• osanna@lemmy.vg
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    8 hours ago

    i had a job in IT where NOTHING happened. I basically just went on reddit all day. This was over a decade ago. I worked on maybe 1-2 tickets a WEEK. It was a very well paying job. I literally just went on reddit all day. it was great. I regret giving that job up.

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      8 hours ago

      I have that job now. It’s OK. I miss developing my skillset, being on a cutting edge, having meetings even. I’ve automated the tiny bits of my job away. So I do a side job (well, a couple) and read novels in my time at work, today I sat in the park over an hour just reading a book his afternoon.

      Hoping to get my own business going again so I can sit at my house all day instead tho

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    15 hours ago

    Denied a raise for the third year in a row. Job market is absolute dogshit. Do just enough to not get in trouble and keep my head down.

    I hate this crap

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      13 hours ago

      Well ya know how the economy is RECORD PROFITS things are really tight all over RECORD PROFITS and we all have to make sacrifices RECORD PROFITS for the good of the company

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        11 hours ago

        Well you see, record profits didn’t increase at record speed every quarter.

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      15 hours ago

      Surprise motherfucker , your friends use light mode which make your meme non repostable.

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          We can go dark if we want to, we can leave the light behind,

          If your friends want light, and if they use light, well they’re no friends of mine,

          Say… ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

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      That entirely depends on the management structure. I took on extra projects when I first started my career in IT as a help desk tech, and it got me promoted to an engineer level position in a pretty esoteric field in under 2 years.

      But I knew the IT director liked to hire from within, and my boss liked to brag to him about the team, so I knew putting in the effort would pay off. I was also basically treating the job as a paid internship.

      You just have to be able to read the room, which admittedly can take a bit in larger companies.