Man, my first real job was at the library as a student page. That job fucking rocked so much and I wish I could have stayed there forever.

I got to shelve books, play with microfilm and microfiche, and listen to my CDs all day. It was the best job ever.

So have you made it to a chapter of your own? :3

You mean... you want to live your life and not add value to someone else's wallet?

Do what you love except hold a camera in your offhand and shout "bro bro honestly like actually what just happened!? Like and subscribe!" Every 30 seconds.

Get independently wealthy. Can you marry someone rich?

Wealthy investor.

That's just called "being rich." Work duties do include disenfranchizing the poor, with quarterly reviews by peers in the Illuminati though.

So not quite as chill as you might hope from "having no logical fears or needs".

Trust fund kid.

If you take away their right to break the law, how will you become the next trillionaire?! - Stupid right wing people

This is me at all ages I can remember. By extrapolation, I can only assume I spent my toddler years fighting for the rights of the proletariat.

Yeah, being alone on the job is not necesarily great. I have worked in a small data center for a large company for like 15 years now. I am the only one in the building many days but it gets quite lonely and boring.

Good example of outfits sending signals.

Slacks and a button-up probably made you look like management just out picking up slack, and people subconsciously left you alone - "oh, they're probably really busy with management stuff and also had to go shelve books.. I'll leave them alone"

Casual clothes in contrast would have signalled "worker" - "I'll just go ask that person, it's not like they're doing anything important, they're just shelving books!"

And you can! Chase the dream!

My bro is a dishie and never changed jobs once. I always used to try and push him to study or get into a career and would bang on about having a 'respectable job' - now im fantasising about listening to music while washing dishes all day

Why did you need to help him?

knockknockknock

Sorry to bother you…

Did this guy ever apologise?

I had a 25-year career as a programmer, ending up making nearly $200K a year. Now I'm a school bus driver making about $30K, although fortunately that also includes subsidized (and really good) health insurance. I'm also fortunate because I already own a small house outright and was able to save a good bit when I was making good money. I quit programming (read: was laid off) just before the AI "revolution" so I'm thankful that I've missed all that bullshit.

Maybe I'll be able to get back into coding after all the AI slop fails catastrophically and there's nobody left in the industry who still knows how to actually code, but I don't have my hopes up for that. Corporate bullshit is simply too strong for catastrophic failure to be a real problem.

Maybe I'm still too young. Early 30's and asking a lot of questions about "why did we have a restructuring and layoffs if we had a record year for financials?" Not getting any answers of course, but I sure am getting a lot of information. Also getting to be the voice of all my coworkers. Literally all of them. We all hate it.

Me after surviving the layoffs, great all my bosses are gone it's going to be months if not an entire year before they notice me again. Time to do the bare minimum!

Off topic but out of curiosity, how many people actually work in a data center? I've always wanted to work in one but got the impression that there are only a small number of people, maybe a dozen or so, dedicated to keeping the hardware running.

But hearing how it's affected you makes me think it might not be the best choice for me. I worked from home for about 5 years up to and during COVID, and honestly can relate to feeling less comfortable in social situations after a while. I think the first year or so I was fine and then started to notice the decline of actually wanting to interact with other people.

Have a colleague who went from over $300k/year to like a $50k/year job. Basically something to vaguely keep the lights on while his savings took care of itself. Way too young to retire, but he figures he can be ok with his savings and bonuses he had over his high paying career.

I applied for Page like 3 times at my local library, but my resume reads as disillusioned tech bro so I don't think I have much of a chance. t_t

I think most of Genz doesn't want it.

I've heard that has a time table before your hands wear out. Is that true?

Same. It fucking sucks but it's the only way I've found to making enough money to do the shit I actually want to do. Which I'm still not making enough money for because inflation keeps up with half my pay raises....

yea it is a requirement. its competitive because there are very few places that hire them, public libraries and universities libraries, and community colleges. i assume the university ones are more better paying but more competitive. the ones at my state uni had a master in a stem degree too.

the alternative is getting hired as a librarian assistant, but those tend to be part time and a student type of job.

the stress free jobs are often more on the lower side of pay, or certain niche degreed jobs. librarian isnt that stress free, because you are facing patrons and students all the time, and potential crazy people, or homeless people, or the porn addicts.