I am a secret third thing.
I would do that too if my government didn’t decide I need to breathe toxic fumes to keep me from “turning gay” (that wasn’t the reason I’m bi).
Jokes on you, I’m an engineer, I do both
Can be both!
Yeah, I live in a area of the country where (only since 2020) we can expect long stretches of days where the sky is orange and the AQI is 300+. Climate change has made sure the toxic fumes are for everyone!
Wtf seriously like just whenever? That’s fucked to think about. Fuck these greedy capitalists who are destroying our ability to live on this planet.
Forest fire season starts in late June/early July and ends sometime around now. It stops if you’re lucky anyway; some of the Canadian 2023 fires are still smouldering.
Ohh I should’ve realized you were talking about that. Man that is messed up.
I was just coming to say that! I get the “best” of both worlds, Excel sheets to track production while I sit in this shitty factory and breathe God only knows what!
Bonus: I can’t even afford a home after it all! Yay America!
Hexavalent Chromium VI!
Bonus: I can’t even afford a home after it all! Yay America!
Same goes for Canada! Yay, twinsies!
At least we can get health care without bankrupting us while we are saving for that home.
So you are housefree? Land of the free, indeed
I have the luxury of renting someone else’s garage, living in the upper portion of it and paying their entire mortgage for them…
Can be both!
Yep.
At some of the Excel jobs, the toxic fumes come from your manager’s mouth.
inheriting a genetic disease because my lungfish grandsire wouldn’t put on a fucking respirator around airborne hazards
I have the privilege of doing both 😎😵💫
Haha I work in a laboratory so I do both regularly.
Fucking excel. Lemmy lemme tell you. At a former position my boss wanted me to make an economic model in excel. I begged to do it in R but no dice. Annoyingly VBA was the skill all other employers were interested in (in my brief foray into industry). I had a million sads.
VBA is horrid and incredibly outdated. I’ve written c# code that ran identical calculations on data being run through excel at literally over a million times the speed.
They just added native support for Python in excel
I hate excel so much I almost wanna consider the toxic fumes.
For years I assumed it was as simple as making large tables, and that was it. It was truly humbling when I had to use it for the first time and learned how much shit you can do with that software.
And I still have no idea how to use it.
Work sucks but Excel is actually super fucking awesome. I love Excel. Once you get good at it, it helps with your personal life. Spreadsheets are great for tracking personal finance and all sorts of things.
It turns out that I love excel, but I hate data.
Even programming jobs are like excel sheets with extra steps.
Either way your back is fucked
If you get a standing desk, your knees can be fucked as well.
I’d rather inhale toxic sheets at work or stare at excel fumes all day
My body releases some toxic sheets sometimes.
I know someone who excels at making Excel fumes.
There’s a third one, too, it’s a funny one: you stare at countless (mostly fake) job vacancies expecting to be hired so to “deserve to survive”, while bills can’t stop arriving. You resign from your 10-yr IT career and try to apply for a simpler, factory vacancy, just to hear from HRs that your CV is “too good to be applied for our simpler jobs”. In the meantime, you catch yourself selling your soul and autonomy (constantly forced to accept the circumstances) to these people that share the same blood lineage as yours (some call them “familiars”) because you can’t see another option, except for going homeless, where you’ll be constantly assaulted by cops and people saying “go get a job” to you because you got nothing. By the way, you also inhale toxic fumes from air pollution from cities. And you stare at a Word document, your own CV, thinking “what did I do wrong?”.
apply to lower jobs without most of your resume.
“could you tell us about this 10 year gap in your resume?”
Doesn’t need to be a gap, just make it less than what you were really doing.
I was a stay-at-home dad while my wife was a high payed lawyer, or I had to care for my elderly mother while she was dying from ass cancer, or I was doing drugs but I’ve been clean for over a year now, or shut up that’s none of your business why are you even asking this shit for a job that requires no education or experience!?..
“Not really. I signed an NDA”
“To be honest, I don’t remember most of it, due to all the drugs.”
“You’re hired, welcome at Ford.”
“could you tell us about this 10 year gap in your resume?”
People lie to get higher paying jobs, lie to get a lower one:
5 year a Accenture doing Full Stack Development = 5 years at Accenture doing data entry
yes i was fucking your mother
Is your experience IT exclusively, or do you also have (even rudimentary) programming experience? Industrial automation is a great option. I feel blessed, having started from below the bottom (not all people are fit to be parents!) working as a metal carpenter while still underage, to have managed to get into this field, through hard work and, most importantly, a good amount of luck.
It’s likely you did nothing “wrong” our system just sucks.
This meme is verstörend.
Dang… Went from being around running cars all day to spending my days looking at excels sheets…
I’m doing both at the same time.
Production level fumes leak in to the office. Employer informed that it’s just a harmless smell.
