Humans spend a lot of time working. In fact, experts say that an average person spends a third of their life at work. That's plenty of time to get acquainted with how a certain workplace operates. It's not just a particular workplace that people get to know so well – many become experts in the industry in which they work.
Every industry comes with its own secrets and interesting things that happen behind the scenes. A person couldn't try out every single profession even if they wanted to, so, a construction worker might be curious about what it's like to work in IT, marketing, or even healthcare.
One netizen wondered the same, so, they asked the Internet: "What is your industry's deep, dark secret?" Workers from all walks of life gave their two cents: coders, funeral home workers, and real estate agents alike came to spill the tea on how their industries really work.
1. Nobody really needs us. Especially at the commissions we charge.
Real Estate Agent.
2. A huge amount of software is held together by old code that nobody fully understands anymore, maintained by like 2 exhausted senior developers who are terrified to touch certain parts because breaking it could cost millions.
3. Not sure it's a secret, but it's something that a lot of people would never willingly admit.
I work in the supplements / nutraceutical industry. The fact is that the vast majority of people would be better served by adopting a healthy lifestyle (diet and regular exercise) than they are by buying one of our products. There are outlier cases where one of our products fills a real need in someone's life, but they are the exception not the rule. The reason i get a paycheck is simply because buying a product is so much easier than making a long-term change in behavior.
4. Most marketing campaigns are approved by people who don't understand marketing.
5. Your friendly local funeral home is really owned by a giant multinational corporation and that nice funeral director is trying to upsell you because he works on commission.
6. Healthcare professionals do a lot of googling. We don't retain much, we just know where to look.