What is something you never understood the hype for?
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The notion that working in the Trades is so great. Coming from a guy did a lot of construction work, trust me it can really suck… also most of the guys in that line of work are assholes.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I started an IBEW apprenticeship and was so put off by the vibe/attitude of everyone I quit in the first week. Fuck that, I don't care how much you pay me I'm not working outside in the heat getting literally and metaphorically roasted all day. If I wanted to work with toxic immature assholes I would get a fast food job.
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I'm a software developer, but I spent three months chucking boxes in the back of a truck for General Motors one summer. Some days, my brain is fried after six hours at my job, but the physical labor work I could do for 12 hours and walk out feeling almost refreshed.
I sometimes wish I could go through a day of work just... doing. Not wracked with indecision or trying to figure out which tradeoff I won't regret in three weeks. The idea of going into a framed house and wiring up electric all day and then going home — without ever having done it or experiencing the downsides of course— it sounds really nice.
Of course my back and joints couldn't keep up at fifty like they did at twenty-two, and I met a bunch of functional addicts working that job and I wouldn't have wanted to get swept up in that.
That sounds nice because you've never done it. The horrors you encounter in people's homes and the creativity you have to come up with when doing the wiring are real.
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Working for corpos. It's a dream for most of IT people to get hired in Google or Microsoft. I guess being a worthless cog in a world-destroying machine is the top of the game these days.
As a software architect, I only target small companies. And I can do anything I fucking want, I'm currently rocking a SolidJS+TRPC+Prisma setup and life is a dream.
The idea is to be a cog in which you can get lost and do minimal work while collecting a fat paycheck
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I started an IBEW apprenticeship and was so put off by the vibe/attitude of everyone I quit in the first week. Fuck that, I don't care how much you pay me I'm not working outside in the heat getting literally and metaphorically roasted all day. If I wanted to work with toxic immature assholes I would get a fast food job.
Most of my time in construction was during high school and early college and even then I recognized how many immature assholes I worked with!
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Twitter or any “microblog”.
I don’t understand why “following” a person/organisation would be interesting. I would rather follow a topic/community.
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I will also never understand the fascination with streaming. Just play the game, nerd.
I used to think this, but as I gave it a shot, I started learning new techniques in games like Overwatch. Learn from better players than me.
I also can just watch a stream of a new game and see if it's something I'd like to play. Saves me from buying a game I might not like.
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There are dozens of us!
My country pretty much lives hockey, so people don't even ask whether you watch, it's assumed you do, so they'll ask stuff like "that match yesterday was awesome, right?" or directly reference something that happened in said match and then look at you like their mind can't comprehend someone doesn't watch hockey.
Conan O'Brien taught me how to deal with this situation decades ago.
Just say, "yeah, it was a real nailbiter!" that should buy you enough time to run away.
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The idea is to be a cog in which you can get lost and do minimal work while collecting a fat paycheck
Yup. When you're the only guy on the team, you have to do everything.
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Romance. Like I get on an intellectual level why people couple up and all, evolution and all that, and that people strongly desire it, but Ive never been able to imagine exactly what it feels like to want that close of a relationship with someone, let alone a formalized and exclusive one.
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I will also never understand the fascination with streaming. Just play the game, nerd.
It's not just to watch the game, it's to watch/listen to the streamer. It's like a talk show.
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Having multiple monitors. My boss now has three. One is dedicated to displaying their calendar the whole day.
Having two has definitely helped me, because most of my job is comparing what this thing says to what that thing says, but any more than that sounds like a bit much.
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"The good old days"
The great thing about the past is that you can forget anything you want. Just hold on to the happy thoughts and any day can be a good ol day.
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Finally got to play Nightreign, and that's at the front of my mind as an answer to this question. Love Elden Ring; but after a few expeditions in Nightreign, I'm never touching it again.
There's a few mods on nexusmods that remove the time limits and the grind and make it feel more like another Elden Ring DLC.
I'm also not a huge fan of rushing through my Souls game.
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It's been 30 minutes: time to reboot Batman again! Let's spend half the runtime of the movie rehashing his origin story just in case there might somehow still be one single person on Earth who doesn't know what Batman's deal is.
I actually don't know, only read it from reddit/lemmy that his rich parents died or something and now he wants revenge against the criminals that killed them?
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The notion that working in the Trades is so great. Coming from a guy did a lot of construction work, trust me it can really suck… also most of the guys in that line of work are assholes.
I grew up and have put my fair share of time in the trades. They do pay well but if you don't get out of the field, you trade your functioning body for money.
The one thing I can't wrap my head around is why everyone wants to work so much overtime. Even unions are rocking 50-60 hour work weeks and then claiming they treat you well. It's looked down upon if you only want to work 40.
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Same reason some people are into watching video games, talent shows or even actors.
There's loads of interest to be found in spectating a skilled display of any activity if you truly engage with it IMO.
I sometimes watch sports I've barely got a grasp of the rules for just out of fascination. GAA hurling is the most recent one I can recall getting sucked into for an afternoon.
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Having multiple monitors. My boss now has three. One is dedicated to displaying their calendar the whole day.
If I have one that's sufficiently big I don't need two. 24" is usually all I need. Helps to have 20/20 vision as well and use smaller fonts.
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I grew up and have put my fair share of time in the trades. They do pay well but if you don't get out of the field, you trade your functioning body for money.
The one thing I can't wrap my head around is why everyone wants to work so much overtime. Even unions are rocking 50-60 hour work weeks and then claiming they treat you well. It's looked down upon if you only want to work 40.
They do pay well but if you don't get out of the field, you trade your functioning body for money.
That is the key, “getting off the tools” aka getting a white collar/office job….
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There are dozens of us!
My country pretty much lives hockey, so people don't even ask whether you watch, it's assumed you do, so they'll ask stuff like "that match yesterday was awesome, right?" or directly reference something that happened in said match and then look at you like their mind can't comprehend someone doesn't watch hockey.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=msN7HNncHik&t=130s&pp=2AGCAZACAQ%3D%3D
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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Dude either needs to streamline to two monitors, or pick up iRacing.
Only reason I'd have 3 monitors is for racing sims, but even then I usually use VR anyway.
Two is fine for most.
I have 3 monitors at work and at home. 2 isn't enough!
