Librarian. "Oh, you get to sit around and read in a nice quiet environment all day" HA. Hahahahaha....yeah, no. It's like working in a kindergarten class for psychopaths.

Knight at Medieval Times. Those guys start as squires and deal with tons of grunt work and when they become knights, hours are still terrible but now you risk very serious injuries during practice or during a show. All of my friends that have worked or work there have had multiple surgeries, broken bones, you name it. They do like having the spotlight on them and they’re like brothers but usually hate it after a while.

For some reason, some of my old coworkers got in their heads that my traveling sales job was whisking me away to exotic places and gourmet meals on the company dime. No. No, no, no. Unless you think Syracuse is basically Paris and eating a poorly wrapped burrito while driving because you don't have time to stop for lunch between appointments is fine dining, sales is not sexy. It's a lot of drinking alone and working late nights in hotels with sh*t internet. If you have a family it's hard on your partner because they're taking the kids several nights in a row. You'll miss a lot if you don't have to freedom to schedule around your personal life. I'm glad I got out.

Zookeeper. You spend most of your time cleaning poop and you're paid like sh*t.

Working as a lawyer isn't anything like on TV.

From what I understand, private investigator. Bunch of boring research and chasing leads to dead ends. Nothing like any TV show.

Chef. Lots of getting screamed at, it takes a really big person not to pass that down the line. Lots of work, lots of expertise, little pay, little appreciation. Of the multiple chefs I know, all of them drink.

Working at an animal shelter. Everyone thinks that you get to sit around and love animals all day, but in reality, you are exposed to a lot of death and the worst of human nature. And the pay sucks because people just can't quit it because they want to help.

Film worker. Hours are grueling, production doesn’t give a f*ck about you, good luck spending time with your kids, and most of us are addicts/drunks.

Veterinarian- overworked, underpaid, underappreciated. Extraordinarily high suicide rate. People think it hugging puppies and kittens and doing it ALL for the love of animals. Then get pissed when they actually expect to be paid and call them heartless money-grubbing pet killers when they can’t afford to treat their pet.

Video game testing. I had a friend who did it for several years, so I know all too well that it's a horrible job. You play the same five minutes of the game over and over again, hundreds of times (sometimes thousands). The job kinda killed his passion for gaming, and as far as I know, he still doesn't play anything for fun.

Animator. The field is unbelievably competitive and the work is more difficult and mentally draining than anyone outside the field would ever guess.

Flight attendant - unless you are union and working there for 30 years, they get paid peanuts.

Brewer. Generally poor pay to be a glorified janitor.

FBI Special Agent. I dated a woman who was with FBI and she enjoyed what she did most of the time but wow was it dry. Imagine sitting in a car watching a house for 6 hours then going back to the office and spending a few hours writing a report. Or looking through 10 years of purchase records and receipts that you pulled out of the trash to build a case. Or sitting in a room at midnight listening in on a dude having phone sex with his mistress. The overwhelming majority of her job was writing reports, status updates, and reviewing financial documents in an office. The hours were terrible, the work seemed boring, and the bureaucracy was thick.

Humanitarian Work / Overseas. People imagine you selflessly saving starving babies. In reality, it’s a commute to a desk job and staring at a computer all day.

Academia. First of all, most people undergrads call "professors" aren't actual professors (by rank). And people who aren't professors are likely not getting paid a whole lot above the poverty line, have few to no benefits, have little to no input on what they teach or how, not to mention having to put up with nonsense I've not seen or heard of in any other field. The amount of unpaid labor that goes into getting a single article published is unreal.

Working in music. Most of the industry runs on contingent and part-time workers. Full-time jobs are difficult to get so if you’re one of the others you’re constantly chasing your next gig. During busy parts of the year, you’re too busy to have a life and in the slower parts of the year you’re broke.

Architect. Seems like lots of good romcom boyfriends are architects. In reality, the hours are long, the stress is extremely high, and pay is really poor for a skilled professional.

Fashion. "Why don’t you have your own brand?" "Bitch, do I look like I can afford to ship a container of t-shirts made in Pakistan for 3 cents to compete with some fashion conglomerate?" Everything abt fashion sucks...anyone can do it with no degree, pay is shit, hours are shit, people are bitchy and soulless, the industry is shameless and zero conscious abt sustainability. You will work and study very hard to lose a position to a model-looking daughter of some rich guy. It’s basically become a profession for rich girls who don’t know what to do and like consuming goods. The very few people who make it, usually do it for reasons other than talent.

EMTs and Paramedics. We're not some heroes who save lives. Saving lives is about 10 percent of the job. The other 90 percent is dealing with a broken healthcare system, getting paid minimum wage, dealing with patients who don't need help and abuse the already broken Healthcare system, and if you are lucky working for a company that doesn't give a sh*t about you.

Writer or journalist - they don’t show the missed deadlines, the agonizing creative process, selling out to write clickbait or the sh*tty wages. Not everyone can be Carrie Bradshaw

Military. It's 99% standing around waiting to hear orders from a bordering-on-inept superior. The paperwork is Neverending. You'll have long periods of time away from home and will probably get divorced. Also, your knees and back will go to sh*t.

Bartender. Doling out poison to lonely people until they reach a point where they don't hate themselves and feel comfortable participating in society. Watching others slowly and subconsciously shorten their time while numbing the pain of an unfulfilling existence. But it is pretty good money in the US for unlicensed therapy.

Airline pilot. People think you are like Leonardo Dicaprio in Catch Me if You Can; swaggering through the airport, wearing sunglasses, surrounded by hot flight attendants. In reality, we're like glorified bus drivers whose job is 1% excitement and 99% absolute boredom just sitting in a cockpit waiting for life to pass by.