How You Wished Your Job Was Vs. How It Actually Is
It's not just your paycheck that falls short of your expectations.
![How You Wished Your Job Was Vs. How It Actually Is](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/8/9/4/703894.jpg?v=2)
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When it comes to work, we've all got perfectly reasonable expectations about how it's supposed to go. Unfortunately, those expectations usually get dashed within the first hour. That's the kind of surprise nobody wants, so we asked our readers to show us the unexpected realities of their jobs, compared to how they figured those jobs were going to go.
So now we all start our jobs with properly-aligned expectations.
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![FLIGHT ATTENDANT SHOULD SEE THE WORLD BUT REALLY SEES AIRPORTS of the WORLD CRAGKEDCON](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/7/7/9/703779.jpg?v=2)
![HOW IT SHOULD WORK NO LINE PAYS WITH CARD CASHIERING LONG, ANGRY LINE PAYS WITH CHANGE HOW IT ACTUALLY WORKS](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/7/7/2/703772.jpg?v=2)
![How calls are supposed to go: Thank you all for being on time. Let's get started! How they always do: waiting for server to connect](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/7/7/5/703775.jpg?v=2)
![SALESPERSON CRACREIDOON How it should work: Thoroughly informs the customer about the product, makes the sale, and carns a commission How it actually](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/7/9/0/703790.jpg?v=2)
![SCHOOLTEACHER WHAT IT SHOULD BE: Preparing children for their futures through education and nurturing WHAT IT REALLY IS: A baby sitting job CRACKED CO](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/7/8/7/703787.jpg?v=2)
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![Working In Advertising It should be: Seeing your ideas become reality. It is: Seeing your ideas be shot down and inferior ideas becoming reality.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/7/7/3/703773.jpg?v=2)
![911 Operator: What is your emergency? HOW IT SHOULD WORK Caller: 0 need help. MY husband is having a heart attack. HOW IT WORKS BuR E Caller: I just w](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/7/8/5/703785.jpg?v=2)
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