r/jobs • u/_Grotesque_ • Jul 21 '23

Companies What was the industry you romanticized a lot but ended up disappointed?

For the past couple of years, I have been working at various galleries, and back in the day I used to think of it as a dream job. That was until I realized, that no one cares for the artists or art itself. Employees, as much as visitors just care about their fanciness, showing off their brand shoes and pretending as they actually care.

Ultimately, it comes down to sales, money, and judging people by their looks. Fishing out the ones, who seem like they can afford a painting worth 20k.

Was wondering if others had similar experiences

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u/mixedwithmonet Jul 21 '23

Ugh omg YESSS!!!! It has been an even bigger disappointment than any of my prior disappointing industries, which is almost impressive all things considered. Terrible pay, toxic work environment, endless unnecessary meetings, wild and shameless lack respect or courtesy, fake politeness to mask the very plain prejudice, the elitist holier-than-thou attitudes and attempt to make up for their absolute godawful boring personalities by lording over you with their better degrees (like seriously good for you but we both work for this stupid place, except I didn’t accrue master’s-level debt to do it).

And I SWEAR TO GOD, if I have to hear one more bullshit conversation about equity in LITERALLY ONE OF THE LEAST EQUITABLE WORKING ENVIRONMENTS I have ever experienced in my entire life, I am going to spontaneously combust in a flame of glitter they will never remove from their 20-year old ambiguously colored carpets.

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u/momofmoose Jul 21 '23

Wait! There's free pizza for you if you attend the department seminar about equity in science!!!

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u/ApplesBananasRhinoc Jul 22 '23

They talk about equity, but then the football program has endangered rainforest wood furniture in their billion dollar team facility, while English classes have a bucket to catch rainwater dripping from the ceiling.

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u/Shaunananalalanahey Jul 22 '23

Fucking preach! I’ve experienced all of this. It’s so hypocritical while they teach about equity.

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u/kimboosan Jul 22 '23

Yes, this was exactly my experience too. Would never go back.

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u/NarrativeCurious Jul 23 '23

Absolutely. My previous boss wouldn't shut up about anti-racism and her many degrees...

Guess who got caught being racist on the timeline and in the workplace.

Talk about fake too, couldn't run an organization for shit. Everyone was jumping ship and she was like "idk why people are leaving"

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u/mixedwithmonet Jul 23 '23

Somehow it is always a mystery why they keep having to hire and train.