The Top 10 Careers With The Most Psychopaths – Is Your Job On The List?

What comes to mind when you picture a psychopath? A crazy ax-murderer? Psychopaths don’t always fit that mold. The clinical diagnoses is a person who has shallow emotions or lacks empathy. Sounds like corporate America is loaded with them!

Kevin Dutton, a research psychologist at the University of Oxford, has dedicated much of his life to studying the brains of psychopaths and he’s been able to piece together a list of the most likely professions psychopaths end up in. Is your career on the list

1. CEOs

Corporate America is loaded with brutal metaphors. When you succeed, it’s because you were cutthroat and ended up making a killing, and now you’re known as a shark. Doesn’t that just sound like a wonderful place for a psychopath? I’m sure plenty of CEOs are great people… but several studies suggest that 4% of CEOs qualify as psychopaths. That’s 4x as many people as in the general population.

2. Lawyer.

There are lots of heartless lawyer jokes, but there may be some credence to them. Many lawyers exhibit signs of psychopathy, which makes lying, cheating, and obsessing with profit nothing to bat an eye at. As one lawyer he interviewed said:

“Deep inside me there’s a serial killer lurking somewhere. But I keep him amused with cocaine, Formula One, booty calls, and coruscating cross-examination.”

3. Media (Radio/TV)

Makes sense right? Obviously, not everyone in the media industry scores high on the psychopath meter, but if you think of some of the most prominent psychopathic personalities in our world right now, it all seems to make sense.

The Unemployed Graduate

An unemployed graduate woke up one morning and checked his pocket. All he had left was $10. He decided to use it to buy food and then wait for death as he was too proud to go begging.. He was frustrated as he could find no job, and nobody was ready to help him.

He bought food and as he sat down to eat, an old man and two little children came along and asked him to help them with food as they had not eaten for almost a week. He looked at them. They were so lean that he could see their bones coming out. Their eyes had gone into the socket. With the last bit of compassion he had, he gave them the food. The old man and children prayed that God would bless and prosper him and then gave him a very old coin. The young graduate said to them 'you need the prayer more than I do'.

Nothing is Impossible

A young man working in the army was constantly humiliated because he believed in God.

One day the captain decided to humiliate him before the troops. He called the young man and said:

- Young man, take the key and go and park the Jeep in front.

The young man replied:

- I can not drive!

The captain said:

- But then ask your assistance from God! Shows us that He exists!

The young man took the key and walked to the vehicle, praying the whole time.

…As a result he parked the Jeep to the place PERFECTLY well as the captain wanted.

The young man came out of the jeep and saw them all crying.

They all said together: