That's how you get stuck in your social status and never improve.
I'm not saying that one should put effort into a shit job, but becoming complacent and training yourself to be useless will definitely stunt future growth and develop negative patterns.
Seen it happen before and those habits are hard to break.
Instead of being content with a shit job and a shit life, one should seek to better themselves.
Not always, giving minimum at my low, but not nmw job gives me more engery for family and gym. It's find to give little at work, as long as you use that spared energy and stress to improve elsewhere.
Giving your all at work might leave you neglecting your family or self.
is reddits antiwork trying to slip into voat? if you're driven enough and live in the states you can make tons of money working for yourself.
I dropped $1800 on a pickup truck, $200 on a string trimmer and used the mower I already had and started up a lawn business from scratch. 4 years later and I've got an entire professional setup and easily make anywhere from $60-$85+ an hour.
if you're tired of being a wage slave then start a trade and do something about it. appliance repair, house painting, window washing, car detailing, handyman work, pressure washing etc etc. There's a lot of money to be made in trade work and there will always be a demand
Preaching to the choir. I too did the lawn care thing, thirty years ago. I was a licensed window contractor for twenty years after that. I folded that and bought an established retail store and that’s what I do six days a week. I’ve mostly been self employed. I love it!
Never growing up did I think I'd be doing lawn care as an adult, yet here I am. It's satisfying work, and if you pick your customers right it's pretty well paying, but it is also pretty hard physical labor at times.. sometimes that's good, sometimes not so much.
Not sure how long I'll do it but when you can make $400-500+ a day it's hard to leave. Plus being your own boss is unbeatable. I've considered heavier equipment endevours in the future to eventually give my body a rest but time will tell
Man, that’s cool. I really like that kind of work, and I have a spread which demands it. So, I have all the necessary mowers, blowers, trimmers, chainsaws, etc. it is good exercise too. Not so much as a homeowner thing, mostly I just go out and hurt myself a few days out of the month. But as a job, shit, you can’t beat it. Think of all the steps you get in behind the mower! You can almost go full cardio on it if you use a push instead of a self propelled. By the way, what’s your owner of choice? I always liked a Snapper.
I love getting the exercise and I really enjoy being outdoors. In fact in some ways I consider the physical labor to be the easier part of running a lawn business, it's all the other stuff managing customers, invoicing, financing, marketing etc that can be a lot. Nothing beats coming home and laying back and relaxing after feeling like you just ran an entire marathon. I've been a big Honda guy, my first motorcycle was a Honda and I've had 4 Honda mowers now and they've all been nothing but dead reliable.
I've had 3 jobs; busing tables, stocking grocery shelves and delivering pizza.
Busing tables sucked but I worked with a bunch of hot chicks so I stuck it out. Gave my 2 weeks before leaving cause the managers were pretty cool
Stocking shelves sucked the life out of me. Hated management with a passion, told them off and walked out after only working there 2 months.
Delivering pizza was a blast, made decent money in tips but management were a bunch of tweakers who never mentally left high school, no call no showed.
Realized I hate working for idiots, started up by own business and never looked back. 5 years in and making more money than college plebs who are thousands in debt.
The best way to get rid of a shitty employee is to reduce their schedule to one shift a week, and on that one shift it's coincidentally the same day that the dumpster needs to be cleaned.
You are working at a gas station with plexiglass between you and the customer for a reason. If you have no value, don't expect to be treated like someone with value.
$15 an hour is probably more than you are worth. Otherwise, the boss will be begging you with handfuls of cash to stay.
1,2,3 wont work in a small business, you can do that in the government or a big box store.
4 would be really dangerous for an employer in almost any circumstance to give a person you need gone 2 weeks notice. Bad/unhappy employees already dont give two weeks. Only people that respect their management and fellow employees do this. They usually will have another job lined up or be planning a big move, so its not much to ask to let people you work for know whats going on.
5. This one is a recipe to have a miserable work life. If you go out of your way to not enjoy your day, and actively dont give a fuck, youre going to have shit day after shit day. Having a bad attitude does not get you home earlier.
6. Management is always around unless you work for the government or big box.
7. Most employees cant match inflation, because increased prices, dont always mean increased profit. A lot of times ownership is in the same boat as the employees with inflation.
8. Its up to the employee to make themsleves irriplacable, and even more important to tactfully make ownership understand your value as an employee. I read a lot of malicious compliance content, and a lot of the "best" stories are employees that managed to get the job of 3 or 4 people done, then managment fucks with them, and they walk, leaving the company fucked up. In almost every one of these stories, the employee failed to leverage the amount of work they were getting done into a raise. A lot of times in mid size businesses in particular, hard work is not going to get noticed unless you point it out loudly and often.
Also smart people have no reason to be a wage slave. With the exception of government, and big box store workers, almost any job you can get can be leveraged into your own business if you know how to think out of the box.
[ + ] HeyJames
[ - ] HeyJames 8 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 10:29:07 ago (+8/-0)
I'm not saying that one should put effort into a shit job, but becoming complacent and training yourself to be useless will definitely stunt future growth and develop negative patterns.
Seen it happen before and those habits are hard to break.
Instead of being content with a shit job and a shit life, one should seek to better themselves.
[ + ] TheYiddler
[ - ] TheYiddler 5 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 11:23:30 ago (+5/-0)
[ + ] HeyJames
[ - ] HeyJames 5 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 11:41:43 ago (+5/-0)
[ + ] deleted
[ - ] deleted 3 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 13:00:25 ago (+3/-0)
[ + ] HeyJames
[ - ] HeyJames 4 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 13:33:54 ago (+4/-0)
If you think you're worthless and behave as such that will become your life.
[ + ] TheDivineLight
[ - ] TheDivineLight 2 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 12:26:06 ago (+2/-0)
It's find to give little at work, as long as you use that spared energy and stress to improve elsewhere.
Giving your all at work might leave you neglecting your family or self.
[ + ] 1Icemonkey
[ - ] 1Icemonkey 7 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 10:43:41 ago (+7/-0)
[ + ] frankenham
[ - ] frankenham 1 point 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 15:14:49 ago (+1/-0)
I dropped $1800 on a pickup truck, $200 on a string trimmer and used the mower I already had and started up a lawn business from scratch. 4 years later and I've got an entire professional setup and easily make anywhere from $60-$85+ an hour.
if you're tired of being a wage slave then start a trade and do something about it. appliance repair, house painting, window washing, car detailing, handyman work, pressure washing etc etc. There's a lot of money to be made in trade work and there will always be a demand
[ + ] FalseRealityCheck
[ - ] FalseRealityCheck 1 point 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 17:37:36 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] 1Icemonkey
[ - ] 1Icemonkey 0 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 22:55:00 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] frankenham
[ - ] frankenham 0 points 2.1 yearsApr 3, 2022 01:26:04 ago (+0/-0)
Not sure how long I'll do it but when you can make $400-500+ a day it's hard to leave. Plus being your own boss is unbeatable. I've considered heavier equipment endevours in the future to eventually give my body a rest but time will tell
[ + ] 1Icemonkey
[ - ] 1Icemonkey 0 points 2.1 yearsApr 4, 2022 00:58:54 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] frankenham
[ - ] frankenham 0 points 2.1 yearsApr 4, 2022 01:23:42 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] NeoNazirite
[ - ] NeoNazirite 5 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 11:39:16 ago (+6/-1)
Stay poor, faggots
[ + ] johnsmith315
[ - ] johnsmith315 5 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 10:13:31 ago (+5/-0)
[ + ] yesiknow
[ - ] yesiknow 1 point 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 15:28:24 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] con77
[ - ] con77 1 point 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 11:08:34 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] frankenham
[ - ] frankenham 1 point 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 15:26:27 ago (+1/-0)
Busing tables sucked but I worked with a bunch of hot chicks so I stuck it out. Gave my 2 weeks before leaving cause the managers were pretty cool
Stocking shelves sucked the life out of me. Hated management with a passion, told them off and walked out after only working there 2 months.
Delivering pizza was a blast, made decent money in tips but management were a bunch of tweakers who never mentally left high school, no call no showed.
Realized I hate working for idiots, started up by own business and never looked back. 5 years in and making more money than college plebs who are thousands in debt.
[ + ] con77
[ - ] con77 1 point 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 11:07:05 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] PeckerwoodPerry
[ - ] PeckerwoodPerry 2 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 13:11:36 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] Master_Foo
[ - ] Master_Foo 0 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 18:35:21 ago (+0/-0)
$15 an hour is probably more than you are worth. Otherwise, the boss will be begging you with handfuls of cash to stay.
[ + ] StealthNinjaTaliban
[ - ] StealthNinjaTaliban 0 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 15:47:52 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] GlowNiggerDick
[ - ] GlowNiggerDick 0 points 2.1 yearsApr 2, 2022 15:05:43 ago (+0/-0)
1,2,3 wont work in a small business, you can do that in the government or a big box store.
4 would be really dangerous for an employer in almost any circumstance to give a person you need gone 2 weeks notice. Bad/unhappy employees already dont give two weeks. Only people that respect their management and fellow employees do this. They usually will have another job lined up or be planning a big move, so its not much to ask to let people you work for know whats going on.
5. This one is a recipe to have a miserable work life. If you go out of your way to not enjoy your day, and actively dont give a fuck, youre going to have shit day after shit day. Having a bad attitude does not get you home earlier.
6. Management is always around unless you work for the government or big box.
7. Most employees cant match inflation, because increased prices, dont always mean increased profit. A lot of times ownership is in the same boat as the employees with inflation.
8. Its up to the employee to make themsleves irriplacable, and even more important to tactfully make ownership understand your value as an employee. I read a lot of malicious compliance content, and a lot of the "best" stories are employees that managed to get the job of 3 or 4 people done, then managment fucks with them, and they walk, leaving the company fucked up. In almost every one of these stories, the employee failed to leverage the amount of work they were getting done into a raise. A lot of times in mid size businesses in particular, hard work is not going to get noticed unless you point it out loudly and often.
Also smart people have no reason to be a wage slave. With the exception of government, and big box store workers, almost any job you can get can be leveraged into your own business if you know how to think out of the box.