8. "I worked for MTV in the noughties. From the outside, it sounds like pure fun — watching TV, music, events, VJs, etc." "In reality, I was babysitting irresponsible VJs who would be chronically late for flights and events, and throw hissy fits, clients who wanted me to procure drugs for them, 12–14-hour days at event sites, setting up and tearing down, living in crappy hotels, and having to 'party' with clients until dawn then going to work the entire next day in the morning. I was burnt out after a year." — u/VincentVan_Dough 12. "I was a full-time food writer for a while, and everyone always said: 'You have the dream job, you basically just get paid to eat!' Eating out all the time was incredibly exhausting, my health suffered, I drank too much, media people are egotistical and horrible, and I hated the stress that came with being a critic." "Sometimes I felt like a stuffed turkey, or the words wouldn’t come, and I just got sick of writing about kingfish ceviche for the hundredth time.…