Same (vaguely). For like 5 months or so this year I was a park ranger, which tbh was "park mall cop" and during the off season i'm a maintenance worker: bathrooms, landscaping, repairs, ect. The pay isnt great and visitors are oddly aggressive but you can get away with alot and i love the crew i work with, we're just a bunch of weirdo 20-somethings trying to survive it all. i know you're probably joking but i like talking about my job
the joke responses here are cool, but a reminder out to all chapos to be careful what you post about yourself on this site: it is likely being collected by fashies to try and figure out your irl identity.
I love y'all, be careful out there
Well, since I'm a union organizer at the LIGMA corporation, they probably already have me on their list.
Man, I’ve been thinking I should get an outdoorsy job. Nothing too labour intensive, but I think I’d like to try being a mailman or something, get some light exercise, get outside, not have to TALK TO ASSHOLE CUSTOMERS.
I actually engage directly with the means of production. CNC lathes, mills, screw machines, grinders, sink and wire EDMs. The US economy may have deindustrialized relative to its size, but we still have a surprising amount of industry.
It's not a bad career if you could get into it. Trades good, student debt bad.
I dream of a world where there is no false choice of trade or schooling, where trades and academics are taught to any and all who want to learn, free of any cost.
Labor is a trick. That shit sucks and I’m glad I’ll never do it
another hospitality comrade :chavez-salute: FOH here though. I have so much respect for y’all in the kitchen.
Another hospitality comrade here. I am a sommelier. I realize how ironic a socialist sommelier seems but being surrounded by opulence and wealth, the insane culture of consumption and fetishization , and the bourgeoisification of food and wine has been such a strong radicalizing force to me.
I know we’re about as far from manufacturing/industry as it gets, but I think hospitality is pretty good ground for producing proletarians: we work in teams, long hours, late nights, most workplaces are very exploitative, we get pretty bad pay compared to most sectors. We don’t even get the much-vaunted “weekend” that was such a huge victory of the labour struggles all those years ago.
Real early-20th century coal miner shit 😅
Yeah 100 %. The solidarity that comes about from all those 12 hour days, from the usually illegal working conditions, and finding your place in your adoptive restaurant fam is real as hell.
