Interesting Linkedin Thread about Job Searching Today

[kanethenotorious]

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Linkedin posts are rarely appropriate for political discussion but this one is.

 

[Grug Arius]

most jobs suck ass. Self employment is the way

 

[Grug Arius]

The one field where you can still get into a rewarding and worthwhile career without experience are the manual trades, most places will train you as you work, and you can eventually become self employed in that field and be in command of your own time/labor (the way it should be)

However this isnt for everybody, altho I surmise that many people are selling themselves short when they think they cant do it.

Being in command of your own time and labor should be the highest ideal for the working class,

 

[kanethenotorious]

I've always seen the "S Quadrant" as the ideal. But I've never actually believed in myself. That's GB there. Not believing in yourself.

edit: I just got a call about trade school. I told them I'll get back to them later.

 

[Grug Arius]

From what Ive seen of white collar office-jobs, its like some dystopian nitemare filled with girlbosses, stupid rules, and a totally limp-wristed effeminate atmosphere that cultivates catty broads and soft, weak men. I can see the OP cartoon being as 100% correct in these workplaces. Part of the problem, I believ, is that anyone who is younger than the boomers, hav been fed a lifetime of hype that if you dont hav some office-type job, you will be cleaning toilets and making samwiches for the rest of yer life. There is also some bogus belief that work using your BODY results in having a "bad back" at age 30 or somesuchshit as that.

 

[kanethenotorious]

But the walls went up for the younger generations. So they're not only sold on the office job as the dream, but they're walled out of them for not having enough experience. Then later on they're walled out for having a poor work history, because they had to jump jobs to get what little experience they can get. If I learned a trade, I could start my own business then take over the tech side of my own operation. But easier said then done.

 

[Grug Arius]

I've always seen the "S Quadrant" as the ideal. But I've never actually believed in myself. That's GB there. Not believing in yourself.

edit: I just got a call about trade school. I told them I'll get back to them later.

The mental struggle is key.

Like for instance, people who are physically inactive, the most difficult part is to get started moving.

Its like moving a heavy object, once you overcome the sheer dead weight and stiction, momentum helps a lot to maintain the state of movement.

The second most difficult part is staying motivated when results dont seem apparent. But a man's gotta take one day at a time. A man never regretted doing something like working out or tryna hustle his own job, but many have regretted being lazy, eating a buncha junk food, just saying "fuck it"

I am speaking generally and not to your situation specifically, but I think you smell what I'm cookin' here

 

[kanethenotorious]

I almost feel like people of Eastern European backgrounds get all the drawbacks of being White and none of the benefits. They're White when people reverse discriminate then they're non-White when there actually is White privilege. If you don't go the whole way to a MD or JD or PHD, your Bachelor's degree is useless as a Slav.

 

[kanethenotorious]

A Tale Of Two Job Markets: White-Collar Workers Lack Opportunities While Blue-Collar Have Many Options

The September jobs report made bold headlines last week with 336,000 new jobs added to the United States economy. While this is great news for many people, it’s a tale of two job markets. Frontline, blue-collar and service-sector jobs boomed, whereas white-collar professionals were left in the dust.

www.forbes.com

 

[surenot]

when i was hustling we called it all being hungry and nothing stopped you from earning.

 

[Buglord]

Whyte collar work has become increasingly disconnected from actually productive activity. The manual trades ongoing implosion has some other things going on with it that are probably going to be much wider in scope than anything that a thread like this could cover.

I will say that if you have any intelligence at all the play in the manual trades seems to be acquiring skills and knowledge where possible and continuously learning stuff... Of course this is way different than what you needed to do decades ago in order to have success in the trades (show up to work and have a pulse).

 

[Grug Arius]