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Everyone should have shitty jobs for at least a month or two growing up. When I was doing my degree in mechanical engineering after my first year I had to do th
by DrJokepu 13y ago
Everyone should have shitty jobs for at least a month or two growing up. When I was doing my degree in mechanical engineering after my first year I had to do this internship in this manufacturing plant in France. I was basically a factory worker. It really sucked. But it kind of put things in perspective. I knew that in a few months I'll be back in the school doing awesome stuff but for most of the folks there being treated like shit for next to nothing was pretty much everything life had to offer.
Then one day the entire plant and all the workers have been replaced with a few industrial robots.
- lostlogin 13y agoAgreed. I did a stint in a cardboard box factory. I put the lid on a box that came out a machine. 1 per second for an 8 hour shift. Clock in clock out. Management sat in an office above the shop floor and waited for infractions to punish it was soul destroying.
- redblacktree 13y agoDid you ever manage to count to 28,800?
- nilkn 13y agoI agree with this. My dad's a surgeon, and he tells me sometimes how he frequently hears many other doctors complaining about their job. He says the only reason they complain about a great job which gets them immense social respect, pays $300k+ in a very cheap rural area, and has rock-solid job security is because they've never known anything worse. It's the only job they've ever had. Most came from well-off families and never worked through high school and college at all.
- cglace 13y agoAs a counterexample, my dad is a doctor and grew up working in tobacco fields and he complains about his job. His problem is he loves the being a doctor part but hates the ever increasing paper work.