What does “shitty job” mean in the low-skill, low-pay world?
>> A meatgrinder job is a job that pays more not because there are fewer people who can do it, but because there are fewer people that will. They have insanely high turnover, because some aspect of the job is so bad that the vast majority of people who try it don’t stay. Maybe it’s long hours that never stop or maybe it’s constant on-call work. Maybe it’s an insane, stress-intensive workload you can’t begin to keep up with.Pediatric oncology.  Extremely high skill/pay.  Very prestigious.  But most will leave within a few years.  A working day surrounded by kids undergoing painful treatments, particularly when you are the person prescribing those treatments, grinds down one's soul.  Or criminal defense attorneys/prosecutors.  Or any law enforcement.  To survive such jobs you mush develop a skin so think that to outsiders you appear inhumane.