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High school and college head football coaches in the United States. You don’t even have to be good. Once you land a head coaching job, you can have a losing record and still make bank. In many high schools, the head coach will be the highest paid employee even if they don’t teach a class. College head coaches are often the highest paid public employees in any state.
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Hospital administration. Specifically in the US. Making $300,000 a year to scam the people and pretend to care about the workers.
13.
High ranking military officers.
From experience, I’d say a vast majority of the ones I’ve dealt with are just glorified politicians, who are nothing more than yes men for their next promotion.
After a certain point they’re practically not even in the military anymore, they tend to have no concept of what’s going on at the lowest levels whatsoever.
14.
Estate agents. I’ve been trying to rent a house (UK) for 5 months now, during which time I’ve spoken to over 50 estate agents. I’m yet to receive a helpful, let alone grammatically correct email
15.
Most jobs in the financial services industry; brokers, wholesalers, hedge fund managers, home lenders etc. all they do is trade money and bring little value to society.
16.
Anyone on Wall Street except unpaid interns.
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Hedge fund managers and investment bankers. Even if it requires tons of skill and intelligence (which I don’t know if it does), making rich people richer using obscure financial instruments that don’t actually fund any production or innovation is not something we should reward by making people millionaires and billionaires.
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Life coaches
When my family moved cities when I was 5 our new neighbours had kids the same age as my sister and I so my dad wanted to meet them (he did not want his girls around weirdos). When he met the mother she asked what he does and vice versa. She told him she’s a life coach. His response was “what the hell is that?”. She stopped letting her kids play with us.
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Everyone saying realtors. Wait til you find out about the guys at the desk job who REALLY make the money.
MORTGAGE LOAN OFFICERS.
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So many higher management jobs. People with no actual skills bullying people with skills to do more with less.
Firing them and investing in having the right tools to do the jobs every time would make nearly every company better.
Once you are about two spaces removed from operations, you’re completely useless.
