I glue the pointy top onto missiles for raytheon

I draw dots and connect them with line segments. Then I’m supposed to make the line segments bigger or smaller. Sometimes the line segments dont get bigger or smaller and I think I should tell someone, but mostly I just look away…

Emergency responder in da woods

I work at UPS. It’s a good place for a career, if you have no other prospects and you can survive on part time hours for however long it takes to get enough seniority to get a full-time position.

It’s union work and the starting pay is good(at least outside of high cost of living areas), great health and dental benefits and a pension even as a part timer.

My hub has drivers making $130k at 26 years old(overtime), but we also have a few full time insiders making $46 an hour to throw boxes and shift trucks. A guy here recently retired at 50 with a maxed out pension.

The job security is the biggest selling point for me. I’ve heard stories about people who still have their jobs after some pretty egregious stuff. Had someone who punched a supervisor who kept his job because the union argued the violence was provoked by the supervisor screaming at him. People with tons of call outs and no call no shows, etc.

Definitely wouldn’t recommend it to someone who doesn’t like physical work or anyone who has skills or a degree that can do something else. But for me it’s great, I wish I started at UPS 10 years ago.

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Construction project manager. It’s a decent path out if you start as a tradie, or you can get a degree and jump right into it, although most positions will require some related experience.

Generally speaking, chudding around at home is a very bad idea. You are at one of the only points in your life where you get to shape your own future. You should also start contributing to the household at some point, how are you being housed, clothed, and fed?

Are you going to get stuck at low wage unskilled work for the rest of your life? Are you going to be a tradie? An office worker?

If you already graduated and missed the college boat, it’s going to be rough to get back on. But your local state school will be a great low cost option. Take a gap year to work some service job, build a work ethic, and then get to that degree next academic year.

Alternatively, become a tradie. IBEW is an excellent option. Others exist as well.

If you must do some toning like retail or grocery or foodservice, pick something with a clear path upwards. Panda Express starts at fair wages and you have options to promote from within. So does WalMart, although their wages are ass.

The point is life is not going to warp itself around you and give you a six figure job for posting on Hexbear. You need to make your own future, and fast.

I work in a warehouse. Well not exactly, but I would call myself a pallet jockey; this is my third job making use of pallet jacks in some capacity.

I’ve done a bunch of other things too. I’ve only ever done low-wage jobs. My approach is to try something new, and then stay there until I learn everything or can no longer stand it, then quit. That usually happens within 1-3 years. I couldn’t imagine sticking around longer than 5 years at the same job, there’s just so much more to discover.

If you can take a few classes at a community college (or equivalent), do it, even if you don’t know what to do with yourself. It’s better to poke around and do something rather than nothing. Your story will emerge from existing in and engaging with the world as a working-class person. You don’t have to be a perfect puzzle piece or cog in the machine that fits perfectly into a career for 40 years; we’re not trying to prop up the world that exists anyway.

Don’t try to hold yourself to a perfect idealized life story, but don’t let yourself tread a well-used path for too long either. Whenever you get a weird opportunity, economic or social, as long as it’s not super dangerous, take it. Who knows, you might find Your People, or you might find something you have unique potential in, or maybe even both.

Lumberjack in Antarctica

I thought I was going to be a lawyer or even worse, a prosecutor (it’s so embarrassing I know, I was such a clueless lib back then), and went to law school. I wasn’t the best at it but I wasn’t the worst either. I even got a bachelor degree. Then mental health happened and I couldn’t complete it. Part of me is sad and bitter over the hurt pride and the lifelong consequences for my personal finances of an unpayable student debt, another part of me is thankful for dodging the bullet of toxic and stressful work environment and of having to be a cog in an inhuman machine.

Now, after some classes and some mental realignment and having had the luck of knowing someone who knows someone I’ve become a computer toucher. I make boring b2b software for boring companies. My work life is generally chill, people are nice and although I’m not exactly curing cancer, I have never felt that anything I was doing was unethical. Were it not for all the debt and the lack of savings I would be pretty happy about this part of my life.

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I’m a computer toucher. I touch computers in ways you people couldn’t even imagine.

Factory labor, which I like way more than I thought I would. There’s something soothing about being able to quantify the work I do every day, and also I like being able to zone out while operating robots or putting in screws on an assembly line or whatever.

Didn’t you know we’re all

Club security, right now I work at a cool Chinese place i can ride my bike or walk to. I lucked out finding it honestly, it’s a nice place with chill people who rarely start anything and half my job is working on my chinese and politely declining cigarettes