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Best job i ever had was maintenance guy at a nursing home. Loved it. Rewarding. Fulfilling. Paid only $10.75/hr so i left it and ‘developed my career’ and now im ‘successful’ but at least once a week i have dreams where im back in the home hanging pictures, flirtin with the ol gals, being useful.

So when people ask ‘who fixes toilets under communism?’ my answer is a resounding ‘me. I will fix the toilets.’

  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Happiest I’ve ever been at work has been fixing and cleaning things that needed it.

    The thing that always stopped it was the inhumane work conditions and lack of respect. If you’re happy to treat me as an equal, and make me a cup of tea when I take a break to stretch my back and knees I’ll do the dirty shitty work for you.

    If you want me to work to the point of damaging my body and then raise your voice at me if you see me taking a damn breather then we’re gonna have a problem.

  • MercurySunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Whoever is going to be using it. It’s not fucking complicated. Under (actual) communism the populace is educated to take care of themselves, unlike in capitalism, which purposefully perpetuates the class divide through lack of education to preserve hierarchy.

  • clearedtoland@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m damn near 40 in a great career and I still miss my old McDonald’s days that paid peanuts. It was a weird mix of monotony, spontaneity and genuine friendships.

    • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m from the middle of nowhere West Virginia where a lot of the times you can’t get the county to fill in potholes. Lots of people manually fill them in themselves with gravel. If the tools were readily available to borrow, then there would absolutely be somebody that would fix their own road.

      We act like there was no infrastructure before capitalism, and that’s just not the case. If a village needed a bridge, they built a bridge together.

    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      This is a joke right? Like those jobs are grueling as fuck and require very particular people to be interested/capable.

  • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I used to work in programming, I hated being so mentally exhausted at the end of the day that I couldn’t do anything more taxing than watching TV or playing a mindless videogame

    Give me a simple physical job that I leave at work any day

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      God this is me. I’ve got deadline coming up so I’ve been tearing my guts out every day trying to finish up a project. I don’t even play videogames, or watch shows anymore; just scratch out some notes in diary, then read in bed.

      I wish I was like a letter carrier and got to clock out with a clear conscience. No waking up in the middle of the night thinking about nonsense programming problems for a bullshit domain that doesn’t need to exist.

  • spicy pancake@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My job involves handling dangerous materials. Given how much some of my coworkers stress me the fuck out by being walking safety hazards, I often and happily volunteer to shift the more dangerous tasks to myself.

    I’d be snagging post-revolution hazmat volunteer shifts like a fiend just trying to keep less careful people from getting them…