Telecom/IT. You're basically working for a new company/org every other year. Re-orgs, mergers, and acquisitions are pretty standard practice, which is ironic considering all the efforts to break up Big Telecom in the 80s. The end result is high volatility, instability, and lack of direction. Also, the internal policies and systems end up being convoluted and obstructed due to the incessant need to maintain synergies between the acquired organizations.

I'd hate to be a corporate librarian, as I would miss the daily interactions of working "on the front line" at a public library. Academic librarianship might be fun, on the other hand, but unfortunately either doesn't pay enough or "requires experience to get experience."

Bank teller. I got pressured every day to sell a products.

Public accounting. Been there, done that, miss that about as much as getting my wisdom teeth taken out. I laughed reading about government jobs. Yeah, loads of forms, reports, extreme micromanagement over all sorts of minutia that doesn't matter. The process definitely mattered a lot more than the big picture. With a government job, you usually get a pension and work straight 8 hour days. What I found interesting was that everyone would show up at their start time on the dot, they would go to lunch on the dot, come back from lunch on the dot, and leave work on the dot. You could watch the second hand of your watch and know exactly when the people would come and go! Oh yeah, and some of those people had AWFUL attitudes.

Government,Retail,Telecom,IT. It's all about what sucks LESS, nothing is "GOOD"...

I didn't like working in the legal field. It was a bad experience for me some years ago. The office culture was very dysfunctional and the staff there were anything but pleasant to deal with.

I hated the IT industry.

I worked in printing for six years (not by choice). It was hell. Imagine having to be the one who's constantly telling management that yet another pile of work will be delayed indefinitely because the printer is down (AGAIN!) and there's no telling when someone will be there to fix it. Or that it will stay fixed once he's done.

Banking. I was an econ/finance guy in college, graduated in 2010, and could not even get a teller position. I had to go into IT - working my way up over the years. I finally got an IT job at a bank. This is a small bank that received all sorts of accolades. Worst job I've had by far.

I hated working in retail. I worked in the backroom of a retail store unloading trucks for 5-8 hour shifts. The trucks would come in in the middle of the night, so our shifts would start at 3am, and usually go until about 9-10 in the morning. Even as an in-shape, 19-20 year old college kid it was exhausting work. This was also during the summer, and the backroom wasn't air conditioned. I would come home from work exhausted, vegitate on the couch in front of the TV until I fell asleep, and then repeat it all again the next day.

Insurance. The big company I constantly pushed the lie that they were all about this noble cause of helping the customers, like we were total idiots and didn't know how corporations work. This all the while ragging on the low level employees to do more with less (so the quarterly profits would be even higher). Then they chopped a quarter of the staff, and I'm glad I'm gone.

Working for retail clients. This building has to be open yesterday and we're paying you 35 cents for the drawings.

working for residential. Our mind is going to change 7000 during design and construction, and we have no idea what we're doing.

I worked in retail for a couple of years and hated it. I spent 2 awful years in HR in the corrections industry and it's a crappy industry as well...actually probably even worse than retail. When I was contracting, insurance didn't impress me either. There's a reason that I only spent 4.5 years of 32 working years outside of manufacturing.

I would say the technical support of IT can turn into a soul crushing thankless job. Dealing with rude and screaming people when on the consumer end, people that refuse to take no for an answer or want to follow your recommendations, and those stupid surveys that can get you fired, even when you have nothing to do with why they are pissed.