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    I know many people who have no other option have to take jobs that are not very good for their mental and physical health, but some people choose jobs that in my opinion are horrible willing!

    I hope you guys will be able to tell me why someone would choose to be a:

    -Dentist: I think the human mouth is a really disgusting place, full of saliva and depending on the person... Food leftovers!

    So people choose to spend their entire life exploring smelly and wet gaping holes full of teeth. Why? That sounds horrible and disgusting.

    -Horror movie actor/actress: No one takes that kind of movies seriously, why ruin your career by performing a character with no deep that will die, experience horrible things, be tortured, nudity, have blood and other fluids splashed in their faces, do a bunch of stupid things that will get them killed.

    I mean sure there are actors who started in horror and became great stars but... Mostly it's a career killer.

    -Biohazard suit guys: Are they even real? Like the ones at the end of the ET movie with those yellow suits, you are putting yourself in the risk of getting a horrible death for money? Why? Just why?
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Eye View Post
    I know many people who have no other option have to take jobs that are not very good for their mental and physical health, but some people choose jobs that in my opinion are horrible willing!

    I hope you guys will be able to tell me why someone would choose to be a:

    -Dentist: I think the human mouth is a really disgusting place, full of saliva and depending on the person... Food leftovers!
    As someone who was thinking of being a dentist. It's a job that needs done. They wear gloves and clean the mouth so it can't be that terrible. Oral care is incredibly important.

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    So people choose to spend their entire life exploring smelly and wet gaping holes full of teeth. Why? That sounds horrible and disgusting.
    Are we talking about dentists or pornstars now?

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    -Horror movie actor/actress: No one takes that kind of movies seriously, why ruin your career by performing a character with no deep that will die, experience horrible things, be tortured, nudity, have blood and other fluids splashed in their faces, do a bunch of stupid things that will get them killed.
    What...the hell are you talking about?

    1. A job is a job...and it's called ACTING.

    2. They're not actually being tortured. IT'S CALLED ACTING

    3. It's not real blood or body fluids. IT'S CALLED ACTING

    4. What's wrong with nudity?

    5. They're not actually being killed. You...you understand that right? It's just part of the movie. They're...they're actors...


    What in the honest hell are you talking about here?

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    I mean sure there are actors who started in horror and became great stars but... Mostly it's a career killer.
    Is it? What sort of argument is this even?

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    -Biohazard suit guys: Are they even real? Like the ones at the end of the ET movie with those yellow suits, you are putting yourself in the risk of getting a horrible death for money? Why? Just why?
    This isn't a job but a piece of equipment for many jobs.

    Not all jobs are safe. Lots of jobs are vital to the continued existence of our society. Not everyone can be a Doctor (though you seem to think that job is "gross") or a Lawyer or something like that. Some people who have no chance of getting those nice jobs take these jobs because the pay is better so they can live a happy, even if short, life.

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    What...the hell are you talking about?

    1. A job is a job...and it's called ACTING.

    2. They're not actually being tortured. IT'S CALLED ACTING

    3. It's not real blood or body fluids. IT'S CALLED ACTING

    4. What's wrong with nudity?

    5. They're not actually being killed. You...you understand that right? It's just part of the movie. They're...they're actors...


    What in the honest hell are you talking about here?
    I think he's talking about the characters the actors portray, not the actors themselves. As to why, it's probably fun. Though he does seem to be equating horror film and slasher flick, which is not necessarily true. There's plenty of psychological horror films with very little gratuitous violence.
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    I think he's talking about the characters the actors portray, not the actors themselves.
    Obviously, but someone here seems to lack common sense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Eye View Post

    -Dentist: I think the human mouth is a really disgusting place, full of saliva and depending on the person... Food leftovers!

    So people choose to spend their entire life exploring smelly and wet gaping holes full of teeth. Why? That sounds horrible and disgusting.
    Hey, you want gross, Google the phrase "colorectal surgeon". Fiddling around in someone's mouth is small potatoes by comparison.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Eye View Post
    Obviously, but someone here seems to lack common sense.
    Really guy? The person who doesn't understand why people are doing dangerous jobs for money or high paying jobs that they maybe don't think is disgusting and I'm the one lacking common sense? A lot of your other threads make a lot more sense in light of this comment when you could have simply said "I meant the characters themselves".

    The reasons are the same though. It's acting. Maybe they like playing those sorts of characters. Maybe they don't care about the character they're portraying.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Eye View Post
    -Biohazard suit guys: Are they even real? Like the ones at the end of the ET movie with those yellow suits, you are putting yourself in the risk of getting a horrible death for money? Why? Just why?
    They aren't always yellow, but yes, suits like that are a thing, often in BSL-4 facilities.

    It's not for the money. It never has been, and it's insulting to hear you imply that it is; anyone in one of those suits (who knows what they're doing) could make more money working some nice industry job finding another drug for erectile dysfunction or hair loss. We do it because almost nobody can do what we do, and fewer people still want to -- but somebody has to develop and test the therapeutics for diseases that have none, or else every pathogen out there is a global pandemic waiting to happen.

    So the reason why is simple: there have always been really smart people who like solving the world's problems even when the world's stupid and hateful about it, and they like it so much they're willing to do it for relatively little money and no real recognition outside of their own circles. Some people are just like that.

    (And incidentally, Razade, many of the people in those suits are doctors in the sense that they have doctorates, so do kindly shove off with your implication that we're fools for working with dangerous things instead of being lawyers or medical doctors.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Eye View Post
    I know many people who have no other option have to take jobs that are not very good for their mental and physical health, but some people choose jobs that in my opinion are horrible willing!

    I hope you guys will be able to tell me why someone would choose to be a:

    -Dentist: I think the human mouth is a really disgusting place, full of saliva and depending on the person... Food leftovers!

    So people choose to spend their entire life exploring smelly and wet gaping holes full of teeth. Why? That sounds horrible and disgusting.

    -Horror movie actor/actress: No one takes that kind of movies seriously, why ruin your career by performing a character with no deep that will die, experience horrible things, be tortured, nudity, have blood and other fluids splashed in their faces, do a bunch of stupid things that will get them killed.

    I mean sure there are actors who started in horror and became great stars but... Mostly it's a career killer.

    -Biohazard suit guys: Are they even real? Like the ones at the end of the ET movie with those yellow suits, you are putting yourself in the risk of getting a horrible death for money? Why? Just why?
    Being a dentist is usually a secure high paying job. The other jobs help pay the bills too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trekkin View Post
    (And incidentally, Razade, many of the people in those suits are doctors in the sense that they have doctorates, so do kindly shove off with your implication that we're fools for working with dangerous things instead of being lawyers or medical doctors.)
    Hey Trekkin, how about not taking "not everyone" to imply everyone. Also stop attempting to imply that I either insulted anyone who couldn't get a Doctor or Lawyer job was "a fool". I made no such value judgement on their intelligence whatsoever. I think I very adequately pointed out that their jobs are vital and important to our society. How much more boot licking do you want me to do exactly?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Razade View Post
    Hey Trekkin, how about not taking "not everyone" to imply everyone. Also stop attempting to imply that I either insulted anyone who couldn't get a Doctor or Lawyer job was "a fool". I made no such value judgement on their intelligence whatsoever. I think I very adequately pointed out that their jobs are vital and important to our society. How much more boot licking do you want me to do exactly?
    Well, if I misinterpreted "not everyone can be a doctor or a lawyer. Some people who have no chance of getting those nice jobs[...]" then I'm sincerely sorry.

    And no bootlicking, just...some people do this instead of becoming a doctor or a lawyer, and for very valid reasons (which I thank you for partially enumerating) and it irks me when people imply that academics couldn't hack it as doctors or whatever, which is where I thought you were going with that. Very sorry if I was wrong.

    Insofar as it's educational to the OP, I feel it's important to note that many of the jobs which he finds so mystifying are desired for reasons entirely ancillary to either their necessity or their accessibility, (and which are hard to see from the outside, to be fair). They can be fun and engaging, too, not just dirty but necessary.

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    I think you need to crank your sensitivity down personally.

    As for OP, it eludes him why actors would take acting jobs. I think the finer points on why people have to take dangerous jobs is going to elude him even further.

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    Different people like and do different things! That's fine.
    I was expecting some different job examples of the thread admittedly, but hey. (Like maybe people who choose a career in sewer maintenance or call centres, idk.)

    I for one am quite glad people are different. If nobody wanted to be a dentist or study mouths and teeth I think there would be a lot of problems we luckily don't have to deal with now.

    Also re the horror movies, I know many people who like horror movies who hate the sort of movies you described. There are a lot of good horror movies too and more than a few that don't rely on gore and jump scares to get by. So then, not all horror movies are 'career killers'.
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    I can understand most jobs, even if I'm glad I'm not doing them. Either I can see the appeal, or I get that it puts food on the table even if it sucks. So I get most jobs. But -

    A number of years ago, I was meandering through downtown Des Moines, when I noted an establishment that specialized in pubic hair removal named The Pink Beaver.

    Somebody probably had to take own a loan, get approval from the bank ("My vision for this business is hairless groinal regions"), and a whole list of other things, apparently voluntarily. So ever since then I've had this little nagging question: what set of life circumstances drives a person to decide they're going to open a business for the express purpose of yanking out people's crotch hair?

    Nevermind the oddity of paying somebody perfectly good money to remove perfectly functional hair in ways that just cannot be comfortable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Eye View Post
    I hope you guys will be able to tell me why someone would choose to be a....

    The "bad" jobs you list sound way better (and safer) than my current job.

    In fact the sound better than most jobs that I know of.

    I'd trade.

    Since they offer either:


    good pay,

    good conditions,

    or,

    the chance to do good

    (people volunteer to do good, most have to be paid to do evil),

    I'd classify them as "gravy jobs", and I know many others who would as well, and I imagine that getting one of those jobs would involve luck and struggle for most people.

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    The "bad" jobs you list sound way better (and safer) than my current job.

    In fact the sound better than most jobs that I know of.

    I'd trade.
    Most definitely. One of the last jobs I had before I permanently injured my back was a flagger for a construction crew. Now, that might not sound dangerous to some, but it absolutely is. Some people just do not believe that flaggers, even with Stop Signs held in their hands, have the right to make them stop. I worked with my best friend at that job, and both of us had to dive out of the way of idiots because they refused to stop, even had one dude T-Bone another car that we were letting go through the intersection. Cops got called and he ended up hauled off to jail, though I have no idea how it played out after that. Heck, one of them actually clipped one of my co-workers legs because he thought for sure they were going to stop and didn't and he didn't jump out of the way until it was to late.

    I'd happily take even a hazmat suit job over that one, just because at least the Hazmat suits are pretty secure, and outside of absolutely awful luck, any contamination is going to be your own fault for not checking your own gear, whereas as a flagger you have to rely on other people not being total idiots.
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    Quote Originally Posted by warty goblin View Post
    I can understand most jobs, even if I'm glad I'm not doing them. Either I can see the appeal, or I get that it puts food on the table even if it sucks. So I get most jobs. But -

    A number of years ago, I was meandering through downtown Des Moines, when I noted an establishment that specialized in pubic hair removal named The Pink Beaver.

    Somebody probably had to take own a loan, get approval from the bank ("My vision for this business is hairless groinal regions"), and a whole list of other things, apparently voluntarily. So ever since then I've had this little nagging question: what set of life circumstances drives a person to decide they're going to open a business for the express purpose of yanking out people's crotch hair?

    Nevermind the oddity of paying somebody perfectly good money to remove perfectly functional hair in ways that just cannot be comfortable.
    Leg waxing places are pretty common I think. I'll grant it's a little more odd to be so crotch area specific, but then again if for some reason I did want to remove that hair at a third party location I'd probably want them to be specialized and know what they were doing. I can kinda see why there might be demand for that.

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    Yet another weirdly-judgmental thread from the same person. I wonder if the tone of them is recursively related to why the tone is there...

    Anyway, two of the jobs you've listed are actually very important. Not everyone is going to take perfect care of their teeth, even if they can, and sometimes things happen that people can't control. Enter the Dentist. Now, there's an expert who specifically trained in this area, ready to take care of an important part of a person's health. Likewise, people in hazard suits wear them for a reason, and I'm sure there are plenty of jobs involving them which aren't exclusively tied to wearing one. Unless you'd prefer people clean up dangerous chemicals, radioactive waste, and various biohazards, all without protective equipment?

    To summarise: Dentists exist because some people actually care about and understand the importance of oral hygiene and want to help others with it. Hazard suits exist because hazards need to be cleaned up, and nobody wants to do that without proper protection. As for horror actors, I mean... If you don't like those movies, nobody's making you watch them.
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    That's... an interesting choice of jobs in the OP. I was expecting some occupations straight out of Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs lol.

    I don't want my teeth falling out as I get older, and dentists will assist me in achieving that goal. I LOVE watching scary movies, and that requires actors and actresses to play in them. And when we have found several people dead in their apartments at the building I used to work at (over the years), some of them require people in hazmat suits to go in and clean/disinfect the place.

    So it's funny, I have the opposite regard for these occupations than you, The Eye.

    Typically, the default assumption for someone doing what they do is that either they want to, or they need to. The need thing is more obvious. But people do want to do these jobs as well. It sounds like you don't like "icky" things, so maybe those won't work for you. But other people have different deterrents and incentives, so it works for them.

    I started out as a porter at my building, and moved up to handyman after a couple of years of training. But I never "wanted" to do either. It's not like this is my calling. But it paid the bills and came with benefits and job security. I mean... hard to argue with that. But it's a very physical job with its own risks (two porters have blown out their backs, one handyman fell off a ladder, another sliced part of his pinky off with a grinder, and another handyman chopped off his fingertips through a belt pulley). I've always tried to be very careful, but there's no escaping wear and tear. So after ten years, I tore my shoulder replacing a PTAC. I couldn't do manual labor while recovering from surgery, so I moved up to resident manager, and now I'm doing that (well, preparing to do that, the building is still under construction lol). But... it's not a case of "ever since I was a boy, I've wanted to be a resident manager". I don't know, I usually assume people work at whatever job they're at because they need a job. Those that are doing what they want to do, well, I don't even know what that would be like lol. If I try to imagine what I would like to do for work, that I enjoy doing or am passionate about... I come up blank. What does that mean?

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    I would rather do any of the jobs listed in the OP, than be, say, someone who phones people up and says "I'm from Microsoft Support, your machine has a virus". Or someone whose job is to send half a trillion emails a day advertising stock pickers or pharmaceuticals. Or a lawyer whose job is to write end-user license agreements for software. Now those are jobs that would truly corrode my soul.
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    Sometimes the job you want isn't necessarily the most thrilling job.

    Some people want a job where they can put in their 8 hours, make a good check, and not worry about it when they're not on the job. There's plenty of advantages to this. Maybe you have an expensive hobby. Maybe you want to retire early. Maybe you just have, or want, a larger family, and want to be able to spend your weekends and evenings with them.

    There's also jobs that are very distasteful, but necessary. We had someone talk to us in college whose job was to comb through a large amount of distasteful material, in order to select state's evidence. So he had to view a lot of things that most people don't even want to think about. Not a job I think anyone could enjoy, but as he said someone has to do it.
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    This is funny. A dentist is actually a medic around here, it takes ten years to become one, and you are then highly respected, deeply connected, and wonderfully paid. You can work for the State or open your own facility. Selection is very hard, and the numbers are limited.

    Being an actor is a different field with different priorities. However, what can ruin your career is your performance, not your character. Many actors actually are around theatre, and that is their only chance to get on the screen or the big screen. So it's actually a big opportunity for them. If they aren't qualified, like in Asylum productions, they still are getting paid more than they should, so why not?

    As for biohazard suits, those are the only way to do certain jobs and, if you want to do them, you need them. Those are usually highly qualified and strongly driven people. It's not very different from being an astronaut, beside the fact that it's much safer than being an astronaut.

    I consider jobs that require you to walk on roofs or climb on trees much worse, they are risky if safety regulations aren't stringent enough and your employer isn't conscientious about them.
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    Heh. My jobs have been pretty basic, and I know people who'd never be willing to do them.

    By education, I'm a plumber, which at work has involved everything from crawling under houses and wading knee deep in literal shit to dragging gigantic airconditioning machine pieces across snow-covered rooftops.

    I've worked as a janitor, which has involved cleaning all the places no-one thought to clean for decades, deposing of dead animals, opening clogged drains, emptying whole yards from garbage etc.

    I've worked as a welder, which involves spending eight hours a day in protective clothes, looking through darkened glasses at dangerous radiation sources which might be inches from my face, handling molten hot pieces of metal, and having sparks rain on me.

    Now I work at construction element factory. I make walls. I build molds, assemble metal reinforcements in them, cast concrete in them, insulate the walls etc.. On shifting steel beds, while multi-ton elements are constantly being moved around via cranes, while forklifts move piles of raw materials around etc., with all the noise and dust this implies.

    How does that compare to being a dentist or an actor?
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    ...By education, I'm a plumber...

    Me too!

    I was a construction plumber for a decade, and now I do repairs for the City and County of San Francisco, mostly in the Jail at the Hall of Justice, though lately the Autopsy Room has been needy, and I keep getting drafted to be impersonate a steamfitter and repair the heating piping.

    Back in 2011 I was memorably assigned to the Port, and would do repairs from a little boat under the piers. I remember how scared I was at first when van sized sea lions came near and surprised me.

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    I never got d1ck doctors, someone need to go some day in their lives. "Well, I guess I will spend my entire life looking, touching and examining this disgusting and full of veins thing, I'm going to deal with literal d1cks all the time."

    Why?

    Also, I guess fools will do any kind of job if you say is for the greater good, just look at the army, figthing and killing poeple becuase leaders are fighting over money resources.
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    The horror movie one doesn't make sense.

    It really doesn't make sense to me, because a ton of actors first few movies were horror ones.

    Sarah Michelle Geller started off her movie roles in I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2, she then got a massive hit with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and has had roles in a variety of series and movies since then.
    Jason Alexander started off with The Burning in 1981 and wasn't in Seinfeld until 1990.
    Mila Kunis' started off her movie career with Piranha, with 2 episodes of soap opera's before that, and has been all over the place in terms of her roles since then.
    Kristen Stewart did Panic Room for her start and she's fared well since then.
    Johnny Depp started with Nightmare on Elm Street.

    Horror movies are not a bad choice. Most of them are low budget, happy to take on pretty much anyone so long as they're decent, and it's a great way to get started in cinema. It's also filled with amazing practical effects and are still a lot of work despite the low budgets, or because of the low budgets as well.

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    @2d8HP: the same way I've done all my job switches. I was unemployed for a while, no local company in my previous line of work was hiring, so I applied for a job on some related field.

    I originally asked if the maintenance department of the factory needed people, thinking I'd be taking care of welding/plumbing, but they didn't need people there, so I applied for the production line instead.

    My last gig as a plumber was two years ago, when the factory decreased people in production. I worked as a construction plumber for a month, building sewers and shower rooms for new apartments, before resuming factory work.

    Construction, plumbing and welding are adjacent fields, so they've been easy shifts.
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    I guess in summary, people who do bad jobs fall into 4 classes:

    1) It's a check : " I don't like cleaning up in a mental ward, but it's a steady check and pays the bills."
    2) Stepping stone : "I don't want to make meals in a kitchen at the mental ward, but after a few years on my resume, I will be able to apply to better kitchens".
    3) It's for the greater good : "I never thought I'd be a mental ward nurse, but Zia suffered so much with her bipolar disorder, I just want to make these people's lives a little better."
    4) I really like what I do: " I know most doctors hate working with the mentally ill, but it is so facinating! Take this delusional patient who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt. Meds don't help but if you address him as Mr. President, he becomes totally functional!"
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    I guess in summary, people who do bad jobs fall into 4 classes:

    1) It's a check : " I don't like cleaning up in a mental ward, but...

    When I was assigned to do plumbing repairs at General Hospital in 2012, there'd often be Service Orders for the Psych Ward.

    Nine times out of ten there was no repair to do, someone just peed on the floor.

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    Or a lawyer whose job is to write end-user license agreements for software. Now those are jobs that would truly corrode my soul.
    While EUL agreements are often arcane and stupid, I doubt any lawyers spend all their time writing them. Software companies probably have a small team of corporate lawyers who write the EULAs, write contracts for potential employees, write non-disclosure agreements (for employees, vendors, and customers), advise management on potential legal issues, and go to court if someone claims breach of any legal agreement. That is discounting the patent lawyers on staff for any software patent issues.

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    Now I work at construction element factory. I make walls. I build molds, assemble metal reinforcements in them, cast concrete in them, insulate the walls etc.. On shifting steel beds, while multi-ton elements are constantly being moved around via cranes, while forklifts move piles of raw materials around etc., with all the noise and dust this implies.
    Haven't worked in one of those, but stamping factories are really loud. Firstly, they are giant metal boxes. Then they are packed to the brim with robots and conveyors. Then you actually have the presses. Nothing inside absorbs sound, so it is pretty much super loud whenever anything is running.

    People have mentioned Dirty Jobs, and I think it showed fairly well why people do jobs most people wouldn't consider. First, quite a few have a significantly above average pay/education level. Then there are the ones that people do because the part that isn't disgusting and dangerous is where their true passion lies. Finally, some of them people do because the job offers freedom that isn't available in normal jobs.

    Look at the 3 jobs listed above: Dentists are often their own boss, get to do things they (probably) found interesting enough to go to school for 8 years for, and get paid fairly well (at least once they get out from under their student loans). Horror movie acting is still acting. Were I an actor and somebody offered me a paycheck to play "farmer who gets killed by circular saw", I would take the money (provided the circular saw was made of foam rubber and spun at about 1 Hz). Sure, there are jobs I wouldn't take, but being a horror or slasher flick wouldn't be the triggering point for me.

    As to Haz-mat wearers, a Hazmat suit is PPE. It is designed to take jobs that nobody should do because they will kill you and turn them in to jobs that are merely uncomfortable and gross.
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    There is a Chinese actor who is specialized in playing dying invading Japanese soldiers. The guy who gets gunned, exploded, slashed? That's him! Nobody knows him, but he work in a series with more than one billion viewers! And he dies, like, twelve times a day!
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