Psychopaths account for 1% of the general population. That number, however, skyrockets to 25% in prison. Below is a list of the top 10 careers attract the most psychopaths.
1. CEO – Study after study suggests that 4 percent of them—four times as many people as in the general population—qualify as psychopaths.
2. Lawyer –
Dutton interviewed a successful psychopathic lawyer who, chillingly, 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 (television/radio) – Psychopaths imagine themselves to be so important that everyone should be exposed to them.
4. Salesperson – The psychopath is very likely to be a good salesperson, if they are intelligent as well as glib and superficial. In fact, a study done in 2001 by Marc Hamer found that superior sales performance was associated with higher levels of narcissism (egocentric and grandiose), sociopathy and cognitive empathy.
5. Surgeon – Surgeon Wen Shen stated in a 2014 Pacific Standard piece, “the trouble with surgeons is…many are abrasive, abusive, and wildly self-centered—so much so that observers have speculated that they suffer from psychiatric disorders.”
6. Journalist –
Psychopathy can creep in all too easily in the world of journalism, as any reporter who’s had an after-hours fight with some obnoxious public relations officer can attest to. Seeing your name in a national newspaper on a daily basis is enough to turn even the most humble being into a fountain of narcissism.
7. Police officer –
Diane Wetendorf’s Police Domestic Violence: Handbook for Victims, finds that “women suffer domestic abuse in at least 40 percent of police officer families.” Furthermore, “police families are two to four times more likely than the general population to experience domestic violence.’’
8. Clergy –
Religious organizations provide easy access to victims, a source for financial rewards and easy legitimacy based on having an ordained position. Also—as if the other reasons aren’t creepy enough—in the case of organizations where confessions of “wrongdoing” are required, churches provide opportunities for excellent blackmail material to use on potential victims.
9. Chef – In an interview with Vanity Fair, Gordon Ramsay said, “Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.”
10. Civil servants –
There’s certainly power in certain civil service roles, which psychopaths single-mindedly crave, and the ability to make other people’s lives hell.
Stranglewank Hitman 