Several assholes i knew became cops

Sales. Every fuckin time

I’m an attorney and I’ve met more than a few with “Dark Triad” (narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy) personality traits.

One started as a cop but got fired after allegedly assaulting a suspect. He fell back on being a prison guard, but didn’t last long there, either. Now he has a job with a freight railroad.

Another was lined up to inherit his dad’s business, but instead got into drug dealing and eventually murdered someone. Now he’s in prison for life.

Some of the shittiest people I know are in sales and upper management/executive

Pastors.

I barely kept up with any of the good people I knew much less the assholes.

My high school bully graduated second in our class and clearly thought he was destined to great things. Ran into him four years later, he was attending grad school a few states over. Confirmed he was still an asshole.

Looked him up a decade later. He’s a grade school teacher. Teaching is an incredibly noble pursuit and a miserably thankless job. I hope he’s enjoying it.

Local politician … a member of town council but also a character that just hung onto any and all political positions related to local politics. He never did much expect make money for himself. If he didn’t get on council, he would try for mayor, and if he got neither, Financial Controller, Administrator, Manager, whatever, as long as it was with the town. He was in essence a salesman because he could talk circles around most people with political language and a bit of education, especially when he dealt with the uneducated or gullible people. It was basically his entire career and he’s well on his way to retiring after having done nothing for anyone else or the town.

Seen lots of psychos in upper management. Lots of two faced weasling, lying, backstabbing, torching relationships, stepping over people in their thirst for power over others.

Cops. Without a doubt. Its the career path for highschool bullies who want authority and respect, but are too stupid to become doctors or lawyers, so they pick up a badge and a gun as a shortcut to “respect by implied threat”

Sales, finance, middle management and one “prompt engineer”.

One of my schoolmate was a serious asshole. Our guesses for his future were either he’d be a lawyer, or he’ll make a career in the FDP (a more money for the rich kind of political party here, with a “liberal” label).

I was not surprised to learn that he is lawyer, working for exactly that party.

Roles where the company matters more than the people to accomplish strategic business goals and initiatives. Where public relations matters and they are politically nice to your face but not behind closed doors.

Roles where to get ahead, you need to be better than someone else so putting people down (gossip, bashing, other stupid games) is normal. Encourages office politics and power is important.

Where being caring and compassionate doesn’t get you ahead.

Human Resources. It’s almost like all the pretty, cool girls from highschool- the bullies, the mean girls- went into HR.

Not targeting anyone in particular. There are lots of kind people in HR.

finance, but then I went to the University of Chicago