/b/ - Random

I do "web design" for a foundation, which really means designing emails and updating website pages. I do nothing more than my assigned tasks and spend the rest of my time working on my passion projects. Work from home is a glorious thing. But the worst part of my job is the 1 day im forced to go into the office and interact with people, ALL of them with partners or husbands or wives and I am this weird lonely self-hating thing that just barely blends in (not that anyone ever asks me about my status, they go on and on about their happy lives). I hate the tuesday commute too as no one can fucking drive in my state.

I miss being an unemployment leech, and I'd love if they just let me go one day.

>>232819
Pretty chill, but im trying to go into IT for another nightshift job.

>>232824
Doesn't sound that bad. Is it really dead ? How many hours of downtime do you have ?

>>232819
Worked at a call center for 3 years now I work at hobby lobby.

>>232819
I am a server in a haunted IHOP

Seriously the places is haunted af they say there was a shooting there in the 90s

>>232819
9-5 white collar office work with coworkers who try to throw me under the bus, take credit for my hard work, and ass kiss the LAZIEST boss in the world for hopes of limited upward mobility.
It’s hell for me personally since I’m an autist who can barely keep up with small talk and understand social cues. What’s worse is that it’s an OPEN OFFICE FLOOR PLAN. I can see people in my peripheral vision. I can hear them talking, chewing gum, whispering gossiping complaining tapping their keyboards — MY GOD the fluorescent lights blind me and I get intense migraines every single freaking day on top of staring at my bright af screen.
I also prefer eating alone at the lunch room and people take great offence when I’d rather be alone than indulge in whatever it is they want to share (usually boring mundane things like the daily Wordle or Spelling Bee whatever the fuck that is) I just want to decompress and let my headache go away. There’s not enough space in the lunch room it’s always so crowded and everyone’s in groups and I’d love to have a table by myself just this once pls pls PLEasE

I get daily meltdowns when I come home

Why is it so hard for an Autist like me to hold a steady job … sometimes I wonder if I’m even High functioning if I’m slowly mentally sprawling from something so normal that everyday people live with for 50+ yrs

Anyways, anyone else relate?

I work at Arco making hotdogs and selling gas. It's not very hard but sometimes it gets very busy.

I work at my landlord's/housemate's analysis lab. Right now my hours are early morning, from 4am to 12pm, which is actually pretty nice. I don't mind getting up early and it means I have a whole day to do with as I please. It mainly involves cutting open bags, packing tubes, weighing and calculating, then handling hot things with thin gloves and doing a lot of data entry. It sucks I have to stand most of the time, but it's so we don't horribly burn our legs, so I don't mind. I get to sit for data-entry, but it's mind-numbing stuff with a lot of re-checking and cross-examination of endless long strings of ID digits, dates, job numbers and customer numbers. At least it's air-conditioned in summer and it's always hot enough to keep me warm in winter. If I'm there alone, then I can put my earbuds in and listen to an audiobook or something, while if my work wife is there, then we can play our mutually agreed spotify playlist on, so we can dance and sing with each other as we work.

Most of my moid co-workers do the bulk reagent/sample intake/handling out in the loading bay and aren't allowed to enter the lab on those days. When they do come in, they most congregate around the breakroom, which I just avoid during those times. It's not like they're bad people or they harass me, but they're all pretty rough guys and they're fairly loud/boistrous and crude. The only moid I work with is my shift manager who's very quiet and reserved. He expects perfection in testing, but isn't abusive or demanding about output. My housemate/laqndlord/boss's boss is pretty distant at work and always nicer to me at home, because he feels bad about picking me as a nepotism hire and doesn't want anyone to think we're sleeping together or anything.

I only work 30-ish hours a week, but I make $25/hour, can take my PTO easily and women get more sick days across the board because women who work with lead need more frequent testing.

Overall, pretty good.

>>296470
what dat ghost do?

At what point should I call my toxic ass piece of shit job quits even if I don't have a proper escape plan?

I'm extremely miserable.

I am a part-time art teacher. Working with kids is challenging but extremely fulfilling, they are generally very kind even if rambunctious. I enjoy teaching very much, it is a great feeling to explain something and see the change in expression/demeanor once a person understands a concept; it really is as though watching a light bulb turn on in their head.

Although the pay is pretty decent compared to the other jobs I have had, I could not afford a decent standard of living if not for my husband's relatively lucrative career.

My job is something I only do because I truly enjoy it, although a supplementary income is nice as well.

>>297691
Nice nona, how did you get a job like that? Did you take art in college or do you just need to go to teachers college?

>>296481
I used to work as a delivery food person (aka I wanted to get paid to bike)
I was reminded why I would never work white collar every time I have to deliver to an office building. I have anxiety attacks every time I'd go in. I would just want to leave, I felt like how I imagine a pig feels in an abattoir.

I do not understand how sentient human beings can handle such an environment. I'd rather get blacklung in a coal mine than deal with that hellscape for 8+ hours a day 5+ days a week.

im trying to get a seasonal position at a fragrance shop for the discounts

>>297697
I got a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. I did not study teaching whatsoever, but I was TA for Intro to Painting for my internship elective in college. My employer sent a scouter to the college's graduation exhibition. Since I was handing out my business card to literally everyone who looked at my work for longer than a few seconds, I guess they decided to take a chance on me. I've always wanted to be a mother one day so I was excited to be presented with such an opportunity. ♡

>>232819
My job? What do you mean?

>>296481
RIGHT why do people hate when you eat alone i hate it so much i can't even relax on my break

I work at a consultancy firm and mostly do technical drawings. It's fine.

Under present conditions working just isn't for me. I can't imagine any jobs that would fill me with purpose and i dislike communicating with most strangers. Also i hate my country's government so i try to avoid paying taxes as much as possible.

>>298123
work sucks

Neet 4ever

The USA is a bankrupt warmongering police state, but nothing will change because Americans think everything is just fine.

i work with kids and goddamn, they sure are annoying

Not working rn, but I've worked as vet assistant on dairy farm and pig farm and have mixed feelings about it. At the same time I like veterinary medicine and I honestly enjoyed working with large animals more than with pets, but industrial agriculture is cruel. I want to work with cows, because I liked working with them and cows themselves a lot, but knowing that I will never be able to help them to the fullest extent (because it's easier to get rid of seriously sick cow that to heal her) and that they will be eventually slaughtered is depressing af. I wish there were opportunities to work with large animals other than agriculture

>>298239
was it a lolcow.farm perchance?

>>298264
Would be funny but no

Americans scream tyranny is wonderful, but Americans are unable to explain why Cubans try to escape even though Cuba has gun control and free medical care.

I write, read, and occasionally do boring presentations about what I write and read.

I'm a janny. Extremely monotonous but at least I'm by myself most of the time. I got into carpentry last year and still aiming to continue learning this year so I'm hoping something good will come out of that and if everything goes well I'll get a more exciting job

i'm in a senior position at a random, unremarkable startup. management is always changing so no one knows what i do and my performance isn't tracked. spend less than an hour working and then i do hobbies or workout for the rest of the day. 6 figures but i'm quitting next month to move abroad (pain).

>>301043
btw, i felt trapped at this company because despite my resume and interview skills, i was never able to get a job elsewhere (interviewed for ~2 years while at this startup). i know the US job market is ass rn but still.

>>301043
>>301044
do you have a job abroad?

>>301079
no, i'm going to school abroad but might take on contracted work with start-ups so i can keep my resume up to date

Jobless Engineer

The elites have turned everyone into criminals, liars, hypocrites, and cowards.

The only good thing about living in a police state is that no one can take the moral high ground on anything.

>>301147
girl what

I’ve never had a job before but the closest thing I have is doing nsfw asmr commissions

>>301155
It’s different for everyone but what I do is have people come to me for commissions instead of stuff like Patreon if I’m gonna be honest the best ways to get your name out there is making sfw stuff on YouTube or make some free content on soundgasm I will say one thing don’t expect to make a ton of money from this only do it if you genuinely enjoy doing it because you won’t make jack for awhile

I work part time at a sex store and it’s a lot of fun. The pay is pretty good as I get commission on top of an hourly wage. I love helping other women take control of their sex lives. The biggest downside is obviously men. It’s a place where they feel comfortable showing their true colors, no filter. I hated men before but this job has really shown me some horrific things.

I work at a daycare, my job is literally playing with toddlers all day and making sure they don't die it's great

>>301175
Hot tea with honey works wonders for me personally might work for you

>>301175
My go to remedy is hot lemonade with a spoonful of honey mixed in

>>301170
I miss working at a daycare

I'm neeting right now but I used to be a caretaker for the disabled at a group home. It was mostly fun and fulfilling unless I had to help with the one creep disabled guy who definitely should've only had male caretakers.

I teach kids in the afternoon and do homework with them. It's honestly relaxing, I just wish they could stop hugging me but if I don't hug them back, they will suffer from a lack of affection and they will be more likely to kill themselves in the future.

I work at a pharmaceutical distribution center. I fill totes with things like Omeprazole, Bupropion, and lots of vaginal creams. Like so many. There’s also a locked vault that has cool stuff like Amphetamines and medical grade cocaine. I really like it. 4 day work week, overtime, incentive pay. I get like 20k steps a day and the days go by so fast because I stay so busy.

>>301685
Tell them you prefer handshakes or fist bumps it's good to teach kids about boundaries

>>232819
Customer service to the biggest most misogynist population of wrinkly disgusting old scrotes on the planet. If one more walking corpse of an old man calls me honey I’ll lose my mind.

I housekeep for a couple of homes and a string of motels. On the weekends I tutor kids in English. It's not as bad as you'd think, since the motels have bathrooms designed to be hosed down and the homeowners would be too embarrassed to leave anything disgusting for me to clean. Tutoring is much harder because of the sheer amount of kids who REFUSE to learn. They resent their parents dragging them to a library on the weekend and forcing them to read and write, so they will simply sit there and dissociate for an hour, saying "I dunno". The parents reject any attempt by me to stop tutoring them so I can actually help other kids, because to them it's more important to be seen to help, rather than actually help their kids.

A few of the kids I really enjoy tutoring, because they're clearly very bright, but were trained to hate school and fell behind the rest of their class. I take pride in not just improving their grades, but helping them learn how to learn, and improving their understanding of society and history.

One of the people I clean for is almost never home during the day and can't use his phone at work, so we communicate through cute little notes we leave each other. He always leaves me drinks and snacks and really appreciates coming home to a perfectly clean home, so he pays me very well. It usually takes me a fair few hours to clean, so he actually put up a TV and couch in his empty guest house so I can take my breaks while watching TV and movies we recommend each other in our notes. It's like having a penpal, and feels very comfy, but whenever I clean through the empty rooms in his house, I get this feeling of sadness and pity because he's so successful, but is a very solitary, lonely guy without a partner or much social interaction; just a few online friends.

>>302348

Nona maybe I'm just a hopeless romantic but the last guy seems like you could turn it into something, if you wanted.

>>302351
I'd be lying if I said I'd never thought about it, but he's 30-something and a research scientist, while I'm 20-something and a cleaner. He's likely not the least bit interested in me, and if he is, it's probably for the wrong reasons.

>>302361
No man in the eons of time has said "she is pretty, fun to hang out with, nice to me and also other people but sadly she can't match my career"
You're not a NEET bum or a whore, the rest doesn't matter.
You'll find hundreds of studies like this one They found that men felt the most anxious when they were the sole breadwinner in the family, and the least stressed when their women partners were contributing 40% to the household income. But as women made more money past that point, men become “increasingly uncomfortable"', etc. pp.

I recently got a government job but unfortunately it's in a call centre. I wanna try and do my best and stay until another role comes up. I struggle with the tasks, but it's nicer than 90% of other call centres so I can't complain too much. You're not allowed to finish case notes/info in-between calls and there's a lot of info required so it can be pretty challenging.

I work at a research library, specifically for math/physics. It's part-time and I also TA history classes at my university on the side.

It is actually really nice and I enjoy it. It works well with my schedule which can be tough because I am a full-time student who takes a lot of credit hours. Often at night there is really nothing to do so I can just do homework. I know nothing about physics + very little about math but it's not hard to bullshit if someone needs help finding something.

There are definitely a few creepy moids + comp sci types who smell AWFUL, but it's not as bad as when I worked at a public library. If anyone wants any library horror stories I am happy to share lol

>>302467
theres more to it though like matching education level. men and women will still prefer ppl on the same sociological level as them. men who dont care about you being on the same page as them are weird

>>232819
Im a doctor
I dont want to specify my specialty because CC moves slow as fuck and ppl could identify me.
I hate my patients, 0 accountability for any mistakes they makw, but if my communication is not 100% perfectly adjusted to their feefees, ohnoes!
Thank god the doctor licensing institutions only take away your license if you commit tax fraud or prescribe a meme medication parroted as evil in the media (like ivermectin) lmao. They dont do shit if u hurt or kill ur patient, get fucked losers.

>>303080
>tax fraud
I meant insurance fraud lol

I work the night shift. It ruins your body and mental health over time.

>>303080
Why is ivermectin considered bad? Genuinely curious. It's popular in my country, although it has more of veterinarian usage rather than humanitarian

>>303087
Actually quite funny u brought this up, i legit bought some OTC ivermectin while on vacation to a shithole where there are no regulations.

Have a cold rn and tried it out, also good for a parasite cleanse after visiting said shithole haha.

Its all due to a meme, in our country doctors even lost licenses for prescribing ivrmection for non parasite treatment. Any research i do on this topic is all memed up by a shitton of articles disproving or approving of it.

Anyway i just took the highest dose prescribed for parasite infections and took one dose early into my cold symptoms, lets see how it goes lole.
Its a very safe med and here i will desrcibe the recommended dose:
200 micrograms/kg, so if ur 60kg thats 12000 mcg → 12 mg (2 tabs of 6mg)
Only take it 1 time into early symptoms, cant find info on repeated doses, so no idea. Maybe 6mg on day 3 becuase it has a half life of 3 days and its excreted through ur poop only

>>303087
Ivermectin is initially an antiparasitic drug, there's nothing wrong with it in that regard. But some doctors tried using it to treat covid and conspiracy lunatics jumped on that, heralding it as some kind of miracle drug big pharma doesn't want you to know about. There's no definitive scientific consensus on its effectiveness but meta analyses results vary between "basically a placebo" and "possibly some benefits when nothing else is available".

Americans say 911 is busy because of budget cuts, but maybe the real reason 911 is busy is because everything is illegal.

>>303118
>>303115

Wait, someone uses ivermectine as NOT an antiparasitic drug???

>>303766
>>303118
>No definitive scientific consensus
Basically any study done on it shows that it works fairly well as a safe and cheap anti-viral drug.

It WAS a miracle drug in the past in the treatment of parasites, probably saving millions of lives in that regard.
As far as antivirals go it's a safe and effective "generic" antiviral that's cheap, and it was broadly used as such, but to a lesser extent than its original anti-parasitic purpose.

>>303754
I actually work 911, and it is busy because so many people call when they should not
911 isn't just le police show up, it also includes medical and social issues (e.g., life assist for bigbacks)
This paired with how these people are then poor enough to not pay the bill makes it a profit loss industry that impedes staffing. In big cities, 911 will just put you on hold…

I'm a NEET

>>303901
>I actually work 911
How do you deal with sitting for long stretches of time? Current job has me working on a project that involves lots of sedentary work (mostly documentation) and it's fucking killing my ass and feet.

I'm a wheelchairfag and finding any work while doing physical therapy is nearly impossible. Right now I do 3d model character commissions and I do social media management for a friend's company. Both are okay - second pays consistently and first is good if I need quick boosts. Turns out a lot of people want tuber and vrc models. I don't think your stream to 3 friends is gonna get you anywhere Stacy but you do you, please pay me hundreds for your sexy boob model thanku.

i work at a bait/tackle shop off the highway. almost nobody comes in here.

any women in tech here? what was the job hunting process like? what did you major in?

>>305464
not me but my older sister did compsci, the job market is awful rn and it was really hard for her to find a job.

i work as an admin assistant/receptionist, it’s pretty easy but i just hate having to answer phones and do customer service sm

i am overemployed
i have traded my time(and bits of my soul) for money

>>305455
>just set up my rig so I can stream horror games in the fall
Fuck you nona lol. What put in the chair?

>>305521
My hip fucked itself for no reason, and just general bad genetics. I got arthritis and asthma and all this shit. Today I used a cane for the first proper time in a while and now I'm not gonna be able to walk for two days minimum which is just so kino. But I gotta move myself a little bit even when it hurts. Hopefully this and the physo works out and I can be almost normal soon. Even if I keep doing desk jobs forever; I don't want to lose my limited mobility if I can help it, so I gotta keep movin

>>305454
well if I didn't want to watch slop on my phone, I am allowed to physically exit the ambulance and stand around if there is no call
to be honest sometimes I even go in the back and lay down on the bench, that's what I like about not being tethered to a cubicle and overhead boss

The very same Americans who scream that they hate the police state then turn around and support the police.

WTF?

>>232819
I recently turned 30 and haven't had a single job in my life. Trust me, I've applied to hundreds of places and even got help making my empty CV as appealing as possible, but no luck. I've only ever been called for a single interview and even though I felt I did great, I never heard from them again so yay life, yay living forever with my equally neet mom as what little money we have left keeps running out

>>232819
I'm a factory worker, I'm bored out of my mind during my shifts and I'm not allowed to put my headphones on.

>>305976
What have you been doing, just NEETing?

i tell people it's gonna be okay when it's not gonna be okay

>>306051
What is my chat gpt doing on cc? …btw what job Nona

>>306054
if I elaborate it would be extremely easy to find me so I'll just say I work at a call center and it's not the crisis line

>>306008
Actually no, I went to college before the pandemic to study a meme career that supposedly does have a lot of job offers, but then yeah, pandemic. Afterwards I went back to the same college to study a sort of "sister career" (they share a lot of subjects) and this one supposedly has even more job opportunities. My college is actually known for having lots of connections to hotels, agencies, restaurants, etc. that are always looking for inexperienced people, like the staff themselves try and accommodate you, but even with all that nothing's happened. I am very visibly and obviously autistic (diagnosed) and also obese (lost 20kg recently but still am) so I don't know if this is playing a part in my struggle, because most of my classmates are getting job after job after job, all posted in my college's IG. That, plus having an empty CV except for this "education" and like two B1 languages at 30 is just not appealing at all, and the more time passes, the less chances I'll have so yeah, I'm fucked.

I work in construction. Operator/laborer. I work with a bunch of old fat smelly moids and druggy scrotes with a massive turn over rate. The pay is pretty good. Usually I make ~$30 and hour plus overtime but some rated jobs are $35-60 and hour. I wanted to be a stay at home mom or a cushy white collar worker growing up, but COVID screwed me over in college and this is the only job I’ve been able to get. I used to be a bit chubby, but 4 years of physical labor and going to the gym have left me kinda muscular and ugly like a scrote. That whole “muscle mommy” fetish thing is bs, moids are all afraid of me. I think I’m going to try to stick with this job and become a foreman with my own company truck. My dream is to drink beers in my site trailer and yell at low IQ scrotes all day.

>>306544
>and hour
My writing skills are slowly devolving to trench digger levels.

>>302481
Hi, I'm considering getting work in libraries and I am currently doing a year long training course on it. I would like you to share some of the horror stories you mentioned but could you also give some advice for someone starting out and trying to get into that field?

>>307034
Totally! Now, I am not a professionally trained librarian, and you can't really find a full-time position without the training (in the US, a master's degree in library science or an adjacent field like education is typically required). There are usually part-time and seasonal positions for things like shelving books or being at the desk (circulating books and answering questions). My main piece of advice is to choose positions at research or university libraries if they are available to you rather than public libraries… In my experience, working for non-profits in general is burnout inducing and not well-paid. Working at a uni library is great because it's easier to deal with problem people since it's a private institution, and also more $$$

I do have a funny "horror" story that happened somewhat recently. A homeless man caught a squirrel on campus and attempted to cook it via camp stove in the library. He almost had it done before he was caught… Luckily no fire, but he was banned for life.

>>307072
You need a masters to work in a library?!

>>306544
Lucky, wish I could work construction like you but the labor is paid like shit in here. I like the type of stuff that's done in construction but the only jobs I've ever been encouraged to find are shitty and mentally draining call center ones where you're yelled at by racist boomers all day long and they pay you the least that they can get away with (not only that but previous experience is also required, lmao). Construction gets paid a little less than call centers but if it didn't I would've already started working at it long ago.

I do quantitative research for a trading firm. It can be fun and they pay is really good when markets are volatile, but it's still a wagie job and surrounded by moids.

I work as a security guard. I get to do all the female searches on people suspected of hiding something. Its great. 99% of the time they are trying to hide something and i find it. Sometimes i just wanna cop a feel