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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

That dealing with the bullshit of clique social groups and the fallout of not falling in with them doesn't end with high school. In fact, it gets even worse in the workplace.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same happened today morning. More work, more salary. My answer: no thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The way we've structured work in the U.S. is a capitalist farce. We've been duped into working our asses off to make someone else who doesn't care about your well-being a large pile of money. So, I get my work done, I don't slack, but, I'm not going to go out of my way to do things for a company that would replace me tomorrow if I got bit by a bus.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That with the limited number of jobs to accommodate for, changing monetary values and demand for goods and services, natural disasters and game changers, and fluctuating, unpredictable circumstances that change how something plays out, there is nothing about the job force that isn’t fluid and prone to putting you in some kind of shifting interdependent situation, enough that making the job scene a bureaucratic construct was a big mistake and that having career dreams is too oversimplified an expectation. I knew this to an extent but now I know the full scope.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

life is so much better when u find a job u like ( or learn to like the one u have)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Just because someone has done a job a while means they do their job well.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (10 children)

The money is not worth it if you dont enjoy what you are doing.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Or replaced. If you make an automation tool to work more efficiently, it will be fun at first, but then you get fired because your job is no longer needed.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

playing the game is a necessary function of corporate work, otherwise it will chew you up and spit you out. you can have autonomy if you've made the right people happy, the rest can get fucked.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To add some positivity... Art is absolutely something you can make money with. It's a struggle and you're going to be poor for most of your early career, but that goes for most jobs. Make art.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

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