[CW: Sarcastic comments about self harm]
FUUUUCK OOOOFF
I'm sorry? Does getting into debt so I can PAY FOR MY OWN TRAINING FOR SEVERAL YEARS NOT FUCKING COUNT? Of fucking course not.
Oh let me guess, all the extra things I need to do to "prove I'm worthy" to our almighty employers is all stuff that is near impossible for me as a permanently exhausted neurodivergent person with no money?
Will I guess it's my fault for being born poor and given a slew of traumas as a child. How dare I want to pursue something I'm interested in and good at? What a fair, free and just society! I guess I should just burn myself out completely for chump change or die quietly in the corner.
I'm tired of hearing about employers "Not wanting to risk training employees only to lose them" when hardly any employers even do real training anymore, and no one talks about the risk employees take into going into debt for a degree. Getting a degree is already hard as it is and I don't even know if I'll ever get a return on that, so why should I have to be a super human for an employer to even consider me? Where's their effort?
Oh right, because this is capitalism and employers have the power, not me.
i hate the hustle grind toxicity of all that shit. understanding the underlying material reality (the boss needs you to make more profit) only makes their "game" more insulting, since they have to neg potential hires and make them feel small, or make them feel like the hiring boss is doing them a favor by connecting them with a job. so, the individual/non-collective way to fight back is to make oneself seem like the head-and-shoulders-above candidate that will be maximally exploitable. the one who trains fast/easy and won't cause problems. basically, the idiot-savant who can do-the-thing like a wizard, but is too big-picture dim to see the value proposition of doing it for someone else.