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wektor

wektor

Well-known member
I know half of Dissensus is officially unemployed, half is working in strange sectors. Then, there’s the American crypto demographic, too.

This thread is for looking back and life advice, too.
How did you end up where you are now?
Do you like it?
What was the shittiest job you’ve ever had?
What was the best?
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
the worst job I've ever had in my life was data entry

i used to get up in the morning and finish the beer from last night, and log on.

then i would stare at columns of figures for hours at a time

i quit doing music

i was depressed

i often wondered if i would rather be dead

then i got drunk again

i still get drunk
 
yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
i have such a boring shit job in the office i sortof relate to what woops is saying. i've often thought i would rather be delivering the mail or something like that. or i have been thinking i should just do something completely different, teaching children or something else that involves having human interactions.

the thing is though, it seems that such jobs, that are benefiting society as well, are always underpayed and very stressful so that even the most motivated people end up with a burn out.

so i stuck with the job i had, boring, mindnumbing, bullshit work. the good thing is though that ever since the covid pandemic we have been allowed to work from home and i mananged to manouvre myself in such a position that i just work 2 or 3 hours a day and spend the rest outside or doing other stuff. when they ask me to do extra work or to takeover tasks i always tell them i don't have time and am very stressed at the moment handling my own work. so far i've been getting away with it but i'm sure my luck will run out at one point.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Ironically it's the low level data entry jobs where you can't get away with slacking all the time cos they can really monitor what you're doing and you can't argue that it's challenging to get your work done
 
yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
are you copywriting about a specific theme or subject? or do they just ask you to write about anything?
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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I had a data entry job for a few months when I left uni for the royal bank of Scotland. I had one single task - they gave you a big stack of A4 paper full of 10 digit numbers at the start of your shift and you typed them into the computer - that was literally it for 8 hours at a time, absolutely no variation at all. And there were people who had been there for years doing exactly the same thing day in day out.
 
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0bleak

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worst job - vocational rehab decades ago - they paid less than minimum wage because it was some kind of govt contract with various businesses that needed people to do basic, repetitive tasks like "insert item into cardboard mailer" ad infinitum for hours on end
I don't remember exactly why I was made to go there, but something doing w/ some kind of requirement regarding the good of my mental health after already being in several mental hospitals
I won't say what the best job was because I have reasons to be private about it.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
yyaldrin said:
are you copywriting about a specific theme or subject? or do they just ask you to write about anything?
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technology for businesses

it's as interesting as it sounds

but quite well paid and i currently get away with slacking a lot

one of the best jobs i ever had (apart from the dismal pay), or at least i like to tell myself this because it seems counterintuitive, was working in a warehouse on a bleak industrial estate (is there any other kind?) for i dunno... a month... when i was back from university

it was good because you spent half the day unloading a lorry which wasn't fun but made the time fly and the rest of the time i was just pushing trolleys around listening to music and audiobooks

another downside was i was just working with these warehouse blokes, who to be fair were quite nice but occasionally i'd have to good humouredly indulge some racism
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
sometimes i think i should make a list of all the jobs I've had

actor
barman
carpet delivery
coffee shop person (pre-barista) x2
computer programmer
dancer
data enterer, media monitor x3
disc jockey
doorman
English teacher
essay improver
flyering
french tutor
graphic designer
guitarist
ketamine guinea pig (q.v.)
librarian
maid
museum front of house
pharmacist
poet
record company mailroom
translator
warehouse "operative"

been paid to do all these tasks
 
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