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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 40 points 10 months ago

At 60k per kilo, my weight in gold is a rough 3.5 million. I'd have a pretty damn horrible day for 3.5 million.

So that really just rules out stuff with long-term consequences. Asbestos mining, organ donor, etc..

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

A single day of asbestos mining isn't gonna hurt you.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

Organ donor is not a profession.

Right?

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago

Depends on whose organs you're donating

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 18 points 10 months ago

That's called organ trafficking.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 5 points 10 months ago

What if you do it for the love of the game?

[-] arthur@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago

Organ trafficking as a hobby

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago

When I donate one kidney, I'm a hero. When I donate 10 kidneys, I'm an 'organ trafficker'. What did I do wrong?

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[-] themurphy@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

He's gone, just donated second kidney.

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[-] charlytune@mander.xyz 24 points 10 months ago

Military / weapons, police, bailiffs, pyramid scheme grifts, wellness grifts, petrochemicals, mining, financial services (unless it was something like a credit union)

[-] themurphy@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

You wouldn't work for the police for 3-5 million????

How awful must the police be where you live?

[-] charlytune@mander.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

No I wouldn't. It would go against my ethics and my politics. Police are police, everywhere. Ultimately they exist to protect the interests of the ruling classes. While the level of violence and corruption and abuse of power might vary from place to place, and there may be good work that they do, there is violence and corruption and abuse of power wherever there are police. I want no part in that, no money is worth it. And I wouldn't last long in a racist and sexist workplace anyway.

[-] themurphy@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

You could be the change you want to see and earning alot of money, to maybe do more change you care about.

It's literally worse for everyone, that you say no to this. Including yourself.

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[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago

Out of all the things on the list, that was the one I understood the most. I’d be willing to risk my body, comfort, or sanity for a few million, but joining the police will cost you your soul.

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[-] Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

Selling things to people who shouldn't have it or need it. Money doesn't mean shit if you're fucking people over.

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

Executioner for the US prison system. In some states it's a real job, and it's not a doctor, it's just whoever is sociopathic enough to want to do it.

[-] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Sex worker would be pretty rough and possibly deadly. Being a soldier in one of America's resource wars. Anything to do with criminal justice. Working in a narcotics cartel. It's a lot of gold but no point if I'm gonna die.

[-] Poik@pawb.social 3 points 10 months ago

Sex worker could be fairly safe, if sex workers had any rights in my country. (context: USA. There are countries where sex workers are are least somewhat respected and have rights. Not here.) Then it would be about as safe as being a doctor who makes house calls, or hospice, or other jobs where you may be in private with another person for some reason.

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[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm a big guy so my weight in gold is pretty compelling tbh.

I'd probably do anything not deadly or grievously injuring for $7.5M in gold in one day.

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[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 10 points 10 months ago

I don't think any reasonable person would actually turn down their weight in gold for one unpleasant day of work, unless there was a high probability of grievous injury or death to themselves or others.

But if we're just being hyperbolic, I deliberately never worked in the food industry. I knew if I worked in food somewhere, I would get sick if it and never want to eat there again.

[-] Num10ck@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

im thinking traumatizing or against your morals.. maybe skinning dogs for meat

[-] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 points 10 months ago

For 5 million in gold? Introduce me to Fido.

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[-] d3lta19@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

Joke answer: retail

Serious answer: anything that took me more than 50 ft above the ground

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[-] laxu@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago

I think you could do almost anything for a day. One day is "Here's Jim, he's new, and we are going to show him how we do things here" stuff where little actual work happens.

A month would be a more realistic situation. I wouldn't want to be military in an active war zone, work for a drug/trafficking cartel, or any other dangerous profession where the likelihood of dying or going to prison is high. Or professions where I'd have to actively harm people.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

There are professions where one day on the job is enough to leave marks.

[-] Damaskox@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

First thing that comes to my mind is something military-like or something that involves killing People (innocent or not).

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago

a days work for 80 kg of gold? I'll do anything

[-] RedditRefugeeTom@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Working in a foundry or an oil rig. They both seem like pretty shit jobs due to the hazards, materials and conditions.

[-] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Know a manager of an oil rig.

Away from friends and family for months at a time, extremely dangerous, 12+ hour shifts, constantly dealing with issues with staff and all around miserable and stressful. Said he wished he had gotten into literally anything else.

[-] bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago
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[-] Morcyphr@lemmy.one 4 points 10 months ago

Cell tower or wind turbine repair.

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[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Police, mining, executioner, anything to do with fossil fuels, factory farming, surgery, human trafficking, drug trafficking, maybe prostitution.

[-] Globulart@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You wouldn't do a day of admin for a power plant for $4.5m?

Let's say someone wants an extra day off work, if you say no they don't get their day off so all the work gets done either way, if you say yes you have to sort through paperwork and file it correctly, hourly rate of half a million dollars.

You're honestly turning that down?

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Assassin.

Also anything I can't do that I'd you put me in that place would result in death of others or environmental devastation. Emergency room doctor, oil rig operator...

[-] TheSanSabaSongbird 4 points 10 months ago

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