I am currently working in intellectual property and it sucks major ass. Looking into going into tech for a 9-5 low stress job that won't make me want to kms; do those exist? Especially tech jobs slated for people with engineering degrees. Thanks!

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Digital Marketing. Get into analytics and web maintenance at a medium sized company. No one will know what you do or how much work it takes.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      This this this

      You might need to work at a shitty agency for a while to get experience that can get you to be the one digital marketer at a medium sized company.

      But at that point you're pretty set.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        I'd say that a downside is that it rots the soul but we're on the internet so that ship's fucking sailed

        • SerLava [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I mean, depending on what you do it's no worse than any other bullshit job. Like it doesn't have to be spamming people and shit. And we're already talking about jobs that aren't panopticon data harvesting- those are the aforementioned difficult ones.

          You could be fixing a website for a supplier of societally useful goods or services.

          • Making it less confusing to use
          • Making new pages that explain what the business sells.
          • Rewriting shitty copy.
          • Making sure that Google doesn't get blocked from reading the site, so that it will show up on Google.
          • organizing products into better categories so they arent all stacked into giant fuckoff pages, so people can find them

          Plus you can use those simple analytical skills if you ever create some kind of media in your personal life such as left politics or hobby stuff.

          • Mardoniush [she/her]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah, It's not bad overall if you must choose a field that probably shouldn't exist, I just think that marketing, even when it's useful, is not the only job you should do.

            A life of supporting pure Rhetoric isn't healthy, and I know because I've lived it. You really have to take that free time and throw it into doing material shit.

      • Mardoniush [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Actual data analytics is. Looking at google reports and SEM Rush and looking smart to dumbass board members with a Datastudio dashboard is not.

      • ThisMachinePostsHog [they/them, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I've done this before, and it was a decent gig. Everyone trusted me, and I was allowed to work on my own. Plus, a lot of it is pretty basic stuff to learn. I picked these skills up at a previous job with no experience, but it was enough for what this new company needed. I rebuilt their WordPress website, reported their Google analytics, and did some occasional troubleshooting. Some of the stuff was a little over my head, but I had enough time in between tasks to search stuff I didn't know. The pay was a little low for entry level, but it was enough to get by on.