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Recruiting is literally the biggest joke of all time. Genuinely when I attend recruiting events its like the most suffocating, artificial vibe i've ever seen in my life. Everyone, from the students, to the recruiters, to the professionals are faking everything. "Networking" is essentially just sucking up to whatever recruiter, manager, or employee you can find and bothering them with nothing burger emails. Recruiters probably get literally thousands of emails from students who all think they're special. Networking job fairs are filled to the brim with a bunch of sweaty peeople in suits trying to prostrate themselves the best for some dumb internship. Linkedin is just a cesspool of the most performative and fake characters of all time, In fact i'd say a good plurlity of all posts and job listings on linkedin are AI generated and fake. I genuinely can't wait until AI destroys white collar america and all the former Excel desk jockeys can be part of the revolutionary vanguard.
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>>1576
Yes recruiters literally meet hundreds of students and get thousands of emails, what makes anyone think they’re special or will be uniquely remembered unless they have some special connection.

>>1567
Fucking commie lol

>>1796
>on a chinese communist party cartoon board

One big humiliation ritual because you either have no real skills or you want to avoid dirty and backbreaking work. But sometimes even those things require you to go through the ritual.

>>1582
But the ai gave me duh keywords
I've got first strike, AND death touch, AND trample, AND haste
You need to be gathering in my magic kid



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>blue collar
pays like shit, leaves you exhausted, will kill you
>retail and customer-facing
pays like shit, you basically endure abuse or idiocy for eight hours a day
>pink collar and healthcare
can pay very well but the hours are insane and you also have to endure abuse constantly
>white collar work
best-case scenario, pays well, but you're still sitting through 4-hour meetings of nothing but bullshit and wasting your life away in front of a computer
i know i'm missing something because i don't understand how wagies aren't constantly miserable 90% of the time.
yes, sometimes you get a job you just inherently vibe with, or you get to work on something you're actually proud of, like you save someone's life or you help in the construction of a nice useful building
but all of that is rare. the rest of the wagies, do they just dissociate and swallow it down? is it just genuinely not that bad from their point of view?
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PSA: economically autonomous adults who have depression are shallow.
If you’re over 25, work a high five/low six figure salary, don’t have to eat fast food for budgeting, own a vehicle, you’re ahead of the curb.

>>1668
this is leftypol.org buddy. don't expect solidarity. expect race to the bottom. expect shitting on each other. this place is the opposite of good.

>>1668
Get a job you love and you won't work a day in your life anon :)

>>1698
honestly being a petty bourg failson is parasitic but at least he's not a fascist torturing people in a dungeon somewhere salo style

>>1667
jokes on you i'm into that shittt!



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Things suck right now in Amerikkka and I can only imagine how much it will be in 2027 when I graduate High-School, I worry that with this gig-economy and AI shit going around I will never achieve my art dreams and be stuck as a Wagie.
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>>1710
Retire?
uyghur, how do you even get a job? I assessed it takes at least 100 applications to get any response.
Ai is a fucking joke too. It's so useless I have to believe it's an accelerationist plot I'm not in on because there's no way the bourgeois is so stupid as to invest in it's own destruction this easily where it's unreliable word salad that can't actually do anything. Like at all… (So it's even more annoying when reddit liberals whine about ai. Like this shit isn't taking your job unless you were a cunt HR)

I managed to squeeze a single answer out of a dunkin donuts ai of when i can roughly expect a response back after applying. Couldn't list me pay averages, if wholly hires full or part time, but said applications can take several weeks to pend.

Literally two more weeks to make donuts?

>>1713
You should just steal the Pokemon cards than sell singles
It's not large enough of a theft to constitute an actual crime. No misdemeanors don't count. At absolute most someone will be like "hey you're the pokemon bandito" and that's only if you do it like several times same store at once. Even then just say the team rocket line. TO PROTECT THE WORLD FROM DEVASTATION and push a child who screams like Epstein video "I'm just a kid!!!!"

I hear Lockheed is hiring

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The great satan is evil. A court agrees to expunge a record and the company demands it anyhow.

90% of workers never retire



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Is it still worth it to learn to code in 2026?
>The body was too short or empty.
>The body was too short or empty.
>The body was too short or empty.
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>>1787
>HTML
not a programming language. You could've said at least said CSS3 which recently got functions (lol)

>>1788
Okay well then the minimum for programming is bash and the minimum for markup is HTML and markdown.

As a job? Only if you're a third worlder who can get a degree in tech for free and you have connections that can set you up for a job. Otherwise no. It's fun though, so maybe as a hobby.

>>1786
tbh, I hate computers (despite spending several hours a day on mine). But that’s more because the Internet sucks now than for any other reason. I feel like I like the idea of computing more than the modern reality of it. I do care enough about computing that I’ve bothered to install Fedora Workstation on my laptop and get used to GNOME despite not being a techy person at all. If I’m Autistic and enjoy solving problems do you think that I could enjoy coding?
>>1787
>>1790
In that case, what trade should I get into? I’m a skinny, weak, Canadian faggot and don’t want to destroy my body

>>1793
Also: I can follow instructions and solve abstract problems but I suck at solving practical problems



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Most people are retarded assholes and the government does not represent my views or needs, instead we have idiots sacrificing my rights to appease elites.
I feel like everyone hates me because I don't side with their religious or political views

I hate the human race
Humans are destructive, why would I want to contribute to a society that constantly kills each other?
Most people are sociopaths
I'm tired of them trying to include me into their soykaf
I think the planet would be better off without humans
I'm tired of humanity, I see no purpose in contributing to this hell

I'd rather be homeless and free to reign than to work for a species of violent apes
I'm tired of all this

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>>1766
Same man. For me it's because they can't do the God damn bare minimum. We all know jannies are paedophiles, Ghasline was like half of reddit. Every single normie goes on and on about how bad pedos are and we should kill them no questions asked, you say well start with an annoying ass moderator and suddenly they get chills.

Not sorry my first murder priority is a motherfucker who can't go five seconds without banning someone even if it isn't me. But yes, i personally could go the rest of my life without being defamed again, just some punk bitch saying i broke imaginary rules he made up, than makes up when i break those rules, so i can't say shit. I'm just supposed to sit here silently when i got things on my mind, and feelings, and the means are available to communicate so I'm going to communicate. I could just kill them and than I wouldn't have to worry about imaginary rule breaking.

It's really fucking annoying and a testament to how evil and how stupid people are. It's a good limiter to if the person you're dealing with is even worth your time at all. If you DON'T wanna send a pipe bomb to a moderators house, you ain't worth a shit.

Lot of people aren't worth a shit. So I only cooperate with society to the extent it's convenient. Which isn't much because they're so evil and dumb, they make it inconvenient every step of the way. Literally everything you do is punished. Good, bad, follow the laws, break the laws, it doesn't matter. Its totally crazy.

And really as far as the simple measurement of existing in this weird hellish ultra liberal nightmare… i just wanna work with tobacco and vapes. I like tobacco and vapes. I don't have to own my own vape shop. I could probably do great as just an employee.

I'm literally suggesting just put me in retail. A job nobody fucking asks for, doesn't pay well, takes a lot of hours, but because it's a product that personally brings me joy I'd enjoy it.

And THEY CANNOT EVEN FUCKING DO THAT "you're not entitled to work the job you want sweaty"

Well fuck you, the world belongs to isis, school shooters, drug cartels. Those are God's chosen people.

> crust punk

I just got on food stamps and get 300 neetbux a month for munchies. its a commies duty to drain every dollar of the burgerreichs funds. Join the moochmaxxing ganggang

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>everyone is bad (source: me) therefore I am allowed to fuck them over as much as I want
If morality is too burdensome for you then it would be way less pathetic to just be an unashamed asshole without all these mental gymnastics



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What are the most EVIL (non-violent so; petty, cowardly..not like at least being a (((soldier))) on the frontline) 100% Legal jobs, under American Capitalism?
I think of:
>Repo Agency CEO
>Medical Debt Collector
>Pharmaceutical Lobbyist\ healthcare company negotiator (meaning; uses legal and other tactics to make CLIENTS pay more, have less benefits)
>specialised pro-landlord Lawyer\ pro-gentrification legislator
what else!!
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>>1707
Cop/soldier

>>397
My uncle did [UNDISCLOSED] for Lockheed-Martin and loved the book of Revelation. He was a nice man to me, but yeah I think he was pretty evil.

He had a really cool fish tank though with "The entire cast of Finding Nemo" ….escept the shark!

>>1709

The amount of casual animal abuse that happens in those facilities would astound you. There's a reason for ag-gag laws in the united states…if everyone knew what went on in slaughterhouses, then everyone would be vegetarian.

guys who do roofing

pressing powders and primers into casings over there at honeywell.



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Was tricked to sign a letter of resignation from my job at the russian post office. Despite the fact that I was on probation and my employment contract was fixed-term (although informally after its termination they almost always offer a full-time position) my…I don't know - supervisor? the main bitch of the workplace? didn't like me because of a couple of fuckups like a cash shortage, which I was really guilty of and paid for out of my own pocket (the statement of financial responsibility was signed by me on the first day of employment), and she decided to lie that the employee I was replacing was about to go to work.
Which was an easily verifiable lie that I realized literally as I closed the door behind me. Ah, yes, since I quit "at my own request", I have to work for three days, so called "otrabotka" (two weeks if you were taken without probation), which I will not do (devilish?), because after signing my resignation letter I am no longer an employee and can not be forced to work.
Also new thing I learned opening the labor code for the first time.
-there is no concept of working after dismissal, but there is a concept of notification before dismissal, so it should be 3 days or 2 weeks before the fact.

Thanks for reading my stupid rant.
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kill the customer
kill the consumer
they are swine
they hand you 2 dollars and pretend they have the right to your time and attention

>>314
not related, but how easy is it to get weed in russia?

just sent an application and noticed 2 typos on my cv

kill me

>>1778
Don't worry, the LLM reading your CV won't mind the typos

Currently majoring in an applied science, in the beginning I thought about pivoting to data science/analytics at one point or IT, like many naive STEM grads, or something but I have completely moved on from that due to being paranoid about AI. I am trying to collect all the applied lab skills and work with instruments I can now. Lab workers and technicians have always lived in a type of grey area between white collar and blue collar work after all and I hope this will somewhat immunize me.



 

Stemlords are actually picrel. Its no surprise stemlords are complete retards. Im doing a masters in STEM and can't believe how intellectually barren math and this field is. There is no critical thinking involved, just memorizing some garbage symbols and their rules. Solving some dumb problems with some dumb patterns and repeat.

How did stemlords get so much prestige, while being just mere symbol technicians? Humanities at least teaches some theory and critical thinking, STEM is just complete trash meant for brainlets.

No wonder philosophy underpins all math and logic, stem is just surface level work for retards. I havent encountered a single intellectually deep thought in STEM once.
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>>1372
Professors at my college were quite happy to give practical examples, feel like the main thing holding them back from putting it in the course material was time constraints, which ya know, capitalism upstream.

>>1343
>logarithms have no real application to society or communism
jfc anon

>>1370
>>1373
Pure Math is one of the hardest STEM fields (only behind Physics) and Languages imo is one of the easiest Humanities fields (Arts even more so). A fairer competition would be something like Civil Engineering versus History.

>>1343
>STEM isnt teaching anything worthy of being applied in the first place. Tell me how intellectually rich a binary tree is, or a stupid depth first search algorithm? Or the concept of logarithms?
The tools with which you can analyze and understand nature, or theorize and build a system. The depth of these tools is only so far as the depth of those who wield them.

OP are you retarded?
STEM has practical subjects that can be traced back to nature.



 

Morning, Leftypol.

Long time lurker, first time poster. Been around since the 8chan days.

I was recently elected the president of my Union local, representing about 150 workers. Most of whom are fairly lib and older (50+), though there's a contingent young folks who make up the executive and are like 30% based.

Any recommendations for radicalizing the base and subtly introducing Marxist practices into our pretty dull union? We are a component of a much larger national union, so my influence is fairly limited. Currently, I'm working on mutual aid networks and am networking with a local workers council to make connections with like-minded unions/union folks.

With my friends I usually go with trying to sell them on workplace democracy first, it's an idea most people with any coherent political beliefs would agree with.

>>1762
I'm can't offer much advice but good luck with this really anon.



 

Can't do trades. My back and shoulders are fucked from having worked in the trades. My friends in tech say it is completely jeeted and that they haven't found work in almost two years.
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im halfway into electrical engineering, i was between this and civil engineering, hope i made the right choice.

Now that I think about it and have some sense of sudden clarity, my parents have been doing really well as psych majors by offering therapy, the key is that they offer it at a lower than average rate and thus are overworked, but it seems to me that health care in general has been going up, and psychology might be the easiest "medical" field to get into. Its more or less accepted now that LLMs are poor replacement for conventional therapy

>>1649
medicine and law are always good options

>>1649

I've heard good things about the Medieval English Literature major at Montclair State University

I think more communists need to start going into manufacturing. I don't mean skilled trades, but straight up low skill assembly-line work. Usually wont require more than an associates or a certificate if even that.



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