20 Jobs That Only Exist Because Humans Are Actually Stupid

We all need to work, but some professions seem more essential than others. A recent internet survey asked, “What job exists because we are stupid?” Here are the 21 best answers.

Game Console Connector

Game Console Connector
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“Best Buy offered a service of sending someone to your house to do the incredibly difficult task of connecting your video game console to the TV. Yeah, there were people who actually paid for that.”

“They still offer it. I sold it to someone before, but only because they specifically asked for it. It was like 100 bucks, and then it was another 100 for PS VR setup.”

Mechanic

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“My job was partly invented for stupid people. There is always this one guy that comes with a weird noise complaint. So you test it and find where the noise is coming from, and it’s nearly always an umbrella under the front seat or something.”

“I once told a mechanic my rear door was broken because it wouldn’t open from the inside. That was the day I learned about child safety locks.”

Sewer Workers

Sewer Workers
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“People have to go into the sewer network to smash up these ‘fatbergs’ because people tip oil down the sink, and it can block that whole sewerage network. I don’t know how much they get paid, but I can guarantee it’s not enough.”

“Fatbergs are a pain to deal with, almost as annoying as the people who say they don’t put fats, oil, condoms, tampons, pads, q-tips, and baby wipes down the drain.”

Live-chat Representatives

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“My entire job exists because people are dumb. I answer questions about things that are clearly listed on the product page, or I have to explain how to do a hard reset.”

“Same! The steps are in the instructions they got with the desk, on the help center, and on the product page, but sure, here are the steps yet again!”

“To be fair, it sounds like they are being more impatient than stupid.”

Cold Callers

Cold Callers
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“Both scam and legit. If you’re calling to sell something, then you’re behaving with arrogance and hoping the other person is naive. If it’s actually a scam (like asking for remote access to their computer), then it’s criminal, and you’re hoping the other person is stupid enough to fall for it. It’s obvious to a smart person that no one should ever call someone they don’t know unless they have a really good, easily explainable reason.”

Small Claim Court Judges

Small Claim Court Judges
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“If people would just stop being stupid and also own up when they’re wrong, we wouldn’t need a small claims court at all.”

“I agree, but I would probably attribute that more to people being bad rather than stupid and not paying even when they are responsible for the damages or refusing to pay even after the settlement.”

Warning Label Creators

Warning Label Creators
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“I’ve been wondering; who was the brainiac that used a curling iron in a way that would require the iron maker to have a warning tag specifying it for external use only?”

“Remember that girl who gorilla glued her hair to her head? Probably a relative of hers.”

“Imagine having to write that lighter fluid is flammable, you shouldn’t eat rat poison, or that peanut butter contains peanuts.”

Homeopaths

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“There are billions of dollars spent on homeopathy (really high-priced water).”

“I laugh when people say the “Snake Oil Salesman” and their gullible customers are things of the past.”

“There are degrees in Homeopathy! People have dedicated their lives to telling other people to drink water as a cure for everything and decided to encapsulate this subject and its total lack of evidence in an actual degree!”

Desktop Support Technicians

Desktop Support Technicians
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“It would probably only be part-time if not for stupid people. They accidentally kick out a cord or turn things off. They can’t follow detailed installation instructions on a website.”

“Needing help for office moves! It’s tragically simple. Unplug all the things. Carry all items carefully to the next place and plug them back in. You can even take a picture of the original setup or mark the cords beforehand. It’s so simple.”

Social Media Influencers

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“Well, they get paid enough to live off of it, so I guess that counts as a job.”

“The Twitch streamer “Ludwig” earned 1 million dollars in a month from it. I’d say that counts as a job as much as people who invest for a living do.”

“People who defend influencers are the ‘stupid’ people described in this topic.”

“I’ve not talked to one who was remotely pleasant or reasonable, yet they exist.”

Psychics

Psychics
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“I saw this one coming. So I can probably tell you your future.”

“They are frauds and charlatans, the whole lot of them.”

“Let’s include psychic detectives; they have never solved a case alone.”

“Imagine being so stupid you willingly pay someone to be intuitive and extract information from you.”

Amazon’s Professional Installers

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“I’ve always wondered what some of those “professional installation” service options on Amazon actually do for some of the more straightforward things like an external hard drive or a folding music stand.”

“That job doesn’t exist because of stupidity; it exists to milk extra dollars out of lazy people… and a few stupid people.”

TurboTax Employees

TurboTax Employees
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“Other countries just tell you how much you owe or what refund you get, but our country is stupid. Lobbyists bribed officials, and we didn’t modernize, and now we have entire businesses profiting from people having to guess the number the IRS wants.”

“If you earn less than $72,000, they legally have to offer you a version of their software to use. They have an agreement with the IRS; so long as they give free software, the IRS won’t develop a state-run version that will put them out of business.”

ATM Assistants

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“In Japan, they have a permanent employee dedicated to assisting people at the ATM; you can actually make wire transactions and change your account details, though.”

“Awesome! I wish we had that when I first moved here. It can be tough for foreigners to navigate through different things on ATMs.”

TV Product Creators

TV Product Creators
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“Are you such an incompetent buffoon that you can’t chop an onion without destroying your kitchen and having a complete mental breakdown? Introducing the Onion Slicer 3000!”

“They’re designed for physical disabilities, but the companies can’t stay afloat without marketing toward an abled audience on the basis of convenience.”

So Many ER Workers

So Many ER Workers
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“Of course, we value and need Emergency Room workers. But we MIGHT need fewer of them if people weren’t stupid.”

“Darwin Awards: Giving hospital workers a stable job since forever.”

Fraud Prevention

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“If customers gave their card details to scammers or got scammed, we would help them try and recover the money. In a world where no one was careless with their bank details, the banks would require far fewer fraud team staff.”

“I saw a video showing how stupid people are. This guy went up to random people with a clipboard, asking for their bank information. Many people gave it to a complete stranger.”

Apple Repair Technicians

Apple Repair Technicians
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“No one is stupid enough to actually take an Apple product to Apple to fix it… I hope.”

“They buy the extended Apple Care warranty and then take it to Apple to fix until that runs out, then they buy a new device to start the cycle all over again.”

Astrologers

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“People that have a belief system based on arbitrary relative positions of celestial objects at the time of their birth influencing their life are extremely stupid.”

“Even if the signs had an effect on events, astrologers wouldn’t viably predict them.”

“Astrologers aren’t necessarily stupid. They exist because people are stupid.”

Firefighters

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“Firefighters secretly love when people do stupid things. For one, it makes for a great story. And secondly, it provides job security for them.”

“There are a lot of jobs that are required because accidents can happen, but half of the time, they deal with people’s stupidity, like paramedics and EMTs, firefighters, insurance providers, poison control, road assistance, traffic police, etc.”

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