I wonder which career leads to hating the general public the most quickly?

If I had to guess I’d say retail, followed either by helpdesk or food service. I know that working helpdesk and helpdesk-related roles early in my career caused me to become much more of a misanthrope. How could it not? In that role, you encounter the stupidest people who are proud of being clueless dumbasses all day every day. And they are also often aggressively rude about it.

Were I to go back in time, I would do more to avoid the helldesk as that really is just a sociality killer. I think I’d probably have more friends if I had never did that sort of work as I was quite social comparatively when I came out of the army. After working helldesk for a few years, though, I wanted nearly nothing to do with anyone.