I know the leftist in me is supposed to have sympathy for these people and get them to unionize. But only after I stop laughing and enjoying this moment. For years these fucks told the rest of us to “learn to code” and pretended like studying anything else at uni was a fucking waste of time.
GUESS WHAT FUCKERS. SO WAS CODING. Looks like we’ll be baristas together, only I’ll have three years of experience!!!
As long as I could remember I just wanted to make contraptions. I was always ripping apart my toys and connecting wires. I always resented the “I’m going into engineering for the money” crowd, like damn, leave some room for the people who actually want to do this.
Thankfully I know about more than making web pages, but I’m sorta worried elite tier web devs who have been living in the most convoluted systems ever designed by man are going to realize its actually easier to learn electrical engineering.
I always resented the people who thought this way, because I went into engineering for the money, and the people who vocally thought this tended to be upper middle class with big safety nets. Not saying this is where you’re coming from, btw. But it always felt like some people thought I didn’t belong there or couldn’t be a good engineer because my motives weren’t “pure” enough, like I should feel bad for wanting to live a more comfortable life than my parents and I did when I was growing up.
Oh sorry I guess I could be more specific, the people who I had in mind saying that, were very wealthy upper middle class people.
At least they were the ones loud enough to say “I’m in it for the money”. Folks who had more difficult economic backgrounds just, didn’t talk like that I suppose.
Yeah I feel the same way. Sorry my passion, playing music, doesnt pay anything more and i had to get a CS degree to survive, you know?
it’s funny. I’ve ended up here because it’s what I’m good at doing. but slowly I’ve come to learn is that what I’m better at and what I really like to do is solving the sociotechnical problems that make working in a particular workplace miserable. so I’ve adjusted over time. it’s not really a position you can interview for, so my resume is all normal technical engineering, but there’s a narrow slice I target because doing that particular job means solving the social problems I really want to get at. and my dream is that I stay at one place long enough so that I can make it obvious that the root of all these problems is the fucking executives so it’s time to form a union!! (tech types will never go for it without the upfront work that gets them to see you as a friend and ally in their struggles, personally, and without the plank by plank evidence that the owners are genuinely to blame).
in other words, my life became politics even before I became a leftist
Ironically I’m not even that good at it but I can’t imagine doing anything else. I seem to lack the ability to disconnect the idea of “work” and my mental health. Its incredibly unhealthy but I basically shut down when given a long, monotonous task so I’ve optimized my life to avoid that, if that makes sense. If I’m not doing this, I think my only other option is construction or some other manual labor.
It’s honestly crazy how tech people can be so abused but are so trained to hate unions. They just hope there’s someone high enough with sway to have their interests at heart, and if not, go “oh well”
I thought you were saying you were into making contraception and kinda confused
After seeing the DIY electrolysis posts on here, I’m sure there’s another user who has done that.