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38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

By:: Cracked Plasticians

December 04, 2019

38 Eyebrow-Arching Facts (About Ordinary Jobs)

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It's easy to think of common jobs as, well, common. They're dry and predictable, and utterly devoid of surprises. 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%

37 Entry by Moses Armstrong

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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36 Entry by Cracked Plasticians

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

35 Entry by Kristina Yong

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

34 Entry by Carlos Suarez

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

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CRACKEDCO COM Tipped workers are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty as untipped workers. This could be because the base pay for tipped workers

31 Entry by Markos Hasiotis

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

30 Entry by Amyan Bridi

Many teachers in the U.S. work part-time jobs during the summer or even after school due to their low pay. Despite this, they are often obligated to s

29 Entry by Moses Armstrong

CRACKED COM Facebook moderators, who view content like animal snuff films and child porn, are only allowed 9 minutes of wellness time per day. That'

28 Entry by Kristina Yong

Women make up less than a measly seven percent of head chefs and restaurant owners in the US. As for the UK, the population of female chefs in the cul

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LAWYERS ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO STRUGGLE WITH DRINKING PROBLEMS THAN THE REST OF THE POPULATION. 000 ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, ONE IN

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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20 Entry by Kristina Yong

More than 70% of lawyers in the world live in the US. The city with the highest population of lawyers is Washington, DC; where one in every twenty-two

19 Entry by Vikram Goenka

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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17 Entry by Moses Armstrong

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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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12 Entry by Moses Armstrong

CRACKEDc COM The majority of working personal trainers aren't a bunch of dumb jocks. Sixty-four percent have a bachelor's degree, and over forty perce

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

9 Entry by Chan Teik Onn

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

CRACKEDG COM Construction and extraction workers are the most likely to commit suicide. According to data from 17 states, the rate of suicide is 53.2

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An active duty soldier is up to 4 times as likely to die in a routine training exercise than actual combat CRACKED

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

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

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

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

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CRACKEDCON In 2013, a survey by TEKsystems found that 28% of people who work in IT don't let their family and friends know, SO that they won't be aske

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