Working shitty jobs for the rest of

[Mydarklord]

How do most people do it? Work shitty jobs for the rest of their life? Like work in the factories, construction(although good money but labor intensive), fast food joints, restaurants...etc. Maybe it's just me but I rather kill myself than to be a nobody for the rest of my life. This is why I think Education is important. I envy those doctors, lawyers, engineers...etc.

Discuss.

[Go-10-10-10]

I don't work.

[Gagsy]

If case you don't notice, it's those people in the 'shitty jobs' that keep the world running.

[BaronVonBadGuy]

I post shit online, it's a great job.

[Lintire]

Many people are stuck in jobs that they don't particularly like, and even with the eventual deletion of all these jobs (in theory freeing up everyone for more lucrative jobs) people are going to be stuck in these jobs for a long time, and I don't know whether to admire them or pity them. I admire them because they keep the roads fixed and clean, the bins turning, the wheels of society moving. I pity them because they're not likely to make much money in the long run.

[Dean]

For some people, I suppose they feel they're stuck in those kind of jobs because they dropped out of school or whatever. I don't think it's a case of them choosing to stay in these jobs all there life, it's more a case of them having to, if they want a source of income.

[Master-of-pancakes]

Well, someone has to do the crap jobs in order to keep everything going, so do well in school and you won't be one of them.

[AJ]

Well me personally, I don't like work. Work isn't as fun as not working, so I don't base my life around work. I base work around my life. Working construction or at a machine shop or some job like that gives you enough money to support yourself and leave you with plenty of money for other stuff if you manage money well. I work around 40 hours a week Monday - Thursday basically just loading metal parts into a machine and then taking them out. Then I have Friday - Sunday to do whatever I want. Go out and party, have fun with all the girls downtown, snowboard, whatever.

If you work hard, DON'T COMPLAIN, and are easy to get along with, within 10 years you'll get a nice supervisor job complete with a fat salary that definitely competes with the pay people with degrees make while still only working 40 hours a week. It's a level of freedom that a lot of people don't ever get to have, and a lot of people that have that freedom don't take advantage of it, which those types of people are the ones you should pity. I don't have huge debt from college, and I make damn good money for my age, so last week I up and decided I want to move to Australia. I've already started getting visas and shit in order. I'll go there and continue on my experience at this machine shop and I'll be able to party my youth away and have a blast, then once I'm old enough to start considering starting a family, I'll have advanced enough to be making enough cash to support that very well.

College degree kids don't have the same opportunity because they can't get too far from school because they have to go back, and once they're done, they have to find a job, then use it to pay off their college loans. They'll work all that time, make all those sacrifices, and all for what? To attract a good girl and start a family that they can enjoy and support? I have all those things lined up and all for working only weekdays during my best years. I've got way more money to enjoy life then those starved for cash folks are, unless their parents are a lot richer than mine. I don't see the point in dedicating your whole life to do work. Sit back and enjoy it a little, don't look at it as a competition.

Of course, this doesn't count for waitresses and shit like that who will never make any real money ever. Find a job where you can advance, stick with it, and focus on enjoying your life as much as possible.

[Tykwa]

I have a factory job, And honestly, I love it.

[gamekillereater]

Shitty jobs can still be fun, in a way.
Interacting with fellow workers amongst other things.
Also, working is maybe 1/3 of your life and aside from sleeping the other 1/3(or more, taking in weekends, vacations and retirement) is completely at your disposal to do what you want with it.

[masheenH3ad]

You should be inform about the third world countries' professionals. They are such people who are degree holders but mis employed. There are those who are doctors and became a nurse, there are engineers who became call center agents, Attorney who became politicians, and much more.

[ImlunchBoxx]

at least im not mexican

[Major-n0ob]

At 10/13/10 05:49 AM, Mydarklord wrote: How do most people do it? Work shitty jobs for the rest of their life? Like work in the factories, construction(although good money but labor intensive), fast food joints, restaurants...etc. Maybe it's just me but I rather kill myself than to be a nobody for the rest of my life. This is why I think Education is important. I envy those doctors, lawyers, engineers...etc.

Discuss.

There is a second side to this coin... My profile info is purposely false, I'm actually a graduate student in Chemistry working towards a Masters. It sometimes happens that you spend weeks or even months of work on something, then run some tests and discover it didn't work as well as you thought it was (all a wash). This sort of thing happens to everybody apparently, though it was a harsh way for my reign of good luck to so abruptly end. Sometimes I actually do envy the simple shopkeep for the simplicity of his life. No stressing about whether this is going to work and what to tell the boss if it doesn't. I think I've made my life too hard on myself. Given a choice, I'd pick manual labor over worr & stress any day.

And I can't even imagine the kind of stress doctors have. Those guys are raked over hot coal if they once make a mistake (which is human) because they are responsible for people's lives on a daily basis.

Being able to put in the time, 9 to 5 mon-fri, then go home with nothing hanging over your head and plenty of free time to spend with family and friends... That is the life right there.

[GenocidalTendencies]

I'm currently looking for one of those "shitty jobs"... I really need a job and currently I'd do almost anything that isn't prostitution.

[unowned]

somebody who makes less moneythan jay-z, who seems to more of a somebody than dr. engineer

unless your really good or decide to be a shill

[Auz]

At 10/13/10 05:49 AM, Mydarklord wrote: Maybe it's just me but I rather kill myself than to be a nobody for the rest of my life.

A nobody? It's not like you're that much more of a (special) person when you have a better job than them.

Anyway, I agree I probably wouldn't be too happy with having such a lowly paid, repetitive job and getting disrespectful comments thrown at me every once in a while by some douchebag customers or my boss or whoever.

But as somebody else in this topic already brought up, I am sometimes thinking that my life would be so much simpler if I had chosen for a manual labor job instead of going to university. Simple jobs seem a lot less stressful; no difficult theory to learn, no reports to write, no strict deadlines to meet, no worries about work that still needs to be done when you get home... it doesn't seem all that bad to me, but I guess I should aim as high as possible with my career.

[Ericho]

Because it's better than having no job at all. I have been looking for so many jobs I have lost count of how many I can find, but I simply can not find anything period. People will work bad jobs forever because it is either that or NOTHING. Unless you have made a decent amount of money on the Internet, then you have zero income if you have no job and are going to need every little bit that you can get, unfortunately.

[Odio]

My dad is a plumber and I can tell ya.

It is quite shitty.

AHAHAHAHAHA THAT IS A KNEE-SLAPPER B-)

[GhoulRa]

Some people actually love doing it. Others, on the other hand, can't get a job anywhere else, so they are stuck sticking in the field where they have experience in.

[Prome]

I post shit online, it's a great job.

[Luis]

ive thought about killing myself many times. but there always seems to be a beer nearby and i end up reconsidering.

[36Holla]

At 10/13/10 02:57 PM, Luis wrote: ive thought about killing myself many times. but there always seems to be a beer nearby and i end up reconsidering.

In other words, meetups are just another way to keep you alive longer.

[MrPercie]

Well I doing well in maths n science so getting a good job will be more likely for me (if I do well).

but hell all work sucks so you gotta to get use to it but of course theres no reason why you can try and do better than you already are.

[Major-n0ob]

At 10/13/10 02:57 PM, Luis wrote: ive thought about killing myself many times. but there always seems to be a beer nearby and i end up reconsidering.

Don't do it Luis! We still have much more on tap!

[Raab]

I work(ed) construction... I never complain when the paycheck arrives.

[CapnCrunchDaPimp]

It's either that, or they end up on the streets. These are people who fell on hard times, or most likely didn't give a shit about school, so in a way, they had it coming. They never thought about their future or what they could do as a career. Tons of these types of people work where I do, minimum wage, eight hour shifts, backbreaking labor. Its what they have to do.

[Turkman-inc]

having no other option.

i get financed by goverment now for being unedjucated & jobless.
i even tried to get descent job & diploma... but no company wants to hire new imployees.

so guess i'll have to spend rest of my life doing dumb cleaning work on industry terrain.
or maybe isolate heat pipes in industry.. anywho with the money i earn i can spend on shit i need to make my free time even more worth while.

like ehh.. new motherboard for computer or ehh new banjo or ehh some turntables for my mixer. or get myself a woman!(believe me that's all about the money.) etc etc

[DM692]

I'm a gas jockey. I hate it with a passion. I want to quit and get a job at one of the local music stores.