Is being a garbage collector, cashier, restaurant worker or other entry level type of jobs something we should constantly be shitting on? Whilst they aren’t the most fancy and thrilling jobs out there, they do offer some freedom in that you do your job and you go home. Is being a doctor really that amazing, years of learning, starting out with a heap of debt from college, then having to work long hours and constantly face stressful situations. The life of a doctor doesn’t sound all that social.
It’s amusing, the foolishness of people who crap on “lesser jobs.” These are the same fools who then throw a fit when everyone listens to them, and nobody sees the point in taking their trash, or serving them their daily ultragrandelatte / whoppermac burger / whatever else.
It’s all propaganda to drive down and excuse low wages.
About overrated cool/sexy jobs:
That’s how I feel about infosec. I still often think “That’d be so awesome, knowing computer sorcery and being a cyber ninja, and knowing my stuff was solid because I could verify it myself. Maybe stopping bad guys from turning vulnerable machines into terrorist-funding cryptominers, exposing spyware…”
But the main earning opportunities seem to be based around checking boxes to secure evil corpos and being on call 24/7 because the ShiJinPing bot swarm got riled up again.
Nah I’m good. I’d rather just learn it as a hobby.
Once computers got all suit-and-tie everything got a lot less interesting.
It’s a shame the “eyes” countries are so gulag-happy. Meaningful hacktivism would sound so rewarding. Bet those folks are all in suits and ties now too. :(
It’s a complex subject. Have to break it down to smaller pieces.
Being a doctor is glorified because there are huge benefits attached. Especially when you think about the benefits for the people around them, such as family and friends. Not to mention the fact that sounding smart can make others feel inadequate in a doctor’s presence. Knowing you are a doctor means that you know how difficult it was to reach it. However, as you mentioned, it is not as beneficial for the individual. Instead, it is beneficial for society, friends, immediate family, and the rich people. Rich people are more emotionally invested to save their ass than leaving an area that got more dirty, bad food, poor service, or painless transaction. With a doctor, he is the only one who you can rely on to save your ass. So no shitting on those jobs makes no sense, but it does make more sense why some are not getting anyone talking shit about. It’s a different extreme, one where there is a lack of shitting on a doctor vs. other jobs.
Didn’t we just do a whole pandemic where a bunch of folks were overflowing with rage for doctors and healthcare workers?
The loud few idoits fucking over the quiet majority.
Doctor can’t get to the hospital to save anyone if there’s a month worth of trash in the streets.
Yes, but people forget about this often and still have social stigma against thrash men. Good luck saving lives by moving the thrash to a giant pile called the landfill(or thrash dump). Can’t save lives without engineers building the tools. Can’t save lives without funding. Can’t save lives without everyone involved. Yet it’s doctors that get idolized as if it’s the perfect and only right path in life.
I recently discussed this with my doctor. The amount of disgusting shit you have to see and work on is insane.
Woah! You got to discuss with your doctor?!
garbage collectors have a strong union, do they not?
Yes they do, and their strikes are highly effective for obvious reasons, and no mayor trying to win an election wants that egg on their face.
Or banana peel.
Garbage collector was a dream job to me as a kid. Ended up as a software developer.
Depending on the software, you still get to think about garbage collection!
Same but firefighter
Thanks for doing what you do.
I literally write code to track when you shit and what commercial to show you for you to stay longer in the toilet
“You study well and you will end up sitting in the office”
People sitting in the office cubicle: i hate this job.
Do people like jobs? Today I was thinking that being a blacksmith could be cool. But I guess I was born to deploy k8s clusters.
Me, a facilities worker for a fast food chain, earning less than them all and still getting mystery trash juices on my hands.
Work hard, kids.
Working hard rarely gets you anything except more work
That’s why I documented everything that they requested and flat out refused to work on anything that doesn’t have a ticket.
Use languages with manual memory managment
Wut
It’s a programming joke. If you declare variables or set a value to a space in the storage, this space is blocked even after the programme is done using that variable. So to write a programme with efficient use of storage, you have to free the storage space after you are using it.
Many programming languages use a routine called “garbage collector” to free unused storage space.
So, if you don’t want to be a garbage collector, you have to assign storage space manually.
That is a deliciously deep cut. Thank you for explaining it to me.
Aaand typically get most of the day off
Gonna put it out there, I’m starting to suspect big garbage has been waging a propaganda war to push us away from the ultimate job
You get most of the day off after having worked a full day + still need a full and thorough shower + have low energy because it’s a physically demanding job
Src: did it for 3 years as student job
