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Any job that doesn’t holistically build your skill set (antithetical to a career). As in, the money is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. If you stock Sh
by crate_barre 5y ago
Any job that doesn’t holistically build your skill set (antithetical to a career). As in, the money is irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. If you stock Shampoo on a shelf, and you can’t flip that into something useful, it’s a worthless job.
It’s better to get paid $0 being in the right field for a bit than actually being paid in the wrong path. It’s negative money unless you are using it to pivot into the right path via education.
Which brings me to an aside, College for many people is a good example of a dead-end job. Not only did you not get paid, but someone also took your money wasting your time down a trail that many people pivot out of (your Classics majors that switch to Dev, congrats on paying to be led astray for 4 years).
But software can also be a dead end job if you chased the money and went off the trail of the path you should have kept investing in.
All this shit takes vision honestly.
- JaimeThompson 5y ago>It’s better to get paid $0 being in the right field for a bit than actually being paid in the wrong path. I am going to make the guess that you either have a lot of money right now or have an amazing support system to help you because such options aren't available to everyone who is making sure their food budget is correct down to the penny.
- crate_barre 5y agoYour guess is wrong then. I’m more of a person that has been at the upside and downside of things. I know what it’s like to just need the paycheck. But I never looked at it like that, it was mostly a paycheck to create the opportunity via stability to evolve another path. In that case, holistically, that dead-end job had a purpose for creating financial groundwork (once upon a time for me it was literally to buy some server hosting or a domain name - yeah, that’s how broke).
- formerkrogemp 5y agoNah being broke isn't being able to afford a domain. It's eating fast food 3 days in a row because your paycheck isn't coming for another three days and the gas bill was $50 higher this month and your kid needed to see the dentist.
- JaimeThompson 5y agoYou not being able to pay for hosting is a bit difference in scope then not bring able to feed yourself the correct number of calories for multiple days at a time.
- crate_barre 5y agoA VPS is $5 bucks. I described $5 like an investment. If $5 is as my investment into my future, what was the price of my food? Not exactly Doordash or Extra Value Meals at McDonald’s every night. Inference.
- foogazi 5y ago> because such options aren't available to everyone So ? If it’s aplicable to you take it if not seek better advice I love the universal advice police - everything has to be available to everyone or else it’s useless
- JaimeThompson 5y agoSerious question, why didn't you apply that reasoning to what you posted? A lot, probably the vast majority, of users on this site that actively post have had little if any direct experience with what it is like to actually be extremely poor in the United States.
- crate_barre 5y agoI would urge you to reconsider the group you are talking to. Many many tech people come from immigrants families that were not born into any kind of wealth at all.
- hotpotamus 5y agoDo you use shampoo?
- crate_barre 5y agoI’ve somewhat shifted to the no-shampoo cult. https://www.reddit.com/r/NoPoo/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NoPoo/
- hotpotamus 5y agoI would not have guessed that sub's purpose from its name. Honestly, it sounds much simpler and quicker to just use shampoo.
- throwawayboise 5y agoAny job is better than no job as far as possibly leading to something better. At minimum, it shows you can show up for work. A surprising number of people cannot do that reliably.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoEven with STEM degrees, you're making a bet on the state of the job market in four years. If you can self-teach how to program, the degree is more of a compliance checkbox to get into your first job easier, even if it is directly to do with computers.
- crate_barre 5y agoEnumerate the STEM jobs that won’t create a life for you. Go. To. Medical. School. Stop thinking a Bachelors in STEM is enough. It’s a not a bet. The literally moronic other majors half of you pick is a bet. I’ve seen all of your resumes and there is literally totally dumbfounded major choices. In fact, I’ll go as far as to say web development will create less of a life for you long term than most other STEMs. People in serious STEM majors just don’t want to put the work into post-bachelors education and cop out. We all know this.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoWhat are you ranting about?