I've realized what always sours me on a job: unnecessary shadiness.
I'm quite happy to be a cashier at a big box store and deal with the lows that come with that position until they tell me to relentlessly push credit cards on the customers. They infer but don't directly state that you can take advantage of older customers being malleable and easy to manipulate. So I switch gigs. I work in hotels and they tell me about the wonders of overselling the hotel. These exhausted families arrive only to be told I'm sending them to a different hotel because my manager decided the gamble of either having a hotel at 100% occupancy or having a hotel at 100% plus a few discarded folks is so very worth it because a couple of those people might be booking longer.
Because rent still exists I have to continue to work but I'm sickened and stressed daily to participate in a machine that doesn't care about how needlessly awful that exchange is for both the guests and staff. I'm exhausted and heart broken. My new manager really wanted me to acquiesce and say this was a clever practice. I couldn't do it. I don't want to be part of that system but it feels like every job now has some needles darkness and management that wants me to thrill at the idea of a massive corporation making a few extra bucks while every person in the actual interaction suffers horribly.