> tfw got hired as an IT in a manufacturing company > few

>have only got offers from IT places
>degree becoming more worthless by the day and slowly running out of savings

What if you have no choice?

>>60923579
Should have gotten something practical like a philosophy degree, retard.

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>>60923596

>>60923555
I would rather be bored out my mind and hate the person next to me than go back to retail

>cubicle

Lucky, try an open office with two retards talking 24/7 sitting right across.

>>60924301
This. Holy hell is it a nightmare. This open meme can't end soon enough

>>60923555
>tfw got hired as forklift operator in manufacturing
>unload a couple trailers in the morning then shitpost on 4chan the rest of the day
living the dream lads

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>>60924301
This sinyor.

> smallish open office
> designated secret indoor smoking area where all staff including asshole president smoke illegally
> constant smoking (by the time one finishes, another would have arrived) that makes your eyes tear up
> don't smoke
> develop slight (hopefully non-serious) constant cough
> they know, but continue anyway
> too much of a faggot to report them

Just buy earplugs, dumb frog poster anon.

>>60924437
But you also get paid shit. Do you need a cert to operate it where you are?

>>60923555
Everything sucks.

I work construction in the hot sun all day and not a day goes by I don't day dream about a cubicle in an air conditioned building.

>>60924301
>open office
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Holy fuck yesterday morning was so ridiculously loud I had to stuff in some ear phones and crank up some heavy metal because I literally could not hear myself think or concentrate.

Open plan can work provided you've got shit loads of space, but where I am where there is zero space and everyone is crammed together like a chicken coop which is also a phone/contact center is goddamn torture.

>>60923555

Why haven't you moved into the comms room retard?

>>60924468
Call corporate and report them. They will put a stop to that right quick.

>>60924410
It won't end, because the world is run by shameless narcissists who don't feel self conscious, and cubicles cost money. Get used to it.

>>60924537
No certs required, I'm just doing it as a summer job to get myself through uni. The pay isn't too bad for a student job

>>60924468
I really wonder about people that smoke that much. I have an adderall prescription, love coffee and could have sworn I would love nicotine, but it seriously is shit to me. I never understand the appeal....guess it's a brain chemistry thing

>>60924639
That's not an option. Even ignoring the fact that I'm a fucking coward who doesn't act even when his health is literally being destroyed, they're too well-connected - both at work and with the local gov - for me to escape repercussions.

These guys (without the asshole president) decided to destroy the career of a new hire on a whim, and they fucking succeeded. I was there the whole time so I know how it really went down. One of them called in a favor from his friend. The way that poor guy was treated his last few days was dehumanizing in every sense of the word. Not only from those assholes, but from everyone else who just stood there and didn't help because they didn't want to get on the assholes' bad side. This includes myself. The guilt eats me up every time I think about it.

I don't want attention, anon. I don't think I'll be able to handle it.

>>60924639
>>60924836

Also, we've had surprise inspections before.

They get tipped off before hand. They usually lock off the room (once or twice with my work equipment still inside). Since it's officially a unused storage room. It doesn't get inspected.

I wouldn't even be surprised if the inspector was the one calling them.

>>60924836
Change jobs yo, I know it's not easy but it's generally the only option... you cannot change a company from within.

>>60924899
did you consider videoevidence + anonymous tip?
i mean it´s surely not like you are the only dissatisfied person there

>>60924943
I'm the only one in that room who isn't a part of their group. They'll know it's me.

They also have access to security camera footage.

> Anonymous
Anonymous tips are not anonymous. The complaint along with who made it get sent to the president. One of the perks of the smoke room I suppose.

>>60924941
It's a "dream" job. My parents and family keep telling me again and again how lucky I am to have landed a job like this, especially given my shaky employment history and education level, and they're right. The pay, work loads/hours, and location are absurdly good for a person with my qualifications.

I the jobs that are waiting for me if I left are 1/4 the pay and with none of the other benefits. I'd also have a hard time explaining why I left to my parents. I've put them through so much already and don't want them to disappoint them again.

I do fantasize about quiting though.

>>60923555
>work as electrician creating long ass harnesses
>everyone else in my area is asian
>dear fuck its like a Chinese restaurant
They even take goddamn calls from their relatives from god knows where in the middle of working so all I hear is ching chong back and forth constantly

>>60924836
Get a particulate filter mask. You can filter out the smoke instead of breathing it in.

>>60925165
>I'd also have a hard time explaining why I left to my parents. I've put them through so much already and don't want them to disappoint them again.

You're pathetic. Parents exist to be exploited and then discarded when you don't need them anymore. Tell me, do you live to make yourself happy or to make your parents happy?

You make me sick.

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>>60923555
>tfw can work from home

>>60924437
I thought you needed a license to operate one of those?

>>60925219
He's either in a third-world country, or the company just doesn't give a fuck about the law.

>>60925219
>>60925262
Or the lifting height is very limited.

>>60925196
No need. I try to spend as little time in that room as humanly possible, and schedule my work to coincide with the time the room is being used the most. Some of the assholes seem offended when I walk out, but I'll just end up in coughing loop if I don't. Luckily, the ones I'm stuck with don't seem to care.

>>60925201
I've already ruined everything in my life. I'm stuck in dead-end job. I have no social life and no friends. I haven't been in contact with most of my family including my siblings for years. I have lost interest in all my hobbies. In fact I've lost interest in everything. I can't even manage to finish watching a movie or even a youtube video. Everything is bland. Even porn isn't interesting anymore.

So to answer your question, my parents and, to a lesser extent, my job are the main reasons I'm still alive. I get to loose myself in my work, and I can keep my parents happy. I just have to keep this up until they die.

I'm sorry if that makes you sick.

>>60925219
Nope
>>60925262
I'm Canadian. I'm sure there's some sort of law that says you have to be trained to use one, but you don't need any sort of government issued licence. You don't even need a drivers licence.

>>60923579
join the Amish

>>60925201
>Parents exist to be exploited and then discarded when you don't need them anymore

OCH THE EDGE

>>60923555
One bad personal experience does not make the entire sector bad.

There are other, better jobs out there for you, anon. Stay as long as you can, get as much experience as you can, and if the job does not change for the better, you can leave when you have the opportunity.

>>60925404

I'm sorry to hear things are like that for you anon. It sounds like to me that you need to talk to your parents how you feel - You don't want that, your parents don't want that, I don't want that. You don't have to suffer. You don't have to be trapped.

I know it sounds kind of douchy, but maybe you might want to try traveling for a bit. Go somewhere totally different from your world! I have a cousin who might have been in a similar position. He saved his money, left his job and traveled for several months across south east asian alone - he met all sorts of people and made great friends.

>>60925566
Thank you for being kind enough to hear me out anon.

>>60924437
Could be doing worse for $25 an hour m8.

>>60925703

That's alright, but consider it. Take a week somewhere totally different.

It's unbelievably cheap over there in SEA - it won't cost you an arm and/or a leg.

>>60925770
>It's unbelievably cheap over there in SEA
Can confirm, am living in SEA. If you eat street hawker food, it is $1 for a meal. Renting a cheap apartment is USD$150/month.

>>60926331
W-what about Singapore?

>>60926525
Singapore to SEA is like Japan and Korea to the rest of Asia.

Technically, SEA. Much closer to Yurop in lifestyle and prices.

>>60926765
>much closer
No, my bad. Much more expensive. Most expensive in the world.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-most-expensive-cities-in-the-world-in-2017-are-mostly-in-asia/
>Singapore remains the world’s most expensive city to live in

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>>60926765
>>60926792
S-sorry, I was merely memeing.

>>60924836
Start smoking, play golf with his buddy's, shit talk him, get him fired.
>Problem solved

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>>60924301
>>60924610
I used to work in an open workspace, the image attached looked very similar (but all open workspaces look similar to a certain extent).

Depending on your situation, in my case, the manager seemed to like to constantly monitor everybody. In fact, the whole team can monitor you.

I may start an open office workspace general thread. Who's with me?

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>>60925210
I worked from home for about 2 years. Occasionally from my satellite office just because. The experience gradually lost its glow to me, being detached from your coworkers and also the management. The saying goes, "out of sight, out of mind." I won't be doing that again.

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>>60923555
Believe or not, I don't give a fuck.
>tfw ot hired as an IT in a manufacturing company.
>few months in
>90% work from home
>major corp literally paying me for study & 4chan
for those looking for a career on said field, do you research before judging it.

>>60927171
You're allowing your skills and brain to atrophy. Literally your brain will become warmbiered and you'll end up a vegetable. Don't be that guy.

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I work nightshift looking at this thing (CNC machine) for 10 hours a shift, easy job once you learn it but it's pretty repetitive. I like it when something goes wrong so I get to use my problem solving skills.

>>60927254
What do you (watch the machine) make?

>>60923555
This is how I stop people jumping on my gravy train too!

>>60924590
So many feels

>>60927338
Mostly kitchen/laundry/bathroom cabinets but I've done lots of architectural stuff like you see in shopping centres and lots of perferrated sound proofing walls and ceilings in hospitals, airports, universitys and stuff.

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>>60927566
This picture doesn't really show the full scale of this building, but I think I've been cutting the panels out for it for at least 2 years, still got at least another year to go on this project.

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>>60927064
That image looks like heaven, I just grabbed this off Google but imagine this kind of desk except the banks of them are so close people are literally back to back.

>finally get a job in IT
>I do nothing except reset a server maybe once or twice a day

Wow I wasn't expecting this

>>60925201
why do white people treat their parents like shit? this sort of behaviour is standard practice among white Americans.

Looks like some kind of modern typing pool

>>60923555
checked

I work in a small open office && my only gripe is that since I am an intern I dont have a proper desk or computer. I have to use a shitty laptop and sit next to the printer. It's easy work, I am just auditing code all day. My first 'real' job.
>got the job despite having no prior work experience or qualifications.
I am a math major so my only programming experience is python using numpy and matplotlib.

>>60930360
It's funny how you can replace "intern" with "cuck" and it works just as well.

>>not a day goes by without thinking about killing myself and this bitch in the next cubicle
in that order?

>>60930401
>in that order?
Why not? It's certainly doable.

What does she and i that is this annoying?

>>60930389
>cuckolding is on my mind 24/7
stop browsing /pol/

>>60925219
You don't. I worked in an autozone warehouse for half a year and learned to use every lifting machinery you can imagine in a warehouse.

They do their own internal drivers tests for each machine, but it's nothing required by law.

>>60927171
teach, what education/certifications/experience did you have before landing that job?

>>60927064
>the manager seemed to like to constantly monitor everybody

How is that a bad thing? Do your fucking job.

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>>60929396
>Boring ass job
>coworkers hate their jobs
>constantly being monitored
>Any stray thought (creativity) you have is looked down upon

is.. is this what people want..?

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>>60930389
>an cuck
Gotcha there bucko :^)

>>60924746
it's a brain chemistry thing
cigarettes tastes like shit but after a year of nicotine I got used to it and it releases stress

>>60930585
There's a difference between a slave-driver and a manager, which you would be aware of if you had ever worked anything beyond a no-skill entry level job.

>>60923555
>>>/biz/

>>60930651

/biz/ is nothing but threads about crypto currency

>>60925201
> Parents exist to be exploited and then discarded when you don't need them anymore

Can you play spot the sociopath?

I used to work IT in a medium sized JIT factory. It was constant screaming at me to go run to places and fix stupid shit (like operators unplugging printers and computers). Everyone was always getting heated at one another and at me.

The only real IT disaster we ever had was when the 8 year old switches on the plant floor died, which took me all night to get back running since you had to use a fucking bucket lift to get to them.

That job was fucking terrible because of everyone being screaming lunatics. I would get called outside of work all the time and screamed at because someone unplugged something or hit a computer with a torque tool.

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>>60923555
>Got hired as a biomedical scientist at a big academic hospital
>Professor is super kind. We come up with sound experiments together
>I get to work out the details. Problem-solving skills level up like crazy
>Not very rewarding work, but extremely varied
>Get to learn (animal) surgery techniques, operating advanced machinery such as MRI/CT scanners, learn lab techniques I couldn't even dream of
>Get to publish the research in good journals, I'm first author several times
>Amazing colleagues, everyone is MSc, PhD or postdoc
>Need any help? These people will jump through fires to help you

IT is a joke.

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I'm so fucking glad I didn't fall for the itcuck meme
>fell for the pharmacy meme instead
>150k in loans

>>60924623
This.

Set up in comm closet or server room, or just get some noise cancelling headphones.

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>>60930585
Shit's stressful, and not only when you slack off, but also when you do your work.
Seriously, fuck open offices. We are already cramped at mine, so I got a desk next to a wall. The only thing I see a white wall behind my screens, a wall to my side. Basically you are not aware of your surroundings, and everyone can look at your screen. Not to mention, that all the noise in the office is distracting. We have only technical people, so no one is constantly talking, but you can hear everyone tapping at their keyboards, some have open headphones, so you clearly hear what music they listen to. I use IEMs, and it already happened to me few times, that I have been focused on something, and didn't notice when someone literally came up to my desk. At least twice it have been my manager.

>>60930730
I mean that's great and all, but performing surgery on animals and operating an MRI machine doesn't exactly sound like my cup of tea.

I think most people here are doing customer-support level IT, and that's why they hate it. I would an hero too if I had to deal with incompetent users blaming me for failures on their part.

>>60923555
>Im going to judge an entire field by my shitty experience from my first job
okay kid

>>60924746
Well, as I understand it it feels like shit, but chemically hooks you, and then the lack of nicotin makes smoking "worth it" emotionally. But it still feels like shit.

I don't smoke so can't say for sure.

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Recent graduate with BS Chemical Engineering. I didn't get any internship or relevant work experience so nobody will hire me for anything engineering related.
Where can I find some shitty coding job? I don't care how shit it is, I need just SOMETHING otherwise I'm getting kicked out and will have to join the military.

>>60931364
Why don't you look for internships in something related to your education? That's how I got my first job, by applying to an internship offer.

>>60931364
>implying commissioning as an officer is not the right choice
Do you want to make money and have a full retirement at 20 years?

>>60931471
DUI 4 years ago, can't get it waived.

>>60931364
Keep applying. I was in that same situation and finally found my shitty code-monkey job.

>>60925165
>hey guys, i think i have light astma could you not smoke in the room next to my desk
if this doesn't work
>would it be possible for me to move to the other side of the office
if neither of these work just leave and don't look back, tell parents you were harassed or some shit

>>60930627
Yeah, it wasn't too bad in retrospect. Partly because the office wasn't crammed full of engineers.

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>>60930808
>I think most people here are doing customer-support level IT

You see, people claim that their job and their private life is separate, but the reality is that it's not. If you feel miserable at the end of the day, it is likely because of your job

>>60930773
>IEMs
Enjoy your tinnitus

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>>60930585

>>60931364
Aren't you the guy that posted in /pol/ and complained about STEM being a meme?

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>>60924301
You remind me of my internship.
>1 big office, 6 idiots and me
>one is an adhd faggot that can't stop fidgeting
>one feels the need to fuck everyone's ears up with hardstyle
>two others never ever shut the fuck up
>one can't stop moping around all over the place
>seniorfag basically in a position to stare everyone in the back 24/7
>every day is basically trying to think while fidgetfuck and powermoper can't stop being fidgetty fucks, while aunt&aunt and hardstylecunt compete over who can be the louder bunch, while some self-entitled narcissist spends more time looking at my screen than his own screen
>for six fucking months

That was not a productive environment, that's for sure.

>>60924836
Report them anonymously, numb nuts. You don't have to attach your name to it. Set up a bogus email account or call corporate from a dummy/burner phone and be done with it.

>>60931514
RIP

>>60925165
As some other anons this is something you should be fighting. Definitely get video evidence of it happening regardless, You'll need it in case of unfair dismissall.

Then ask for a quick meeting with your boss. Just bring up the issue with him, you don't really need to go into excuses or whatnot, just say you don't like working in that enviroment with people smoking around you. Have your own solution though, ask if you can move to a different room or a proper designated smoking area for the fuckers.

Again get evidence of the meeting. If your boss ignores you or tells you to fuck off send it up the chain and make is official. Sure they can make your life shitty at the job, but keep gathering evidence to show them miss treating you and take it to tribunal or something.

You are literally being abused and taken advantage of and it's not something you have to put up with unfairly in today's society.

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>>60927105
Man, I love permanent HO. I get to do shit around the house, in the garden, be with cat, be with gf, meet friends after work, not having to put up with neon lights, open office and pretending to work when there is fucking nothing to do. Pic related. Me every day when I don't have to talk to co-workers beyond mail.

>>60925165
Ask them to put you in some other room. Or, you know, join them

>>60927105
>>60931989
As a side note, I work on my own software when I'm not busy with work. I also automated a good chunk of my work by now.

Being paid during downtimes and between release windows to do my own shit is great.

>>60925165
>My parents and family keep telling me again and again how lucky I am to have landed a job like this
They told me the same shit for a call center job. Fuck your parents, what have they achieved in their life? Going for security will never make you happy, you'll just end up a wageslave cuck like your father.

Go out. Live.

>>60931844
I've never said STEM is a meme, just that a degree doesn't guarantee you a job. I usually just implore other anons to get an internship no matter what.
There are a few other salty ChemE anons I've met on /pol/ though so I don't doubt someone has said that.

>>60931364
Have fun in bootcamp.

>>60931806
I am not the one who listens music through headphones so loudly, that you can hear it in the whole office.
The thing that hurts hearing is loudness, not distance of the speaker to your ear. Benefit of IEMs is that they isolate outside noise better, so you don't have to turn up loudness, to hear your music.
Learn what you are talking about, and don't spout things you don't understand.

>>60925201
>>60925462
>>60930304
>>60930679
Hey, you learn this shit in TLoGH.
Honestly, speaking as a southeast asian where family is prime, it's a really unhealthy mindset to just submit to them. I know people are just saying don't be exploitative, but like >>60932039 said
Their vision for my life is so utterly base that if I were to follow it, I wouldn't call it "living" in any sense of the word.
Whatever OP decides to do, I hope it is a deliberate choice and not just because he feels he needs to behave a certain way.

>>60926792
If I ever go to Singapore for whatever reason, I hope I can be buddy buddy with Falcon sempai

>>60924836
Fucking pussy faggot
The last time this shit happened I punched some bitch for doing that

>>60931989
>>60932020
That's my dream anon. How'd you land that?

>>60932334
Enjoy working construction forever, you agro white knight.

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>>60931364
Same, but I actually got a degree in CS and they still won't hire me

>>60930304
I'm a whyte boi and I love my parents

but to answer your question, it's because most Americans are retarded

>>60932422
That and the "kick out at 18 mentality"

>>60932359
>become contractor
>create your own company
>make bank
Already certified for general contractor and I started out as an electrician.
Enjoy sucking dick in the corporate world faggot

>>60924746
Former pack and a half per day here for 20 years. It's the nicotine, and un-diagnosed depression/anxiety problems.

How do I get a comfy tech job if I just graduated from high school? Working in a fish market and it fucking blows. Am very technologically competent.

>>60923555
IT is for faggots
certs are for faggots

get a real degree doing some advanced computer shit that niggers and normies are too dumb to learn. otherwise enjoy your devalued shit degree that they're passing out like candy to anyone who even shows up to class.

>>60931364
Basically go on monster or indeed and fire off 10 to 15 apps a day to different companies. Someone will scoop you up eventually, especially if you have a code repository they can browse.

>>60932446
Neato, I can do that too as an Engineer.

>>60932464
You get a degree or build a portfolio which equals what you'd cover in a degree.

>>60930401
>arm bomb
>shoot self
>bomb explodes

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>open space office
>one fat tub coworker slurping their coffee constantly
>one poointheloo with adhd constantly moving their leg creating constant shuffling noise
>another coworker constantly wastes time on facebook and laughs out loud every 5 minutes or so
>a fat itallian keeps getting calls from his girlfriend at his desk

This is why I sometimes just reserve a conference room to sit in it by myself with my laptop.

>>60932843
>open space office
>autistic guy who doesn't make eye contact with anyone
>koreans who speak bad english and don't talk to anyone else but themselves
>two other people who don't talk and just do their work
it's alright I suppose. I still haven't figured out how to use the coffee machine and I am embarrassed to ask someone for help.

>>60932843
>>60932860
I only quoted your post to post in the thread from the front page btw I forgot to remove the post number

I swear to God that employers have to have some sort of racket going on where they've all agreed to refuse to hire anyone without intern experience, thus forcing students to intern and give away work for free.
I had listed on my resume that I had actual work experience as a manager at a water park I worked at through college. After 6 months of job searching, nothing. I decided to change the job title from "Manager" to "Management Trainee Internship" and within a month I had two job offers. Complete bullshit.

>>60932940

How did you figure it out?

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>>60932965
There are certain buzzwords that HR just does ctrl+F for on their database to pull up a list of qualifying resumes. If yours doesn't have that word, then pic related. Intern is one of them, CAD another.
In fact I've heard of some people using the margins of their document to write in a whole bunch of buzzwords in white text so it's unseen by the reader, but more likely to be picked up by their internal search function.

>>60923579
>degree becoming more worthless by the day
What degree?

>>60932940
>implying you can't get a paid internship
they probably ran a program to search for keywords in the resumes of potential employees.

>>60923555
>get hired as IT
>good pay
>from day one, there is nothing to do
>during winter, our production moves to a different state, leaving just general office workers
>I spend literally all day doing nothing
>I literally sit down at my desk, and browse 4chan the entire fucking 8 hours I have to be there

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>>60932843

>>60933212
living the dream

>>60933212
sounds comfy man what the fuck
Spend the time learning l337 hacker skilz

>>60933212
Are you the kind of IT staff that just does tech support or are you someone who's allowed to actually touch things? Maybe you could get permission to improve various things in the network and then eventually get a raise or some shit.

>>60924590
Holy shit this, until you've worked manual labor, you don't know how good you office fags have it. Try digging trenches for 10 hrs. straight in the baking hot sun.

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>>60923555

just stay for another month and you will suddenly feel doki doki when you meat her

ffw a year later you'll hang out together and youll propose her

>>60924590
This. These fucking beta geek guys don't check their privilege. There is nothing i hate more than sun

>>60933413
I am sort of just tech support, but I do almost everything. It's a bit complicated though, it isn't our network.
>>60933352
It isn't a dream, it's hell. I can not stand just not doing anything.

>>60923555
>for those looking for a career on said field

what fucking other job is there?

>>60927105
Working from home is for fucking autists. You never speak to anyone, you never learn anything new, and in the end you just spend all day on Facebook bragging that you are the most intelligent person you've spoken to all month, when you're actually a stunted imbecile by the standards of actual human society.

Open-plan offices are annoying too, but they're unavoidable when walls cost money.

>>60930242
The hours get pretty unsociable, but you're right. Today, I worked from 0830 to 1700, then I was on call until 2300, which effectively meant I was continuing to work, just from home. That's 14 1/2 hours of work I've done today. It was mostly just walking over to windows and looking out at passing cars, but it gets to you after a while.

>>60932464
Get certifications to prove you're competent. Basic certifications often aim to be analogous to a year or two of experience, so if you can get a CompTIA A+, you can get a shitty IT job replacing hard drives, and work your way up to a comfy job from there. That's what I did.

>>60933085
>writing "intern" in whitetext in the margins
Genius

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>>60933784
Sounds like you work in a data centre like I do. People phone up and ask you every tiny detail about the company ("What prices do you offer for bulk cPanel licensing?") which you can never answer, but otherwise, it's fantastic. It's just eight hours of chatting shit with fellow autists and occasionally plugging in an Ethernet cable or repointing some DNS records.

>>60934130
To add onto this, I'd go ahead and get both your A+ and your CCENT (Cisco ICND1 test), which basically shows that you're not retarded and have a decent understanding as to how computers work and a basic understanding of networking.

Net+ and Sec+ are expensive for what they are, since they aren't regarded as well as the MS/RH/Cisco certs, but cost just as much.

>>60925566
My brother's doing this. Landed a consulting job right out of college,$80k starting. If he had stayed another year, he'd easily be earning six digits. He hated it, quit after a year, went on a bike trip, through yurop, and is now picking grapes and truffles during the day and cooking at an upscale bed and breakfast at night. I don't know how happy he is, one of those "no matter where you go, you can't escape yourself" things, but it seems way more interesting than the desk job he had before.

>>60934616
>"no matter where you go, you can't escape yourself"

That's what I'm dealing with.
I was a mess my senior year of HS, barely graduated, didn't have college plans, was working for $10/hr as an "IT assistant". I was depressed and somewhat lonely, even though I had people around me. I was focused on stupid shit like booze, women, and cars, and I knew that if I took out the loans to go to college, it would be a colossal waste.

So I joined the military, and I've since lived in 3 different places, and done some growing up, met a ton of people and made new friends. Now, with a healthy bank account and body, I still feel that depression.
I feel like I'm never satisfied. I went home for a week, and it really hit me. I don't really relate with the guys who went to college, and a lot of the people I thought were going places have gone nowhere, still working minimum wage jobs and/or dropped out of school. So that "home" I had built up in my head was just a fantasy, and really, it's not too much better or worse than anywhere else.

Sorry for the whole rant, that line stuck out to me.

>>60934804
>and a lot of the people I thought were going places have gone nowhere
sorry you have to know me

>>60923555
>company didn't hire me as IT guy
>Wannacry attacks
>local company is in the news for ransomware
>should've hired me

>>60923596
This teebeeeech. I'm a philosophy major. Currently work as Unix admin for my school, it's pretty chill.

>>60923555
welcome to the wagecuck life, anon.

>>60929396
And I thought the open office that I work at is bad. This is even worst!

>master's in math
>write a collaborative research paper with 2 of my colleagues in ten minutes
>spent the next year playing videogames and getting drunk off my ass
>publish paper and claim it took one year to write

>>60934804
that is too true. people who tend to get depressed or unsatisfied would still manage to invent a way to be depressed or unsatisfied even if they obtain the stuff they thought it would give them satisfaction.

Trying living/working on a warship for one, lads.