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I don't blame them honestly ^^;

it probably sounded like i was bragging and it IS hella rough out there...

but although i had a lot to say about why i enjoy this job,
what i REALLY want to impress upon others that they can have a place in it too, if they don't mind strange hours on inconvenient days.

(but bruh seriously thank GOODNESS it seems like nobody else wants to work weekends, because having tuesday wednesday thursday off is fuckin CHOICE--i can run errands, do doctor's appointments, visit a bank, go shopping, all while businesses are actually OPEN without having to take time off work!! :D plus TWT looks like a crying wolfy face and that's cute...!)

I would love to see more people climbing aboard and being the Big Damn Heroes who set things right when greed, hubris, and an irrational trust of hallucinating chatbots derails mission-critical assets. All the while as you're either assigning tasks to specialists in a cozy office making a reasonable wage or being the boots on the ground in the field changing big business' diaper for HUNDREDS of dollars per task, you can don the smug shit-eating grin of "we told you so" and THEY'LL say Thank You Sir May I Please Have Some More! :3

You may have different goals than mine, perhaps you've already found what you're looking for ... but if you are still searching, I believe that the most stable forms of employment soon shall be the aforementioned industry of "Unfuckery".

Y'see, if there's one thing we know about all that clanker slop bullshit ruining our economy, it's that its alleged competency cannot be trusted. Especially in scenarios where things have gone an unexpected way... because AI as it currently stands is 'trained' on the basis of regression to the mean: most of the time, shit ain't fucking up. Whenever it encounters any unexpected exception, and there is not sufficient examples in its training data of dealing with such a contingency, that's where we get silly garbage like "recommended rocks per day for pregnant women to eat" and "recipe for a pizza that includes white glue".

Whenever it does that, a human has to swoop in and fix it.

Whenever a human is stranded in some way that AI cannot handle because it has no capacity for actual creativity but rather just a firehose of contextual regurgitation of stuff that already exists, a human has to swoop in to fix it.

And whenever a company's systems crash because they depended on slop code shat out by a hallucination bot without actually knowing how it's even supposed to work or what it really does, you better believe a human has to swoop in to fix it, and they'll pay almost any price to get their income source rolling again.

So if you can find a place whose job it is to answer that call, you're going to have plenty of work to do. Or, even when there isn't a ton of work to do, there's always another big stupid clusterfuck of incompetence just around the corner that will need SOMEBODY -- not SOMETHING -- to Step UP.

You Can Be "Somebody", Comrade!
(that specific type of somebody, i mean; i know you're already somebody and you have intrinsic value!)

You can have a front row seat to big corporate eating their words.

I had to explain to my partner a year ago that I'm going hate and bitch about any job I had after the fourth or fifth time I bitched about on call or something. Took them a bit to realize that even the best job will be full of bitching and moaning because even the greenest grass on the pasture is going to have a ton of shit to wade thru

And I'm not going to say how long that is. It varies from person to person, just my tip is to fill up the weed jar before you quit.

how much the job sucks and how good your country's unemployment benefits are

• Laughs, then ugly-sobs in stars-and-stripes *