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  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Industrial maintenance at a 24/7 facility, so shift work. Basically I spend 8 hours browsing the internet unless something breaks. I don't recommend it, shift work is killing me (literally, it lowers your life expectancy by around 7 years IIRC). I got the job via nepotism and by having a college education in a close-enough field.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Without getting into the minutia of the schedule, yeah, I rotate through from mornings to days to evenings to nights (with weekends in between each). The shifts overlap in a weird way that's really difficult to explain to people lol.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah my work load's light compared to most (I don't even put on my steel-toes most days), and I have good job security due to offensively low starting pay meaning we're chronically understaffed (used to be pretty good when I started but hasn't increased in a decade+). Anecdotally, the only people I know making "good" money are programmers, but about half of them hate it.

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

            If you've got any sort of computing background, might be worth looking into learning to hack and getting into bug bounty programs. Programming is a useful skill, but hacking is way more useful where we're heading.

            Nahamsec is a pretty decent youtuber on the topic. He just did a beginner video covering how to get into it.

            The Bug Hunter's Methodology by jhaddix is kind of the gold standard checklist for bug hunters.

            I don't do it myself but I had a compsec background back in the day and was thinking of getting back into it when I have some time.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Union but it's one of those bad unions you've heard so much about. Very non-radical, and they do not take kindly to people suggesting we eat the owners.

        • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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          2 years ago

          I've noticed that most union manufacturing jobs "make up" for their great wages and benefits by running insane schedules and I don't understand why the unions haven't fixed this.

          I'm in a similar field and that's the only reason I haven't sought out a union job.

          • barrbaric [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I think it's a combination of american brainworms where everyone thinks they're petit-bourgeois and a lot of the senior members/leadership being very financially comfortable. Some of my coworkers that are now near retirement raised a family on a single income just from this job and now are going to sell their houses for insane amounts of money.

            Sadly the 24/7 schedule is necessary, so even under communism this job would still exist in some form, and be bad. Ideally we'd get the shift compensation up, though, as it's currently only around 10% extra.

            • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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              2 years ago

              Well yea 24/7 may be necessary but the scheduling I'm talking about includes things such as 60+ hours a week, on call 24/7, no weekends etc.

    • JuryNullification [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I also work in a factory, but it’s a cleanroom facility. I’m fortunate to be a vendor maintenance/repair person, hourly, and working only on day shift (+overtime). I still hate it, though. Just less than if I was on shift work.

      As far as how I got into it, I had relevant experience from my time as a cog in the imperial war machine.