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I wouldn't say this is how such jobs are seen by most. This is certainly how such jobs are seen by people who have landed a tech job though. We can't all be tec
by ahelwer 4y ago
I wouldn't say this is how such jobs are seen by most. This is certainly how such jobs are seen by people who have landed a tech job though. We can't all be tech workers, managers, consultants, or other such professions. Somebody has to move the packages around in the real world. To consign this and other essential (to borrow a word from early pandemic times) jobs to transitory, stepping-stone status is the opposite of how it should be. It doesn't matter, in the grand scheme of things, whether my git commits go in by the end of the week. The professions where it does matter whether something happens by the end of the week ought to be made much more attractive places to be.
- brutal_chaos_ 4y agoI have parents, neither are in the tech sector, that believe this. I would say a fair number of people outside of tech believe this too. I have also used vocational rehabilitation services and they don't treat those jobs with such disrespect, but I definitely got the feeling some jobs are stepping stone jobs.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoEverybody in my extended-family sees these jobs like this, and none of them are in tech. They are in construction, and office work, and health care, and wood working, and farming. Warehouse, retail, fast food, wait-staff, etc, are all seen as stepping-stone jobs. Unless you are running your own business in these areas, they are rarely viewed as "professions" or long-term jobs. Even with things like construction jobs, which are pretty well liked in my family, you are expected to move up to the "better" jobs like heavy machinery operator, or management, and such.