I picked the one engineering discipline most useful to society and not dedicated to the sole purpose of treat making…..
I WAS TOLD I’D BE A FUCKING BEAVER BUILDING DAMS BUT I’M MORE LIKE A FUCKING BUREAUCRAT EDITING WORD DOCUMENTS FOR TYPOS WHAT THE FUCK
EVERYWHERE I GO, ITS A BULLSHIT JOB. ENGINEERING IS THE MOST USELESS LIB INCREMENTALIST BULLSHIT OUT THERE.
KILL EVERYONE WHO SAYS ‘YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN USEFUL DEGREE IF U WANTED MEANINGFUL WORK AND HIGH PAY.’
PROGRAMMING GATCHA GAMES IS NOT USEFUL U FUCKING NERD
This hits hard. I’m an accountant though and work in systems and project management. Equally unintelligible work to explain to the average person.
It would help if the projects being managed under capitalism actually meant something. I feel like the ideal takeaway from this thread is that many of these jobs could be useful or at least satisfying, but never will be until the current system is gone and dealt with. Accounting is a great example imo.
Right. Making sure data is correct and can be used for decision making is as needed for a large company as it is for a planned economy. The type of work I’ve done in my career has been more nakedly in service of the owners than anything else. At my current company “shareholder value” is part of the credo
I'm getting major office space vibes. Torch the cubicle farm. Embrace the hard hat. :blob-no-thoughts:
Yet, when you meet someone for the first time what’s the first question they ask after learning your name?“and what do you do?” every single time, and nobody can explain their jobs to anyone else because they’re all bullshit so I just say something to move the conversation along
The whole purpose of that question is, “where in the class hierarchy in my head should I place you?”
They’re so many levels abstracted from anything concrete coupled with their own jargon that the average person correctly assumes you’re just shuffling (digital) papers around all day which is entirely true.