july 15th im gonna start applying wish me luck…
My condolences comrade. Welcome to the suck.
8 hours a day of anything is actually insane, i wanted to make a joke about replacing 8 hours of scorlling with an 8 hour shift but u cant even be lazy for that long. we have to organize and lower the shift to 6 hours and maybe even 4
That’s why America and allies losing their ability to menace other countries will be good. It means socialist states can relax their guard being out of seige and lower their working hours. AI advancement will really help.
I think the first 3 years after I graduated were the most stressing ones regarding job. You need to surpass the “need a job but don’t have experience” contradiction. Once you get a job, you don’t have the skills to proper address your own competence, and how the environment you are in is exploiting you or not. For example, when I got a job as a software developer I wanted to prove myself so people wanted to keep me in, so I started doing a lot of overtime. I also had difficulty to ask questions for seniors since I did not want to look weak. But I was also very concerned out of being paid very little and maybe having too many responsibilities for my level but I was afraid of questioning over losing my chance to stay in the company and have more experience for then applying for a better job later. I am just glad I am past that stage.
I fortunately never experienced unemployment for a long, and all the anxiety that builds up from it. But I know people who completely gave up on their profession after many times applying for jobs without a response or working on really toxic places for their first years because of lack of good job positions, due to their low experience.
This is the drawback of the job market. Your labor power is a commodity that you have to sell and compete against all other workers, and your exchange-value is measured against all other people’s exchange value (the socially necessary labor-power for your position). Your use-value is on your qualifications, resume, connections and ability to perform on technical interviews.
I wish you luck and godspeed with it. Being thrown into the labor market and having to treat your skills as a commodity to be sold sucks. It took me 6 months after graduation to get a real job, I hope your hunt is more fruitful more quickly.
NGL, the market sucks. And for some reason it is easier to get a job if you already have one. So if nothing else is forthcoming, I encourage you to take part time, white you look.
I feel you. I’m gonna be graduating this upcoming semester, and one thing I think about is how am gonna cope with the fact I won’t get 1-3 month long vacations anymore. Its the one thing I always look forward too. But with a job, what is there to look forward to? Its just gonna be work, work, and work with maybe just a week long break in between.
Working a full 8 hours is also crazy. I’m not even in school for that long. But if its any hope, I heard people don’t really work a full 8 hours. Most of the time people are just wasting time, scrolling on their phones, or gossiping with co-workers apparently.
none of this would be as tortorous if we didnt need to have that harsh competition with our coworkers and we could bond and make friends. im a bit lucky because in my country its normal and even expected to make friends at work (just the other day mom brought home some donuts her coworker made for us)
Life sucks. You can’t just be allowed to exist in peace.
ngl it feels really unfair to have to work while billionaires dont have to.
Even in AES, those who are able work. If we didn’t have modern society, basic survival would be a lot more work.
It wouldn’t be like now though, people slaving away, hustling 3 jobs just to keep a room in a shared house, which is how more and more people live now. Also I don’t agree survival would be more work without modern society. Anthropologists say that hunter gatherer societies worked much less than we do now. Which makes sense, most countries now people are paying more than half their income in tax, and the rest goes on rent and transport. In a primitive society you wouldn’t have need of any of those things, you wouldn’t be giving away half your earnings in tax. You’d just take what you need for food and clothes.
Bless it, I just typed a long reply and lost it.
Basically citing hunting, skinning, sewing with bone, sinew, and stone tools, walking for days to gather, avoiding predators, planting and harvesting with bone, stone, iron tools, fishing with hands, spears, building with hand-hewn trees and stone, hand made bricks fired in the sun, starting fires without matches or lighters, making potash to make soap, harvesting flax and other grains, as well as wools, lanolin, pine tar, spinning flax and wool (you can watch homesteading videos to see), then sorting drying and other preservation techniques without some crafty competitors like ants, squirrel, bacteria thwarting us, building homes with ax and ox and sheer willpower, removeding gaps, waterproofing, etc.
But maybe I’m wrong. Having come up on a family farm, I’m inclined to think maybe researchers should try it. Maybe both.
Anthropologists say they worked for just a few hours a day, and had a lot more free time than people now. And everything they made, they kept. They didn’t have to hand it all over in taxes and rent. Also I think we are talking about different historical periods. I’m talking about hunter gatherers, cavepeople, wearing skins and living in caves. I think the people you’re talking about, making cloth and building houses, are a lot more recent and probably lived under a similar system to ours, paying taxes and rent.
Well, I was starting during neolithic and moving forward. Maybe anthropologists are right, wrong and somewhere in the middle. And I’m just a rando, so there’s that.
Do not despair. Something will come along eventually. Keep fighting comrade.
