The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Difference between revisions

Content added Content deleted

VisualWikitext

Inline

@@ Line 138: / Line 138: @@
 * In the Australian code of ethics, mental health professionals are obliged to seek treatment for any psychological issues they have themselves, whether the issue be an actual disorder, a drug addiction, or just a very high stress level.
 * One aversion, [[Rachael Ray]] actually does enjoy cooking, and she frequently does cook for her husband, despite many assuming she'd suffer from burnout after all the cooking she does for work (she's been known to put in 100-hour workweeks.)
-** Chefs and professional cooks might be one of the most typical aversions, since they will frequently test gourmet meals on friends and family before trying them out on the public.
+** Chefs and professional cooks might be one of the most typical aversions, since they will frequently test gourmet meals on friends and family before trying them out on the public. Still, most cooking professionals avoid cooking at home due to spending all day preparing meals for others.
+* Venezuela has one of the biggest proven reserves of oil in the world, but years of mismanagement of the national oil company PDVSA by the Chávez-Maduro regime has destroyed the infrastructure for the production and supply of gasoline and other oil subproducts, to the point that people typically stay in line for ''days'' to fill up gas, with the alternative being having to buy gas in the black market to exorbitant prizes or having to walk instead.
+* Similarly, Iran is one of the biggest producers of oil derivates but charges exorbitant prices for gasoline to their population, mostly because the amount of sanctions and the terrible mismanagement of the country's economy force the government to keep the internal consumption as low as possible.
+* Health professionals hit this trope hard:
+** In general, physicians tend to smoke more, drink more, eat worse, and have bigger rates of depression than the general population. Not helped by the fact that ''becoming'' a doctor involves an extremely stressful lifestyle where things like having proper sleep, eating healthy, or drinking stuff other than coffee tend to be tossed aside to maximize study time.
+** Among psychologists, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists, there is a widespread belief that people in said professions are either compassionate people willing to help others or disturbed people in search of treatment. There is a reason that several jurisdictions enforce that people in mental health areas must go to mandatory therapy themselves.
+* People who fix computers or do tech support for a living avoid calling out that fact around relatives, due to the very real possibility that the relatives treat them the same way their actual clients do (read: very demanding to solve the issue), but without the benefit of obtaining any kind of compensation, monetary or otherwise.
 {{reflist}}