• robolemmy@lemmy.world
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    Best thing is I’m retiring in 18 days, at age 58.

    Worst thing is the next 18 days.

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      I’ve watched enough buddy cop movies to know this is the most dangerous time in your career.

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      Congratulations from someone who has no hope of retiring in the next ten years of my life lol. My parents both retired at your age though. Enjoy it!

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    Apartment superintendent.

    Best: Free rent and utilities on top of a full time wage.

    Worst: Finding people dead.

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    Best: I’m busy, we’re always making stuff, shipping stuff, it’s productive and interesting. Rarely is any single day the same. No scope for boredom.

    Worst: Bloody hell, I’m busy. I need to prioritise better, and delegate more. There’s never enough time in the day to get through everything, and my low priority items are perpetually shifted forward into the next week.

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    Best: Get to solve logic problems, create, and learn. Somehow get paid for this.

    Worst: Interviewing between jobs requires a different set of skills than the everyday work.

    Source: Unemployed software engineer.

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      Solve this series of textbook algorithm problems using OOP in 5 minutes or less so we can see if you’re good enough to spend the next 5 years maintaining a site designed in the early 2000s that is basically just a bunch of JavaScript and one giant main as a backend

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    Best: helping the animals, improving their living conditions and treatment, giving them toys and treats

    Worst: killing the animals and witnessing some horrible diseases/injuries

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    Best: Working with patients. People are hilarious, touching, aggravating, endlessly interesting.

    Worst: Dealing with the for-profit American healthcare system. Chronically understaffed, the complete lack of social support system outside the hospital makes our efforts virtually meaningless in so many cases.

    Am critical care nurse.

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    Pro: huge impact, great pay, awesome coworkers, always something to learn with being at the forefront of datacenter server architectures.

    Con: it’s a technical job but we have an admin manager somehow. Admin/non-technical managers don’t have any purpose so they worry about metrics, creating meetings no one is interested in, and volunteering other people to do favors to make themselves look good.

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      My manager is great in that he knows his primary purpose is to filter the bullshit admin stuff away from us so we can get work done. He’s pretty good at it.

  • serial_crusher@lemmy.basedcount.com
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    Software engineer. My company has been hiring low budget contractors instead of full time engineers. Training and onboarding people always has a cost, so the revolving door nature of this hiring method is already a problem, but the people we’re hiring are also very low skilled and take more of the rest of the team’s time hand-holding them through easy tasks

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    Surgical Tech

    Best: Helping people to not hurt/die is super gratifying, and didn’t need to spend a million dollars and years of my life in secondary education to get here.

    Worst: I’ve seen things that will haunt me all the way to the grave. Also the pay is kinda shit.

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    Best thing about my job is the flexible hours. I get to spend a lot of time with my kids, even do my hobbies sometimes, ride my bike, play video games, cook, visit friends, etc. I mean, I don’t really have a ton of time for that stuff after the chores, but at least work doesn’t ask much else of me and it’s fairly low stress.

    Worst thing about my job is it doesn’t come with a paycheck. I’m unemployed.