

How many healthcare workers get literally murdered on the job? Anyone that's had been a cop for more than a couple of years will personally know a colleague that was murdered at work. Not to mention the constant number of victims they will encounter. Outside of certain fields most healthcare workers aren't dealing with dead and dieing patients everyday. For many cops in some cities there are multiple fatality call per shift.

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Re:What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world? by Rebelgecko on Sunday April 17, 2022 @03:35PM (#31063670)

I think in terms of difficulty, law enforcement has much more skin in the game- both jobs have to deal with potential guilt from screwing up but if a surgeon misjudges a situation pretty much the worst outcome is that they get sued and in egregious cases lose their job. Whereas in law enforcement you're more likely to have adversarial interactions with armed people, drunk drivers, etc where your own life is in danger.

Based on my (definitely incomplete so feel free to fill in any blanks I have!) knowledge of places that don't have formal law enforcement, it's impossible to make a good faith argument that they're better places because of it.

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Re:What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world? by bluquark on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:40PM (#31064738)

Prior to 2020, health work was probably safer, but since then over eighty thousand health workers have died of Covid worldwide: https://www.who.int/news/item/20-10-2021-health-and-care-wor...

If the world is unlucky enough to experience another pandemic someday, health workers will be expected to risk their lives once again during the period where no vaccines or good treatments exist.

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Re:What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world? by sudosysgen on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:32PM (#31065135)

Law enforcement in the United States is a fairly safe job. Adversarial interactions with armed people and drunk drivers are sadly part of many more jobs, and generally the most dangerous behaviour a cop will engage in is driving.

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Re:What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world? by mythrwy on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:36PM (#31063096)

I have a friend who used to be a cop in Dallas. He's a dentist now.

He says he makes many times the money with much less stress. Being in law enforcement in this climate seems like a pretty rough job to me. And that's not to excuse bad law enforcement behavior (of which there is plenty) either.

"Actually make society a better place". << What do you suppose your world would look like with no enforcement of any laws?

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