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35 Wild Facts About Ordinary Boring Jobs

Some of these aren’t actually boring at all

35 Wild Facts About Ordinary Boring Jobs

September 13, 2023

People often believe that jobs that are considered “ordinary” are easy to do and require little skill. But this is often not the case. Many so-called ordinary jobs are crucial to the functioning of society and require a great deal of skill to perform properly. So, in reality, there are very few truly “boring” jobs, as even the most seemingly mundane tasks can be important and challenging in their own way.

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48% of American UBER drivers have a college or advanced degree GRACKED.COM — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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KERO GRACKED.COM Flight attendants are trained by people from the army, navy and fire department! — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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WORKING IN AN AUTO PARTS STORE IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN YOU THOUGHT. - and Between 2003 and 2008, 8.4% OF ALL WORKPLACE HOMICIDES occurred in auto and parts stores. CRACKED.COM Only convenience stores and gas stations are more dangerous for employees. — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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Marriage

disp 77.9% OF SOFTWARE disp DEVELOPERS ARE disp MARRIED. val disp from DOS DOS Even though their median age is just 36 years old. CRACKED.COM — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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Protective More Services than Workers 40% of have a weight problem. According to research, these are the jobs with the HIGHEST OBESITY RATES. JAILER CRACKED.COM — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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CRACKED.COM Librarians - a dyingjob? NOPE Чентиуобсоу DVANGED According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the employment rate for librarians is expected to grow by 9% from 2016 to 2026 because libraries are very much still in demand even in this digital age. — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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Criminals As Teachers

Wondering what's a popular profession criminals want to have after coming out of prison? TEACHING. In the UK, over 16,000 criminals including pedophiles, murderers, and drug dealers tried to apply as a teacher, and data shows that the number is steadily rising. It is unclear how many of them are already working in schools. CRACKED.COM — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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Thirty percent of Tesla employees feel they've been silenced by NDAs. NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT greement) is entered into on this S address at The total is twice the tech industry average, and over four times that of Linkedln, the company with the fewest complaints of being silenced by an NDA. CRACKED.COM — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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CRACKED.COM Ice ream Less than a third of fast food workers are actually teenagers. Thirty percent are between 20-24 years old. Contrary to the images shown in the media, the majority of workers are 25 years old or older, and the vast majority have at least a high school diploma, and many some college. — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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Hairdressers are more likely to develop lung problems than the general public. Due to high ammonia levels from hair products in salons, hairdressers suffer a higher risk of developing respiratory diseases such as asthma and shortness of breath in just five years. CRACKED COM — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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CRACKED.COM TRUCK DRIVERS ...can cover over 125,000 miles per year. That is more than 3 million miles over the average trucker's career. There are about 5 million trucks in America, lined up they would just about reach the moon. In a single year, American truckers can travel as many as 200 billion miles. They could have trucked to the sun and back around 1,000 times. — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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Male managers have a 40% higher chance of getting promoted than female managers. Men are more likely to be promoted into senior and higher paying management roles. Data shows that for managers who have worked for the same employer for five years, 47% of men and 39% of women were promoted. CRACKED.COM — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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CRACKED.COM Construction and extraction workers are the most likely to commit suicide. According to data from 17 states, the rate of suicide is 53.2 per 100,000 people in the field. — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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According to a nationwide study by Career Builder, 58% of managers involved in the study said that they did not receive any management training prior to becoming managers. CRACKED.COM — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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CRACKED.COM In 2013, a survey by TEKsystems found that 28% of people who work in IT don't let their family and friends know, so that they won't be asked to fix anything. — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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The most common major for college-educated waiters must be something impractical, like liberal arts, right? Nope. The most common major by far, held by 19.1% of waiters with college degrees, is business. CRACKED.COM — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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CRACKED.COM If you went to grad school, there's a better chance that you're a gig worker than working a traditional job. CUSTOMER PARKING ONLY U While the traditional workforce has more workers with undergrad degrees, the gig economy has slightly more post-grad degrees. — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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CRACKED.COM Code 1728862C 12 12 17950 nearly twice as likely to live 9270 ... Tipped workers S are ICA in poverty as THE untipped workers. L3 PERA 360 93355223 G 6 ES OR the be F794177 because 21 This could base for 158 tipped workers can be 71% lower pay 12 than the federal minimum wage. L05824309 C L 12 21 — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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Percentage of American workforce employed in farming in: 1840 70% 2017 1.3% CRACKED.COM — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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CRACKED COM 101010 Sixty-nine percent 10101 - surveyed the software - developers were at least partially self-taught. Less than half reported TOTAL having an undergrad degrand in the field of computer science. 01111 — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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Personal Trainers

CRACKED.COM The majority of working personal trainers aren't a bunch of dumb jocks. Sixty-four percent have a bachelor's degree, and over forty percent have a master's. — Source: 38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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A study by the European Cockpit Association found that around half of pilots in the UK (43%), Denmark (50%), Norway (53%), and Sweden (54%) admitted to dozing off in the cockpit. - RUL FLIGHT SAFE - - NOW A third of the UK respondents saw that their co-pilots were sleeping as well when they woke up. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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Women doctors earn around 79 cents for every dollar made by a male counterpart. Representing 40% of the physician and surgeon population in the US, on an average they earn about 22% less every week than their CRACKED.COM male colleagues. — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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CRACKED.COM There is a 6:1 ratio of female to male American Sign ou Language interpreters. The job has traditionally been viewed as women's work, and it typically doesn't pay very well. — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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Mathematicians' job growth will be over 5 times higher than the average als occupation's. 1 rez or M Rt-2+ 1L-2 I Al Aé-2 LATHEA M im2 4 R imb_1 AUAD RLM ALA, Al-21 ما B3-, TRUE le + Qu GB12 m Le e I I AlizAlon A LMN ok The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects An-1 job growth for mathematicians between 2018 and 2028 to be 26%. The average for all occupations is 5%. Why? Businesses now have so much data that's so complex, they need mathematicians to analyze it (even statisticians aren't cutting it anymore). CRACKED.COM — Source

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Many teachers in the U.S. work part-time jobs during the summer or even after school due to their low pay. mc2 7 Despite this, they are often obligated to spend upwards of $500 on supplies out of pocket each year. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, solar photovoltaic installers are the fastest growing occupation. By 2026, the number of workers in that profession will more than double. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Volunteer Firefighters

CRACKED.COM A whopping SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT of firefighters are volunteers. Coincidentally, SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT of fire departments are made up entirely out of volunteers. — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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In the 2011-2012 school year, 10% of U.S. elementary teachers had been threatened, and 8% had been physically attacked by a student. CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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A 2007 study by the Beth Israel Medical Center, New York found that surgeons performed better when they spent three hours a week playing video games, compared to non-players. A surgeon who played Top Gun made 32% fewer mistakes and was 24% faster when performing a laparoscopy (a keyhole surgery on the abdomen and pelvis done with the aid of a camera in a tube). CRACKED.COM — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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LOVE ANIMALS? THINKING OF BECOMING A VETERINARIAN OR VET TECH? Hope you like needles! The Centers For Disease Control recommends a three-injection CRACKED.COM pre-exposure vaccination against RABIES plus blood tests every two years for all workers who handle animals. — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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CRACKED COM Facebook moderators, who view content like animal snuff films and child porn, are only allowed 9 minutes of wellness time per day. That's 1.88% of their day that they get to recover from the horrors they are required to see. Their annual salary is $28,800. — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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GRAGKED COM OF COURSE, ROAD ACCIDENTS POSE THE GREATEST DANGER... 325 5208 ...BUT SLIPPING AND FALLING ACCOUNT FOR 20% OF ALL ON-THE-JOB INJURIES FOR BUS DRIVERS — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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CRACKED COM Farming Fishing Forestry Have the highest number of suicide rates which stood at 84.5 per 100,000 in 2016. — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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Being an EMT is dangerous. Sixty-nine percent of polled EMTs had been attacked on the job. FIRE и A 551 - FINE WILL EMERGENCY DIE 587740 911 The most common attacks were being slapped, scratched, punched, or spat at. CRACKED COM — Source: 25 Surprising Things You Should Know About Common Jobs

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