note: not a vent post- just something i was thinking about the other day. I'm pretty happy with how I'm doing in life :)
i love teaching and have had several tutor jobs, but teachers are treated like absolute dog water in my country (and in most other countries, i assume) with horrible pay. i basically have to do CS to make enough money to support some family members later on in life. it's not even that I'd want some incredible pay for being a teacher, I'd just need a guarantee my family would be taken care of.
post how your career would be different under socialism.
I will say I think it's utopian to think socialism is where everybody gets to choose whatever job they want most. Socialism will still need servers, roofers, landscapers, miners and bus drivers, honestly a lot more of those than visual artists or whatever. It will more than likely be true that you'll just be doing a job like you do now, but for the collective instead of for :porky-happy:
The difference being that even the grunt work is fairly compensated and leaves time for leisure.
For sure, and also there is potential for a real source of fulfilment in building socialism with your comrades by mopping floors instead of building profit for the most evil people in society
assuming the other workers are not a bunch of senior citizens who totally buy into the grift.
Infact socialism will not need servers. You can grab your plates off the counter like an adult.
Rant: Coffeeshop barista who liked me had an encounter with my dad who demanded to be served by her. He kept saying he liked a "full service breakfast" and is generally a dick to waitstaff.
Truly true but I always think there's actually lots of people who would like those jobs if a) treated and paid well, b) building towards something that is contributing to socialism.
Like I always think I'd happily teach, barista, do outdoor labor, and more if doing so wouldn't immediately cut my pay by like 60%
id probably be a factory worker
thats okay
i was a factory worker once for about 3 years and it was nice i mean it was real work but at the end of the day i felt satisfied that the shit i helped make was being used by people and was doing good for society (we made boots and shoes) but then it closed down and went overseas
now i work in an office and half my job is helping people do medical billing which is less than worthless, its a job that supports an industry thats actively harmful to society
I've been told many times I should be a history teacher because of my knack for telling people about (mostly communist or communist adjacent) history in an engaging way, but every time I'm like "yeah if I taught the things I am teaching you now I would get fired or worse".
I would be a mid-level bureaucrat because I have no ambition or passion beyond avoiding manual labor to save my crumbling joints
Id be helping build hospitals and social housing and bridges and shit, not the same copy paste corporate office that'll be gutted in a couple years by the next bullshit company.
Honestly just knowing I'm working toward something greater than mine or someone else's personal interests would let me do just about any job.
Sorry comrade, but you have been given the role of a poet. START WRITING! :xi-gun:
that is of course assuming socialism doesn't provide me with the ability to be a wizard with long robes and a starry hat :parenti-hands:. If that was an option I'd rather do that than teaching.
what about a wizard with long robes and a starry hat :parenti-hands: that teaches others how to be wizards with long robes and starry hats :parenti-hands: :parenti-hands: :parenti-hands: ?
I'd probably stay a mail carrier. Nice thing about the job is that it's so ubiquitous it works for a lot of these sorts of question.
most of my jobs have been variations of pick up heavy thing and move it somewhere else
don't think they would change much except far better pay and working conditionsI am a teacher, in my country we're paid decently and treated with respect. After communism I hope my working day or week would be shorter as the job can be stressful and there are many gifted educators out there to share the burden by sharing their wisdom.
Yeah, just having more teachers so the ones we have could have some more free time/less stress would be big.
I loved drawing and painting, alot, when I was young. Filling sketchbooks with all sorts of things and just practicing for hours every day. Closet full of filled sketchbooks I ended up just throwing away down the road. Then I got into music and even performed in bars and festivals and such with different bands. But I was never good enough on my own to "make money". I probably would have gone to some art school of some kind to gain some practical skills I couldn't devise on my own and ended up doing covers for sci fi and fantasy or something.
I wouldn't mind my current job being done in a socialist setting. But ideally I'd love to help with disaster relief of some kind and when nothing is going on, some other job in the meantime like cooking. I'd do it now but from what I can tell, the main group that does that is the national guard? And I'd rather not join the imperial military
If you mean within the US, a lot of it is done by FEMA which is now a part of the DHS so not much better. The Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity also do a lot of the less-immediate disaster relief work although their chain of command is typically through FEMA at some level.
A lot of electrical and tree-care trades will put you in the loop for disaster relief since a lot of those folks hoof it down to disasters to do cleanup since it pays really well.
