How You Wished Your Job Was Vs. How It Actually Is

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When it comes to work, we've all got perfectly reasonable expectations about how it's supposed to go. Unfortunately, those expectations usually get dashed within the first hour. That's the kind of surprise nobody wants, so we asked our readers to show us the unexpected realities of their jobs, compared to how they figured those jobs were going to go.

So now we all start our jobs with properly-aligned expectations.