Posted on 01/09/2013 9:50:00 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Have you ever experienced the feeling at work that everyone around you is unstable? That you're the only level-headed worker in a workplace populated by colleagues whose fits and outbursts are unpredictable, or even psychopathic?
The experience might be common to many workers, but according to a recent book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, certain fields are more likely to attract actual psychopaths than others. The book by Oxford psychologist Kevin Dutton argues that "a number of psychopathic attributes [are] actually more common in business leaders than in so-called disturbed criminals -- attributes such as superficial charm, egocentricity, persuasiveness, lack of empathy, independence, and focus."
In a post about the book, author and Huffington Post blogger Eric Barker says that professions with high rates of psychopaths "offer power and many require an ability to make objective, clinical decisions divorced from feelings." Conversely, those fields with relatively few psychopaths "require human connection, dealing with feelings and most of them don't offer much power."
So what were the kinds of jobs most likely to attract psychopaths, and those least likely?
Highest Rates of Psychopathy:
1. CEO
2. Lawyer
3. Media (Television/Radio)
4. Salesperson
5. Surgeon
6. Journalist
7. Police Officer
8. Clergy person
9. Chef
10. Civil Servant...
(Excerpt) Read more at jobs.aol.com ...
They are on the top of the list of narcissists.
Environmentalist
I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems. John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs. John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing .This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run. Economist editorial
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight David Foreman, Earth First!
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental. Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!
If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS Earth First! Newsletter
Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along. David Graber, biologist, National Park Service
The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans. Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels. Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund
Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation. Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995
I’ve filled 4 of the 10 positions....
The little voices in my head are really angry at you for posting this!!!!
Disagree ‘care aide’ or nurse’s aide should be #1.
My mom is an RN and she says she’s met a large number of nurse’s aides who seem unbalanced/lacking in principles.
She says she has met very few nurses that are not decent people.
Aides are not screened as well as nurses, either.
“Civil Servant” isn’t a job: the term simply identifies the employer. The employee could be anything from a typist to an astronaut (speaking of psychopaths ...).
It said low levels not none at all. Many people with this recognize the issue and consciously do things to counteract those tendencies ( very crafty ).
Another academic trying to undermine your confidence in reality.
Based on the food network, chefs should be number 1.
What about psychopathologists?! Sheesh!
Politicians are mostly lawyers.
/johnny
Gordon Ramsey alone should place it higher!
“Santa Claus would be top of list. Naughty/nice list, children in fear,-talk about power.”
Not to mention he sees you when you’re sleeping and he knows when you’re awake. Pretty creepy when you think about it...
1. Current president
2. presidential Czars
3. (a tie for third) politicians, asshat moonbat LIBs, DIMs and uninformed voters
“CEO’s are all Psychopaths” just fits the current media/Leftist template too conveniently.
I now live under Obama rule....
I have no confidence in my reality....
I can attest to psychos in TV/media. At the PBS station I worked at for a number of years, they were in key positions and protected. All they did was to come up with asinine rules and cry like little children (literally).
John 8:32
New International Version (NIV)
32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
LOLOLOLOL!!! {^)
Excellent!
When lawyer-hunting is legal, a bonus side-effect is that for every three lawyers you bag, you're bound to get one politician, on average.
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