If someone comments saying their actual current job, please be kind and thank them in a reply.
Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs). These people do the grunt work at nursing homes. They change bed pans and wipe butts, they fetch things, help people stand and sit, and generally get talked down to by the lower level nurses. When I did ambulance transfer, they were the ones that actually knew the patient’s normal mental state, and how they’d been changing over time. All for minimum wage.
My wife was a CNA until a few months ago. The pay rate has gone up to $12-15ish per hour at least but still terrible benefits on top of getting verbally beaten down by the nurses while getting physically beat up by the residents. Could make the same money with less risk of bodily harm working fast food
Good booked called "A Decolonial Feminism" by Françoise Verges talks about the line of oppression which is defined by those which arrive at clean places and those that must make those places clean. Totally thankless and even exported for imperialism (sending trash to other countries to deal with for very little money, which they must accept because they're already in poverty from Imperialism).
In the USA, garbage collectors are in the top 10 most dangerous jobs, due to injuries involving Dumpsters and equipment
I'll go with social activism. A lot of people wouldn't even recognize it as a job.
I know that feel. I technically have a job right now but I am very underemployed, and it has left an entire generation in shambles.
Reserve army of Labor gang rise up.
Healthcare environmental team, they clean up everything and are literally front line for IPC
Domestic work.
Raising children, feeding families, and cleaning up a household are staggeringly underappreciated labor tasks that are paid very little (or nothing at all when it's just family obligations).
reproductive labor must be appreciated to the full extent it is due
There are several jobs that are frequently mentioned in discussions like this that are actually thanked all of them time.
Nurses, teachers, fire, EMTs and police are always mentioned. They are hard jobs and mostly under paid. However they are constantly thanked, businesses give discounts and commercials and politicians thank them endlessly.
Grocery store workers, butchers, plumbers, electricians, custodians, truck drivers and most "menial jobs" are completely thankless. Think of the last time you saw a 10% off for nurses and if you've ever seen 10% off for overnight stockers.
Electricians get thanked in money. I’m a paramedic and an electrician. I volunteer as a paramedic because electrician pays double.
Nurses, teachers, fire, EMTs
I,too, wanted to become fire when I grew up. Turns out it's not a real job. Instead I became disappointed.
Farm labourers. There is a reason that such a large percentage of them are trafficked.
I remember it was something like people who clean hospitals, according to some study.
I'd say working in a kindergarten, watching other people's kids while they polish their own ego by going to work instead of watching and caring for their own kids, constantly taking shit from mad parents who all have the most crazy ass demands. Not my job. Thankfully. I can just sit in a chair and program all day 🙌 But man I feel for those people in the kindergarten.
while they polish their own ego by going to work instead of watching and caring for their own kids
