What's your personal fifteen 9/11s? (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by tombruzzo@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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One time I bought avocado dip and as I was bringing it inside it slid off all the other stuff it was on and the container cracked so I had to find another larger container to put it in so it wouldn't go bad

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[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Gentrification of everything. Now EVERYTHING is a "rich people thing" even shit they have no interest in. I thought that "white-working-class" shit like bowling would be immune to this, but nope. Now bowling is expensive as hell, and that's just ignoring the fact no one under the age of 35 regularly bowls as a hobby. Even getting a job has been a "rich people thing". No one's hiring and all the job advice assumes you have this thing called a 'network' which is something only rich people have. "Oh, can't get a job? Contact your network of billionaire friends and they'll pull some strings to get a job for you." Yeah thanks out of touch article....I'll get right on that. Me, who's not conventionally attractive and therefore never made friends and also lives in a rural red flyover state. I TOTALLY know some high-up people who would be happy to sacrifice their own wealth for me.

And people wonder why younger people are so unhappy? Because we have either been restricted from fully participating in society or barred from it altogether because we all forgot that poor people exist.

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

Man, I feel this. Kids don't go outside because we've made it a car hellscape. Adults don't go outside because it usually means spending money.

I got the network question one time in a job interview. Of course I don't have a network, I do my work and go home. I haven't made work my life and I hate that's the expectation

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 2 points 8 months ago

If you don't mind me asking, how did that come up in the interview?

But seriously, it makes all my efforts in life feel pointless because I didn't major in STEM and I'm not conventionally attractive, so no one wanted to be friends with me and no friends in this hellworld = unemployable.

[-] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 1 points 8 months ago

I never heard back from that one. It was just a marketing job at a Coworking place so I didn't mind.

Work shit is hard. One thing that kind of helped me is finding a decent recruiter and getting some short term contracts.

I did some work in digital publishing for government departments. It's literally just copying and pasting content from word docs into websites. Show a recruiter you're computer literate and they can advocate for you to get tech adjacent roles like that