According to a 2023 Ipsos survey of 22,816 people from 31 countries, doctors are the top trusted profession (58%), followed by scientists (57%), and teachers (53%). At the very end of the list, we have journalists (24%), business leaders (24%), advertising executives (18%), government ministers (17%), and general politicians (13%).
Reddit user On False Errand wanted to know which of the latter were long in the making, so they asked everyone on the platform to share the occupations they once had a lot of respect for but ultimately lost every ounce. Below are the replies that generated the most buzz in the discussion.
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The Profession That Has Completely Lost Their Respect: 1.
Maybe I just had a string of bad experiences, but Chiropractors. My ex used to go a lot and loved it, I started going when I got older and found out it’s a load of c**p. Get your back cracked, feels a bit better for a few days, go back in a week. Pay them $200-300/mo that’s not covered by insurance.
The Profession That Has Completely Lost Their Respect: 2.
Ok this is going to sound weird. I have huge respect for anyone in a caring profession and I totally get that the pressure and difficulty of the job has a negative impact on worker’s and their mental health and personalities.
But over and over again, the b***hiest, nastiest environments I encounter are in care working professions. I sort of get it. But also I don’t. If you can’t even pretend not to be at worst a psychopath and at best not a toxic individual then don’t do that job.
The Profession That Has Completely Lost Their Respect: 3.
The BBC management. They’ve fought a mate of mine over ten years after a severe accident at work. They basically bankrupted him, destroyed his life, and hired experts to discredit him in court. After a decade, he won the case, but those who dragged him over the coals for years continue to have successful careers and just saw him as a game, a toy to be played with, with hundreds of millions available to outspend his lawyers. The BBC top brass are pretty sick in the head – they could have just admitted liability and paid up years ago, but no one would.
The Profession That Has Completely Lost Their Respect: 4.
I’ll get attacked for criticising an NHS profession but GPs.
Just my anecdotal experience of them is that they don’t give a f**k.
I’ve been prescribed medication I’m allergic to on multiple occasions, I have a scar thing on my leg that sometimes keeps me up at night when it flares as the pain is so bad and the reply from 3 separate GPs now is essentially “that condition doesn’t typically cause pain so I don’t believe you and can’t/won’t help you”. I injured my Hamstring pretty bad one time and now it often flares up if I try and resistance train and the GP just googled “hamstring stretches” in front of me and printed off a page of stretching designed for the elderly. No follow up or referrals.
The Profession That Has Completely Lost Their Respect: 5.
Lawyers. I studied law and did so many work experiences to see what area of law I wanted to get into. Every single lawyer I met (save for a few posh white men) was a glorified administrator. 99% of the job is soooooo menial. It’s really a profession where success is determined by your socio-economic profile and connections, not actual talent. Boring.
