The top 10 jobs that attract psychopaths

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Exactly. Even jobs like security guards, bouncers, police and low-to-mid management where they have the power to make people do what they say and harshly punish those who don't.

lol doesn't surprise me at all.. but yea politician should be 1.. though Alex Jones popped into my head first when I was reading this

btw got a 13 out of 33.. ha.. hey, manipulative powers can be useful...

Yeah, but sometimes I don't know about social authority being the only motivating factor - it is almost always coupled with money and prestige (or relative fame) and people don't earn a ton of money being a teacher (special ed or otherwise), or orderly or nursing functions or those "benevolent" professions where people ostensibly don't go into it for lucrative reasons. Same deal applies to clergy as I said earlier. Plus in those professions you have to report to a more stern authority like principal/headmaster or director or whatever which would not suit a psychopath well. Compared to sales or corporate finance or media jobs where they have more room to charm and con their way with authority. Just doesn't have the same office politics dynamics as the benevolent professions.

Not everyone has the connections or resources to become a psycho/sociopathic doctor or lawyer, so they get the position they CAN and control people there.

My score was a 9 out of 33. Chefs are known to be tempermental and so are surgeons so it makes sense to some degree that these professions attract sociopaths. I do not mind a sociopathic surgeon if he happens to be a great surgeon and I would want to be his patient and not have to work with him. Same goes for a chef, I would like to eat food made by an excellent, but tempermental chef, but not have to work with him or for him/her.

Men are more direct that is true and women are often catty and sneakey, etc.

9 out of 33 here, too. I can usually turn off my emotions in a stressful situation, at least until it's over; I pay for it later, though. And my morality doesn't lapse in the interim.

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you sound like the kind of stand-up guy i'd want in my corner, even as you'd be making tracks to get away from me

I got 8/33.

So many psychopaths and sociopaths in upper management. I did alright in management and even sales (account management) in an incredibly AS friendly sector but always stumbled when I got to that level. Refusing to play along can cost a lot of career development.

journos like the ones that chase various celebrities

news of the wold was full of them

dark triad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad

http://books.google.com/books?id=EMyAJP ... &q&f=false

I got an 8.

I agree there are heaps of psycopaths in management roles. It's worse when they are HR manager though.

power is more important to them than money....they want the money IN ORDER to have POWER....it is a means to an end.

Oh yeah, what was that famous quote from Scarface (Al Pacino)?

I bet if the test asked you to choose between that and "Sometimes principles and common sense trump rules" you would have chosen the latter. Or if the statement was "It's not illegal if you don't get caught." your answer would have separated you from sociopaths.

6. I believe that was for thinking I'm cool under pressure. But I think if I do my best but fail in a situation like that, it's not my failure. I feel the loss, but not responsibility for it.

i get mad at people but when it comes right down to it, i just can't hurt anybody.