• GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    24 days ago

    Love to run into someone who goes "Well I got my dream job and it was so eeeeeeeeeeeasy, actually!" bully for you, fucker. Millions of us have to settle for something adjecent to our passion if we're lucky and then the rest just have hope for fucking anything so as not to die homeless

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      24 days ago

      As someone who just wanted to be a mathematician/physicist, heartbreaking to find out all of the adjacent jobs are a fucking nightmare. Well pay is good. But the options are like you make mildly evil excel spreadsheets, or you do interesting work that is evil evil.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        24 days ago

        Every math related job is either you operate the lever on the trolley problem or tie people to the track.

        • tripartitegraph [comrade/them]
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          24 days ago

          Oof. Or like. You’re solving the genuinely interesting problem of designing the switch for the track, along with the trolley itself. And as long as you don’t think about it beyond that, you can mostly convince yourself you’re in the clear.
          STEM is so cooked it’s overwhelming sometimes. Really hope I can find something that doesn’t make me hate myself or others.

    • Wolfman86 [none/use name]
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      24 days ago

      I seem to see people about that always have money and earn a decent wage …I have had numerous decent jobs, but just pay like shit. I’d love to know what they do different.

      • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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        24 days ago

        If they aren’t living with their parent or bunking with roommates, then honestly they’re probably just taking on crazy debt and just not talking about it.

      • peeonyou [he/him]
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        24 days ago

        depends where you're at.. if you're in california then they're probably tech-bros, lawyers, doctors, or some high-faluten university professor or somethin

    • peeonyou [he/him]
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      24 days ago

      And how many of those people get that dream job only to be laid off a year or two down the road?