#the job market is a nightmare!

[dragons-and-yellow-roses]

Me: I'm trying to decide what I want to do as a career. Maybe it's because I've been watching a lot of 911 lately, but I'm considering maybe being a dispatcher?

Friend: I think you would be a good dispatcher. You like gossip, it's just like. High stakes gossip.

[izpride]

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[the-composer]

✧ (Peeking in from income hunt hell! Have one of these for Hope!!)

send me a ✧ and i’ll bold all that apply to your muse.

I would kill you. ✧ I would physically hurt you. ✧ I would attack you unprovoked. ✧ I would manipulate you. ✧ I dislike you. ✧ You annoy me. ✧ You scare me. ✧ You intimidate me. ✧ I hope I intimidate you. ✧ I pity you. ✧ You disgust me. ✧ I hate you. ✧ I’m indifferent toward you. ✧ I’d like to get to know you better. ✧   I’d like to spend more time with you. ✧ I’d like to be friends with you. ✧  I’m unsure what to think of you. ✧ I’m unsure how I feel about you. ✧ You are my friend. ✧ You are one of my closest deepest forever friends. ✧ You are my mentor. ✧ I look up to you. ✧ I respect you. ✧ You are my hero. ✧ You inspire me. ✧ You are my enemy. ✧ You make me happy. ✧ I want to will protect you. ✧ I would fight by your side. ✧ I consider you an equal. ✧ I think you are beneath me. ✧ I think you are above me. ✧ I would lie for you. ✧ I would lie to you. ✧ I would sleep with you. ✧ I would sleep by your side. ✧ I would hug you. ✧ I would kiss you. ✧ You are family to me. ✧ I would die for you. ✧ I would kill for you. ✧ I would trust you with my life. ✧ I would trust you with my most precious belonging. ✧ I would trust you with a secret. ✧ I would trust you with my biggest / darkest secret. ✧ I love you (platonically). ✧ I love you (romantically).

[nico-di-genova]

Job posting I was looking at earlier wanted someone with 6 years of experience and this was the min-max pay they were offering.

[spaceacerat]

I believe if you're going to post a job offer anywhere, you should set up a robo caller to fucking call the applicants who aren't getting interviews or after interviews who are then rejected, so they don't fucking sit there expecting a call or an email from you days or weeks or months later. And if you're going to keep their application in case a suitable position opens, then SAY IT!

Killing businesses who ghost people with my mind.

[officialpenisenvy]

i can't wait to kill myself

[shikai-the-storyteller]

I'm so burnt out and stressed about a variety of things lately, but a funny / sweet coincidence recently happened that I wanted to share:

Last week, I had a university student reach out to me (via my work email) asking for resources / advice on their research paper because I've written a lot of articles about the thing they're writing about. (I just got back to them today and they were real sweet, I'm excited to see how their paper turns out)

A week or two ago, I had someone reach out to me on RA asking for some specific clip info / date info because they were doing a research paper about Pac, and today I saw that they published their paper and put a special thanks to RA in the notes :')

I just think it's very sweet and a funny coincidence that my work (professional and fandom work) is getting cited in research papers. It made me smile a lot, I genuinely love that.

[shinmothra13returns]

The Gen Z Job Searching Experience is INSANE

The job market is a absolute disgrace.

[augujerdeer]

everyday i am trying so hard not to have a mental breakdown on main because of IRL shit. i am doing a fantastic job

[phantaasmic]

can’t wait for this stupid summer to be over so i can delete the five thirty alarm from my clock app

[hidden-highlands]

hoooogh boy i'm pounding the 'woman in her 20s' juice HARD tonight folks !!!

[fazcinatingblog]

Today my boss said to me "I can't breathe deeply, must be covid" which is exactly the same energy as me thinking my twenty trips to the toilet was covid. Me and Sophia are the same person

[ailurinae]

Look, it's probably just not possible for me to do any of those. Or to the extent I could do them I would probably completely and utterly burn out and have to quit. I've never held any of those jobs and there is good reason for that.

For sure waiter or other food service would not be doable. I actually tried to help out a friend at a food stall once and within an hour I fell apart had to just leave. Someone else had brought me but wasn't there, I just walked home, several miles.

Retail, perhaps I could do, at least for a time, if I didn't have to run a checkout line. I could not do checkout/cashier.

Call center/help desk is closest to something I have done, I have been tech support, but it was never call center, it was always onsite, and for internal. Yes people could call us, but it was more common to get stuff via the helpdesk web interface, email, or just people walking up. And while we might solve things over the phone or web/email, it was usually perfectly possible to go the the system having issues. And sometimes required, for hardware issues, or hardware upgrades, etc.

And that kind of tech work is very different and much much easier than a pure call center situation, and doubly so if it a call center for external customers. Internal customers there is usually a way to remote into people's machines even if you can't physically go to them. External customers, that is usually not possible. And while I *can* talk a user through just about anything, it is often vastly harder than if I can remotely or physically access the computer myself. The level of communication needed is extraordinary, and when it is verbal, it is immensely draining.

Things like server-side application support, and system admin are much better for me, I am better at setting things up, at maintenance, and at figuring out and fixing hard problems, than dealing with huge numbers of relatively simple problems like end user desktop usually is.

you cant move up and become a manager or anything either you will always be at the bottom most entry level position. however hours will be as typical for that position and you still get the 100k. basically i just want to know which of these jobs you’d be happiest doing if you didnt have to worry about anything outside of work lol

[dream-eating-youkai]

I hope that one day I can sit outside and watch the sun rise while I drink whatever I want and know that when I go to bed I can sleep through the day without anyone waking me up to yell at me and I'll always be allowed to eat the food in the fridge and my pets will be loved and cared for and I'll feel truly safe and at peace for the first time in my life. I hope that one day I can cook at any time of the day without being yelled at, that I can cook with sesame oil and make any food I want, that I can see my friends whenever I want. I hope that one day I can clean and do laundry without being called passive aggressive, that I can do needed repairs around my home, that I can leave my room in peace. I hope that one day I can walk places on my own without an argument, that I can stay out however far into the night and come home without having to sneak, that I can have coffee before bed. I don't know if this day will ever come but I hope it will

[astralwashboard]

i just got fired

after 5 years

for doing work i wasn't assigned. even though i always gave reasons why i was working the unassigned work and no one ever went up.

they've been looking for over a year for a reason to fire me

but don't worry, they didn't fire me before thanksgiving "because they wanted me to have the holiday pay"

get fucked

[nelvana]

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