I had a dream and I fully realized that dream and made it happen<\/a>.\u00a0 So the means to an end argument doesn\u2019t hold water, because I know it\u2019s a lie.\u00a0 What I\u2019ve done with my dream is amazing, but I still feel that I have not enjoyed life because I have an hour in the mornings and, when I get home, about 90 minutes before I\u2019m too tired to do anything.\u00a0 And I have to work on the weekends just to make ends meet.\u00a0 And I now have two freelancing writing jobs, which takes up those precious couple of free hours a day.<\/p>\nYes, I live in an expensive city.\u00a0 Yes, realizing my dream plummeted me into debt.\u00a0 But my case isn\u2019t unusual.\u00a0 People without dreams to realize are working multiple jobs just to meet the bills.\u00a0 And we spend our lives at those jobs.\u00a0 I could come home to morphine, whores, and dreams given flesh every day and that doesn\u2019t change the fact that 80% of my waking hours are spent at a desk, talking to fucking idiot customers, or dealing with over-medicated, addle-brained co-workers wearing their most expensive irrational caps.<\/p>\n
This is impossible, I know, but our day jobs should either be forwarding our own lives or humanity or should be so lightweight that they don\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n
And forwarding the cause of humanity doesn\u2019t mean you have to be a doctor, or a scientist, or a politician, or whatever.\u00a0 I approve of lawyers, construction workers, and all that.\u00a0 The people who make things, defend things, and help keep things running.\u00a0 The field is wide open.\u00a0 Low-paying customer service?\u00a0 Whether retail, phone support, or taking payments for an organization, it\u2019s nothing but a legitimized pyramid scheme.\u00a0 Fleece people of their money so your bosses can make a ton of cash while you get paid pennies and are expected to be grateful for the job.\u00a0 Our society has become so sick, expensive, and competitive that we are grateful for the job just because, if we were to be laid off, we\u2019d be dead within three meals.<\/p>\n
My day job is phone service for a member-based professional organization and academic publisher.\u00a0 My weekend job is as a glorified janitor for a venue that rents itself out at top dollar for events.\u00a0 I do nothing that helps me or furthers the lives of the people I\u2019m taking money from.\u00a0 It is, simply, that.\u00a0 A money grab.\u00a0 Membership at my day job is not required, except at certain jobs that our marketing and insurance department has worked out sweetheart back-room kick-back deals with.\u00a0 There\u2019s no real savings on the books and magazines.\u00a0 It looks like there is, but the books are still priced higher than online and, after taxes and shipping, are more expensive than if you were to buy them off the shelf at Barnes & Noble.\u00a0 The magazines are highly specialized academic journals, each with subscribers in the hundreds or low thousands.\u00a0 So most of the members don\u2019t even bother, and there\u2019s no benefit for the public.<\/p>\n
My weekend job?\u00a0 Take as much money from the client as possible, and nickel and dime them to the grave if they go into overtime or dare leave something behind after the event.\u00a0 The clients aren\u2019t human.\u00a0 They\u2019re just a booking, to be hurried out so that the next booking can come in (sometimes five a weekend).<\/p>\n
It\u2019s pointless to complain, I know.\u00a0 And if I wanted to do more, despite my claim to have realized my dreams, then it\u2019s my decision.\u00a0 Get a better or higher degree and apply myself.\u00a0 The same species of argument the Reaganites had against homeless people.\u00a0 My purpose in complaining is not to inspire change or revolution, but to try and drive home the point that you aren\u2019t doing any good if you have jobs like mine.\u00a0 Do not defend the job.\u00a0 Don\u2019t take it so seriously.\u00a0 Show up, do what\u2019s needed to keep the job, cash their checks as soon as you get them.\u00a0 Just simply realize that the job is shit and your life isn\u2019t much better, and shut the fuck up about how I\u2019m wrong. I\u2019m not an idealist. I\u2019ve provided a broad range of worthwhile jobs that might overlap the wage slave world but are still okay.\u00a0 Customer service jobs of the sort I have are childish, worthless, unrewarding, and downright painful.<\/p>\n
Of course, there\u2019s no real point to writing this.\u00a0 The people who defend jobs like mine are braindead oafs anyway.\u00a0 They defend the job while sacrificing their lives for it \u2013 dropping out of school, failing to continue their degrees, unable to imagine what they want out of life and not willing to try.\u00a0 I shouldn\u2019t even be listening to them, or addressing their kind.\u00a0 They\u2019re dead already, they know it on a primal level, and there\u2019s no way out of their personal hell.\u00a0 Lots of people I know are dead already.\u00a0 And, you know, it might be a good thing\u2026 Because we need losers around us so we\u2019re reminded of what we should be and have less competition to move on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This has long been a theme for me \u2013 being indignant when people defend their wage slave jobs.\u00a0 I define those as everything from the most menial shit on up to the more acceptable range.\u00a0 Let\u2019s just say customer service, …<\/p>\n
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