7 Jobs That Are Totally Overvalued and Overpaid
No holding back on some of the most overvalued and overpaid professions out there. Can you relate?
7.Commercial Airline Pilot
Someone said the following: “My uncle was a commercial airline pilot. He described his job as “vastly overpaid in normal circumstances and vastly underpaid in emergency situations.”
6. Paramedic
A couple of folks mentioned the following about paramedics and firefighters. “Firefighters and Paramedics are in the same boat. $60-80k a year in some places to pick up old people off the floor, but ONLY $60-80k to manage the pulseless and dying child at 3 in the morning.”
“Yeah I feel this. I’m a rural medic, and some days I am paid a mint to do about an hour of maintenance work and then putter away on personal projects or work out and nap. And other times I do things most sane people wouldn’t do for love or money, for 14+ hours until my employer is legally obligated to let me rest for 8 hours.”
5.Upper Level University Administrator
A lot of people volunteered their thoughts on this profession. “About two-thirds of the upper-level admins at the university I work for.”
“My alma mater fired some 50 professors at the start of the pandemic, despite having a 60%-40% ratio of administrators to teachers. A year later, they’d burn $50,000 on a series of tacky posters that everyone on campus hated. Administrative bloat is ruining universities. Good programs canceled so we could have a third Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion. Just utterly unreal.”
4.Babysitter
There were differing reasons on why to overpay a babysitter. Do you agree? “One night I babysat three kids for about 2 hours or so. The kids went to bed when I got there, and the parents had left dinner out for me, so all I did was eat their food and watch their TV and pet their dogs. When they got home the mom paid me $100. I told her that was way too much. She slurred “Don’t worry about it, I’m drunk.” And then I noticed her fly was down. So that was the most over paid job ever lol.” Another person chimed in with “One of the smartest moves you can make as a parent is treat those who take care of your children incredibly well. I always over pay my sitters they’re worth every penny with the peace of mind they give me.”
3.Consultant
Consultants get a bad rep because companies just “rent” them out to make spread on the rates.
“I do consulting. It is just either outsourced office work or creating fluffy PowerPoints to give executives an excuse to authorize spending. It’s not a bad gig.”
Another more detailed response.
“I worked for an MBB consulting firm for a few years, it was 1. Holding expensive meetings, 2. Re-arranging PowerPoints, 3. Relying completely on the business to get difficult to source data, 4. Most important – being management’s mouthpiece and scapegoat for unpopular decisions.
Jokes aside, some projects really did seem to provide value to companies – things like CPQ / deal scoring tools w/real time margins by product/region/etc. for dealsdesk and rev teams, process automation, etc.
You’d be shocked at the way some LARGE corporations price/package/discount/sell in all manual and disparate processes.
Been out for several years now, thank god.”
2.Fintech
Fintech is the craze with blockchain and cryptocurrency being the major topic these days. Not much holding back about the pay and work in this job.
“I work in fintech and I literally do nothing during 9-5. I wake up in the morning, start my computer, check emails, morning meetings, then play video games, go to the gym, invite friends over or go out for brunch, and at the end of the day message everyone a good afternoon. I’m absurdly overpaid as well and highly recommend the career. It’s like I have a job but I don’t but I do.
Edit: For everyone asking, I am a Senior Expert on Blockchain and contract between FANG companies every year, mostly Google and Amazon. The hardest part is the schooling, but afterwards the actual work is quite easy. It’s a pretty surreal career and I understand how privileged it is to have a stress free job. I’ve seen how badly a unhealthy work life balance can impact a person’s mental health cause of my parents which is why I got into IT.”
Here is a second response:
“Am in Fintech too I work super hard actually, like mind meltingly hard…for about 45 mins a day. Rest of the time is easy lyfe baby.”
1.Life Coach
I always wonder how young people can be a life coach. Have they experienced enough to be able to charge for it?
“This girl I know became a life coach and charges $3-500 per person for a 4 hour “seminar” that a friend of mine used to help her set up for. Friend said all it was was 4 hours of her saying these people are great and doing yoga+breathing exercises. And she had repeat customers and often 4-8 people per class. $2400 per weekend to tell people they are awesome and do a few yoga stretches. F***** wild.”
Another one:
“My sister in law made a lot of money for being a “life coach” in California for a few years before I met my husband. Apparently she made well over 6 figures, rented a $10,000 a month apartment, and was living the luxury LA life.
However, idk what happened but her whole business crumbled and since Covid she has lived in her childhood bedroom in her parents house and claims bad energies are everywhere. Her mom buys her groceries, she doesn’t pay rent, but somehow found money for a monthly subscription box of witchy crystal trinkets (she showed me the subscription boxes at Christmas time and I was like oh cool, maybe she’s making money again and she’ll get us an actual Xmas present…nope lol she gave us both a $2 face mask from TJ Max that she bought on Xmas Eve and her dad told us they’re still buying her groceries which have to come from Publix, not Walmart, because Walmart produce has bad energy)
My eyes can’t roll hard enough back into my head to interact with her anymore, and this is what I believe all these life coaches really are…”
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