I mean shitty as in immoral, unempathetic, pathological liars, untrustworthy, selfish
Several assholes i knew became cops
Sales. Every fuckin time
I’m an attorney and I’ve met more than a few with “Dark Triad” (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) personality traits.
He became a cop.
Positions of power attract the corrupted
The worst part is that it’s not just that it’s a position of power, it’s that there’s also very little else about it that’s desirable. Your entire job is to show up places and tell people to stop doing things they want or feel that they need to be doing, and often that they’re willing to physically attack you for interfering with. The pay is also pretty mediocre overall. So if you want overall pleasant interpersonal interactions or a decent wage, you’d have to go elsewhere. If all you want is power over other human beings, that job will be a great fit for you.
In my area, cops get paid more than doctors a lot of the time. It’s supposed to mitigate bribery but it ends up attracting greedy, power hungry people more than not.
I barely kept up with any of the good people I knew much less the assholes.
Sales, finance, middle management and one “prompt engineer”.
One started as a cop but got fired after allegedly assaulting a suspect. He fell back on being a prison guard, but didn’t last long there, either. Now he has a job with a freight railroad.
Another was lined up to inherit his dad’s business, but instead got into drug dealing and eventually murdered someone. Now he’s in prison for life.
Local politician … a member of town council but also a character that just hung onto any and all political positions related to local politics. He never did much expect make money for himself. If he didn’t get on council, he would try for mayor, and if he got neither, Financial Controller, Administrator, Manager, whatever, as long as it was with the town. He was in essence a salesman because he could talk circles around most people with political language and a bit of education, especially when he dealt with the uneducated or gullible people. It was basically his entire career and he’s well on his way to retiring after having done nothing for anyone else or the town.
Real estage agents.
Pastors.
Sales. Also don’t feel up hr when drunk and cooked up. It’s a bad time.
Seen lots of psychos in upper management. Lots of two faced weasling, lying, backstabbing, torching relationships, stepping over people in their thirst for power over others.
He was excited to get a job as a used car salesman.
My high school bully graduated second in our class and clearly thought he was destined to great things. Ran into him four years later, he was attending grad school a few states over. Confirmed he was still an asshole.
Looked him up a decade later. He’s a grade school teacher. Teaching is an incredibly noble pursuit and a miserably thankless job. I hope he’s enjoying it.
Pretty sure his students aren’t.
This is kind of amusing, because I know at least one engineer from college who got a big exit from his first startup and become a math teacher because he wanted to do something more noble than the startup grind.
One of my schoolmate was a serious asshole. Our guesses for his future were either he’d be a lawyer, or he’ll make a career in the FDP (a more money for the rich kind of political party here, with a “liberal” label).
I was not surprised to learn that he is lawyer, working for exactly that party.
