chapotraphouse

classic reactionary STEM grad who feels entitled to a high-paid tech position because I stumbled through three years of lectures

Mate you're entitled to a high-paid job which doesn't harm you psychologically or physically, just like every worker. Status and power over others is another thing but there is no shame in wanting a safe workplace that gives you all your surplus value. The bourgeois have run a massive psyop over the past few decades to push the idea that its being "entitled" to expect humane conditions at work since they need to make conditions shitty for workers by cutting a lot of corners to offset the falling rate of profit. They are evil parasitic trash that need to be roasted alive on campfires in minecraft survival skyblock hunger games hypothetically.

it's been great to hear about how good the economy is doing when everyone I know seems to be getting laid off or having a terrible time trying to find work

would love to work on the railways or in local government or something but I don't hear anything back from those roles. My best asset is that I spent 2 years setting up a tenant union in a major city, but apparently that's not good enough to even get an interview for support worker role at a charity that literally supports tenants and homeless people. I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Every time I get close to a job, it always ends the same way - interview, feel like I did well, get a call back a couple of days later saying "thanks but somebody else had more experience".

Unfortunately it seems your fields of choice are ones where networking/nepotism is usually how they fill open positions.

Railways are usually union jobs, and so people working those jobs will always have a nephew or cousin they are saving a spot for. Similar situation with local government jobs. No real experience or specific degree is necessary and you get decent benefits, so it usually comes down to who you know, not what you know.

Imo nonprofits are some of the worse employers. They typically pay everyone shit, except for senior management who get 6 figures for doing absolutely nothing. Plus, you are competing with people who have more experience in ngos because they've never had to support themselves with a real job.

It's why fields like journalism are filled with trust fund kids, they're the only people who can afford to do unpaid internships .

[THIS IS AN UNSOLICITED ADVICE COMMENT IM SORRY PLEASE DISREGARD]

Why don't I strap on my job helmet and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into Jobland where jobs grow on jobbies

Last time I got a job, my ex had some grave dirt she bought from a magician or vodou practitioner in New Orleans. I put a dollar, a gram of weed, a cigarette, and a splash of whiskey in the tin which held the pouch of dirt. got a job about a week later, and im still employed there almost 5 years later.

I wish I could help but I’m in the same boat.

Fuck the rich. The whole point of them being rich is to create jobs and now they refuse because they’re picky? Then those gluttons should have their wealth ripped out of their trotters. Pigs don’t need it and should learn to live without it.

I agree. I got a job last week and i left it two days later because it was clear that the boss had no idea what the hell he was doing and it was going to be a major headache (and i would have been forced to rent an apartment, had i definitely joined said job).

It sucks man, 9 months jobless and the first job that hires me is some guy making a shitty startup thanks to government subsidies.

As someone in high paid tech without a degree: Lie about your job history, and if you can find a way to speak to someone (even a recruiter), do it. Make your CV tick the boxes (insofar as you can actually do it, don't lie about being a heart surgeon), and past that you need to make the employer like you.

It's a stupid, unfair and extremely luck based system, sorry.

My honest advice, make up some lie about what you're passionate about and how you got where you are to sell to people. I am involved in engineering companies and just made up a lie I've been repeating since graduation about having some long term goal of making the next generation of mobility possible through cost efficient personal flight equipment. I weave it into a story about not being sure what to study but wanting to make the world better through it, and then coming to this job to hopefully get closer to the goal in some minute way. It involves enough belief (fake, to be clear) in a profit driven technological solution to many problems that managers think I'm driven and willing to do anything to get us further or some bullshit. And I try to say it all with a lofty tone like I know it's hard and I'm not gonna ever really do it, but with a "please let me be exploited by you to learn a bit more to get my goal" tint. For you, Id even add something about how you weren't willing to settle for less and so did some in between jobs for a while, but now see some path forward in small steps at "insteek company you apply to"

Idk how much of my success comes outta that, but I grew up very working class and in the middle of nowhere without any concept of this corporate shit and this got me through all the bullshit.

But please don't think that I think this is your whole solution. It's a shit world and there's no real one trick, especially you being trans and all the struggles pushed into you for being yourself. I'm just trying to add my little bit of what I feel like has helped a cis guy.

I feel you. I'm the first MFer in my family without a college degree and I'm a nonpassing trans person. I've been laughed out of so many job interviews I quit trying. 100% scheme fueled existence, creative approaches to meeting my needs. Idk what to tell you, this shit will have you pulling out your hair and rethinking everything right down to how you eat and breath

Are you asking for advice? If so:

There is a significant reactionary faction here that condemn all higher education and think being able to bear the burden of being a laborer is somehow anti-left. I wonder what the Soviets would have thought of that. Don’t let them gaslight you.

Keep at it, my friend. Every organization out there has been cutting heads for years. There’s no magic bullet except to keep looking and submitting tailored applications and staying motivated enough to land a job before funds run out.

Personally I took a 15% pay cut and reduction in responsibilities after my last layoff, working my way back up again. Being overqualified is what got me into the role because competition was so tight.

I hope this doesn’t come off as saying you’re not trying hard enough. I fully understand the cash runs out before the offer comes in despite all the effort. Just want to emphasize it always feels hopeless until the offer finally comes in.

It took about 6 months of fully using my weekends to apply to jobs for my previous position (while still employed: was looking for an upgrade), and this current time took 6 months of applying Mon-Fri 8 hours a day to find my current position. It’s bad out there for sure but I hope that cheers you up. It’s not some personal failing on your part that it’s this hard.