What do you do for work?

Edit: wow, this got a lot of attention

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orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts · 86 pts · 45d

Righties can’t separate the human from material value. OP in the screenshot was absolutely gearing up to judge people based on their job, which is a good red flag to avoid someone at all costs.

Unless they’re a cop. You can judge them all you want.

someguy3@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 45d (11 replies)

He doesn't know that the left is more educated. Believed Fox that they're all unemployed.

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 37 pts · 45d (2 replies)

The only thing keeping the GOP in power right now is tribalism.

anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 44d (1 reply)

Billionaire fascists are keeping them in power. The tribalism of one of the tactics.

Rooskie91@discuss.online · 2 pts · 44d

The good news is that they're experiencing diminshishing returns from these tactics and, despite that, doubling down while spending even more money on them.

red_tomato@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 45d (3 replies)

It’s more that he thinks the left can’t do ”real hard working jobs”. Jobs that require university education doesn’t count as ”real” to them.

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 22 pts · 45d

"I don't understand your job therefore your job is fake"

someguy3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 45d (1 reply)

Don't think he'd be asking what people do then.

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 45d

Yeah. Its very strange irrational and potentially self defeating behavior. A fascist would never.

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 45d (3 replies)

Education≠employability

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 44d (2 replies)

Is this a tale of your personal woe or do you just shit on people with accomplishments?

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 44d (1 reply)

Impossible to know. Why assume I have an education?

a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 43d

I didn't. I presented one option where you were educated and bitter the traducation sucked, and another where you have no such accomplishments and are imagining why they are bad.

Since you reject the idea and also struggle with the notion of "or" I am going to guess it is the latter.

applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 28 pts · 45d (3 replies)

im an engineer with a graduate degree. my (work) dream is to work at an aerospace worker cooperative making stuff for space exploration with a bunch of fellow queer neurospicy people.

FedX@quokk.au · 8 pts · 45d

Can I join in on this dream? Aerospace really tickles my fancy, but it feels impossible to get a job in it that's not destroying the environment and/or making bigger bombs.

MarieMarion@literature.cafe · 4 pts · 45d

So you want to work in Becky Chambers' To Be Taught, If Fortunate.
I couldn't have come up with a better pitch for the book.

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d

The trump administration has kinda ruined the Aerospace field for a while. I wouldn't get your hopes up.

Ontop of that, the push to commercialize space has kind of made doing it a lot less satisfying.

Agent641@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 45d (1 reply)

Freelance abortionist. I'll dunk any kid below the 12th trimester.

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 45d

Maybe its how online I am, but I feel unethical not taking any job below their 404th.

kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 45d (1 reply)

I'm a software engineer, but I moonlight as a fucking problem for bigots and child predators.

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 45d

Well there's your issue. Too old for the child predators to want to fuck. They'll never engage in your chosen medium. Can't say for the bigots.

Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 45d (2 replies)

Somewhere out there, there's a printout of this, sincerely pinned to a cork board under a thoughtfully arannged web of red yarn.

DokPsy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 45d (1 reply)

Well, it'll have to be thoughtfully arranged. They can't just pop down to Joanns to pick up more so they can't waste it. Sure you can get stuff online but you can't feel if that batch will twist how you want it to. It's just not the same

TefikiMupu@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 45d

Joann's conspiracy board section really was the best. Not sure where to get all my thumbtacks from now.

Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 45d

Warehouse worker for a company that sells food over Amazon.

I inject HRT to every avocado spread we sell so toasts turn children trans and communist and immigrant.

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 45d (1 reply)

IT at a hospital. I make sure to mess with all the data of women who have abortions so right-wingers can't murder them and their doctors. I also hide all the sex change operations forced on kids under the age of 12

NM_Gringo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 44d

I thought the schools were doing the sex change operations after parents dropped them off? It's hugely inefficient to split the workload between schools and hospitals. I'm a retired software engineer who optimized business practices.

Spitefire@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 45d (1 reply)

I work for for a health insurance company that tries to be a market disruptor that brings prices down. I vote to put myself out of a job at every opportunity, and realize that if my company goes under my only skills are for evil.

Yeah I'm drunk right now, why do you ask?

blargh513@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 45d

Aww, I wanna be drunk too!

HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 44d (2 replies)

I fix soda/pop equipment, I love what I do. I'm slowly going insane though, we've been trying to find a second tech for 2 years now but people just don't work out, it's a sticky dirty job but it's fuckin fun and you get to goto cool places and see cool shit like strippers.

People struggle with the lack of structure, we have like 10 calls a week at most and half the time they are bunched up so you may have 3 shop days where your just fuckin around fixing shit. Jobs ment for someone who enjoys soda and learning how shit works.

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d (1 reply)

Reese?

iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d

Pieces?

SuiXi3D@fedia.io · 14 pts · 45d

I build and repair PCBAs for a company in Texas. I’m the one building the 5G to make the frogs gay.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 45d

I'm an engineer in a factory. They hired me to double check that the factory workers use my pronouns

Dojan@pawb.social · 12 pts · 44d

I develop software for the largest underground iron mine in the world. It's always fun to say "I'm a software engineer, I work with mining" because most people's reaction is "oh god, not crypto right?"

It's not crypto, but we're still destroying the environment!

In my free time I homosexually walk my dog, I enjoy gay cooking, I homo read books, I same-sex play games with friends, and queer do a whole bunch of other things.

::: spoiler <Joke 'splanation> I'm joking on the idea of homosexual marriage, because it's fun to extrapolate it into us gay-verb everything. :::

naught101@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 45d (5 replies)

Climate scientist (not joking)

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 45d (4 replies)

Favorite way to get alcohol into your body?

naught101@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 44d (3 replies)

Scotch whiskey

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 44d (2 replies)

I meant wrt vectors, but I'm going to assume 'orally'. I guess the hard stuff is for ecology knower's.

naught101@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 44d (1 reply)

Sorry, I have no idea what you're taking about. Sound interesting though

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 44d

I'm suggesting that knowing that shit and seeing what's (not) done with it must be a very pleasant and not at all quixotic experience.

blargh513@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 45d

I work for a national pharmacy chain that is kind of everywhere in the us.

I fuck with the perscription data so everyone gets extra doses of the gay pills.

ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 43d (4 replies)

As a lifelong kitchen worker I truly don't understand how anyone who works in the service industry can be anything less than the farthest to the left you can be.

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 43d (2 replies)

Real political organizations (I shit you not):

Gays for Trump
Blacks for Trump
Latinos for Trump

yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 43d (1 reply)

I can't find any references to it now when i went googling, but in my first job at McDonalds they automatically enrolled us in the McUnion, which meant that we didnt need to bother with joining a real union.

16 year old me didn't see too much of a problem with this. Randomly thought about it recently like what the fuck was that how did they think that would work and then how the fuck did we let that work.

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 43d

Many companies have avoided the whole union issue with profit-sharing, which is actually a nice benefit but also something the company can take away if the employees unionize. But "McUnion" - srsly? Did they have McBenefits lol?

titanicx@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 43d

Dude, my son-in-law is a huge right wing idiot, and he's a kitchen worker. It happens. I have no idea how. But yeah.

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 45d (1 reply)

I work in QA.

Meaning I make sure that the websites I go over all have the secret Gay Code built in. See what it does is secretly pop up on the screen BE GAY so fast you won't see it--- but your brain will have! It's very cool technology that we are implementing so that all websites-- even the most innocuous-- further seed in the Gay Agenda.

You visit websites, it will eventually turn you gay. We are very proud of our work.

ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 45d

Not apps though. Apps are safe and secure!

hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 44d (1 reply)

I do IT infrastructure. I ensure the it infra is hostile to cars

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 44d

Fuck cars

impairedimperator@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 44d (1 reply)

I invent the stuff we make stuff out of.

tetris11@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 44d

6 days of work a millenium and every sunday off. Must be nice.

Zier@fedia.io · 10 pts · 45d

I thought it was the job of frogs to make people gay. Stop stealing jobs from frogs.

thingAmaBob@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 44d (1 reply)

I’m curious as to what they think most of us do.

RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 13 pts · 44d

Get paid to protest between getting our Communist Welfare Checks while sitting in our Communist Section 8 housing because we all hate Capitalism and just want free stuff from Communism.

Duuuuuuuh.

HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 44d (3 replies)

I work in payments.

Remember the Superman movie scheme taking a fraction of a cent off of every transaction? Every time you dip your card, 1/30 of a cent is sent directly to Kim Jong-Il's personal hairdresser.

Coming in 2027 is the all-new Hezbollah Rewards scheme, where 125,000 points can be exchanged for a custom-painted missile lofted towards Tel Aviv.

Diurnambule@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 44d (2 replies)

As funny as it is you can't. Somebody made the mistake of sending an 1$ transaction to a forbidden country on the visa network while testing a filtering technology, (which didn't work at the time, obviously). Seem like this triggered some control in the US, the company was contacted by a regulator

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 44d (1 reply)

The mistake was that it was $1 and not 7-9 figures

Noodle07@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 44d

They didn't get the budget for the tests

tetris11@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 44d

I'm a prostrate driver working at night to stimulate your urethra to completion. During the day I roller blade

VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 45d

I photoshop images of flat earth to make it look round

I always forget to add the stars though

BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 45d

I help old shits like travelwithmrmichael figure out how to turn on their computer and phone.

therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 45d (1 reply)

Me? I'm a dishwasher.

Bo7a@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 44d

But who will do the dishes after the revolution?

I do my own dishes now. I'll do my own dishes then!

hOrni@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 43d (1 reply)

A lot less leftists than right wingers have made a career out of asking stupid questions online.

A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 43d

wHaT iS a WoMaN????!!!!

CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 44d

I'm a 3D artist, I specialize in optimizing my work in ways that AI models can't even comprehend yet.

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 45d

I'm the paymaster for professional Liberal protesters.

MrShankles@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 45d

Think Scar Face... except it's abortion pills

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 5 pts · 45d

I am a sponge. I live off Soros bucks.

irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 44d

I get paid by George soros full time to go to protests

strop@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 43d (4 replies)

Imagine wearing a suit and a tie unironically

hOrni@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 43d (3 replies)

Sorry, what? I think it's pretty normal to wear a suit and tie. How would You wear one ironically? A punk rock concert? Funeral of your worst enemy?

strop@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 43d (2 replies)

Those are solid ironic examples. It's normal, sadly, yeah. Like wearing non-zero drop, narrow toebox shoes, especially high heels. Or polyester. Or branded clothing. Or flipflops. Normal but dismal.

hOrni@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d (1 reply)

I get most of these. But what's wrong with flipflops? And how do You feel about my beloved Crocs?

strop@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 43d

They're a hazard and should be only worn — in their safety form — by asian workers in heavy industry.

Wear sandals. Crocs are made out of crushed dreams and lullabies.

grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 44d

Sever fella. I support students and researchers and occasionally move heavy things around. At least that's what I do for money

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 43d (2 replies)

former software developer (retired) - now I just fuck around

hexabs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d (1 reply)

When find out comes a knockin'

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d

If this house is rockin', find out came knockin'.

RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 2 pts · 44d

I work for a telcom on the gay waves for the 5G.

tobebannedbygaymods@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 44d

New Minimum wage engineer slave for a Capitalist Pig

NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 44d

I fix things.

captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 45d
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Formfiller@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 43d

I peel paint off of fascist reflecting pools

But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 43d

Im just a labourer. It in my free time I will hook up with your dad on Grindr

whereitsat@lemmy.zip · -1 pts · 43d (1 reply)

If I came from a wealthier family and went to private schools and all that I'd probably be an editor for Vogue and be a psychopath like Patrick Bateman. They just self-own when they ask a stupid question like this because they have no self-awareness or intelligence. I've never met anyone IRL who made more than 100k a year that wasn't an asshole. They don't kill people but they wouldn't put up a protest if it happened and they see the rest of us as vermin.

titanicx@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 43d

You are an idiot. Plenty of us that's make more than 100k are not right wing jackasses.

chloroken@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 44d

I went through the post history of several "leftists" replying here, and it turns out that they're liberals.

Hey Democrats: you're not leftist. You're reactionary.

Leyah@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 43d

Lol so gay people are suffering from a medical disorder