Full offense, we need to agitate for easier jobs.
Obviously, jobs that pay a living wage or better! Jobs with hours that make sense! Jobs with training!
If you are applying for a white collar job that is anything more than the most marginal temp work that will drop you in 2 months, the listing goes a little something like:
Seeking self-motivated professional with strong multitasking skills. The role expects you can handle multiple (no limit) projects and deadlines concurrently, while training other staff (but not to relieve your work load) and establishing and continuously updating reference materials, process, and documentation. Multiple professional certifications preferred we won't pay to help you get. "Senior" position requiring 3+ years of experience (alternatively: a non-senior position requiring 5+ years of experience, with no indication there are any junior team members)
So you look at non white collar labor like "maybe that's easier, even if it pays less," and its
Seeking self-motivated professional with strong multitasking skills. The role expects you to open, close, clean, man registers, stock shelves, handle customer support, complete administrative duties, create training materials for new staff, prepare summaries for management, do your own IT, potentially in a physical location by yourself, and also enforce all policies related to shoplifting or other security concerns. Light maintenance and additional janitorial duties. Hours as required by management and subject to change.
And then you look at computer jobs or phone centers and its
eat shit and die. we're the sleaziest motherfuckers this side of hell and employees will compete in the hunger games with the lowest performance getting fired every 2 weeks. But we won't tell you how we determined that. You can be replaced by a robot, piggies.
Easy jobs are politically important. Hypercompetitive cultures surrounding work generate 'losers' who can't keep up with limitless demands. These people who fall out the bottom don't just become 'twitch streamers' or 'failed youtube channels', or 'etsy craftspeople' but also fascist lackeys. Fascists harvest them; that's what ICE is, before the ridiculous hiring incentives. The guys who fall off the bottom of police departments and private security. Women who fall out the bottom? Right wing politics expects they'll quit working altogether and leave public life. Nonbinary people? Forget it.
Jobs are not just getting harder to find and harder to keep, they're getting harder in general. Even if tools can be used to make certain tasks less arduous than in the past, the performance ceiling continuously becomes the floor and there is no possible way to work hard enough to ensure stability. Even if you don't burn out, in a hypercompetitive world someone has to not be able to keep up, by design, when performance is evaluated. Eventually, that someone WILL be you.
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