re: Most overpaid/underpaid jobs

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Why do people even need real estate agents?

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Great question. I've owned 6 properties (including the one I live in now).

I never used a realtor to help me find one. And each of the 5 I sold I did FSBO. It is not that difficult, especially in the internet era.

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On the other hand, I think that real estate agents are grossly overpaid. Why do people even need real estate agents?

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In the process of home shopping. Go to a couple of open houses, and view a few homes with a realtor through Zillow. We decide to put an offer in using the realtor that showed us homes through Zillow. He sends us the agent contract. He has a 2.5% fee. It’s almost $25,000 in commissions for a home we found ourselves. He didn’t even open the damn door.

I ask him if his rate is negotiable and he gives me some BS about the seller already agreeing to pay it, but really it’s built into the asking price. He also explains, that after paying his broker and taxes he only keeps about $7k. Like I don’t pay taxes too.

Then he says, I can represent myself but then the sellers agent would keep all 5%. So, the sellers agent would make nearly $50k simply because she doesn’t have to split the commission with a buyers agent.

I’m a salesperson (insurance) and some might consider me overpaid, but I’ve worked a prospect for over 12 months just to make $600. Driven 3.5 hours just to make $600. Making $50k for unlocking a door is insane.

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Pharmacist. Count to 30 after looking on the computer and it says it is safe to take with the other medications they have already counted

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Bro, being a pharmacist isn’t great now a days.

It’s hard to own your own shop (unless compounding), pay hasn’t gone up that much, tuition has gone way up, for some reason academics decided pharmacy school should become really long.

I wouldn’t tell a kid to do it nowadays. In fact enrollment at ULM is shrinking for the pharmacy school. People are catching on. There are too many schools now.

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That just depends on the location. In California they do really well.

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You do realize that California is expensive AF, right?

I mentioned on here that i recently dealt with a lawyer in Boston whose hourly rate is $2,200. For private equity work. I can theoretically see how someone could be worth that rate (and he's worth whatever a client is willing to pay ultimately). But all i saw was an angry little man who cursed at people and banged the table. (Ahhhhh. i see some parallels to another overpaid person.)

Police - Should make 100K+ for risking their lives daily and putting up with mess since George Floyd caused everyone to disrespect them.

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Another good reason to never go to a chiropractor.

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The ER doctor failed to recognize the symptoms and failed to disclose relevant information to the consulting radiologist who failed to detect the injury, and your idiot takeaway is "never go to the chiropractor?"

Non-elective surgeries (the ones you don't have to have in order to survive, but that you choose to have) have a mortality rate of 22.3%. Of those, studies find that a little over 12% were preventable. So that's 100,000 who die after elective surgery in the US and around 12,000 of those were deemed preventable.

Another estimated 250,000-300,000 people die in the US every year from pharmaceuticals, and at least 100,000 of those are from drugs that were properly prescribed and taken.

In case you missed it, that's every year.

By contrast, the number of people killed by chiropractic care...wait for it...wait for it...is zero. Ever. Since 1895, when the technique was discovered.

Do chiropractic adjustments cause strokes/artery dissections? They can. At a rate of (depending upon who is doing the estimating) between 1 in 2 million and 1 in 10 million neck adjustments. So does it happen? Yep. But to put in in perspective, the odds of the earth being struck by a catastrophic meteor that would decimate most of the life on the planet is about 1 in 300,000 in any given year and 1 in 10,000 over the next 100 years.

You are in far, far more danger at your GP's office than you would be at a chiropractor's office. It's not even close.

In fact, you're also in far more danger just standing on planet earth.

And before you ask, I know all of this because I used to own an integrated medical clinic that employed chiropractors, medical doctors, a rehab team, and a nurse practitioner, and a lot of what I spent my time on was educating each provider about the others and what they could bring to the table in a collaborative approach to patient care. In my clinic we had a medical director (an MD) who ultimately signed off on everything else...the chiropractic care, the rehab, etc. as well as delivering his own care to the patient.

Ignorance is not good when it comes to the patient's best interest.

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Sure, but they all seem to retire at 45-50 with fat pensions. Go Figure.

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Most municipalities in Texas are on a system called TMRS. They deduct 7% of the employees salary and match 2:1 (with an opt-out of SS). That's only $4,800/year total going into the pension at $11/hour. The pension isn't going to be that fat.