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That reminds me of a quote about dentistry: "You're in a career where nobody wants to see you and you're the last place they want to come back to and it's depre

That reminds me of a quote about dentistry: "You're in a career where nobody wants to see you and you're the last place they want to come back to and it's depressing." (https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/5344jz/are-dentists-really-more-prone-to-suicide https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/5344jz/are-dentists-rea...)

dsr_ 8y ago
A dentist's parents are usually proud of them. "What are you doing at work these days, kid?" "I'm inventing new ways to make people see advertising." "Have you considered doing something positive with your life?"
- hamandcheese 8y ago
  “I’m working a super cushy job making twice as much as I could most other places, mom!” “Proud of you!”
  - _underfl0w_ 8y ago
    This is the realistic scenario, unfortunately, since the "users" in this scenario wouldn't understand the distinction between one tech job and another. Substitute that job for one selling drugs with better, more consistent pay and... well... then it's culturally frowned upon by non-tech-savvy people. Deliberately spreading "fake news" is the advertising equivalent.
- justapassenger 8y ago
  My wife is genuinely happy to see ads. My parents are happy, that their small business can advertise, that allow them to sell product, pay their employees and support themselves. Ads aren't root of all evil.
- porpoisely 8y ago
  You are fooling yourself if you think the parents' of facebook employees' aren't proud of them. What's with the neverending facebook bashing. So much of it is propagandistic and unreasonable. It's funny how the media says something and so many people just parrot it. Do you really believe parents are disappointed that their child works for one of the most important companies in the world? Where the average salary is double what the average dentist makes?
  - Barrin92 8y ago
    I mean, my parents never raised me to judge the value of my job by the size of the paycheck or the size of the company, so yes they would likely be disappointed if I worked at such a job. Career tobacco lobbyists probably make ten times as much money as your average dentist and work for very important companies, but I don't know any parent who would be proud of their kid being a poison vendor rather than a doctor
fipple 8y ago
Yeah, but like any medical field, people come to you in extreme pain and leave without it. If you can’t find meaning in that you probably can’t find meaning in anything.
- cdelsolar 8y ago
  I think the exact opposite is true in dentistry.
  - ImaCake 8y ago
    Sometimes. My personal experience has been to present to the dentist with agonising pain and for them to fix it. Sure, I will have lost a tooth, and half my face is too numb for me to eat. But within a few days the agonising pain is gone.
gorpomon 8y ago
I love my dentist. I always leave feeling super clean and well cared for. Doesn't hurt that the window is a striking view of gorgeous skyscrapers.
ethbro 8y ago
One of my father's quips, "There are only two kinds of jobs: those where everyone is happy to see you, and those where everyone is mad to see you. Be the UPS delivery person, not the process server."
- majewsky 8y ago
  That was from a different time, right? By now, package delivery people also has a pretty bad reputation due to the profit pressures exerted on them by capitalists. I don't really feel happy seeing a delivery guy. If anything, I feel sorry for them.
  - ethbro 8y ago
    It was a quip, not a 20 page treatise on absolute accuracy. ;)
AznHisoka 8y ago
Isn't that true of any medical profession.. and pretty much 90% of all professions? Besides, I think dentists deserve vastly more respect.. especially the ones that check for mouth diseases and precursors to cancer.

dsr_ 8y ago

A dentist's parents are usually proud of them. "What are you doing at work these days, kid?" "I'm inventing new ways to make people see advertising." "Have you considered doing something positive with your life?"

hamandcheese 8y ago
“I’m working a super cushy job making twice as much as I could most other places, mom!” “Proud of you!”
- _underfl0w_ 8y ago
  This is the realistic scenario, unfortunately, since the "users" in this scenario wouldn't understand the distinction between one tech job and another. Substitute that job for one selling drugs with better, more consistent pay and... well... then it's culturally frowned upon by non-tech-savvy people. Deliberately spreading "fake news" is the advertising equivalent.
justapassenger 8y ago
My wife is genuinely happy to see ads. My parents are happy, that their small business can advertise, that allow them to sell product, pay their employees and support themselves. Ads aren't root of all evil.
porpoisely 8y ago
You are fooling yourself if you think the parents' of facebook employees' aren't proud of them. What's with the neverending facebook bashing. So much of it is propagandistic and unreasonable. It's funny how the media says something and so many people just parrot it. Do you really believe parents are disappointed that their child works for one of the most important companies in the world? Where the average salary is double what the average dentist makes?
- Barrin92 8y ago
  I mean, my parents never raised me to judge the value of my job by the size of the paycheck or the size of the company, so yes they would likely be disappointed if I worked at such a job. Career tobacco lobbyists probably make ten times as much money as your average dentist and work for very important companies, but I don't know any parent who would be proud of their kid being a poison vendor rather than a doctor

fipple 8y ago

Yeah, but like any medical field, people come to you in extreme pain and leave without it. If you can’t find meaning in that you probably can’t find meaning in anything.

cdelsolar 8y ago
I think the exact opposite is true in dentistry.
- ImaCake 8y ago
  Sometimes. My personal experience has been to present to the dentist with agonising pain and for them to fix it. Sure, I will have lost a tooth, and half my face is too numb for me to eat. But within a few days the agonising pain is gone.

gorpomon 8y ago

I love my dentist. I always leave feeling super clean and well cared for. Doesn't hurt that the window is a striking view of gorgeous skyscrapers.

ethbro 8y ago

One of my father's quips, "There are only two kinds of jobs: those where everyone is happy to see you, and those where everyone is mad to see you. Be the UPS delivery person, not the process server."

majewsky 8y ago
That was from a different time, right? By now, package delivery people also has a pretty bad reputation due to the profit pressures exerted on them by capitalists. I don't really feel happy seeing a delivery guy. If anything, I feel sorry for them.
- ethbro 8y ago
  It was a quip, not a 20 page treatise on absolute accuracy. ;)

AznHisoka 8y ago

Isn't that true of any medical profession.. and pretty much 90% of all professions? Besides, I think dentists deserve vastly more respect.. especially the ones that check for mouth diseases and precursors to cancer.