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absolutely hate it when the pleasurable activity procrastination hits. i’m going to do something fun that brings me joy but not yet. yeah, not yet. not yet. maybe i shouldn’t do it at all, it’s not that fun

chilewithcarnage

monster2001

penny-anna

I just want to say, if you've ever worked a low-level office job and thought 'wow this is piss-easy', that's not a sign that the work you were doing is objectively easier than other types of work, it's a sign that you were good at it.

by which I don't mean 'stop de-valuing office work' bcos that's not a real problem, no-one is doing that, I just feel like a lot of young people aren't aware that e.g. being able to type fast and accurately, open up a computer program you've never used before and figure it out unaided, are marketable skills, not things that 'everyone' knows how to do.

I've worked in 'easy' office jobs for 6 years now and believe me, some people are bad at them & do not find them easy.

penny-anna

@takethewatch YES! It's not 'dont devalue office work,' it's 'dont devalue your own skills!'

yes this!! thank u!

amethystineprose

In a job-hunting group I was in once, one woman talked about how, when the power had gone out, she and some other staff members carried all the vital paperwork and some chairs and tables down several flights of stairs to the sidewalk out front (where there was daylight to work by) and processed a bunch of clients’ needs, at least temporarily, and rescheduled appointments and stuff so that when the power came back up everything was still fairly organized and no clients were just turned away. And we all said “That’s the kind of thing you need to include in your resume.” And she said, “But anyone can do that; that’s not anything special.” And we’re all staring at her, going, “No, they can’t. Yes, it is.”

That thing you know you did/do really well? It’s probably special.

rose-in-a-fisted-glove

No job is an unskilled job.

Being good at an office job takes skills. Real skills. It's just that, especially if you're of a certain age, you learned some of these skills at school already.

Figuring out software, maintaining complex directories, customer service, balancing multiple tasks, interpreting policies, and so on are all skills.

And some people are Very Bad at these skills. There's a trainee right now at my office who might not make it through her training period because she doesn't have these skills.

traegorn

I find my job super easy. Every person I've ever tried to explain large parts of it to just glazes over when I explain certain processes that I can do in my sleep (and that's not a me being bad at explaining stuff -- one of the many things I'm responsible for is literally explaining THEIR processes to them, and I'm told I'm very good at that bit).

I've spent a lot of my career getting dragged in to meetings to fix problems that I thought had easy solutions... but, like, no one else saw the solution.

And I also know what my boss has to do, and I do not want his job.

Don't devalue things you think of as easy at work, because chances are they ain't.

lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks

when I first got my current admin job I explained to my boss that I need things written down, I need hardcopies of stuff because I have an awful memory and I find it easier to keep track of things by noting it all down, otherwise I just get confused and overwhelmed

and he told me 'I'm the opposite, I keep everything in my head, I've always had a good memory so I'm not good at writing stuff down which is a problem when I have to communicate things to other people, that's why I need you, you rely on doing things that way so you're better at it than I am, I can't do what you do'

sometimes your greatest weakness can be your greatest strength, you just need to find an environment where it can flourish, nobody would have guessed I could be a stellar administration officer keeping a whole small company organised based on how fucking abysmal I was at waiting tables

rosie-kairi

kh community rn

zegalba

Orchid Mantis

mychemicalbrromance

Guys ive been reading peak

knightofleo

blackfilmmakers

Imagine being literally one of the largest brand companies in the world, literally nothing will bring you down you beat out all other competitors in soft drinks and whatever-

And you still said that wasn't enough, "we need to make our commercials use AI, we can't possibly afford film crews and animators"

blackfilmmakers

"Coca Coola" shut up-

blackfilmmakers