Some of the shittiest people I know are in sales and upper management/executive

finance, but then I went to the University of Chicago

Roles where the company matters more than the people to accomplish strategic business goals and initiatives. Where public relations matters and they are politically nice to your face but not behind closed doors.

Roles where to get ahead, you need to be better than someone else so putting people down (gossip, bashing, other stupid games) is normal. Encourages office politics and power is important.

Where being caring and compassionate doesn’t get you ahead.

Human Resources. It’s almost like all the pretty, cool girls from highschool- the bullies, the mean girls- went into HR.

Not targeting anyone in particular. There are lots of kind people in HR.

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.

Cops and ICE agents.

Police

Farmer

High school basketball coach.

CEO

I barely kept up with any of the good people I knew much less the assholes.

Sales, finance, middle management and one “prompt engineer”.

Elderly care. If I had to guess it’s not because they’re good at it, but more because you don’t really need to be skilled to get into it. Reputation-wise it’s a step above working at McDonald’s in this country (which is a shame).

Several assholes i knew became cops

Sales. Every fuckin time

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.