Hey, kiddos, I know that some of you are in school and fretting over what career to go into. "I got a degree in gender studies, now what, ahhh!" Some of you are just sick of being poor.
Do you have a bachelors in a social science or two years of activist experience? Are you willing to work 100 hours a week for 45K? Is a clean conscious more valuable to you than your sanity? Work for a union! Go become an organizer in training for SEIU or AFSCE or Unite-Here or some other expansion-minded union. Meet workaholic comrades.
Being a teacher isn't the only way to get over-worked for 45K with a clean conscious, there's always union work.
Burnout is common.
100 hour weeks jesus sounds like the organizers need a fucking union
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Unionizing the union organizers and backflipping sideways into cross-industry organization.
Many of them do lmao. Unions are also hilariously anti-union for their own staff.
Are you willing to work 100 hours a week for 45K?
haha id rather die :blob-no:
I've heard it goes up to like 65K once you've proven you won't burn out. Apparently, union organizers frequently organize their own unions, and the unions that employ them are known for running particularly vicious union busting campaigns.
Went on their site and the first image I see is of a cop lol
American unions are really like that... I've heard that most paid organizers are lefties though and most cops are already organized.
I wish they were different! AFL-CIO reformers are trying to kick out the cops, but the AFL-CIO has white-supremacist roots and the cops are well paid, so they pay good dues. It's an uphill and losing battle.
The AFL predates the CIA by a long-shot, but there's no doubt involvement. Any time the feds cleaned the mob out of a union, I have no doubt that feds took their place, UMW in virginia in the 70's is a great example
Is a clean conscious more valuable to you than your sanity?
And then watch as the union you work for endorses every local imperialist politician because they understand exactly which side their bread is buttered on.
There's not much better praxis than union organizing, though. Honestly if I could go back and do it all over again this is the career path I would take. I think the 100 hours thing is a bit of an exaggeration, come on.
It is an exaggeration, except in lead up to a strike or election when the whole crew will just be expected to work and sleep until it's done.
There's no way I would work that many hours a week. When I was struggling to make ends meet I worked 60-70 hours a week and it felt like my brain was splitting. Good for anyone that can though
I applied for the seiu one and didn't get the job after the second screening :sadness:
Are you willing to work 100 hours a week for 45K? Is a clean conscious more valuable to you than your sanity?
this is just the "non-profit" job pitch tbh. Unless you're an "administrator", then you get 200k to check your email twice a week.
