I appreciate this post a lot. To give people a little more concrete of a real example that isn't just a theoretical tech laborer somewhere we should be concerned about:
I dropped out of college for mech/aero eng with absurdly good grades because I didn't want to build weapons for America. I still have all that debt. I still only have (real & relevant) work experience in the service industry. I've been basically starving since and one of the few industries I've found SOME work in (freelance, because permanent work was already hard to find) is about to be further destroyed and turned into a hellscape of capitalist exploitation (than it already is) likely making any progress I've made since dropping out reset or worse. My entire background before college was IT, but in another country. Nobody in America is spending the extra 5 minutes figuring out how/when to dial a different timezone to verify that shit, and that's half the reason I went to college after moving here in the first place. Instead my resume just goes in the bin because all I've got is a half decade of retail and shit nobody cares about.
It's hard to see people cheer for how hard it will be to find a job in the industry you're actively trying to find work in because they're annoyed at redditors or whatever. I'm already trying to survive on eating my principles instead of food. I'm not talking like "Oh I'm sad I don't make 60k" I'm talking "I've been living below the poverty line for almost 3 years at this point and I don't know how much longer I can pull it off". When does it start to feel like I made the right choice?
Don't get me wrong. I fucking hate the techbros and the cultists and the industry in general, but what should I do instead? One of you give me a job and then feel free to post at my expense all fucking day for all I care, but until then I think I win the moral grandstanding competition.
I'm not trying to be hostile or anything, I just saw some of the posts and just scrolled on at first but I've felt shitty about it for a little bit and seeing this post made me feel like it was worth it to maybe add in why it's not so cut and dry.
the average amount of failure you have to go through just to find a shitty 9-5 is brain-breaking without a network, so for the sake of your sanity, please just bum a latex template and start fabricating your entire fucking resume, even if it's just to get some return calls from recruiters.
I appreciate this post a lot. To give people a little more concrete of a real example that isn't just a theoretical tech laborer somewhere we should be concerned about:
I dropped out of college for mech/aero eng with absurdly good grades because I didn't want to build weapons for America. I still have all that debt. I still only have (real & relevant) work experience in the service industry. I've been basically starving since and one of the few industries I've found SOME work in (freelance, because permanent work was already hard to find) is about to be further destroyed and turned into a hellscape of capitalist exploitation (than it already is) likely making any progress I've made since dropping out reset or worse. My entire background before college was IT, but in another country. Nobody in America is spending the extra 5 minutes figuring out how/when to dial a different timezone to verify that shit, and that's half the reason I went to college after moving here in the first place. Instead my resume just goes in the bin because all I've got is a half decade of retail and shit nobody cares about.
It's hard to see people cheer for how hard it will be to find a job in the industry you're actively trying to find work in because they're annoyed at redditors or whatever. I'm already trying to survive on eating my principles instead of food. I'm not talking like "Oh I'm sad I don't make 60k" I'm talking "I've been living below the poverty line for almost 3 years at this point and I don't know how much longer I can pull it off". When does it start to feel like I made the right choice?
Don't get me wrong. I fucking hate the techbros and the cultists and the industry in general, but what should I do instead? One of you give me a job and then feel free to post at my expense all fucking day for all I care, but until then I think I win the moral grandstanding competition.
I'm not trying to be hostile or anything, I just saw some of the posts and just scrolled on at first but I've felt shitty about it for a little bit and seeing this post made me feel like it was worth it to maybe add in why it's not so cut and dry.
i've been there
the average amount of failure you have to go through just to find a shitty 9-5 is brain-breaking without a network, so for the sake of your sanity, please just bum a latex template and start fabricating your entire fucking resume, even if it's just to get some return calls from recruiters.
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