Any type of social work.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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Anything medical. Humanity is gross and there's too much on the line.
Any where I have to drive.
cries in rural town in Michigan
Is it harder to travel by foot in Michigan?
FUCK yes, at least if you live in a rural town. I live in a small farming town of 5Β 000 people. There is ONE grocery store here. Once a week, I go on errands (appointments, shopping, etc.) and I have to travel 25β30 minutes, or about 15 miles. And that's driving. There's no bus line, no train line, so if I wanted to walk, it'd take about 6 hours to walk.
How do you end up with a town of 5,000 people and none of them wanting to set up a store? My town has half that population and has two stores, though maybe that's why it seems resourceful to do so.
There are other places to buy groceries: for example, there's a small carryout down the street and a Dollar General as well. But those aren't really "grocery stores" nor are they big stores. There are also a smattering of small businesses of course.
There also might be one or two in nearby small towns (which are still like 10β15 min drive away even then).
But for a good number of tasks, you still have to go into town, so my point still stands.
To be honest, having both a grocery store and a Dollar General near me, I actually prefer the Dollar General.
As someone who has worked for Family Dollar (which is a part of the same industry ("discount variety store")), I absolutely hate that industry with a passion and refuse to shop at any store like Dollar General, Family Dollar, and Dollar Tree, etc. That whole industry is even more predatory towards employees than even regular retail stores are. That's how they get the items so cheap in the first placeβaside from supply chain injustices (read: slavery, same as most other industries), it comes out of the workers, both in pay and workload.
Anyway, I didn't initially mean to go off on this spiel, so I'm sorry about that, and in any case my original point is still valid, I feel.
That's alright. I didn't know about that, sorry about that. If the dollar stores were charities, I know I would've since there is a charity watch aspect of my job.
It's cool. You kinda don't know until you work there.
You wouldn't drive 10 min one way for 500k a year, or 10 million a year?
That 500k would go right to the car shop and the hospital once they find out there has been a wreck.
Are you saying you're unable to drive, and therefore would get into an accident for sure? What about 100 million dollars?
Yes, and it amazes me how interwoven it is with everything.
Unless you're physically unable to use a vehicle, you could probably learn for 100 million dollars a year.
Debt collector. Too unethical.
Police executioner, or just police in general. I have morals.
... I think the police should have morals.
hospitality stuff.
You mean being nice to people, or do you mean working in a hospital?
No hospitality is part the service sector, front of house is known as hospitality. Making and serving coffee or selling cloths in our current society adds little to the world other than extraction of wealth, repression of third world country's and the company's that specialise in these sectors are often awful to they're employees.
There is a price that would convince anyone to do any thing at least once.
Manufacturer arms.
There's no way I'm taking a wage in return for enabling rich people blowing up poor people around the world. I want to be able to sleep at night.
Hmm... probably anesthesiology at 1 billion hospitals at once. Nobody's got that kind of money.
[off topic]
Great movie; "Repo Man" with Emilio Estevez.
Emilio and Harry Dean Stanton are on a stake out. Stanton says "I hate normal people. Normal people spend their whole lives trying to avoid tense situations. Repo man spends his life getting into tense situations."