Title says it all. I assume security positions (law enforcement, judicial law, military, intelligence) have the most and some of the worst.
I don’t know if criminal is considered a class of profession, but that is probably as high if not higher.
I’ve heard health care is pretty bad, but I really don’t know.
I wonder what has the least. Part of me would assume something humanitarian but I’m sure those fields are full of burnouts, stress and low wages. All of which would lead to assholism.
Not to be a dick about it, but you might need to define “asshole”.
I’ve heard more than once that Day Traders are pretty much all assholes.
Verbally/emotionally/physically abusive, bullying behavior (esp towards those considered easy targets), condescending, smug, contemptuous, two faced, malicious plotters, etc.
Investment bankers. With a single known exception, they all think they’re the center of the universe.
I hadn’t considered high finance, but I could see that field being full of narcissists.
I wonder if fields like beautician are terrible for this.
With this as the definition, then I’d have to say sales executive.
Comedy? Talk-Radio? Hard to say, really.
Urologists.
(I know you immediately thought of proctologists, but we’re speaking of being, not viewing.)
What about debt collectors? Being sympathetic and understanding would be a massive detriment to their job performance.
The clergy.
I’m not actually kidding, nor am I making a snarky jab at religion (I’m a Christian). Apparently sociopaths like to manipulate people, and they gravitate to jobs like the clergy where they can find trusting parishioners to manipulate. Christian clergy include a disproportionate number of sociopaths.
Yah, I have known a couple; they are not bad as in evil, but they are incredibly self centered.
I’d trust the average beautician more than the average financier, high powered lawyer, bishop, or Congressman.
Many positions are such that, once you have endured working for an asshole, you get to move up the foodchain and be the asshole. Mid-level managers of many sorts.
Politics.
Prison guards?
Right wing talk jockey
Lawyers
Time share salesassholes
During one of my college-era jobs, I used to pass within spitting distance of major movie producers, A-list actors, and other Hollywood people all the time.
There is zero shortage of assholes in Hollywood.
In fact, if any part of the world endures an Asshole Drought, we could build a pipeline from Hollywood to siphon some off and the town wouldn’t notice any difference.
Another vote for financial “services”.
Medical folks are often misanthropes, but not necessarily assholes.
DMV clerk
Not IME, and in Brazil every other woman is a beautician if you include hair and nails in the definition, so I knew a lot when I lived there.
In fact, it might possibly be the profession with the sweetest people? They just want to make people feel good about themselves, make people walk out looking nice. They know their job isn’t high status so they don’t have a huge ego. They listen to people’s problems while they work. The ones I knew genuinely cared.