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Career - job/career advice and other related stuff from a leftist perspective. EX: How to get a job, promotion, skill, switch companies, resume, life hacks, etc.
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>>1175
>It's true though, both parts.


Which "both parts"?
Alot of STEM grass are stuck in deadens jobs with suboptimal pay and they're accused of entitlement?

Waiting anxiously for two follow-up responses for two seperate applications right now after fast and initially positive feedbacks. My contract at my current company is set to expire in 8 weeks.

50 job applications later and only two interviews, one of which hasn't got back to me with an interview date, and the other of which was a ten minute Q&A for a kitchen porter role.

Every care home in the region is also flooded with migrant labour so there are no roles going either.

I'll take anything holy shit.

>>1239
A 1:25 ratio isn't that bad in this hellscape of an economy. Good going, comrade! Keep it up. I know it may be a stretch and a 'don't you think I already tried that' but have you asked your parents or close friends? A metaphorical LFG IRL. When I got out of college and couldn't find work in my field, I asked my bar buddy if I could have a job and I was a waiter the next week. Most of the jobs I've had in my profession have been from knowing someone who is looking for someone to hire, but they want some kind of social proof that the person isn't fucking crazy. Are there any local shops you frequent? Like a corner store or comic book shop where they know you? Do you have any friends who run their own business and you offer to be their bitch? (the soft and hard skills from secretarial work will be helpful when you have to do it all yourself in the era of personal computing)
>>1237
Keep applying to other jobs while you wait on the good ones. It will occupy your time and give a back up to your backup.

I have a profile that might get me an internship at a very high profile government institution.

But what's the point? Is entryism still a thing? Isn't this like getting a job and being subsumed at the Nazi Ministry of Air Defense?


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I've been thinking of buying stocks, futures, and maybe even gold with the few laborbux that I can spare. I want to build up some kind kind of wealth that I can fall back on if I'm ever unemployed for some time or if I have an emergency. Is it immoral by leftist standards to invest in the stock market or is it okay?
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>>1228
read it and weep

Didn't Marx himself invest? lmao
Dude we are living in capitalism right now, in this system survival is possible in accordance to how much wealth you accomulate to pay for your basic living needs. Get your ass rich if you can.

>>1185
Marxism isn't a cult you moron

>>1240
Yes it is

>>1177
>Is it immoral by leftist standards
what are "leftist standards"

if youre a consequential then that means 'its okay when we do it'


you could also short


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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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>>1120 (me)
Also just found out the company I work for went through a personnel cut which I survived, so yay I guess, 3 more months of anxiety

>>1121
Time to start looking for a new job. When there's one more come.

>tfw the main or only thing preventing from trying to get a job as a deep-sea fisherman is my fear of getting raped whilst trapped in a ship and none to call for help
Should I just stitch my asshole shut with dried shit?

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>retail wageslave
>ask for a week off around Labor Day (US)
>they give it to me, BUT I have to come in the night before Labor Day

Why even bother approving the request if they're just going to break my week's vacation into two segments? As if I wouldn't just call in that one night and use some of my sick time instead. What are they going to do, fire me?

>>1232
just say "no, sorry can't make it that day" easy as that


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Neo-Job Finding Be like:
>High-Grandeur Doctorate Schaeffer Degree in Fancy-Schmancy
>5 years of experience in a similar field (optional, even though its not XD)
>Certificate of courses in Fancy-Schmancy levels AC30 (minimum)
>English certificates (even if you're proficient, cough up money for courses, useless lessons and taking tests for least a few months of your life)
>Driver's license (ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY)
>CV/portfolio
>Dicksucking loyalty to customers (you MVST be VERY SOCIAL AND LOVE ZE CUSTOMERS)
>Handling finances, personal information, anything that can get you sued for slight misconduct (YOU MVST BE GOOD AT QUICK MATHS)
>Computer proficiency (Expert at word, excel, foxit, WPS office, Abaqus FEA Software, Google Ads и Meta Ads Manager and all these awful program things with awful interfaces)
>Ability to stand and bend and crouch 12 hours (NO SITTING ALLOWED!)
>Flexible time (whenever you can have the bravery to BEG the manager for a DAY OFF so they can SIGH at you and treat you like THE FILTHY TRASH YOU ARE, LITTLE WAGIE, YOU MVST BE CONSIDERATE OF YOUR COWORKERS WHO WILL HAVE TO WORK HARDER BECAUSE OF YOU, THINK ABOUT THE SHIFT SOMEONE ELSE WILL HAVE TO TAKE!)
>Able to take responsibility for projects worked under set deadlines and copes well working with short time frames;
>CV/portfolio
>Teambuilding events, be prepared to meet your dandruff coworkers off work
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Its so over

>>1053
Good job doing all that, too bad an algorithm filtered out your application (before it ever saw human eyes) because your last name starts with the letter J.
Oh, you got past the algorithm somehow? That's cute, the HR manager got bad vibes.
Survived the vibes? Time for 5 interviews in a row.
Just kidding, the job was never real, they were just pretending to be hiring to get tax cuts.

pay: $10.15/hr

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>>1053
I'm compiling a big list of vape shops to contact and see if they're hiring. It aggravates me how there's literally a vape shop every block or so yet i never see ads for them on indeed or Craigslist

Also if I'm willing to compile this list im willing to sass them if they say apply online
>you could've just said you're not hiring… Do you even use crypto boomer?

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a thread for salting, becoming a salt




You just went from working a solid career-type job to working retail or fast food again? Become a salt. Recession compression creates ideal salting conditions–downward mobility, employer arrogance, worker bitterness. Embed without announcing. Become dependable, a communist should be the hardest working man in the shop, stay observant, find the cracks, then slow corrosive. Learn the workplace rhythms, identify informal leaders, exploit management contradictions. Never preach–weaponize the material conditions and shared misery. Reinforce that exploitation isn't personal, it's structural. Organize under cover of small talk. Normalize resistance. You're not radical–you're just the one who says what everyone’s already thinking.

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https://industrialworker.org/salt-is-back-on-the-table/
For those unfamiliar, salting is when workers seek employment for the purposes of kick-starting an organizing campaign, or to assist an organizing campaign already in motion. Salting can come in a variety of various strategies, depending on what organizing looks like in a specific shop or what the conditions are like in a specific industry.


https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-salting-organizing-tactic

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>>1042
>But why should we have so many people making a livelihood in service jobs like that while more essential jobs like nursing, manufacturing, construction, trucking, etc are left lacking in manpower?
because the more essential jobs require you to pay out of pocket for education/training and if people don't have the money to pay for the training they won't get it. make sense? in a planned society you would just put people in those jobs and pay for their training socially.

>>1122
>because the more essential jobs require you to pay out of pocket for education/training and if people don't have the money to pay for the training they won't get it. make sense? in a planned society you would just put people in those jobs and pay for their training socially.

Yet people have no problem taking out five figure loans for college education that they won't be able to pay back in their lifetime.

>>1125
bankruptcy is not so bad. your whining is bourgeois

>>1126
>Whining about bankruptcy for working class folk is bourgeois

And then you people wonder why leftism is not getting any traction

https://workersorganizingworkers.org/
https://workersorganizingworkers.org/
https://workersorganizingworkers.org/
DSA runs a national salting program and will try to place you where you have a good job of actually organizing to take money from capitalists and give it to workers.


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I applied for it because I desperately need a job and they gave me an 'audition' (wtf?) and it is like I am meant to be a performer or something. My friends say its a strip club but online apparently its not. I don't want to be a stripper BUT I NEED A JOB. Is it worth trying or is it sex work? Damn on the googile images it really looks like a strip club.
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>>1218
I think you're the jokester, considering I cleared more on a Thursday night at bars than in a whole week at taco bell, and that's the third biggest money night.

>bouncing your tits around is "sex work"
what the fuck does sex mean to americans

>>1220
You're asking the wrong people about sex

>>1219
It depends on what kind of bars though

Can't fight the moonlight.


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Does anyone here help organize like labor unions and tenants unions and so on?

I was thinking that the nonprofit industry/social worker sector might be very useful to unionize. It could help mitigate some of the harms of the nonprofit activist industrial complex by giving more power to the workers instead of the CEOs. I'm sure lots of NEETs here interact with social programs. It takes five seconds to ask your support workers if they've looked into unionizing.

Anyhow would love to your thoughts on praxis in general
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>>799
>synthesism doesn't get the goods
How so?

In December 1912, the UMWA had sent 21 "recruiting teams" to the Southern Colorado coalfields. These recruiting teams generally consisted of two union men: one who would embed himself among the miners and another who would find employment with the local management. Working in tandem, each pairing would locate miners who were opposed to unionization and report them to the company as union sympathizers—an offense that generally resulted in contract termination—in order to covertly replace them with genuine union members. It is possible that up to 3,000 UMWA members were introduced to the coalfields in such a manner.[20]: 10–11 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Coalfield_War

>>966
hmmmm

>I was thinking that the nonprofit industry/social worker sector might be very useful to unionize.
I've recently begun considering social work as a career path is it worth it?

>>966
That's fucked up


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How come nobody worries about tipping McDonalds workers?
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https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-top-employers-of-medicaid-and-food-stamp-beneficiaries.html

>>1024
>Most McDonald's workers are teenagers
Myth. Most fast food workers are parents.

americans cut the tip of their penises off and pay tips in restaurants
the only tips they don't like are weight loss tips! LOL

>>1024
most that ive seen were old people

>>1209
Working single parents with tattoos and shit.
And even those are a second. Most are single childless adults
>>1211
Maybe in the morning shift


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What makes you motivated to wake up each week day and begin another days work? Am personally not particularly motivated by things, so am looking for something of another form. Am currently a student more or less dreading and finding it difficult to imagine enjoying most of my life. Am looking for a perspective to stop dreading the future working so much.

Know statistically that most American workers are "very satisfied" with their occupation, but find this confusing. Who would want to work? Suppose someone who rationalized, or someone who earns money by coincidence (their interests and aspirations by happenstance being economically viable). Is there some way out of this?
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>>567
This is probably just more psycho stuff. Should probably just ignore.

>>478
>The brain seems to be wired where rewards like this just don't motivate. Being motivated solely by necessity seems like it be just a dreadful, slavish, existence, but it doesn't work for me anyway.

Listen to George Carlin's take on motivation.
He says motivation is troublesome because the people who have it are usually up to no good.

>The people who are motivated are the ones causing all the trouble! Stock swindlers, serial killers, child molesters, religiopolitical conservatives? These people are highly motivated!

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I think the alternative to working would be doing something for fun (hobbies), or doing nothing and being depressed. Everything costs money, and I don't like the idea of living on benefits.

Why is it ok to criticize work but when I criticize schooling, it's considered wrong?
Schooling has far more dross than working.

>>1206
i dont see a problem, schools are bullshit, rape all teachers


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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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software engineer

>>708
>>405
luigi deserves to suffer ,because teen girls think he's cute\hot

>>941
Sounds like something an angry jealous boomer make would say

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High-ranking officer? General, colonel and such


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