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We don't always have a ton of choice where we get to work, especially when you're just entering the working world. Find anything customer-facing and you'll have to deal with ridiculous customer demands. And don't think every good-looking job is perfect, because there are also those jobs that look easy or fun but are surprisingly difficult. With some jobs the work is alright but everyone else is horrible, in the case of these jobs people quit on the first day. In summary, it's rough out there, man.

So many of us are prone towards telling silly little white lies. It could be the result of just trying to keep things simple by not being completely, brutally honest. Or maybe you find yourself in a customer service gig where you're regularly putting up with all kinds of crazily entitled customers, and the lies are the only thing that keep the job vaguely manageable. 

Different jobs come with different challenges, be they physical, emotional, or have you leaving every day with pants full of dirt. It's extremely easy to look at another person's profession and idealize it in your mind, but more often than not, the parts you get to see are just the easiest or most glamorous. These insider zookeeper secrets are a good example of the kind of behind the scenes crap everyone has to put up with. And of course some jobs are so ridiculous that people just quit on the first day.

We are at heart, frugal, sometimes to the point of staggering paranoia. We're the kind of people who are inclined to look at an overpriced jar of pickles and say to ourselves "Big Pickle must be stopped." Just because a business, practice or concept has been operating for decades doesn't mean that it's not just a scam that people overlook. Stupid pickles are just vinegar and cucumbers anyway.

On the flipside, here are some things people think are scams but aren't really.

Some of the happiest folks you might cross paths with in this crazy thing we call life, are the folks that managed to immerse themselves in the gigs that they don't even feel like calling "work" in the first place. If you're able to lock down a job that genuinely feels like it's play more than anything else, you've pretty much got the golden ticket. 

Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of a gig that you've invested a whole lot of training in, only to realize that said gig is speeding toward complete disaster. The imminent disaster could be the result of a rather terribly entitled customer, or perhaps the very thing you're expected to repair is honestly beyond salvaging. Such a situation can occur. These electricians, plumbers, and tradespeople had their run-ins with insurmountable jobs. 

Some things seem incomprehensible if you don't have a background in them, but just giving it 30 minutes of effort or following directions makes a lot of things surprisingly easy. If this made you feel even slightly motivated, here are life hacks and tips for becoming a slightly more effective person.

Sometimes we find ourselves in situations that are intolerable, and we can only ask ourselves how the hell we got there. It could be a nasty relationship, an overdemanding and underpaying job, or just an absolutely creepy situation. At some point in one's life it's likely they'll have a "screw this, I quit" moment.

We live in a society where it's pretty easy to pass the buck, not proofread children's books, and paint traffic lines directly over roadkill. It leads to some impressively unprofessional "not my job" moments. But, y'know, what can you do? Try a little harder? That's out of the question.

With just one or two small details left out, just about any job, even incredibly helpful ones like Librarian or EMT can be described in a criminal light. In a similar vain, here are bad stock photos of people's jobs getting roasted. That's not to say all jobs are super legit, there are definitely some sketchy secrets of various industries.

Every industry has something they don't tell customers and clients. It could be something about the amount of quality control that doesn't happen, the arbitrary nature of pricing, or people getting away with doing the bare minimum. Lies and open secrets in various industries are like the duct tape holding your walls together. Just about any business has some weird tales, like these all-you-can-eat-buffet horror stories.

Everyone has wondered if their life would be more peaceful if they worked in an animal shelter, or got to play video games all day. As it turns out, a job is still a job, and there's a reason people don't do it for free. For more insight into other people's jobs, here are bad stock photos of people's jobs getting roasted, as well as stories of the worst things people's coworker's did without being fired.

As it turns out, it's hard to formulate a decent representation of a lab tech when all you have is a model and a few beakers of colored liquid. It's like everyone's job is a cartoon. For more funny an accurate criticism, here are people's questionable haircuts getting roasted as well as some hilariously precise rare insults.

Work in any field long enough and you'll see your fair share of wonderfully unprofessional "not my job" moments. There's slides that go right off buildings, misspelled signs and extremely lazy line painting, just to name a few. It makes you feel good about yourself to see people's majestically incompetent "not my job" moments.

It seems like when you get down to the nitty gritty of just about any industry, there are some shady parts of it that no one wants to talk about. Even the most fun and simple seeming industries like avocados or tropical fish have seriously dark sides. When it comes to how a company treats it's employees, there are some definite red flags when it comes to looking for a job.

Someone got an AskReddit thread going about the red flags to keep a watchful eye out for while job hunting. Taking note of these might come in handy next time you find yourself looking for a new job, and don't want to end up in a difficult situation that could've been avoidable from the get go, if you but knew what to steer clear of from the start.