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38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Ordinary Jobs

By:: Cracked Plasticians

October 10, 2023

38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts About Ordinary Jobs

It’s easy to think of common jobs as, well, common. They’re dry and predictable, and utterly devoid of surprises. But we’re here to challenge that notion, with a collection of weird, counterintuitive facts about ordinary jobs and careers.

38 Entry by Megha Sharma

Percentage of American workforce employed in farming in: 1840 70% 2017 1.3%

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CRACKED COM A whopping SIXTY PERCENT of firefighters are volunteers. Coincidentally, SIXTY-FIVE PERCENT of fire departments are made up entirely out o

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YOUR DOCTOR IS PROBABLY EXHAUSTED. Despite laws designed to keep shifts short, studies have found that 87% of interns work past their shift limits, an

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Regardless of the location, an ethical hacker typically earns more money than a software engineer. The difference is nearly three times more when they

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The profession with the highest reported satisfaction? RESEARCH ASSISTANT Which compensatest for making just $33,600 a year, we guess.

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31 Entry by Markos Hasiotis

CRACKEDCO COM 19% of military personnel actually majored in business.

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29 Entry by Moses Armstrong

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28 Entry by Kristina Yong

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24 Entry by Andrea Meno

Garbage men have one of the deadliest jobs. They have the fifth highest fatal injury rate, at 34.1 per ,00 workers. That's higher than the rate of, sa

23 Entry by Kristina Yong

Fighting fires is no longer a firefighter's main function. GRANOBERRI Medical emergencies account for about 70% of the calls received by the US fire d

22 Entry by Moses Armstrong

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Farming CRACKEDCO Fishing Forestry Have the highest number of suicide rates which stood at 84.5 per 100,000 in 2016.

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Being an EMT is dangerous: Sixtye nine percent of polled EMTS had been attacked on the job. A 551 $587740 911 ARRNCRE The most common attacks were bei

15 Entry by Lornie Aswila Jeffrey Lausin

A 2007 study by the Beth Israel Medical Center, New York found that surgeons performed better when they spent three hours a week playing video games,

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11 Entry by Kristina Yong

FB According to the official FBI website, forensic accountants make up about 15% of their special agent force.

10 Entry by María Andrea Fernández

Your doctor's sloppy handwriting is not just a quirky trait. Over 1.5 million Americans are affected annually by preventable medication errors, due to

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According to a nationwide I.. study by Career Builder, 58% of managers involved in the study said that they did not receive any management training pr

8 Entry by Moses Armstrong

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6 Entry by Andrea Meno

The most common major for college-educated waiters must be something impractical, like liberal arts, right? Nope. The most common major by far, held

5 Entry by Lornie Aswila Jeffrey Lausin

A study by the European Cockpit Association found that around half of pilots in the UK (43%), Denmark (50%), Norway (53%) , and Sweden (54%) admitted

4 Entry by Chan Teik Onn

Hairdressers are more likely to develop lung problems than the general public. DUE to high ammonia levels from hair products in salons, hairdressers s

3 Entry by Andrea Meno

Veterinarian might be the whitest occupation. 91.5% of vets are white. Asian is the second most common ethnicity, at 3.14%.

2 Entry by Chan Teik Onn

CRACKEDOON On average, a telemarketer has to spend 7.5 hours making cold calls to get one appointment.

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