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What's the grimmest job you ever had? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not asking about the worst job. I'm asking about the grimmest one. For me it was when in my teenage years I was making candles you would put on a grave. Most of the time is was just filling the form, burn the right shape and passing it forward. But sometimes I had to fill in for a person who was selling these things, and that is where it gets grim. It was decades ago but I still remember one lady who asked what would be the best candle to memorialize her late husband. And she gave me the whole life story of her and her husband. I shit you not, it was the most touching love story I have ever heard. I quit the next day.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Worked as a paramedic around the world for two and a half decades now. Saw a lot of shit.

But the worst one was when I was teamleader of a neonatal critical care transport service. That was....not something I could do for long. There is an amount of dead babies people can see in their lifetime. I ignored my limit and now have to face the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I worked as a scribe and as an ER tech in a Level 1 peds hospital. I'm not even done with med school and I've already punched that card more times than I care to remember.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I worked with an ex-paramedic who alluded to a similar factor in leaving to become a nurse aide.