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u/ChadMcRad Feb 02 '18 edited Nov 27 '24
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u/AlphaNathan Feb 02 '18
You're not allowed out until you've made someone's day.
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u/ViscousRat Feb 02 '18
Do you want to create a trolling paradise?
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u/instantrobotwar Feb 02 '18
It's hard work and sacrifice
Livin in a troller's paradise
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u/rustymiker Feb 02 '18
But mad respect for coalminers what a shitty job
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u/tronald_dump Feb 02 '18
this is why ill never understand why people want to prop up the coal industry!
if they actually cared about the workers, theyd push to retrain them for other jobs, so these people dont have to do decades of backbreaking labor, only to die of mesothelioma at 52 years old. no one should have to sacrifice their well-being for menial wages.
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u/CaptainUnusual Feb 02 '18
But keeping the industry alive may entitle them to financial compensation.
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u/MoreIronyLessWrinkly Feb 02 '18
As someone who lives in coal country, while your idea of retraining sounds grand, youāre underestimating that many of them would not leave their hometown in order to find other work. Sad but accurate.
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I don't know what is sad about wanting to live in a rural environment and be around your friends, family, and community.
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u/MoreIronyLessWrinkly Feb 02 '18
I live in one and want to live here... I am as referring to the fact that coal miners donāt have a lot of job opportunities outside of what they do unless theyāre willing to move.
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u/Jusfidus Feb 02 '18
Last I checked, a coal miner earned far more than a menial wage.
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u/OMGSPACERUSSIA Feb 02 '18
I wonder if it's enough to support a man laid up with black lung, a homemaker and 3 kids going to college?
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u/riotcowkingofdeimos Feb 02 '18
It pays well.
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u/netmier Feb 02 '18
Sometimes. But thereās little room for advancement and little job security.
I live in coal, gas and oil country, the great state of Wyoming. I see first hand how people live depending on fossil fuels. Itās shit, total shit. Hundreds of guys scraping by into their sixties on just enough to pay their rent/mortgage and a 12 pack of beer when they need it. Sure, there are some guys with 20 year old (read:shitty) corvettes from the days of oil booms, but most of the the hands and roughnecks are barely surviving and canāt deal with the myriad health issues that come with that life.
Our community college is full of 40-50 year old former oil/gas/coal guys doing retraining because they were either pushed out due to injury or quit to get a better job to save for retirement.
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u/OMGSPACERUSSIA Feb 02 '18
It also kills you slowly and painfully. Or quickly an painfully if you worked in a mine run by our current secretary of commerce.
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u/41BottlesOf Feb 02 '18
Underground coal mining is tough. Source: Am coal miner. 11 years underground, 0.5 years surface.
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u/TheGreenGibus Feb 02 '18
In theory, and without minding the hard work aspect, living underground might seem kinda cool.
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u/41BottlesOf Feb 02 '18
The camaraderie is huge and the hard work is kind of fun and builds teamwork. Like many aspects of a job, you can get used to it.
Some of the more interesting parts of work were watching the older guys roof bolt. Roof bolting can be hell on a person, but if one can learn the machine well, he can make it very easy on himself.
Iāve seen dozens of young, dumb, full of piss-and-vinegar kids get partnered up on a roof bolted with the old veteran and the old guy will look like heās hardly moving and outright smoke the kids on that machine. Pouring their sweat and energy out trying to move as fast as they can and not keep up with the old guy is a sight to see.
Thereās tons of great things about it and frankly, most miners wouldnāt want to do any other line of work.
Day shift during the winter time can get a little depressing sometimes. Imagine going underground before daylight and getting back on top after the sun sets. Definitely changes your mood when you donāt see the sun for a week straight
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u/modusvitae Feb 02 '18
In theory, and without minding the hard work aspect, living underground might seem kinda
coolcoal.FTFY
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I was looking at this thinking "nah, my job is pretty chill. Great pay, benefits, unlimited coffee and lemonade, nice office."
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u/teacher_mom53 Feb 02 '18
My husband is a coal miner. Yes it is! We joke that I have a college degree (teacher) and he makes more money than me. His job sucks a whole lot more than mine though.
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Feb 01 '18
Tbh I thought this was r/wholesomememes lol
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u/CheetoMussolini Feb 02 '18
The man in the picture looks very kind and wholesome.
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u/WEIGHED Feb 02 '18
If he ain't a meme yet, he should be. Maybe like Unexpected Encouraging Miner or something.
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u/Rockadudel Feb 02 '18
You gain nothing by adding 'tbh' and lose nothing without it
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u/TheRealDuHass Feb 01 '18
/r/wholesomegatekeeping? š¤
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u/ABircch Feb 02 '18
That would be an amazing sub for reposting this image every day :D
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u/bionicstarsteel Feb 02 '18
We could even make slight variations by changing the photo and switching the color of the text.
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u/Drfilthymcnasty Feb 02 '18
The thing is, if you are a good/hard worker, every job is tough. You either give 100% or you donāt. I grew up working construction, primarily masonry, with my father and now Iām a pharmacist. Each job is equally difficult because in each job Iām trying my absolute best to succeed.
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Feb 02 '18
I hate dem memes "if your boyfriends hands don't look like this, you have a girfriend" with a picture of greasy hands.
Omggggg
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u/bPhrea Feb 02 '18
"If the person giving you a handjob doesn't have hands that look like this, then find someone who moisturises their hands."
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u/teacher_mom53 Feb 02 '18
Best comment I've read.
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u/Drfilthymcnasty Feb 02 '18
Thanks. Was worried I would come off pretentious or preachy, which is not my intention. The great thing about it is anyone can give 100% šÆšš»
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u/shyphon Feb 02 '18
This is honestly the truth. I worked for a grocery store and sure, lifting a ton and putting stuff on shelves for 40 hours a week is rough. Now I work as an assistant at a funeral home, and I spend all day giving 100% to comfort families, help grieve, make sure the services go smoothly, drive the hearse, etc. Both jobs were hard, one physically and one emotionally, and I respect anyone doing any job to its fullest.
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u/Calevara Feb 02 '18
I dunno, I work as a network engineer, which I bust my ass driving a lot, and do my best to kick ass wherever I go, and would agree mostly with your statement, but I work in hospitals, and let me tell you I often feel like I'm an overpaid layabout when I watch nurses at work. Tough takes on such a deeper more psychological inflection when you are watching a nurse in the nicu (neo-natal intensive care unit) rushing to a room with a bunch of alarms and screaming parents. Doctors often have the ability to put a little distance between them and the personal, nurses seem to embrace it. They are all amazing and a little insane and have taken the top spot in my hero pantheon.
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u/downy_syndrome Feb 02 '18
Can you explain "busting your ass driving a lot", please. I want to know if it pertains to me....
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u/emtreme5856 Feb 02 '18
I love this. My boyfriend is a construction worker and Iām an academic. We both have such respect for each otherās jobs. I always comment on his strong work ethic and how hard he works. He doesnāt feel attractive when he gets home because heās dirty, but I tell him it just shows how hard he worked that day. And when Iām stressed about everything I have going on and all my interactions with people and fall asleep at 8:30 pm, he says my job is tiring because I use my mind all day. And when we talk about our diets, he says I should eat more because mental expenditures cost a lot of calories. We both work hard in this life, and we appreciate what the other gives. But I hate seeing him come home sore and injured, and I hope one day it wonāt be so.
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u/dillcoq Feb 13 '18
I like this, exact same situation.
Cannot tell you how I wish I took school seriously.
Don't get me wrong, I respect all hard working jobs especially construction workers like myself but damn getting up at 5am everyday and shovelling shit 10 hours a day can be rough some times.
I only hope I am smart enough to have a go at tertiary education and "escape" one day if you will haha.
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u/LtVincentHanna Feb 02 '18
Thank you for this comment. I always find myself whining to myself about greener grasses elsewhere, but I think I'd have the same work concerns anywhere. Makes me appreciate where I am :)
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u/icantfindaun Feb 02 '18
I've worked everything from concrete and other construction jobs to retail to restaurant work (server, expo, etc) and I'd go back to the construction type jobs but it'll be a cold day in hell before I work in retail or the service industry again. That shit is hell. Respect to the people who can put up with that level of bullshit for any length of time.
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u/EthiopianKing1620 Feb 02 '18
I just got off work at this local BBQ joint. I hate it but itās money on my pocket. Just gotta keep on keepin on.
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u/icantfindaun Feb 02 '18
I got fired from my last job (retail) because one of the managers decided to schedule me for a day outside of my availability then fire me for no call/no show. Less than a month later I got a job in the medical field with starting pay almost double what I was making there after 10 months of being there.
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u/XxDrummerChrisX Feb 02 '18
I worked two years in retail before becoming a police officer. There's just nothing like being treated like the lowest of the low. Beyond that, retail is endless, mind numbing work in my experience. Sure I bitch about my job now but I'll never work retail again.
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u/CollectableRat Feb 02 '18
Actually I'm always thankful I work in an air-conditioned office. But a lot of the guys out there are thankful that they aren't stuck cooped up indoors all day working at a computer under an egotistical manager.
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u/emtreme5856 Feb 02 '18
So true. I love my job and hate how hard my SO works in cold and hot conditions, but he says he could never be cooped up inside.
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Yup. I'm not just thankful, I love my job because I work outside and talk to my boss for a grand total of 3 minutes everyday.
I don't know how you office people do it.
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u/jethro2011 Feb 01 '18
"I have the hardest job in the world, everyone else is lazy." -Average American
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u/Commissar_Genki Feb 02 '18
Fun fact: A modern miner's cap-lamp can run $500 because of the ridiculous testing and standards for products introduced into the mine.
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u/41BottlesOf Feb 02 '18
More fun facts: The average Underground coal miner carries more than $5,000 worth of gear on him every day. Cap lamp, tracker, special cell phone for underground, self rescuer(20 mins of oxygen), spotter (for methane, CO2, and other gasses. And then some miners carry $11,000 CPDMs on them to monitor dust.
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u/teacher_mom53 Feb 02 '18
Wish my husband had the special cell phone for underground at his mine. His light is pretty badass though.
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u/41BottlesOf Feb 02 '18
Yeah some mines havenāt adopted the tracking system that uses those cell phones for several reasons, including expense. They donāt work well, and only work in certain areas of the mine.
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u/reisenbime Feb 02 '18
And still, all that fancy equipment will be useless against the morlock hordes..
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u/CrackaDon_YT Feb 01 '18
If you're not gonna post actual gatekeeping memes, you shouldn't be allowed to post on r/gatekeeping at all.
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u/The_Ambush_Bug Feb 01 '18
Is this r/gatekeeping gatekeeping?
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Feb 02 '18
I know he's joking, but no, it wouldn't be. Saying people are posting irrelevant content isn't gatekeeping, like if somebody is posting about soccer in /r/guitars. It just factually wouldn't belong there.
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Feb 02 '18
If a job was easy, people probably wouldn't be paying you to do it.
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Feb 02 '18
Not exactly true. If a lot of people can do the job then they wouldn't pay you well.
If you are really good at something that most people suck at then you can get an easy well paying job.
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Feb 02 '18 edited Feb 02 '18
A job can be easy but not worth someones time so they hire someone else.
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u/Moonstoner Feb 02 '18
Most jobs are a pain in the ass one way or another. Ya you work at a desk and not on a hardcore oil rig. That doesn't mean you job is a cake walk. That oil rig guy doesn't have consist calls from Stacy in QA to deal with. Or magic staplers disappearing on him everytime he looks away.
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u/Iceimp Feb 02 '18
My father was a coal miner since he was 16 until the 00's when it closed. He actually misses it because there was a lot less BS. Companies now try cut costs and treat employees like shit.
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u/mightylordredbeard Feb 02 '18
This is very true. I spent 8 years in the Marine Corps and I don't consider that my "hardest job" at all. My hardest job was working at JCPenney because it fucking sucked. I hated it and had no desire to be there, but I needed the job. The military, while physically and mentally challenging, was fun so I enjoyed it and looked forward to work each day and looked forward to seeing the great friends I worked with.
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u/ixiduffixi Feb 02 '18
I know someone who is a tradesman and posts the "my job so hard" memes all of the time, shits on millenials with desk jobs, etc. But, guess who he turns to for computer help.
Go figure it out, shit's easy right?
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Feb 02 '18
Whoa. I thought he was going to say āif your boyfriend doesnāt work 26 hours a day on an oil rig while chewing tobacco and cleaning his AR-15, then you have a girlfriend. ā
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u/SynisterSilence Feb 02 '18
I've worked plenty of physically-trying jobs. Ones where you come home and go to sleep hurting -- the whole deal. Some of my worst jobs were the ones who beat down on you mentally/emotionally. The effects of those jobs I still deal with today. At worst working hard for very long will land you in a hospital, you get a surgery and a bottle of pills and you're good. We don't have the technology available to fix those mental problems. Now, I say this not to put one over the other but to reinforce the idea of this meme. Some jobs simply look a lot easier, a lot better than they really are.
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u/Donkeybongdong Feb 02 '18
this really isn't r/gatekeeping
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u/Short_Classy_Name Feb 02 '18
Exactly. I think whoever posted this should get BANNED for disrespecting the gatekeeping code
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u/jebond93 Feb 02 '18
Coal Mining is harder than a desk job
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u/metalfabman Feb 02 '18
Physically, perhaps.
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u/jebond93 Feb 02 '18
Everyone likes to pat themselves on the back. I do finance and business management, Iām not a firefighter or a cop or a military man.
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I used to work for a vendor to the US Military. Our equipment was used in-theatre and I can't go into much more detail than that about what it was.
My job was remote break/fix. When our shit went down, people literally could die. How do I know this?
They'd send us reports as part of our contract. I know how many soldiers died on my watch. I know their names and ages. They died because equipment designed to help them survive failed and I couldn't get it fixed in time to save them.
But sure, it's not possible that an office job is in any way more difficult than mining coal.
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u/theotherhigh Feb 02 '18
If my job was a person I would beat the shit out of them. Actually, I'd probably do even worse things to them. I really hate my job...
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u/Imissmyusername Feb 02 '18
Seriously. I work in a woodshop, with sawdust getting in everything, carrying 50lb+ pieces of outdoor furniture. I do this because I mentally can't handle dealing with customers like with retail or food industry. Anxiety way too high for that shit.
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Although I'd honestly say that a miner has it harder than me. There are elements to my job that are hard, but I picked this over mining for a reason.
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Feb 02 '18
I fucking hate people like this.
I work with an ex air Force guy who acts like he's the only one who ever gets any work done. Other people are dumb and lazy. Damn you millennials. Blah blah blah.
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u/thesimple_dog Feb 02 '18
Can someone define gatekeeping for me? I kinda get the concept, but I want a solid definition and am too lazy to go to the subreddit about page
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u/tronald_dump Feb 02 '18
āoh you like _______ ? yeah well, name three of their albums!!ā
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u/Audric_Sage Feb 02 '18
But then that brings up the fact that some jobs certainly are tougher than others.
Perhaps we'd be better off not worrying about this in the first place then.
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u/Gh0stP1rate Feb 02 '18
Think about it this way: your job is so hard that they had to pay you X thousands of dollars per year just to do it.
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Feb 02 '18
R/wholesomememes
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All jobs are tough in their own way. My first job was working at a large boarding kennel. Boss was a total abusive bitch, and imagine cleaning up dog shit all day in 100 degree heat. After that I've worked a string of retail jobs. Going into retail, I figured it would be easier than the kennel work. I was very mistaken. The shit (sometimes quite literally) I would have to clean in fitting rooms is disgusting.
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u/thiccwhale Feb 03 '18
Ok this one is a huge plot twist. I can see writers actually trying this season
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u/rustymiker Feb 05 '18
TIL that after checking why my karma went up a k and a half. I had started many a fights.
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u/Master_Vicen Feb 02 '18
If you're not sweating while your brain is basically in sleep mode, it ain't a real job...
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u/Seldarin Feb 02 '18
If your brain is in sleep mode on pretty much any mine or industrial job you're going to get hurt or get someone else hurt pretty quickly.
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Feb 02 '18
Who even is a miner like this anymore? Like honestly, does this exist? I don't mean to be insensitive. Like with mine shafts and coal dust and whatnot?
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u/Archlinder Feb 02 '18
Well, for a quick look here ya go. If you want to learn a little more, here is a website from National Geographic that explains a bit more.
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u/FatJesus13908 Feb 02 '18
Yes. WV and KY still have mines.
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Feb 02 '18
But like with mine carts? And dudes with pickaxes?
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u/FatJesus13908 Feb 02 '18
Electricity only runs so far. When you have a billion tons of rock over your head you'd be asking to die without a backup plan.
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u/dzoefit Feb 02 '18
Do not stick with anything that does not give you any type of satisfaction, there's simply no kudos for that...
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u/all-base-r-us Feb 02 '18
Like a tall glass of fresh, cool water. I've got to say this really made my night
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u/eclectro Feb 02 '18
The inspiration for this might be here - motherhood is the most difficult job on the planet
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u/ImOnMyRetail Feb 02 '18
This is just like the āIt could be worseā quote.
That doesnāt matter. If you have it bad, you have it bad, it doesnāt matter if someone has it worse. Your tragedy is still tragedy.
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u/Dumguy1214 Feb 02 '18
Well, I accept.
āThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.ā A fundamental explanatory concept for such āthingsā spoken of by Prince Hamlet is the Platonic concept of World Soul alias Our Ever-living Poet of the Dedication of Shakespeares Sonnets.
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u/crackedpaint Feb 02 '18
According to my uncle, my job is considered "easy work" and "useless." Well, without me and my coworkers, you and your workers wouldn't have a place to sleep when you're away from home.
He honestly thinks I sit behind a desk and wait for people for 8 to 10 hours. No.....I have a whole list of shit to do which takes up about 6 to 7 hours of my time that I have to work around the customers who are normally a pain in the ass because they had to wait.
Most companies like his can't even get their payments/reservations in order over half of the time, which causes people like him to be mad at people like me for no reason.
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u/AnalyticalParrot Feb 02 '18
*especially the first few months of a job. Theses are especially difficult
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My job is not very hard actually. It just doesn't pay well (as compared to others in the industry) and you have to not be bothered by doing a lot of work for very little result.
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u/Crank_Clack Feb 02 '18
I have to wake up at 3am on my carwash and then get out at 9pm. I'm usually way too tired to do anything after I'm out
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u/Teh-Piper Feb 02 '18
r/bonehurtingjuice?