Serial killers tend to work one of these 12 jobs before their murder sprees

Serial killers tend to work one of these 12 jobs before their murder sprees Serial killers tend to work one of these 12 jobs before their murder sprees If the rapid success of Netflix’s Making A Murderer  proves anything, it’s that Americans love a good murder story. Occasionally, serial killers are  confusingly underwhelming, but oftentimes they’re eerily prophetic, like John Wayne Gacy working as a party clown for small children or Rodney Acala winning a dating game show just before embarking on his tour of horror.More recently, we can look to the focus point of the latest Zac Efron film, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, that centers on a young Ted Bundy moonlighting as a suicide hotline operator.That’s right. Serial killer Bundy, while still studying psychology at The Univerity of Washington, was employed by Seattle’s Suicide Hotline Crisis Center.Follow Ladders on Flipboard!Follow Ladders’ magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and more!An archived interview with the infamous serial killer, while on death row, suggests this particular occupation might have been just another of many vehicles fueled by his intense fascination with obscene and morbid material.  In the 1989 footage, the interviewer tries his best to get Bundy to intellectualize the root of this love affair with evil â€" to no avail.“I was essentially a normal person, I had good friends, I lead a normal life, except for this one small but very potent and very destructive segment of it,” Bundy explained matter-of-factly.In this instance, Bundy’s early occupation potentially funded sadistic interests, though a common variant on this kind of career antecedent is the one wherein the vocations occupied by future serial killers ends up contributing to their horrific crimes in one way or another.  Take, as an example, the way Jack The Ripper’s proposed life as a surgeon gave way to victims uniquely horrific and dismembered.The link that joins the skillset and methods of histories most reviled killers is explored intimately  in a new book, by  Michael Arntfield, called  M urder in Plain English.A closer look reveals more questionsArntfield compartmentalizes the jobs that seem to pop up with the most frequency in his review of 50 years worth of famous  serial killer cases. He breaks them down as follows: Top three skilled serial killer occupations, top three semi-skilled serial killer occupations, top three unskilled serial killer occupations, and top three professional/government serial killer occupation.Top three skilled serial killer occupations1. Aircraft machinist/assembler2. Shoemaker/repair person3. Automobile upholstererTop three semi-skilled serial killer occupations1. Forestry worker/arborist2. Truck driver3. Warehouse managerTop three unskilled serial killer occupations1. General laborer (mover, landscaper, et. al.)2. Hotel porter3. Gas station attendantTop three professional/government serial killer occupation1. Police/security official2. Military personnel3. Religious officialSeveral factors stood out to  Arntfield about the bulk of these professions, namely that accessibility to these jobs is currently pretty obsolete. Many killers adopted these professions in order to gain access to a larger pool of rotating victims, obtain otherwise unavailable information, and exercise specific and twisted fantasies â€" all features made more readily available via the internet.Ultimately, even Arntfeild concludes that individuals capable of the kind of acts that earned them infamy are rarely susceptible to the same trail of logic that stifles you and me.  An interview with an imprisoned Jeffrey Dahmer, mirrors the one of Bundy cited just above. Both of these have clearly toiled over countless hours, reveling and analyzing every thought and action that beguiled them to the other side â€" yet the best they have to offer is half-remembered impulses and illusions to exposure pornographic images. Or, as Arntfield illustrates more succinctly:“While many killers use their employment as a pretext to acquire vulnerable victims, obtain information, or cultivate violent fantasies for reasons we still don’t fully understand (“Milwaukee Cannibal” Jeffrey Dahmer once admitted that his work as a chocolate factory machinist awakened homicidal and necrophilic urges he had otherwise suppressed), in McArthur’s case, occupation was the back end to his alleged crimes, not the inspiration for them.”You might also enjoy… New neuroscience reveals 4 rituals that will make you happy Strangers know your social class in the first seven words you say, study finds 10 lessons from Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule that will double your productivity The worst mistakes you can make in an interview, according to 12 CEOs 10 habits of mentally strong people