Did your opinion of people go up or down upon working?

[Eldritch]

Yes dealing with the public on any level is easily the worst fate a person can have in regards to a career.

I think people in general are scumbags and/or idiots. That's the norm, and the exceptions are what makes life worth living, among a few other things. And I'm certainly not trying to present myself as somehow better, because i'm not.

And still I like working with the public at the reference desk (I'm a librarian). It's my favorite part of the job, in fact. Go figure.

[Grumpy Cat]

When I worked at a tobacco/lottery stand it sure did. Because the day the welfare cheques came out there were people lined up to buy smokes and lottery tickets, and they'd drop lots of money, too. I just shook my head.

This job also made me anti-lottery, because now I see it as a way to make money off the poor. The people who would buy the most expensive lottery tickets (ones with the most lines) were obviously poor (not just people on welfare but also working poor, who I have respect for), you could tell by looking at them, they were sometimes even dressed in rags.

[Grumpy Cat]

I also worked in tourism for a while. That kinda made me racist. lol (but I'm over that) Because certain nationalities are ruder than others.