I become a career bureaucrat.

I would be responsible for creating more and more paper forms which have to be filled by hand before each task.

PS: Can you guess what I'm doing now?

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Darkard@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 2y

Whatever the guys in MS Cloudstrike did today.

ShortFuse@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I write code for those who pay me money.

I delete code of people who don't pay me.

Land_Strider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Based.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I’m a teacher, so I guess now I spread misinformation on social media for a living. 🤡

hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

You guys are getting paid?

abbadon420@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

Yes we are (see, I'm doing my part in spreading the misinformation)

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y

I was gonna say I suck knowledge and graduation credits out of old people

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y (5 replies)

I think the exact opposite would turn me into a literal pirate; stealing money in a way that statistically increases the risks of maritime commercial ventures.

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Are you the port authority or what?

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Maritime adjuster. My body is a machine that turns the inherent risk of fishing into box wine.

PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 2y

Discount Harbor Jesus!

JustZ@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

This is a hilarious comment.

Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Cheers, I'll drink to that

Pappabosley@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I make sure people don't talk to each other about what they're working on and hide important information they need to complete tasks. Sometimes I'll advise them to work on the wrong thing for a long time.

In my spare moments I delete the data in reports and unpivot tables.

eselover@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 2y

That sounds like what my managers are doing right now, minus the unpivot tables. I have to guess what I am supposed to do.

Donut@leminal.space · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Scrum master?

Pappabosley@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Not an agile environment, but about equivalent

cardboardchris@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y

I write good code now.

olafurp@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I fix software bugs

altasshet@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y

What a coincidence! I now create them...

hOrni@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y

I am now loving my job.

hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 2y (3 replies)

I transition automated processes into manual labor

atro_city@fedia.io · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Probably how governments want to solve joblessness, just like the Germans in the second world war forced their population to build highways by hand.

JustZ@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y

Like the Works Progress Administration.

proctonaut@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

We use modicon stuff for that.

Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Software engineer here. I'd become the worst thing I can imagine... a user.

Assman@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

Same but I was gonna say PM

digilec@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I write software that scours the internet for porn and other NSL content, then sends it to school kids.

gilgameth@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Jesus fucking Christ =)))

qevlarr@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

I have a job! Woohoo!

Mighty@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y

Damn I feel like the polar opposite of my job is also my job. But if I try to make it bad, I'd say I would hurt and demotivate children and try to keep them stupid

SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I lock people out of their homes and break door hardware.

Aww geez, I'm a frat boy now

AceSLive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Locksmith?

SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Yep, and fratboy related calls are a surprising percentage of my income. Poor dears, a perfect combination of preternatural strength and mind-numbing stupidity. Or, as their parents like to think, our future

_lilith@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Break computers

Gxost@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Now I cut features from software one by one

Eylrid@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y

You'll have a promising career at Google

Webster@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

I work in IT for a company that helps patients get medications they need.

I physically prevent people from getting the medications they need.

ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

My job is having a job.

AceSLive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Welfare?

ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y

In the US? That's a good one.

ChexMax@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I am served and taken care of from the moment I wake up untill the moment I fall asleep. Someone makes me nutritious meals, and I only do activities that stimulate my brain. Once a year a small baby gets shoved up inside me

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2y

Now I'm Not sure if you give birth once per year currently, only gave one birth in your life, or plan to be childless.

Eccitaze@yiffit.net · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Black hat hacker, I break into people's servers and fuck up their shit

itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y

Do you work at Crowdstrike now?

MTK@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I guess I now beat people up?

CatZoomies@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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AceSLive@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

You work in healthcare?

Kamephis@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I do research on technologies that make airplanes heavier, increase their fuel consumption and make them fall out of the sky more often. Oh and I spend time in the classroom making sure students have no idea how to reverse it.

Noodle07@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y

How is it working at Boeing?

Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Does that mean instead of cleaning up the place, I make it messy as fuck? 🤔 What's the opposite of a janitor?

psmgx@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Annihilate transportation infrastructure on a large scale.

CloudStrike has already put me out of business, it seems

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Instead of talking to the customers and fixing issues I'm writing code and breaking things.

So apparently I work at Crowdstrike

Taniwha420@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

I'm an anarcho-capitalist with a real hatred for the homeless.

harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2y

Well, fuck, I'm now an engineer on day shift. (I'm night shift QA and most of my issues are caused by careless engineers.)

Bronzefish@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Ill be hosting AA meetings.

Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y

I ignore people with broken bones

Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y

Instead of building homes, I destroy them... So same trade, different step.

caboose2006@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Cause brain damage? Idk how do you remove knowledge?

davidagain@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Tiktok. Facebook.

Nounka@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Bookburnings Tv on tlc Let them play...

Tantheiel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Outbound inferiority

I make sure what I send is going to fail all the tasks. Nothing but the worst for my customers.

JustZ@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

I find people who have been injured by corporations and greed, and rob them.

Gjolin@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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Anticorp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Wait, if you destroy AI, wouldn't that make you John or Sarah Connor?

creditCrazy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Look he's a very special Terminator

BugleFingers@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

If it were the opposite, I make sure planes come out of the sky

atro_city@fedia.io · 0 pts · 2y

Erik, you mustn't!

tacosanonymous@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

I go to people's houses and steal their books.

spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I reverse-engineer software.

DacoTaco@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Same, which is funny because i sometimes do that for fun as a hobby lol

Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y

I think I work at Crowdstrike now

tamiya_tt02@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I make chemical weapons to kill millions.

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y

I disorganize rare books and artifacts 😔

Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 2y

I decommission computers with a very efficient inventory and documentation system.

Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Efficient desktop destroyer

tissek@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2y

I assemble and disassemble industrial machinery for final testing. I already do the opposite of what I do?

Raylon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I'm now taking digital databases and write them by hand in an unnecessarily vomplicated fashion to paper while making up a story for each entry.

reddit_sux@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I break bones...

Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I race up a mountain in an old suv. Hang gliders fly up and land at rhe top of the mountain. We all drive down to the landing zone.

neidu2@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 2y

I travel on-site to build server clusters wherever my company needs them.
I decommission Raspberry Pis at home.

Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I now make it impossible for trade schools to be publicly funded.

Phate18@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I become a Asset Liability Mismanagement specialist.

My job is to devise an investment strategy and corresponding pension benefit structure that maximises the chance that the pension fund runs out of money before all pensions are paid, and does so as quickly as possible while taking as much risk as possible.

So basically what pension schemes did in the 80s and 90s.

TheRealLinga@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I cause soft tissue damage

atro_city@fedia.io · 1 pts · 2y

Do you normally repair hard tissue damage?

essell@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Traumatise people.

Could be fun for a while!

Comment105@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (6 replies)

If you pick the people carefully and tailor the trauma, I might not even take issue with it.

essell@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Excellent.

I'm gonna kill your mum, steal the roof off your house and send you twenty pineapple pizzas.

Comment105@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Joke's on you, I like pineapple pizza.

Wait..

essell@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Too late. You said it. Now you're going to get pineapple rings covered in tomato and cheese just to make it weird

Comment105@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

That's too far, dude. Besides I was hoping you'd pick someone else, a real bad guy

essell@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I tried but my husband threatened me with escalating pineapple terrorism!

Comment105@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

I can talk to him about the virtues of pineapple on a pepperoni pizza

itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I make up pseudoscience? I guess?

btw gravity is fake, the earth is flat

creditCrazy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

No no no the earth is fat not flat

LordWiggle@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I'm sitting at home with PTSD from deployment instead of working, so the opposite would be me working without PTSD. That would be great, where do I sign?

AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y

Having.a job instead of waiting for the next quarter of college. As to what the job is, couldn't tell you.

AceSLive@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I have to make sure life is as difficult as possible, and squash all opportunity for learning and growth for the most affluent, able and healthy people who exist in our society.

What do I do....

Glytch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Visit people's houses and take their food.

zloubida@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

A super hierarchical and meaningless job in a big company, for which I'm well-paid. I have a lot of colleagues and I hate them. I have no right to initiative and strict but quiet schedules.

Olhonestjim@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I am now an oil baron.

BigDiction@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I do not sell software. Don’t install it. If you try to anyway and have questions, I will provide instructions on how to completely fuck your integration up.

PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2y

I destroy aircraft tools. Sometimes I also make them.

wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

I guess my job is everything.

Edit: And I guess no more recovering from medical stuff. Maybe about 2 years from now I'll be post surgery enough to start working again.

coffee_with_cream@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
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Batmancer@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y

I encourage people to use drugs in the most dangerous way possible. Occasionally kidnapping people from hospitals or rehabs and then dump them on the streets.

Phegan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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KrankyKong@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

What is the opposite of a farmer?

Hildegarde@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What do you normally do? Deliver books to random unwilling strangers for undefined periods of time?

Hildegarde@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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StephniBefni@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I go buy stuff!

Monster96@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I destroy things instead of creating them.

sagrotan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Poor

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Illuminating Monk.

KrankyKong@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

You're a dull crack-head?

EvilEyedPanda@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I'm a pastor who rails on the demonic music of today.

indomara@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I follow disabled people around for hours, doing everything in my power to make life less convenient for them.

UristMcHolland@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I cause massive amounts of damage and disorder within local school systems.

TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

I don't make false promises anymore. I'm free.

meep_launcher@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

I sit and listen while old people complain about music all day.

Siethron@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I now talk to women for a living

rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y

I become a professional hotel critic.

PixellatedDave@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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HonkTonkWoman@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

I destroy media that large scale companies collect for various purposes.

p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Apparantly I'm endangering everyone and encouraging chaos and disorder

Comment105@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Cop, immigrant, learning how to do the job across the pond?

p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Nope just a lowly resort security guard

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
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lemmyseikai@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I take warriors and train them to integrate into the real world.

Mango@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

As a QA, I guess I'm getting zooted and living in my head!