It was once an idea that if you got into retail sales, you could work your way to rasises, bonuses, and promotions that would make you a considerable amount of money, as well as being able to stay a while at the job. Now? The pay sucks, the work is nowhere carries no glamour or bonuses, and anybody who can last more than a year or two is in danger of being laid off.
Are there any other jobs that went in that route? What are your experiences?
i would say programmers and engineers, if you asked people in the mid 2010s, everyone was all trying to get into it. its still reliable if you are heavy into AI maybe? almost every other stem job have very low prospects for the last decade+.
pharmacists used to be a decent job with security, but now its stagnant i heard for the most part(sitll have to pay a ton for grad school, although its easier to get into pharm school than a stem/research/non-MD health. grad program. CLS was pretty much a mainstay for cmb majors who are going into biotech, until competition became more and more over the years(basically you are competiing for a few schools in a state with thousands of others from out of state). job site/slop worsened all of this.
govt jobs before trump took over was a “dead end” but stable job with retirement benefits, but ever since its extremely volatile. same goes with stem research.
Nurses seems the reverse, it got better over time, as far as paywise goes and more mobility depending if you are doing travelling nurses. i think retail for the most part, people stay long term, because for many reasons thier other areas of employment isnt panning out.
I thinking stenographers. Back in the day people had to learn short hand to get jobs, but shorthand has been forgotten
Shit shoveler. Nobody needs their shit shoveled anymore. Or at least, they aren’t getting their shit shoveled, even if it really oughtta be.
I think we upgraded from shovel to those truck vacuum things for sewers and septic tanks and whatnot.
Though I recon city sewage sanitation workers do occasionally have to put in some elbow grease and go at it the old fashioned way.
A shorter list would be what jobs are still a sure thing.
All of them. Because corporations treat people as disposable.
minimum wage jobs used to take anyone that applied and if you showed up ontime sober you generally got small raises over time. in most skilled fields short term contracts were very easy to get. Many would keep on renewing and that was a point of contention because like hey how about you hire full time with benefits.
Programmer. In the 2000s Google had a moto « don’t do evil » they change it in 2016 (IIRC) because they could shit on their workforce now
Same thing for Facebook, they laid off a bunch of their workforce because of AI and quietly rehire them with less pay because fuck workers.
When unions say « unionize now » that’s why
When unions say « unionize now »
They mean “we’re not going to grow unions as a concept; figure this shit out like our guys did”.
The 00s left wings absolutely fucked us by not spreading unions to emerging careers like programming.
That’s not my lecture of the 00s
High tech job were in high demands and companies were happy to give everything the workers asked for … in the hope that they will not form an union.
The left cried and cried to unionize but people choose to not listen
I wanted a union because of the shit that happened in the marketing companies I worked at, but nobody else i worked with cared. They either went on to “better” tech jobs at the bigger companies, or dropped out and became farmers, printers or cooks. Or a few got lucky as stay at home moms or dads.
Note: Do not cum in your pants when a salesperson says they don’t take commission. That only means that instead of being rewarded for making sales, they are punished for not making sales.
A computer. Those are pretty much exclusively done by machines these days.
After the Butlerian Jihad, human computers will have their day again.
I look forward to our God Emperor.
But is getting addicted to Mentos really worth it?
Oh that’s what Sapho juice is made from.
I’ve had a couple jobs at 2 very large pharma companies. Most of us are not actually working for said pharma companies, we’re contracted labor, so even if we do a great job, they can just decide one day they want to go with someone else. Sometimes you’ll get picked up by the next provider, sometimes not.
They just fired the heads of who I’m working for now and the company I was working for before this (doing literally the same job) because the pharma company was just “let’s try something new” this month.
The previous site/different pharma I was at, we got replaced by a larger vendor and they said they already had people for my job, so I got the boot. I’m friends with the manager for that job outside of work and he says the new provider basically trashed everything and gave him a random asst. manager he can’t get rid of who trashed all the relationships we built up.
Literally feels like I’m basically a Pokemon card they can swap in and out of the deck when they want. It’s a different feeling from other jobs because pleasing my boss or end users isn’t enough, because there’s both people on site or around the world that can just get bored of the company I work for and just kick us out at will.
sounds like a temp job. one of my bro has the same thing, but with tech.
Yes, all of them.
Programmer. In the 2000s Google had a moto « don’t do evil » they change it in 2016 (IIRC) because they could shit on their workforce now
Same thing for Facebook, they laid off a bunch of their workforce because of AI and quietly rehire them with less pay because fuck workers.
When leftist say « unionize now » this is why
they saw trump win 2016, and feel they can benefit even more with tax cuts.
