Errors are inevitable in both our personal and professional lives. Nonetheless, certain occupations carry significant repercussions for even minor slip-ups. An internet survey recently asked, “What job allows no mistakes?
Here are the 18 best responses:
Being Aboard an Active Duty Submarine
“In the early days of submarines, you could destroy the whole boat by flushing the toilet wrong; things are much safer nowadays.
“As a former submariner. We messed up lots of stuff all the time. It’s still partially true depending on the job or the system.”
Anesthesiologist
“They’re some of the most highly paid medical professionals because messing up your anesthetic means killing you too much or waking up in surgery with too little. No matter who you are or what you did, never lie to the Anesthesiologist when they’re asking questions.”
“I read about some dude who was awake for his hernia surgery. They had given him a paralyzing agent and put a towel over his face. Still, they had forgotten to turn on the general anesthesia. So, he couldn’t communicate and felt how they cut into him.”
Parachute Rigger
“My parachute opened with massive unrecoverable twists; I felt pretty fast and decided to pull my reserve a little too late. Broke my tibia. They investigated all the parachute riggers and found many people cutting corners and improper rigging. Scary.”
“I went skydiving twice. Took a week-long class and learned to pack my own parachute. The only thing that ever stuck with me to this day was something my instructor said. “If your chutes fail, you got the rest of your life to enjoy the view.””
The Person Who Checks the Safety Harness on A Bungee Jump
“There’s one instance that a guy said “no jump,” and the girl thought he said “now jump” so she jumped to her death.”
“If you want to have a bad day, ask the workers to scare you when you go bungee jumping. I got arrogant and did just that. When I jumped, they held up the other end of another bungee cord with just a carabiner on it but not connected to anything and yelled, “No, wait!””
Pediatric Pharmacy
“My husband’s only error in something like 10,000 scripts was nutrition. Never a medication error. He’d remember the kids by name and would question changes (typos on the doctors’ parts) because he knew the kid hadn’t gained/lost that much weight that fast. Their dosages are by weight, not age.”
“No pressure. Do a good job, and the family remembers the final week with the baby at home. Do a bad job, and you just cut quality of life in half.”
Astronaut
“If you mess up in space, it’s usually bad.”
“Eh, mistakes happen. Jim Lovell, for instance, accidentally deleted the guidance platform orientation (REFSMMAT) during Apollo 8 in cislunar space.”
Air Traffic Control
“We do have a lot of lives in our hands, but we do mess up occasionally; we are human, after all. We fix it and move on. Many backup systems are in place to ensure everyone is safe.”
“My dad came home saying “had a stressful day at work, nearly killed 700 people” he had a miscommunication with a pilot while they were changing frequencies, and they were heading straight towards another plane.”
People Who Climb and Repair Radio Towers
“My brother fell off one of the towers while working on it, his harness luckily caught him, and they got him down, and he was immediately fired.”
“I spent a decade building telecom towers, and that whole industry is badly hurting for people, so if he was fired, he could’ve walked into a competitor and got hired the same day. The company I worked for had a $500k deductible on their insurance policy which is likely why he was fired (or he failed the drug test that’s both immediate and mandatory after every safety incident).”
Electrician
“Last year, I had a major electrical accident, and if I weren’t in my full PPE, I could have been severely injured or killed. I walked away with no injuries.”
“My hubby is a sparky too; he calls electricity “invisible death” touch the wrong thing at the wrong time, and it’s game over.”
Commercial Divers
“There’s a documentary on Netflix called ‘Last Breath’ about these British dudes working on the North Sea gas lines that’s worth a watch if you want an insight into saturated divers. It’s tense.”
“We just had an underwater welding student drown during training.”
Lineman
“One mess up, and you are dead. Two mess-ups, and there won’t even be enough of you left to bury.”
“Not really. Sometimes they disconnect a branch and do their work, and a bunch of stuff blows up when it’s reconnected, and they’re fine because they used a long fiberglass pole to reconnect the disconnect.”
Brain Surgeon
“Brain surgeon here. Errors are made with relative frequency, but knowing how to properly address them is important. It can differentiate between a good and poor outcome.”
“I work in the legal industry and have been on medical malpractice cases. Neurosurgeons always mess up, and 90% of the time, nothing happens.”
Working in the Blood Bank
“Any mistake, even the tiniest clerical error, can cause someone to die a horrible death.”
Airplane Mechanics
“As somebody with this exact job, it depends on the mistake and how quickly it’s noticed.”
“My friend, a military helicopter mechanic, said you’d be shocked at the number of mistakes they have. Luckily they check things a few times before approving it.”
Software Dev for Trading Tools that Are Used on The Stock Market
“You’re writing the code that executes millions of dollars of transactions. I’ll never do it again.”
“I wrote code for a company that did billions in transactions on a team of 5 engineers. Millions of dollars settle on the hour every hour, every single night. All in batch files. It was a little stressful.”
Chef that Has to Prepare a Pufferfish
“So pufferfish become poisonous from eating other animals infested with tetrodotoxin-laden bacteria. Nowadays, those used for consumption bred in captivity are not poisonous!”
“As I recall, I read a claim/story that said graduating from some sort of class involving preparing blowfish required you to eat the blowfish you prepared.”
Underwater Welders
“They have to deal with that delta-p variable while repairing underwater pipes. They can get sucked into a hole the size of a golf ball.”
“On the bright side, it’s a quick and total obliteration. So you probably won’t have time to think or feel much before lights out.”
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