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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    Scottish Police Service. Turns out peeling back the curtain of the worse side of people isn’t conducive to good mental health for me so I got outta there.

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        Lots of family and friends still in the service and doing as good a job as they can but for each good one there is no doubt an asshole.

        But I can’t speak for cops in other countries, only experience in Scotland.

        It was seeing how awful humans are to each other that really sold it for me, I’d rather live in my bubble, thanks.