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== Music ==
* [[Jonathan Coulton]]'s song "Bozo's Lament" is about a clown who hates and resents his job but doesn't know what else to do. "It sucks to be a clown."
* Famous salsa song "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l6tisJrNWQ El Cantante]", Hector Lavoe's [[Signature Song]], is about a singer that is halfway towards this trope.
== Video Games ==
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== Western Animation ==
* Krusty the Klown on [[The Simpsons]], and his stage name is actually a hint at this. How much it actually applies to him varies [[Depending on the Writer]]. Sometimes he's depicted as a hack who's just in it for the money, at other times he laments the crappy material he has to work with. In one episode, he claimed that he'd need a "shoebox full of
** Also from ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Reverend Lovejoy after he got [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Flanderized]]. {{spoiler|That is, after Flanders got done inadvertantly beating the love of religion out of him.}}
** This trope is also the ultimate reason for Sideshow Bob's descent from TV sidekick to homicidal maniac. Bob originally accepted Krusty's offer to be his sidekick because he thought he could both entertain and enlighten the children who would be watching, but [[Classically-Trained Extra|his talents were utterly wasted]] by the lowbrow shenanigans Krusty subjected him to, which in Bob's own words "destroyed more young minds than pinball and syphilis combined!" Finally, Bob snapped and framed Krusty for armed robbery, taking over the show after Krusty was arrested. He immediately turned it into the kind of show ''he'' originally wanted to do, one that was educational, entertaining and uplifting all at once...and then Bart Simpson pegged him as the guy who framed Krusty and he went to jail. Suffice to say that [[It Got Worse]] from there.
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== Real Life ==
* Italian singer Cristina d'Avena is said to feel this way, as she does exclusively cartoon theme songs, children shows and nothing else.
* Marjoe Gortner, an evangelist preacher in the 60's, explained in his documentary that he didn't believe what he preached but loved the attention and money - going so far as to say if he'd had a different background he'd probably have been a rock star.
* Despite the public perception that anyone in a mascot/animal/robot costume absolutely hates their job, this tropes is mostly averted by character performers. Many actually love their job and take pride in their level of skill. Especially sports mascots.
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